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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Ethnographic analogy"”.
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The Spoon Toe Site (11MG179): Middle Woodland gardening in the lower Illinois River Valley
… mobility issues regarding horticultural people. Ethnographic analogy is utilized to formulate a model of what the archaeological sites of residentially mobile farmers during the Middle Woodland period might look like including the organization of a site, artifact assemblage, and most relevant to …
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Middle iron age warfare of the hillfort dominated zone C.400 BC to c.150 BC
… social significance of weaponry using specific ethnographic analogy is an attempt to show the flawed nature of this approach, whilst providing a social context for the types of weapons recovered from the hillfort dominated zone. In order to attempt to understand the potential relationship …
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The early Neolithic tor enclosures of Southwest Britain
… in their cultural landscape contexts, using ethnographic analogy and re-examining the existing archaeological record, it is possible to achieve a better understanding of tor enclosures and to demonstrate their importance for understanding other elements of the Early Neolithic in Britain.
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Rock art regionalism and identity: case studies from Trans-Pecos Texas and Mpumalanga Province, South Africa
… usefully defined by the presence and absence of ethnographically informed motifs than by aesthetics. I support my argument by reference to two understudied rock art regions: the Texas Trans-Pecos, USA, and Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. The parallels between the two regions are enlightening: …
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Unangax̂ Mummies as Whalers: A Multidisciplinary Contextualization of Human Mummification in the Aleutian Islands
… communities. A comparative approach based on ethnographic analogy further explores the metaphysical relationship between hunter and whale. The geographical boundary for this study is also widened because mummification was practiced in regions contiguous to the Aleutians. Literature pertaining …
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Dynamics of Agricultural Development in Prehistoric Samoa: The Case of Ofu Island
… the assumed prehistoric sequence, built using ethnographic analogy, has been utilized to argue that the process of intensification was not inevitable on all Polynesian high islands. To address this gap, and to determine the nature of agricultural development in the Samoan Archipelago, this …
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On discourse and materiality: personhood in the Neolithic of the Isle of Man
… in inferring past experience; the use of ethnographic analogy in understanding past and present ideas and experiences of the person and body; the impact of modernity in forming current ideas of the person (particularly the impact on archaeological thought); and the relationship between the …
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Fields and Forests: A Stable Isotope Perspective on the Subsistence Strategies of Past Amazonian Peoples
… remarks, however, were based mainly on limited ethnographic analogy supported by scarce archaeological evidence, highly compromising the validity of the proposed theories. Only in recent years, with the improvement of archaeological science techniques, researchers were able to give a new …
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Sorting out ceramics : correlating change in the technology of ceramic production with the chronology of 18th and early 19th century western BaTswana towns
… of concepts, drawn from materials science and ethnographic analogy, are put forth to help understand this variation. This shift must be examined in the broader context of aggregation. Craft specialization and standardization might be one solution for providing for the needs of a large …
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Pueblos, Planets, and Permian Puzzles: The Perils and Promise of Analogical Evidence in the Historical Sciences
… reasoning in historical science, arguing that analogy is not merely interpretive but can function as a method of experimental inquiry. While philosophers like Carol Cleland emphasize trace-based inference, and critics like Derek Turner raise concerns about evidential loss and …