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Introduction
In the late second millennium BCE and first millennium BCE mark the formative period of nomadic societies on the Eurasian steppes, when all areas of...
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Henan Province
Although modern archeology sees Chinese civilizational development as having sprung up from different regions, in a very general sense, one can say...
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Dammed if We Do and Dammed if We Don’t: A Social and Organizational History of the River Basin Surveys and the Interagency Archeological Salvage Program
The period from the mid-1940s to the late 1960s was exciting and profession-changing for archaeology and archaeologists. The impetus for this...
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Cultural landscapes of the central mountains of Palestine
Palestine has fluctuated between prosperity and hardships because of political turmoil. Known for their resilience, Palestinians have adapted their...
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The Transnational Mexican Renaissance: Mexican–American Jewish Women Crafting National Authenticity
This study traces Franz Boas’s influence on the Mexican Renaissance, especially as it manifested in the cultural and academic contributions of...
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A likely Early Paleolithic lithic assemblage from the **ayaogou Houshan site, Central China
The **ayaogou Houshan site is one of more than 10 Paleolithic localities located during archaeological survey searching for Paleolithic localities in...
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Building Databases for the Generation of Archeological Landscape Models in Santa Catarina (Brazil)
In this study we investigate the biases that affect the database of the archaeological record for certain areas of the state of Santa Catarina...
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A Comparative Study of Painted Pottery Culture of China and Ukraine from the Perspective of Art Archaeology
The purpose of the study is to compare the structural and semantic elements of the two ancient cultures of painted pottery—Yangshao and Trypillia. A...
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Traditional Cultural Areas
The Indigenous people of northwestern North America have been here at least 16,000 years, and have developed a highly diverse range of languages and...
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The Forced Migrations of Scholars During the Uruguayan Dictatorship: Refuge and Academic Labor Market Overlap?
This chapter seeks to contribute to the study of displaced or ‘restricted’ intellectuals and academics by providing a case-study of the dictatorship...
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Research Methodology for the Documentation and Analysis Phase of Industrial Architectural Heritage Preservation: The Case of “Nueva Cerámica de Orio”
Notable shortcomings and difficulties can be identified along the cultural-heritage value chain that can result in missed opportunities with respect...
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Engraved Ship Iconography in The Bahamas: Approaches and Insights from Cat Island
Engraved nautical illustrations at nineteenth-century sites in The Bahamas are generally associated with African-Bahamian lifeways. Previous studies...
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The Application of Photogrammetric and Topographic Techniques to Investigate Submerged Caves: A Case Study of Georeferenced Point Installation at the Font of Ses Aiguades Cave (Alcúdia, Mallorca)
In recent decades geoarchaeological techniques have increasingly been used to document archaeological remains in terrestrial and underwater sites....
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Speaking beyond the Discipline: Japanese Diaspora Archaeology in Dialogue
While this collection of articles provides a pathbreaking assemblage of studies of Japanese diaspora, for the progression of the field, archaeology...
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On the Locus and Modus of Control Over Human Reproduction
I build on the demographic transition theory and related theoretical frameworks, on Foucault’s concept of sexuality being key to social control, on...
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Scientists and Specimens: Early Anthropology Networks in and Between Nations and the Natural and Human Sciences
Merging a transnational approach to the history of science with methods from museum anthropology, this chapter traces the emergence and expansion of...
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Isobiographies and Archaeology Beyond Long-Term Ethnography: Life History Reconstruction Using Stable Isotopes
Inspired by (Jochim, American Anthropologist 93:308–321, 1991) “Archeology as Long-Term Ethnography”, this paper examines the role of stable isotope...