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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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Big brains, small worlds: material culture and the evolution of the mind
Fiona Coward,Clive Gamble +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that a key process was the gradual incorporation of material culture into social networks over the course of hominin evolution and future research by neuroimagers and archaeologists will need to investigate the cognitive mechanisms behind human engagement with material culture as well as other persons.
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Ethnicity and early Greek states: historical and material perspectives
TL;DR: In this article, an exploration of two distinct but related aspects of political life in the early Greek world, ethnicity (the conscious expression of group identity), and the existence of ethne, a term used very loosely in antiquity and now applied to most forms of state structure other than the polis is presented.
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Turkish occurrences of obsidian and use by prehistoric peoples in the Near East from 14,000 to 6000 BP
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed the geochemical identification of Turkish obsidian sources, from the volcano to the artefacts, introducing the use of spidergrams and argon geochronology as useful tools.
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The Archaeology of Early China: From Prehistory to the Han Dynasty
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an extended time period from the earliest peopling of China to the unification of the Chinese Empire some two thousand years ago, focusing on the emergence of agricultural communities and the establishment of a sedentary way of life.
Emergent Complexity on the Mongolian Steppe: Mobility, Territoriality, and the Development of Early Nomadic Polities
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the early development of societal complexity in Mongolia and systematically and empirically evaluate the core variables and problematic aspects related to the development of 'nomadic' polities (i.e., demography, subsistence, mobility, and political economy in relation to higher degrees of sociopolitical organizations.