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A Good Type - Photographing Ainu Subjects
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Ainu Types, Attributed to von Fricken, c. 1890s. These images were collected by British traveler Charles H. Hawes, who published an account of his travels in East Asia. 2003.1.2223.241 Ainu Types, Attributed to von Fricken, c. 1890s. These images were...
Seasonality and Sedentism: Archaeological Perspectives from Old and New World Sites
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The papers in this volume explore the issues and techniques of archaeological site seasonality and settlement analysis. Through a series of case studies and theoretical discussions, the papers examine a range of data from Europe (Spain, Bosnia-Herzegovina...
Early man and Pleistocene stratigraphy in southern and eastern Asia
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Peabody Museum Papers Volume 19, No. 3
Origins of the Bronze Age Oasis Civilization in Central Asia
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The Murghad River delta, the site of ancient Margiana, was extensively settled during at least part of the Bronze Age, between 2200 and 1750 B.C. Oases in an otherwise desert region, settlements were situated along deltaic branches of the river or canals...
Making Milk: Mongolia’s Unique Role in Dairy’s History
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Christina Warinner, Professor of Anthropology and Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Milk is both ancient and enigmatic. First transformed into dairy products over 9,000 years ago in the Near East, its production required the domestication of...
Video: Origins of the Silk Roads
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Approximately 4,000 years ago, the peoples of China and Eurasia gradually began to develop networks of interaction and exchange that radically transformed the cultures of both regions. These networks eventually gave rise to the Silk Road trade routes...
Studies in the Anthropology of Oceania and Asia: Presented in Memory of Roland Burrage Dixon
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Peabody Museum Papers Volume 20, no. 1
An Early Neolithic Village in the Jordan Valley, Part I: The Archaeology of Netiv Hagdud
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The "Neolithic Revolution" in Southwestern Asia involved major transformations of economy and society that began during the Natufian period in the southern Levant and continued through Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) and into Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB)...
An Early Neolithic Village in the Jordan Valley, Part II: The Fauna of Netiv Hagdud
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The “Neolithic Revolution” in Southwestern Asia involved major transformations of economy and society that began during the Natufian period in the southern Levant and continued through Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) and into Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB)...
Globetrotters
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Globetrotters, Grades K–2 (60 Minutes) Schedule a Program "The program was hands-on and developmentally appropriate as well as engaging…During the program there were enough 'artifacts' for each student to have a turn as an 'anthropologist.'" — Teacher...