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TOWARD A CONJECTURAL HISTORY OF CONJECTURAL HISTORIES
History and Theory, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Most intellectual historians use the term “conjectural history” to designate a new form of speculative history created in eighteenth‐century Scotland by Adam Smith and a few others. These writers traced the development of human society and culture through conjectural reasoning based on philosophers’ views about human nature and travelers ...
ANTHONY GRAFTON
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The Archaeological Value of Prehistoric Human Bones
, 1919 (Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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ON CONCEPTS AS HISTORICAL FORMS
History and Theory, EarlyView.ABSTRACT What are the consequences of holding fast to the axiom that words are not the same thing as concepts? This article explores some of them in relation to the tensions between two different but overlapping approaches to the history of concepts: philology and computationally informed historical semantics. The methods utilized were developed in the
PETER DE BOLLA
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The Prehistoric Archaeology of Norfolk Island, Southwest Pacific
, 2001 Atholl Anderson, Peter White
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The Role of Dice in the Emergence of the Probability Calculus
International Statistical Review, EarlyView.Summary The early development of the probability calculus was clearly influenced by the roll of dice. However, while dice have been cast since time immemorial, documented calculations on the frequency of various dice throws date back only to the mid‐13th century.
David R. Bellhouse, Christian Genest
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Sound Archaeology: A Study of the Acoustics of Three World Heritage Sites, Spanish Prehistoric Painted Caves, Stonehenge, and Paphos Theatre [PDF]
, 2019 Rupert Till
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Foxes as pets: Case study of the Fuegian Dog and its relationship to extinct Indigenous cultures
Journal of Zoology, EarlyView.This is a rare glimpse into the historical past of the zoologically mysterious Fuegian Dog that lived with early Holocene Indigenous groups on the island of Tierra del Fuego. Records of the animal's appearance and behavior kept by early explorers, artists and scientists who travelled to the tip of South America, plus the genetics and archaeological ...
W. L. Franklin
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Correction to: Learning About Archaeology and Prehistoric Life [PDF]
, 2019 Marie Besse +7 more
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Molecular Ecology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Seed production on native seed farms has increased to meet the rising demand for plant material for restoration. Although these propagation efforts are necessary for restoration, cultivating wild populations may also result in unintentional selection and elicit evolutionary changes that mimic crop domestication, essentially turning these ...
Julie R. Etterson +3 more
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