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The Prehistory of Jazz

1997
Abstract An elderly black man sits astride a large cylindrical drum. Using his fingers and the edge of his hand, he jabs repeatedly at the drum head—which is around a foot in diameter and probably made from an animal skin—evoking a throbbing pulsation with rapid, sharp strokes.
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Is Prehistory Practical?

Antiquity, 1933
In 1933 it can hardly be alleged that Prehistory is a useless study, wholely remote from and irrelevant to practical life. In one great country at least, interpretations of supposed facts of Prehistory, imperfectly apprehended by an untrained mind of undoubted genius, have revolutionized the whole structure of society.
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Prehistory and Marxism

Antiquity, 1979
In volume III of ‘The Cambridge Journal’ (1949, 131–47) the present Editor of ‘Antiquity’ wrote an article entitled ‘A defence of prehistory’ in which he referred to ‘the environmentalist school of Fleure and Fox, the hyperdiffusionist school of Elliot Smith, Parry, and Raglan, or the Marxist school of Childe’.
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The Prehistory of Syria

Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 1988
Archaeological research has established that Syria played a central role in prehistoric cultural development in southwest Asia. Its location at the junction of routes from Africa, Europe, and Asia made it a focus of cultural innovation and spread. Syria was first inhabited about a million years ago by early humans who came from Africa.
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The Prehistory of Hawai‘i

2014
The Hawaiian Islands are the most isolated inhabited archipelago in the world. Initially colonized around A.D. 1000, the environmental gradients of rainfall and island-age have influenced subsequent cultural variation and differentiation in the islands.
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A prehistory of the cloud

New Media & Society, 2017
K. S. Michael
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The Prehistory of Albania

1982
The Italians discovered the first traces of Palaeolithic life in Albania, and also some cave-dwellings containing Neolithic deposits. It is only in the last thirty-five years that it has been possible to undertake the disciplined and rewarding task of tracing the prehistoric cultures of Albania, and of discovering and studying the culture of the land ...
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Prehistory: An Introduction

The American Historical Review, 1975
T. Cuyler Young   +2 more
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