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Chris Scarre
Researcher at Durham University
Publications - 104
Citations - 1417
Chris Scarre is an academic researcher from Durham University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Megalith & Prehistory. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 102 publications receiving 1276 citations. Previous affiliations of Chris Scarre include McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
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Cognition and material culture : the archaeology of symbolic storage
TL;DR: In this article, fifteen papers explore how human beliefs have been externalized and stored in material form, thus making very intangible ideas exist in a permanent, tangible form, and explore the role of material objects in cultural evolution.
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The Ethics of Archaeology: Philosophical Perspectives on Archaeological Practice
Chris Scarre,Geoffrey Scarre +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, Scarre et al. discuss the ownership of cultural objects, trust and archaeological practice towards a framework of virtue ethics, and the common heritage of humans and their common heritage.
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The Human Past: World Prehistory and the Development of Human Societies
TL;DR: In The Human Past, a team of leading archaeologists, all well-known specialists in their fields, provides a seamless yet uniquely authoritative account of human prehistory on a global scale as discussed by the authors.
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Ancient genome-wide DNA from France highlights the complexity of interactions between Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and Neolithic farmers
Maïté Rivollat,Maïté Rivollat,Choongwon Jeong,Choongwon Jeong,Stephan Schiffels,Isil Kucukkalipci,Marie-Hélène Pemonge,Adam Ben Rohrlach,Adam Ben Rohrlach,Kurt W. Alt,Didier Binder,Susanne Friederich,Emmanuel Ghesquière,Detlef Gronenborn,Luc Laporte,Philippe Lefranc,Harald Meller,Hélène Réveillas,Eva Rosenstock,Stéphane Rottier,Chris Scarre,Ludovic Soler,Joachim Wahl,Johannes Krause,Marie-France Deguilloux,Wolfgang Haak +25 more
TL;DR: Using the genetic substructure observed in European hunter-gatherers, diverse patterns of admixture in different regions are characterized, consistent with both routes of expansion, which highlight the complexity of the biological interactions during the Neolithic expansion by revealing major regional variations.
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Explaining Social Change: Studies in honour of Colin Renfrew
TL;DR: A Choreography of Construction: Monuments, Mobilization, and social organization in Neolithic Orkney (Colin Richards) Now You See It, Now You Don't: Changing Obsidian Source Use in the Willaumez Peninsula, Papua New Guinea (Robin Torrence) Island Prehistories: a View of OrKney from South Uist (Mike Parker Pearson) Hail to the Chiefdom The Quest for Social Archaeology (Andrew Fleming) The Development of an Island Centre: Urbanization at Phylakopion Melos (Todd Whitelaw