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Evolution in Archaeology [PDF]
, 2008 This review begins with a brief outline of the key concepts of Darwinian archaeology. Its history is then summarized, beginning with its emergence as a significant theoretical focus within the discipline in the early 1980s; its main present-day currents ...
Shennan, SJ
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Collaborative and competitive strategies in the variability and resiliency of large-scale societies in Mesoamerica [PDF]
, 2018 Examinations of the variation and duration of past large-scale societies have long involved a conceptual struggle between efforts at generalization and the unraveling of specific trajectories. Although historical particulars are critical to understanding
Acemoglu +102 more
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Households without Houses : Mobility and Moorings on the Eurasian Steppe [PDF]
, 2016 The research that provided the basis for this paper was carried out in collaboration with the Institutes of History and Archaeology of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences and would not have been possible without my colleagues Chunag Amartuvshin, William ...
Wright, Joshua
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Autism, the Integrations of 'Difference' and the Origins of Modern Human Behaviour [PDF]
, 2009 It is proposed here that the archaeological evidence for the emergence of 'modern behaviour' (160,000-40,000 bp) can best be explained as the rise of cognitive variation within populations through social mechanisms for integrating 'different minds ...
Spikins, Penny
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Past practices: rethinking individuals and agents in archaeology [PDF]
, 2008 Archaeologists who seek to examine people's roles in past societies have long assumed, consciously or unconsciously, the existence of individuals. In this study, we explore various concepts and dimensions of ‘the individual’, both ethnographic and ...
Knapp, A.B., van Dommelen, P.
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East Texas Caddo Ceramic Sherd Database [PDF]
, 2015 A considerable amount of effort has been expended over the years by archaeologists in the identification, description, and classification of ancestral Caddo ceramic vessels and sherds recovered from sites across East Texas, beginning with the masterful ...
Perttula, Timothy K.
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Future archaeologies : method and story. [PDF]
, 2009 This will be an account of an ongoing experiment called 'future archaeology'. Despite it’s name it's not strictly an archaeological experiment, since I’m not an archaeologist. Nor is it strictly scientific, since I’m not a natural scientist.
Watts, Laura
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, 2014 Evidence from sites in the lower Ulua valley of north-central Honduras, occupied between a.d. 500 and 1000, provides new insight into the connections between households, craft production, and the role of objects in maintaining social relations within and
Hendon, Julia A. +2 more
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Research Reports from the Programme for Belize Archaeological Project, Volume Three [PDF]
, 2009 Table of Contents : Archaeological Investigations of the Programme for Belize Archaeological Project: An Introduction to Volume Three / by Fred Valdez, Jr. and Rissa M.
Trachman, Rissa M., Valdez, Fred Jr
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