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NORTH AMERICA: Certain Aboriginal Pottery from Southern California. George G. Heye [PDF]
A. L. Kroeber
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Reconceptualizing Crisis: An Empirically Based Investigation
Crisis is predominantly characterized in terms of its detrimental consequences. Drawing on in‐depth semi‐structured interviews in Melbourne and Taipei, the article provides a critical and distinctive understanding of crisis. Crisis is conceptualized here as a disruptive prefiguring of new possibilities, both agentic and structural.
Xiaoying Qi
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Archaeological science in Latin America
Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Lorena Becerra‐Valdivia+1 more
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Abstract In The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber and David Wengrow suggest that almost all modern features of social structures— cities, religious rituals, kingships, accounting practices, rational arguments, private property, and so on—date to epochs prior to the neolithic revolution.
Elias L. Khalil
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A gentrification stage‐model for London? Through the ‘looking Glass’ of Kensington
Short Abstract Despite the term ‘gentrification’ being coined in London by the British sociologist Ruth Glass, there has not been an attempt to develop a stage model of gentrification for London, nor any up‐to‐date discussion of the different waves of gentrification there in one academic paper or book.
Loretta Lees, Sharda Rozena
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Summary This study examines four exceptional lead boat‐shaped objects recovered from the fourteenth‐century BC Chamber Tomb ZZ at the cemetery of the cosmopolitan city of Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus. A closely related lead object was also found in Stratum 1 of City Quarter 4 at Hala Sultan Tekke, dating to the early twelfth century BC.
Peter M. Fischer, Tzveta V. Manolova
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Spectrum and Evolution of Systems Engineering's Guiding Propositions
ABSTRACT Systems engineering's practice is informed by many hundreds of guiding propositions, but their diverse nature and inconsistent categorization hinder systematic aggregation and refinement. This paper introduces a framework for understanding the origins and evolution of these propositions and proposes a unifying classification scheme. We propose
David Rousseau+2 more
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