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Showing 1 to 20 of 159 for “"Prehistory"”.
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Ritual prehistory: A pueblo case study.
What is the behavioral evidence of ritual prehistory? How can the development of new archaeological method and theory enable prehistorians to identify ritual deposits and reconstruct the ritual past? This dissertation addresses these questions in a case study of puebloan sites in the U.S. …
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Vegetable kingdoms : taro irrigation and Pacific prehistory
… purely technological significance in Pacific prehistory. To this encl the island of Aneityum in southern Vanuatu, where irrigation of taro (Colocasia esculenta) was traditionally important, has been studied in detail, through documentary sources, oral history, archaeological survey and …
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Agriculture in Tongan Prehistory: An Archaeobotanical Perspective
… evidence for agriculture in Tongan prehistory. Through the implementation of systematic archaeobotanical techniques, this study aimed to fill this gap and address two key research questions: 1) whether early colonisers were dependent on introduced crops, or if human dispersal was …
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Vegetable kingdoms : taro irrigation and Pacific prehistory
… purely technological significance in Pacific prehistory. To this encl the island of Aneityum in southern Vanuatu, where irrigation of taro (Colocasia esculenta) was traditionally important, has been studied in detail, through documentary sources, oral history, archaeological survey and …
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Agriculture in Tongan Prehistory: An Archaeobotanical Perspective
… evidence for agriculture in Tongan prehistory. Through the implementation of systematic archaeobotanical techniques, this study aimed to fill this gap and address two key research questions: 1) whether early colonisers were dependent on introduced crops, or if human dispersal was …
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Reconciling Western toad phylogeography with Great Basin prehistory
This study marks the first attempt to study historical processes that may be responsible for the contemporary geographic distribution and phylogeny of Great Basin Western toads (Anaxyrus boreas spp.). The dynamic aquatic history of the Great Basin was evaluated as a potential model for early toad …
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Subsistence Change and Continuity in Southeast Asian Prehistory
This dissertation presents a model to explain why and how subsistence patterns change, particularly the change from hunting and gathering to agriculture in Southeast Asia. The thesis of the dissertation is the following: People make changes in their subsistence pattern when they can obtain a …
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The programmable logic controller : its prehistory, emergence and application
Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) are widely used devices controlling industrial machines and processes and many other diverse applications, requiring primarily, combinatorial logic and sequential control. The PLC is a hidden technology, little known by the general public and overlooked in …
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EDWARD CHANNING’S WRITING REVOLUTION: COMPOSITION PREHISTORY AT HARVARD, 1819-1851
… his students) out of the shadows of composition prehistory, and in doing so it makes two important contributions to our understanding of the field’s past. First, it illuminates how changes in the machinery and economics of print influenced early writing pedagogies. Second, by revealing that …
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Climate, Environment and Malaria during the Prehistory of Mainland Greece
Interpretations of osteological remains from mainland Greece during the 1960-1980s led to the suggestion that the most virulent form of malaria, Plasmodium falciparum, was prevalent between the Mesolithic and Late Bronze Age (c. 8700 cal. BC-1100 cal. BC). Although disregarded over the past decade, …
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Deforestation and the Transformation of the Landscape of North China: prehistory - present
… evidence helps to extend this record into prehistory, for even prehistoric Chinese substantially altered their environment. The first half of this study examines historical and physical evidence in order to better explain how North China's forests disappeared. Only recently have there been …
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Visible Dead: Ancestral Landscapes in Prehistory between the Mediterranean and the Near East
Although archaeological investigations have long been concerned with the above-ground burial structures that populate especially the marginal landscapes of the Near East and the Caucasus, such as kurgans, dolmens, and nawamis, attempts at their understanding within the cognitive world of ancient …
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A high-resolution palaeoecological study of land use change during late prehistory on Exmoor
Palaeoecological studies have proven to make significant contributions to two large ongoing debates that include the influential power of climate and the impact of human land management on the vegetation patterns in certain areas in the UK and Northwest Europe. The need and importance for higher …
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The emergence of Mailu as a central place in the prehistory of coastal Papua
At the close of prehistory, the small Papuan island of Mailu was the location of a settlement that can be described as a central place. It was 'central' in that (1) with respect to the pattern of communications among contemporary sites in the area, it enjoyed a distinct relative locational …
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The emergence of Mailu as a central place in the prehistory of coastal Papua
At the close of prehistory, the small Papuan island of Mailu was the location of a settlement that can be described as a central place. It was 'central' in that (1) with respect to the pattern of communications among contemporary sites in the area, it enjoyed a distinct relative locational …
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Livestock and landscape: exploring animal exploitation in later prehistory in the South West of Britain.
The animal remains from British later prehistory have frequently been treated as generally only able to inform us about economy, and occasionally about symbolic behaviour. On the other hand, the use and division of landscape has been largely discussed in terms of social organisation. There has been …
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Ekistics, architecture and environmental politics, 1945-1976 : a prehistory of sustainable development by Panayiota I. Pyla.
The dissertation examines Ekistics, a field defined by the architect and planner Constantine Doxiadis as the "science of human settlements" that championed the radical expansion of architecture's scope, called for its alignment with international development, and emphasized the profession's …
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