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100 generations of wealth equality after the Neolithic transitions. [PDF]

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THE ORIGIN OF PREHISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGY

Earth Sciences History, 2019
ABSTRACT Prehistoric archaeology had its first pioneers in France led by Boucher de Perthes (the Abbeville school), who excavated fossil bones and stone tools beginning in the late 1820s to early 1830. At about the same time a second group in Denmark led by Worsaae (the Copenhagen school) studied an archaeological interval prior to their
G. B. Vai
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The Method of Prehistoric Archaeology

Antiquity, 1937
During the last fifty years prehistoric archaeology has developed with extraordinary rapidity into a firmly established branch of science. A system has been constructed, the frontiers of several cultural phenomena have been laid down, and the outlines of prehistoric chronology have been formed.
A. Tallgren
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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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Ethnography and Prehistoric Archaeology in Australia [PDF]

open access: possibleJournal 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 Development of Prehistoric Archaeology in Mongolia

2017
Mongolia has many prehistoric archaeological sites that document the lives of the region’s ancient inhabitants, and the florescence and growth of a multitude of cultural traditions, including the Mongols themselves. The persistence of preliterate or nonliterate pastoral nomadic traditions in greater Mongolia through to the ethnohistoric present has ...
B. Gunchinsuren
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Another Dating Revolution for Prehistoric Archaeology?

Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2011
Transitions to the Howiesons Poort Industry and other early modern human cultural phases have conventionally been explained as direct or indirect responses to major climatic and ecological fluctuations. Advances in optically stimulated luminescence dating have now provided the time resolution necessary to refute these explanations.
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Radiocarbon dating and the prehistoric archaeology of China

World Archaeology, 1991
Abstract The paper discusses radiocarbon chronology in China, and the contributions of the technique. Examples are given from the late Palaeolithic, and from the Neolithic, where the dating of various early cultures is described, starting with the Peiligang, Dadiwan and Cishan, which antedate the Yangshao phase.
A. Zhimin
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