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History, archaeology and culture.
2022Abstract This chapter discusses: (1) the etymology of the fig; (2) the domestication, dispersal and archaeological evidence of the fig; (3) fig in ancient Egypt; (4) the fig in Neolithic Levant and East Mediterranean; (5) figs in Greece and West Mediterranean in the Iron Age; (6) the fig in Roman culture; and (7) the fig tree in the Holy Books.
F. Spagnoli, A. Yavari
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Cultural Transmission and Innovation in Archaeology
2019This chapter focuses on theories of cultural transmission and innovation in anthropological and archaeological frameworks. We discuss the differences between diachronic and synchronic perspectives in the history of innovation studies and their importance to a better understanding of cultural phenomena and processes of culture change.
Walsh, Matthew J. +2 more
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Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
2008Digital version of text and illustrations as the chapter on Archaeology and Cultural Heritage for incorporation within the environmental assessment.
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Archaeology and theoretical culture
Archaeological Dialogues, 2006First, a qualifier: the ‘response-to-the-response’ section of Archaeological dialogues is often the most entertaining part of the issue, but frequently the least intellectually rewarding. One feels Schadenfreude, partisan cheering and jeering, and bafflement in equal measure as contributors lock horns over this or that finer point of who has ...
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Cultural Identity and Archaeology
2013Cultural identity is a key area of debate in contemporary Europe. Despite widespread use of the past in the construction of ethnic, national and European identity, theories of cultural identity have been neglected in archaeology. Focusing on the interrelationships between concepts of cultural identity today and the interpretation of past cultural ...
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Archaeology and cultural macroevolution
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2006Given the numerous parallels between the archaeological and paleontological records, it is not surprising to find a considerable fit between macroevolutionary approaches and methods used in biology – for example, cladistics and clade-diversity measures – and some of those that have long been used in archaeology – for example, seriation.
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Archaeology and material culture
2010A recurrent concern in the archaeological study of early Islam is the degree to which the physical record exhibits significant continuity with the centuries prior to 1/622. This chapter first summarises the earliest evidence for a distinctive Muslim identity in the archaeological record.
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Cultural Resources Archaeology
2010Most students who pursue a career in archaeology will find employment in cultural resource management (CRM), rather than in academia or traditional fieldwork. It is CRM, the protection and preservation of archaeological and other resources, that offers the jobs and provides the funding.
Thomas W Neumann +2 more
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The Lčašen Culture and its Archaeological Landscape
Iran and the Caucasus, 2018During the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age the lands around the Lake Sevan basin witnessed the emergence of a distinctive local culture, marked by characteristic burial practices, abundant metalwork and varied pottery production generally called the “Lčašen Culture”.
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CULTURE SEQUENCES IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA ARCHAEOLOGY
American Antiquity, 1948An analysis of the archaeology of two coastal areas of Central California gives strong support to the sequence of three culture periods proposed in 1939 for the prehistoric archaeology of the lower and middle Sacramento River Valley. For one area, the ocean coast of Marin County just north of San Francisco Bay, the first intensive excavations were made
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