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Build n burn: using fire as a tool to evoke, educate and entertain [PDF]
, 2017 The visceral nature of fire was exploited in the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods in Britain by the burning down of timber buildings and monuments, as well as the cremation of the dead. These big fires would have created memories, perhaps even ‘flashbulb
Brophy, Kenneth +2 more
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Analytical Study of Lanolin as Potential Biomarker of Prehistoric Sheep‐Shearing Practice
Chemistry–Methods, EarlyView.Lanolin, a complex wax found on sheep wool, accumulates on shearing tools, such as flint and obsidian blades, used since the Neolithic. This study explores lanolin's degradation patterns as a potential biomarker for prehistoric sheep‐shearing practices, employing micro‐Fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy, hyperspectral imaging, and gas ...
Claudia Adsuar Fuster +8 more
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UISPP Journal, 2022 The Hugub open-air site in Ethiopia well-dated to between 600 and 500 ka yields the earliest securely dated and found in situ Late Acheulean archaeology in Africa.
W. Henry Gilbert +3 more
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Quartz technology in Scottish prehistory
Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports, 2016 The project Quartz Technology in Scottish Prehistory was initiated in the year 2000, and over the following five years a large number of quartz assemblages were examined from all parts of Scotland, and from all prehistoric periods. The general aim of the
A. Saville, T. Ballin
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Metaphor and Materiality in Early Prehistory [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper we argue for a relational perspective based on metaphorical rather than semiotic understandings of human and hominin1 material culture. The corporeality of material culture and thus its role as solid metaphors for a shared experience of ...
Coward, Fiona, Gamble, C.
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The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper refers to the concept of ‘historical thinking’ as it appears in the three versions of the recent Greek History Curriculum for primary school. It is a comparative study of the discourse of the three versions of the recent history curriculum for primary school.
Kyriaki Fardi
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Using microartifacts to infer Middle Pleistocene lifeways at Schöningen, Germany
Scientific Reports, 2022 While archeologists usually favor the study of large and diagnostic lithic artifacts, this study illustrates the invaluable contribution of lithic microartifacts for interpreting hominin lifeways.
Flavia Venditti +5 more
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On the prehistory of growth of groups [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 The subject of growth of groups has been active in the former Soviet Union since the early 50's and in the West since 1968, when articles of \v{S}varc and Milnor have been published, independently. The purpose of this note is to quote a few articles showing that, before 1968 and at least retrospectively, growth has already played some role in various ...
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(Im)mobile intimacies: Commodities and marriage at the crossroads of Asia
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article follows traders and entrepreneurs that live and work between Kyrgyzstan and China's northwestern region of Xinjiang. Looking specifically at Islamic marriage and business partnerships forged between persecuted Uyghurs and their Uzbek partners, it argues that commodity‐mediated forms of transnational intimacy create spaces of ...
Grace H. Zhou
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Examining the suitability of extant primates as models of hominin stone tool culture
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2022 Extant primates, especially chimpanzees, are often used as models for pre-modern hominin (henceforth: hominin) behaviour, anatomy and cognition. In particular, as hominin behaviour cannot be inferred from archaeological remains and artefacts alone ...
Elisa Bandini +2 more
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