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... Artifacts: An artifact is an object with features that have been made by human activities. Examples include tools, weapons, ornaments, homes, etc. ...
... Artifacts: An artifact is an object with features that have been made by human activities. Examples include tools, weapons, ornaments, homes, etc. ...
Introduction - ANU Press
... and post-colonial relations between former ‘tribal’ and industrial societies, and have long turned their attention to a wide array of social contexts (recently to post-Soviet eastern Europe, for example). The archaeology of colonial Australia, a growing enterprise, necessarily draws on and contribut ...
... and post-colonial relations between former ‘tribal’ and industrial societies, and have long turned their attention to a wide array of social contexts (recently to post-Soviet eastern Europe, for example). The archaeology of colonial Australia, a growing enterprise, necessarily draws on and contribut ...
AS Archaeology
... examining Palaeolithic and Mesolithic sites. These periods witnessed great climatic changes (the Ice Age). Ice melting caused the sea level to rise and sites and the land bridge with the Continent was lost to the sea. The topography and coastline changed. ...
... examining Palaeolithic and Mesolithic sites. These periods witnessed great climatic changes (the Ice Age). Ice melting caused the sea level to rise and sites and the land bridge with the Continent was lost to the sea. The topography and coastline changed. ...
A Review of Anthropology at Harvard. A Biographical History, 1790
... issues of common interest, regardless of their subfield specialization (p. 5)’. This is Browman and Williams antidote to the ‘great archaeologist’ school of disciplinary history, where even the stars of the profession have been influenced by what they term the ‘cohort effect’. The resulting book is ...
... issues of common interest, regardless of their subfield specialization (p. 5)’. This is Browman and Williams antidote to the ‘great archaeologist’ school of disciplinary history, where even the stars of the profession have been influenced by what they term the ‘cohort effect’. The resulting book is ...
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... participants and for the community, and the matter was raised for public debate, many people who had always ignored it, or pretended that it was not happening, felt they had to oppose the legislation. It is a similar case with promised marriages and under-age girls. In the Northern Territory, the po ...
... participants and for the community, and the matter was raised for public debate, many people who had always ignored it, or pretended that it was not happening, felt they had to oppose the legislation. It is a similar case with promised marriages and under-age girls. In the Northern Territory, the po ...
Archaeologists and Anthropologists
... • Anthropology is the study of the origin, the behavior, and the physical, social, and cultural developments of humans. • Mary Leakey was a famous anthropologist. • She concluded that human life began or evolved in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa. E. Napp ...
... • Anthropology is the study of the origin, the behavior, and the physical, social, and cultural developments of humans. • Mary Leakey was a famous anthropologist. • She concluded that human life began or evolved in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa. E. Napp ...
Materialized Landscapes of Practice:Exploring Native American
... A landscapes of practice approach could potentially examine virtually any class of spatially distributed practices that left material traces, ranging for example from not just the original production of material objects, but also their distribution, utilization, and loss or discard. But for our purp ...
... A landscapes of practice approach could potentially examine virtually any class of spatially distributed practices that left material traces, ranging for example from not just the original production of material objects, but also their distribution, utilization, and loss or discard. But for our purp ...
Social Archaeology
... settlement patterns published in 1953. Willey argued that settlements reflect, among other factors, institutions of social interaction and control within a particular culture. Later in the decade, William Sanders used a similar methodology in the Basin of Mexico. Considerable effort was also being d ...
... settlement patterns published in 1953. Willey argued that settlements reflect, among other factors, institutions of social interaction and control within a particular culture. Later in the decade, William Sanders used a similar methodology in the Basin of Mexico. Considerable effort was also being d ...
14 The Role of Ethnoarchaeology and Experimental
... Thus, ethnoarchaeology has been used to examine the processes of pottery manufacture and use, as well as the distribution of ceramics and its relation to social factors (Calvo et al., 2011, 2013; Stark, 1992; Vander Linden, 2001). Moreover, ethnography allows us, in some cases, to approach the signi ...
... Thus, ethnoarchaeology has been used to examine the processes of pottery manufacture and use, as well as the distribution of ceramics and its relation to social factors (Calvo et al., 2011, 2013; Stark, 1992; Vander Linden, 2001). Moreover, ethnography allows us, in some cases, to approach the signi ...
Cultural evolution and archaeology : Historical and cultural trends
... such terms as ‘variation’, ‘selection’ and ‘drift’, has a metaphoric value only, and that there are no methods to scientifically secure the connection between empirical reality and evolution theory (Bamforth 2003; Fracchia and Lewontin 1999, 2005; Gabora 2006). In the current archaeological debate, ...
... such terms as ‘variation’, ‘selection’ and ‘drift’, has a metaphoric value only, and that there are no methods to scientifically secure the connection between empirical reality and evolution theory (Bamforth 2003; Fracchia and Lewontin 1999, 2005; Gabora 2006). In the current archaeological debate, ...
Adolescent Socialisation Processes
... Most of the research conducted in Australia with respect to Aboriginal offending utilises official data and focuses on criminal justice processing. The problems of over-representation have been well-documented, beginning with Eggleston (1976) and culminating most recently in the Royal Commission in ...
... Most of the research conducted in Australia with respect to Aboriginal offending utilises official data and focuses on criminal justice processing. The problems of over-representation have been well-documented, beginning with Eggleston (1976) and culminating most recently in the Royal Commission in ...
Indigenous Peoples and Settler Angst in Canada: A Review
... ahead on that continuum. Widdowson and Howard dismiss therefore any charge that their position is racist, countering that the racists are those who, on account of the assumed difference of Indigenous peoples, insist that they be allowed to exist in a separate self-governed social and civic sphere. S ...
... ahead on that continuum. Widdowson and Howard dismiss therefore any charge that their position is racist, countering that the racists are those who, on account of the assumed difference of Indigenous peoples, insist that they be allowed to exist in a separate self-governed social and civic sphere. S ...
TAG program final
... of Vinča Culture Anthropomorphic Figurine Production John M. Matsunaga (University of California: Berkeley) Recent developments in the study of figurines have challenged traditional approaches which view figurines as passive and static visual representations. Figurines are now considered by many to ...
... of Vinča Culture Anthropomorphic Figurine Production John M. Matsunaga (University of California: Berkeley) Recent developments in the study of figurines have challenged traditional approaches which view figurines as passive and static visual representations. Figurines are now considered by many to ...
Charles Kolb on Mesopotamian Civilization: The Material - H-Net
... gathering subsistence mode. The effects of climatic facIn addition, he did not want to create a work that, tors on human migrations, dry farming adaptations on like many other pedagogical books, were concerned the piedmont fringes, and suggestions of topics and gewith the superstructure of a “great ...
... gathering subsistence mode. The effects of climatic facIn addition, he did not want to create a work that, tors on human migrations, dry farming adaptations on like many other pedagogical books, were concerned the piedmont fringes, and suggestions of topics and gewith the superstructure of a “great ...
1 The archaeology of disasters: past and future trends
... detailed and systematic research (cf. Sadler and Grattan, 1999; Chapters 6 and 18). Too often archaeologists and earth scientists have simply assumed that the occurrence of extreme natural events means that they were the prime movers in cultural change without demonstrating that the latter was solel ...
... detailed and systematic research (cf. Sadler and Grattan, 1999; Chapters 6 and 18). Too often archaeologists and earth scientists have simply assumed that the occurrence of extreme natural events means that they were the prime movers in cultural change without demonstrating that the latter was solel ...
Critical Approaches to Fieldwork : Contemporary and
... sequence and nature of events which left their trace under that old orchard garden about 1,500 years ago. ...
... sequence and nature of events which left their trace under that old orchard garden about 1,500 years ago. ...
Issue as PDF-file - Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies
... agriculturally-oriented Pacific World in the making since the 1500s. Historical globalization is commonly understood as a process that is propelled by industry or commerce, yet the seeds of global integration - literally as well as metaphorically - were sown much earlier, when crops and plants dispe ...
... agriculturally-oriented Pacific World in the making since the 1500s. Historical globalization is commonly understood as a process that is propelled by industry or commerce, yet the seeds of global integration - literally as well as metaphorically - were sown much earlier, when crops and plants dispe ...
Notes on Heritage, Quetzil Castañeda
... both “seen” as objects and in locations where heritage is not and, in other places, remain invisible to the naked eye even when heritage is in fact there. 2 This somewhat puzzling and contradictory situation that I have sketched, and to which I return below, allows me to draw out some crucial chara ...
... both “seen” as objects and in locations where heritage is not and, in other places, remain invisible to the naked eye even when heritage is in fact there. 2 This somewhat puzzling and contradictory situation that I have sketched, and to which I return below, allows me to draw out some crucial chara ...
Forte_uta_2502M_10074
... objective scientific technique can be used by different groups to support different theories about Etruscan origins. Ultimately my study will suggest that objective scientific research such as genetic testing is open to individual interpretation which might not provide an unbiased answer to the ques ...
... objective scientific technique can be used by different groups to support different theories about Etruscan origins. Ultimately my study will suggest that objective scientific research such as genetic testing is open to individual interpretation which might not provide an unbiased answer to the ques ...
RECONCILIATION IN CANADIAN LAW
... Indigenous Nations and third parties (emphasis added).”3 Subsequent events have resulted in a delay in the appearance before the provincial legislature of a bill setting out the exact terms of such proposed legislation. Based upon the victory speech of Premier Gordon Campbell on the night of May 12, ...
... Indigenous Nations and third parties (emphasis added).”3 Subsequent events have resulted in a delay in the appearance before the provincial legislature of a bill setting out the exact terms of such proposed legislation. Based upon the victory speech of Premier Gordon Campbell on the night of May 12, ...
Shanks Tilley 1987
... Despite the growing plethora of theories, archaeology still remains today a deeply empiricist and antitheoretical discipline. Yet it is quite clear that after 150 years of empiricism in one form or another we still have little more than a rudimentary understanding of the archaeological past. No amou ...
... Despite the growing plethora of theories, archaeology still remains today a deeply empiricist and antitheoretical discipline. Yet it is quite clear that after 150 years of empiricism in one form or another we still have little more than a rudimentary understanding of the archaeological past. No amou ...
The Mickey Mouse Kachina and Other "Double Objects"
... Hybridity is a term used by anthropologists to characterize the amalgamation of influences from two (or more) different cultural groups. Hybridity has captivated archaeology in recent years, especially archaeologists investigating colonialism in Native American contexts. At the same time, a growing ...
... Hybridity is a term used by anthropologists to characterize the amalgamation of influences from two (or more) different cultural groups. Hybridity has captivated archaeology in recent years, especially archaeologists investigating colonialism in Native American contexts. At the same time, a growing ...
