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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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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 ...
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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
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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.
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The archaeological interpretation of prehistoric metalworking [PDF]

World Archaeology, 1971
Abstract Certain general assumptions made by archaeologists as to the organization of metalwork production are examined, with particular reference to the European Bronze Age. Alternative models to those generally accepted for the trade in raw materials, the position and status of the smith in society, and forms of industrial organization are proposed ...
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Australian prehistoric archaeology

Before Farming, 2004
Australian prehistory has been preoccupied with questions about the origin and diversity of Aboriginal populations; dating the initial colonisation; megafaunal extinctions; the antiquity of the ethnographic present; and interpreting apparent Holocene change and Pleistocene stability.
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The Identity of Europe in Prehistoric Archaeology

Journal of European Archaeology, 1994
(1994). The Identity of Europe in Prehistoric Archaeology. Journal of European Archaeology: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 153-173.
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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.
Lyn Wadley, Trudy Doelman, Grant W. G. Cochrane   +2 more
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Italian Prehistoric Archaeology in the International Context

Fragmenta, 2008
The author outlines a short history of the interrelationships between Italian and foreign prehistory scholars in the period going from the unification of Italy to 1945. There was a remarkable season of excavations and research during the second half of the nineteenth century that also helped to create a bond between the Italians and the scholars of ...
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Environmental Archaeology of Prehistoric NW Crete

Journal of Field Archaeology, 1996
AbstractThe occurrence of Central European tree-types no longer growing on Crete indicates that Neolithic and Bronze Age climates were moister than at present. Of equal significance is the appearance of large quantities of olive pollen in Late Neolithic levels, suggesting the practice of olive cultivation.
Jennifer Moody, Oliver Rackham, George Rapp   +2 more
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