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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Rock Shelters"”.
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Site Location Modeling and Prehistoric Rock Shelter Selection on the Upper Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee
… location model was developed for prehistoric rock shelter occupation in the region. Further, the UCP model was used to explore factors related to differential site selection of rock shelters. Different from traditional approaches such as those that use (aspatial) logistic regression, the UCP …
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Incised Stones of the Great Basin: A Contextual Archaeology
… years. The incised stones were left at caves, rock-shelters and open-air sites. This research focused on five sites that are either caves or rock shelters: Camels Back Cave, Gatecliff Shelter, Hogup Cave, Ruby Cave and Swallow Shelter. Context was used as a fundamental theoretical lens to …
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Etnoarcheologia dei Paesaggi Pastorali nelle Alpi: Strategie Insediative Stagionali d'Alta Quota in Trentino
… while it doesnâ€TMt predict the location of rock-shelters in the same area. It has therefore been assumed that enclosures were linked to dairying economy and rock-shelters to simple (“dry†) pastoralism. Further qualitative tests of the model have been carried out in different areas of …
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People making history : the last ten thousand years of hunter-gatherer communities in the Thukela Basin
… my excavation, between 1981 and 1984, of eight rock shelters in the upper Thukela catchment. My aims and theoretical orientation have altered substantially since the project's ,inception. They have changed from being concerned primarily with ecological phenomena to the reconstruction of a …
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Anasazi ceramics as text and tool: Toward a theory of ceramic design "messaging".
… pottery, baskets, textiles, figurines, and rock art from the seventh century Basketmaker III period occupation of rock shelters in the Prayer Rock District, northeastern Arizona are examined. Comparison of design structure and content across these different media reveals two decorative …
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A landscape approach to the surface archaeology of the Bos River, Tankwa Karoo, Northern Cape
… and technological sequences from caves and rock shelters, with some focus on open-air sites. The information gained from shelters cannot be ignored or downplayed, however, they offer a spatially and temporally limited view of prehistoric lifeways. The aim of this thesis is to provide an …
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Later Quaternary archaeological sequences in northern Tanzania
… were undertaken at two deep-stratified rock shelters near Olduvai Gorge in order to ascertain the post-Acheulean archaeological sequence for the area. Shelter sequences document segments of time during the past 150,000 years and allow a new appreciation of the age and cultural …
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Stone age landscape use in the Olifants River Valley, Western Cape
… a rich surface lithic record with excavated rock shelter occupation dating from the LSA and extending back into the early part of the MSA. This thesis approaches Stone Age landscape use with reference to a hypothesis proposed by Hilary Deacon, framing the MSA within the context of earlier and …
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Of Pigments and Paint : quantifying ochre and rock art in the Cederberg (Western Cape, South Africa
… of the ochre assemblages and the surface area of rock paintings from the same sites based on colour classification from the Later Stone Age assemblages of three rock shelters, De Hangen, Andriesgrond and Diepkloof in the Western Cape, South Africa. This work begins to bridge the gap that exists …
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The Mesolithic hunters of the Trentino: a case study in hunter-gatherer settlement and subsistence
… evidence recorded from a series of valley bottom rock shelter and open air high altitude sites in the Trentino. An interpretative framework using risk based models is broadly applied to these data. Risk management is considered from the perspective of maintaining necessary dietary levels, through …
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Population differentiation, dispersal limitation, and local adaptation in the gametophytic fern Vittaria appalachiana
… occupies patchily distributed, non-calcareous rock shelters in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern North America. In each experiment, we used six different populations that span the species' geographic range. To test for dispersal limitation, transplants were placed in a site beyond the …
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From rainbow snakes to 'X-Ray' fish : the nature of the recent rock painting tradition of Western Arnhem Land, Australia
Painting on rock shelter walls has occurred in Western Arnhem Land for thousands of years and continued frequently until just over twenty years ago when the last major rock artist of the region passed away. Many of the most recent paintings were produced within the lifetime of Aboriginal elders …
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From rainbow snakes to 'X-Ray' fish : the nature of the recent rock painting tradition of Western Arnhem Land, Australia
Painting on rock shelter walls has occurred in Western Arnhem Land for thousands of years and continued frequently until just over twenty years ago when the last major rock artist of the region passed away. Many of the most recent paintings were produced within the lifetime of Aboriginal elders …