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Movement and management of animals in the North and West of Africa from 1000 BC to AD 1000

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L’artisanat dans les cites antiques de l’Algérie:

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse the place of l'artisanat and des artisans dans les villes antiques de l'Algerie en faisant le point sur la documentation disponible - archives, rapports de fouilles, plans, photos and publications.
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Counting Roman chickens: Multidisciplinary approaches to human-chicken interactions in Roman Britain

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss some of the approaches and results from two multi-disciplinary projects, including the AHRC-funded Cultural and Scientific Perceptions of Human-Chicken Interactions and the Leverhulme Trust-funded Rural Settlement of Roman Britain, investigating the history of the exploitation of chickens in Europe.
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Métallurgie du fer et sociétés africaines : bilans et nouveaux paradigmes dans la recherche anthropologique et archéologique

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented at a conference at Aix-en-Provence, 23-24 April 2010, a series of papers on the development and expansion of the endogames in Africa.
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Bayesian analysis of radiocarbon dates

TL;DR: An overview of the main model components used in chronological analysis, their mathematical formulation, and examples of how such analyses can be performed using the latest version of the OxCal software (v4) are given.
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The social life of things: commodities in cultural perspective

TL;DR: Farriss and Reddy as discussed by the authors presented a cultural biography of things: commoditization as process Igor Kopytoff Part II, and two kinds of value in the Eastern Solomon Islands William H. Davenport and William M. Cassanelli Part V.
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The social life of things: The cultural biography of things: commoditization as process

Igor Kopytoff
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the production of commodities is also a cultural and cognitive process: commodities must be not only produced materially as things, but also culturally marked as being a certain kind of thing.
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The Social Life of Things

TL;DR: The authors examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past, focusing on culturally defined aspects of exchange and socially regulated processes of circulation, illuminate the ways in which people find value in things and things give value to social relations.