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Aims in Prehistoric Archaeology

Antiquity, 1970
Not long ago the theoretical literature in archaeology dealt mainly with excavation techniques and the primary analysis of archaeological data. In recent years, the successful realization of many of these empirical objectives, plus a rapidly increasing corpus of data, have motivated a younger generation of archaeologists to investigate more carefully ...
B. Trigger
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Uniformitarianism And Prehistoric Archaeology

Australian Archaeology, 1993
Many archaeologists call on the use of uniformitarianism in order to invoke a 'scientific basis' for their use of ethnographic analogies to help explain the archaeological record This paper argues that analogies, as used by most archaeologists, cannot be subsumed into an overall principle of uniformitarianism.
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Caribbean Prehistoric Archaeology

Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, 2019
Michele H. Hayward, Michael A. Cinquino
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Ethnography and Prehistoric Archaeology in Australia

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 1996
Abstract After a review of ethnographic approaches to Australian archaeology, this paper discusses food exchanges as an example of how Aboriginal society organizes production and social reproduction in gender specific terms. This goes well beyond the orthodoxy that men hunt and women gather. Evidence that food and other exchanges are reflected in the
H. Allen
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“The early days” – underwater prehistoric archaeology in the USA and Canada

, 2020
Here, we present a historical review of important published studies of submerged prehistoric sites in North America prior to 1990. Prior to that point, a review of mid-twentieth century literature on the subdiscipline demonstrates that “prehistoric” was ...
E. Garrison, Jessica W. Cook Hale
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Nostalgia in the prehistoric archaeological record

Current Opinion in Psychology, 2023
Evidence from the prehistoric archaeological record clearly shows that ancient societies had a sense of and engaged with their own histories, be it by reusing, re-appropriating or recreating past material culture. The affective qualities of materials, places and even human remains would have enabled people to remember and connect with aspects of their ...
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Study of prehistoric archaeology

ACADEMICIA: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal, 2021
AbstractHistorical archaeology examines that part of the human history which has recorded. While it shares many of the methods used in ancient archaeology, written documents provide an advantage in researching historical archaeology. Archaeology is not an anthropological discipline in Europe, but a historical one.
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Prehistoric Archaeology on the Continental Shelf

2014
A. Evans, J. Flatman, N. Flemming
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The Archaeology of Prehistoric Oceania

2017
The archaeological record of Oceania stretches over one-third of the earth’s surface with the first humans entering Oceania 50,000 years ago and with the last major archipelago settled approximately a.d. 1300. Oceania is often divided into the cultural-geographic regions of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia, but these divisions mask much variation ...
Ethan E. Cochrane, Terry L. Hunt
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Prehistoric Archaeology in Thailand

Antiquity, 1966
The first year's work was to be primarily field survey to locate and test sites. Any sites found in construction areas of the dams were to be excavated at once. Plans for the second year would see two parties in the field for a part of the season, one continuing with detailed survey and the second with excavation of sites.
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