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ABSTRACT This paper examines some of the ways in which Indigenous and Western archaeological chronologies are being negotiated and entwined in Oceania. Indigenous pasts are often known through oral traditions, genealogies and ancestral landscapes; these are vital pasts populated by the ancestors.
Chris Urwin +2 more
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‘Punitive’ Expeditions in German Colonial Contexts in Africa
Abstract The debate on the restitution of African cultural heritage has brought greater attention to the history of colonial violence, especially to the dispatch of so‐called ‘punitive’ expeditions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
YANN LeGALL
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The 2-Ga peraluminous magmatism of the Jacobina-Contendas Mirante belts (Bahia, Brazil) : geologic and isotopic constraints on the sources [PDF]
L'étude pétrographique des intrusions granitiques du craton Sao Francisco (Bahia, Brésil) permet de définir la chronologie absolue des épisodes magmatiques et d'identifier les sources magmatiques ainsi que les processus géodynamiques se produisant lors ...
Caen-Vachette, M. +3 more
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Are milk quota prices a rational investment? Modeling quotas as financial assets
Abstract Our objective in this paper is to examine the growth of the price of farm milk quotas in Canada, to shed light on their patterns of growth within the last 15 years. Our quota price model is based on the Gordon growth model, supplemented by some important characteristics of the milk quota market.
Richard R. Barichello +2 more
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The Sumerian verb kušur, “to repair” [PDF]
The article discusses a Sumerian verb, kušur, which can be interpreted as an Akkadian loanword and be related to the root *kšr attested in the verb kašāru/kuššuru, meaning “to repair (ruined or damaged walls, building, ...)”
Spada, Gabriella
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PAINTING HISTORY: PICTURE, WITNESS, AND ANCIENT HISTORIOGRAPHY
ABSTRACT This article treats an analogy that is used persistently in the history of historiography: the equation of historiography with painting and the identification of the historiographer with the painter. In examining the conceptual stakes of this (auto)identification, the article mobilizes the analogy in order to explore larger issues of ...
LUUK DE BOER
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Adhuc Tacfarinas: the causes of the Tiberian war in North Africa (AD ca. 15-24) and the impact of the conflict on Roman imperial policy [PDF]
During the reign of Tiberius successive governors of Africa Proconsularis struggled to suppress a serious revolt by a number of semi-nomadic tribes led by Tacfarinas.
Vanacker, Wouter
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ABSTRACT This paper provides the initial chronological framework for an Australian Aboriginal women's sacred area, based on the first absolute ages obtained through luminescence dating. The Thirteen Mile Creek site of the Avon Downs women's sacred area provides evidence for various aspects of women's lives, including lithic raw material extraction and ...
Irina A. Ponomareva +4 more
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A 600–700‐year‐old basalt adze production site from Mount Bates, Norfolk Island
ABSTRACT While pre‐European settlement of Norfolk Island has been recognised for many decades, particularly the larger settlement site at Emily Bay, until this point there has been limited understanding, and very little systematic recording of evidence for inland settlement.
Nicola Jorgensen +2 more
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Sacred offerings and secular foods on Reao Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago, East Polynesia
ABSTRACT In 1976, Yosihiko H. Sinoto conducted extensive archaeological survey and excavations on Reao Atoll, Tuamotu Archipelago as part of a Japanese, multi‐disciplinary expedition led by Prof. Sachiko Hatanaka. Primarily excavating three marae and four habitation sites totalling ∼180 m2, more than 25000 vertebrate remains were recovered.
Marshall I. Weisler +5 more
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