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Nature and Culture, 2021
This article asks what part prehistory could play in establishing a posthumanist settlement, alternative to the humanism of the Enlightenment. We begin by showing how Enlightenment thinking split the concept of the human in two, into species and condition, establishing a point of origin where the history of civilization rises from its baseline in ...
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This article asks what part prehistory could play in establishing a posthumanist settlement, alternative to the humanism of the Enlightenment. We begin by showing how Enlightenment thinking split the concept of the human in two, into species and condition, establishing a point of origin where the history of civilization rises from its baseline in ...
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The Prehistory of Britain and Ireland
, 2019Sited at the furthest limits of the Neolithic revolution and standing at the confluence of the two great sea routes of prehistory, Britain and Ireland are distinct from continental Europe for much of the prehistoric sequence.
R. Bradley
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, 2019
The Bronze Age is frequently framed in social evolutionary terms. Viewed as the period which saw the emergence of social differentiation, the development of long-distance trade, and the intensification of agricultural production, it is seen as the ...
Joanna Brück
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The Bronze Age is frequently framed in social evolutionary terms. Viewed as the period which saw the emergence of social differentiation, the development of long-distance trade, and the intensification of agricultural production, it is seen as the ...
Joanna Brück
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The College Mathematics Journal, 2014
SummaryThe first occurrence of Nim dates back to 1901 when the mathematician Charles Leonard Bouton published an article on its solution. But what are the origins of the Nim game? This article offers a survey of European ancestors of Nim.
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SummaryThe first occurrence of Nim dates back to 1901 when the mathematician Charles Leonard Bouton published an article on its solution. But what are the origins of the Nim game? This article offers a survey of European ancestors of Nim.
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Counterhistories and prehistories
2020Far from being objective entities, literary genres should be regarded as cultural constructs, the development of which can be analysed in a “meta- critical” mode. During the course of modernity, crime fiction underwent a process of specialisation due to societal and epistemological changes that brought about an increasing focus on the investigation ...
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Childbirth in Prehistory: An Introduction [PDF]
Childbirth in prehistorical contexts is seldom considered since there seems to be an underlying assumption that this event lacks a surrounding and traceable material culture. The argument here is that this is a judgement based upon the refusal to acknowledge childbirth as an important social event. Therefore material remains have not been identified as
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Food globalisation in prehistory: The agrarian foundations of an interconnected continent
, 2016The authors are grateful to the European Research Council, under grant 249642 (FOGLIP), the Leverhulme Trust, under grant f/09717/C (PPAC), Darwin College, National Project of Philosophical and Social Sciences of China, under grant 12&ZD151, and the ...
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Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 2011
Despite the attention of a number of scholars over the last half-century, the origins and early history of the chantry remain obscure.
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Despite the attention of a number of scholars over the last half-century, the origins and early history of the chantry remain obscure.
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The Prehistory of the Sudan [PDF]
More than 30 national and international research teams are currently active and new remarkable discoveries are unearthed every year. Continuous new data, analyzed with the most up-to-date scientific techniques (geochemistry, genetics, biomolecular archaeology, palynology, accurate radiometric dating, etc.), offer a prominent contribution to the general
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, 2015
We may imagine the digital cloud as placeless, mute, ethereal, and unmediated. Yet the reality of the cloud is embodied in thousands of massive data centers, any one of which can use as much electricity as a midsized town. Even all these data centers are
Tung-Hui Hu
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We may imagine the digital cloud as placeless, mute, ethereal, and unmediated. Yet the reality of the cloud is embodied in thousands of massive data centers, any one of which can use as much electricity as a midsized town. Even all these data centers are
Tung-Hui Hu
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