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Backhoes, Bbqs, And B Horizons: The 2002 Allendale Paleoindian Expedition, Albert C. Goodyear
Backhoes, Bbqs, And B Horizons: The 2002 Allendale Paleoindian Expedition, Albert C. Goodyear
Faculty & Staff Publications
This issue is a combination of two issues: Volume 7/issue 2 (December 2002) & Volume 8/issue 1 (July 2003).
Cultural Diversification And Decimation In The Prehistoric Record, William C. Prentiss, James C. Chatters
Cultural Diversification And Decimation In The Prehistoric Record, William C. Prentiss, James C. Chatters
Anthropology and Museum Studies Faculty Scholarship
The history of human cultures is frequently marked by a distinctive pattern of evolution that paleobiologists term diversification and decimation. Under this process, fundamentally new socioeconomic systems appear during periods of dramatic cultural diversification, typically through cultural cladogenesis. Significant diversification episodes come about under conditions that favor group economic success under effective or geographic isolation. Typically shortlived, they are often followed by abrupt decimation under more competitive economic conditions. Regional archaeological sequences, viewed from this perspective, suggest that (1) cultural evolutionary trends are strongly conditioned by historical contingency, though general evolutionary processes are continuously active; (2) the emergence of new …
Towards An Anarchy Of Imagery: Questioning The Categorization Of Films As "Ethnographic", Kevin Taylor Anderson
Towards An Anarchy Of Imagery: Questioning The Categorization Of Films As "Ethnographic", Kevin Taylor Anderson
Adjunct Faculty Author Gallery
No abstract provided.
Evidence Of A Clovis Occupation At The Topper Site, 38al23, Allendale County, South Carolina, Albert C. Goodyear, Kenn Steffy
Evidence Of A Clovis Occupation At The Topper Site, 38al23, Allendale County, South Carolina, Albert C. Goodyear, Kenn Steffy
Faculty & Staff Publications
No abstract provided.