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The Archaeology of Ethnicity: Constructing Identities in the Past and Present
01 Jan 1997-
TL;DR: Sian Jones as mentioned in this paper argues for a fundamentally different view of ethnicity, as a complex dynamic form of identification, requiring radical changes in archaeological analysis and interpretation, and presents a comprehensive and critical synthesis of recent theories of ethnicity in the human sciences.
Abstract: The question of ethnicity is highly controversial in contemporary archaeology. Indigenous and nationalist claims to territory, often rely on reconstructions of the past based on the traditional identification of 'cultures' from archaeological remains. Sian Jones responds to the need for a reassessment of the ways in which social groups are identified in the archaeological record, with a comprehensive and critical synthesis of recent theories of ethnicity in the human sciences. In doing so, she argues for a fundamentally different view of ethnicity, as a complex dynamic form of identification, requiring radical changes in archaeological analysis and interpretation.
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01 Jan 2010
TL;DR: The Viking Age colonization of northern and western Scotland has been a subject of scholarly inquiry for almost a millennium, starting with the learned speculations of medieval sources such as Orkneyinga Saga.
Abstract: he Viking Age colonization of northern and western Scotland has been a subject of scholarly inquiry for almost a millennium, starting with the learned speculations of medieval sources such as Orkneyinga Saga (Jesch 1992). By the nineteenth century (e.g. Anderson 1873a), this tradition had developed an interdisciplinary approach—combining historical, archaeological, and onomastic evidence—which has continued to the present. The literature on the subject is now
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the context and nature of findings from the first season of archaeological survey and trial excavation in an area of Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley and emphasise the value of a participative archaeology research framework in which accountability is directed towards common ground between multiple stakeholders within the design and dissemination of the research agenda.
Abstract: Here we present the context and nature of findings from the first season of archaeological survey and trial excavation in an area of Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley. With the exception of well-documented early hominin discoveries, the region has previously been overlooked as a wilderness absent of human inhabitation. Such an outlook has fostered various consequences for strategies of legal, research and conservation policy within the regional boundaries of Mursiland in particular. In this paper recent discoveries of megalithic circular platforms and other archaeological remains are introduced against their dynamic local and regional placement within present-day understandings of place. Furthermore, we emphasise the value of a participative archaeology research framework in which accountability is directed towards common ground between multiple “stake-holders” within the design and dissemination of the research agenda. This demonstrates important possibilities for intricate understandings of wildernes...
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TL;DR: The Ceibal-Petexbatun Archaeological Project has been conducting field investigations at the lowland lowland Maya site of Ceibal since 2005 as discussed by the authors, where the residents established a formal spatial pattern similar to those of the Chiapas centers during the Middle Preclassic period (1000-350 bc).
Abstract: The Ceibal-Petexbatun Archaeological Project has been conducting field investigations at the lowland Maya site of Ceibal since 2005 Previous research at this site by Harvard University allowed us to develop detailed research designs geared toward specific research questions A particularly important focus was the question of how lowland Maya civilization emerged and developed Comparison with contemporaneous sites in central Chiapas led us to hypothesize that the residents of Ceibal established a formal spatial pattern similar to those of the Chiapas centers during the Middle Preclassic period (1000–350 bc) Through excavations of important elements of this spatial pattern, including a probable E-Group assemblage and large platforms, we examined how the Ceibal residents participated in interregional interactions with Chiapas, the Gulf Coast, and other areas, and how construction activities and architecture shaped the course of social change
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01 Oct 2012
TL;DR: In this article, where is philology, where is the academy, where the professor and the reader are in the academy and where the reader is in the professor, and the professor is the reader.
Abstract: Preface 1. Introduction: where is philology? 2. Philological awakening: William Jones and the architecture of learning 3. The Anglo-Saxon revolution: John Mitchell Kemble and the paradigm 4. The Philological Society of London: lexicography as national philology 5. The professor and the reader: vernaculars in the academy Epilogue: the closing of the phase of philology Bibliography.
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