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Nomads in Archaeology
Tony Wilkinson,Roger Cribb +1 more
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This article is published in American Journal of Archaeology.The article was published on 1993-01-01. It has received 248 citations till now.read more
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Global Nomads: Techno and New Age as Transnational Countercultures in Ibiza and Goa
TL;DR: Global Nomads as discussed by the authors examines the social life of mobile expatriates who live within a global circuit of countercultural practice and international tourism in paradoxical paradises, and introduces the concept of "neo-nomadism", a fresh outlook on mobility that contributes to overcome some of the shortcomings in globalization studies.
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Ethnoarchaeology needs a general theory of behavior
TL;DR: Recent ethnoarchaeological work on site structure and faunal remains, especially as applied in research on the Paleolithic, illustrates both the problem and the appeal of the proposed solution.
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Contextualizing Early Urbanization: Settlement Cores, Early States and Agro-pastoral Strategies in the Fertile Crescent During the Fourth and Third Millennia BC
Tony Wilkinson,Graham Philip,Jenny Bradbury,Robert Dunford,Daniel N.M. Donoghue,Nikolaos Galiatsatos,Dan Lawrence,Andrea Ricci,Stefan Smith +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employ data from selected sample survey areas in the northern Fertile Crescent to demonstrate how initial urbanization developed along several pathways, including staple production within major agricultural lowlands, the shift towards higher risk animal husbandry within climatically marginal regions, changes in local and inter-regional networks (connectivity); and ties and rights to the land.
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Subsistence practices in an arid environment: a geoarchaeological investigation in an Iron Age site, the Negev Highlands, Israel
TL;DR: In this article, a small-scale excavation at the site of Atar Haroa was carried out to identify macroscopic and microscopic remains related to animal husbandry and crop agriculture using geoarchaeological, mineralogical, dung spherulite and isotopic techniques.
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Reconstruction of spatial organization in abandoned Maasai settlements: implications for site structure in the Pastoral Neolithic of East Africa
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a geo-ethnoarchaeological study of abandoned pastoral Maasai settlements that allows them to evaluate the archaeological visibility of ephemeral features such as hearths, trash pits, gates, houses and fences.