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Journal articles on the topic "Prehistoric novel":
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Chapman, Robert. "The Prehistoric Society, Prehistory and Society." Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 51, no. 1 (December 1985): 15–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0079497x00007003.
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Towards the beginning of her novel Excellent Women Barbara Pym recounts a telephone conversation of more than passing relevance to our meeting today.I dialled the number fearfully and heard it ring. ‘Hello, hello, who is that?’ a querulous elderly woman's voice answered. I was completely taken aback, but before I could speak the voice went on, ‘If it's Miss Jessop I can only hope you are ringing up to apologize’. I stammered out an explanation. I was not Miss Jessop. Was Mr Everard Bone there? ‘My son is at a meeting of the Prehistoric Society’, said the voice. ‘Oh, I see. I'm so sorry to have bothered you’, I said. ‘People are always bothering me — I never wanted to have the telephone put in at all’.After a further apology I hung up the receiver shaken and mystified but at the same time relieved. Everard Bone was at a meeting of the Prehistoric Society. It sounded like a joke. (1952, 29–30)Mr President, Ladies and Gentlemen, if this is a typical reaction to the Prehistoric Society, then on 23 February we become a fifty-year-old joke! If we allow for the history of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia, then we reach well and truly back into the days of the Music Hall joke.
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Rutherford, Kea H., Rand R. Evett, and Peter Hopkinson. "Using phytolith analysis to reconstruct prehistoric fire regimes in central coastal California." International Journal of Wildland Fire 29, no. 9 (2020): 832. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wf20013.
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Over the last century, northern coastal scrub has encroached into open grasslands along the central California coast, increasing fire risk in coastal wildland–urban interfaces. Understanding prehistoric ecological conditions is crucial for fire mitigation projects. Current estimates of these conditions in coastal California grasslands and shrublands are largely speculative because tree ring data, lake sediment evidence and ethnographic information are sparse. Phytolith analysis is an alternative palaeoecological tool that has been successfully used to reconstruct the extent of prehistoric grass cover in California. Our study uses phytolith analysis of soil samples from the East Bay hills of the San Francisco Bay region as a novel approach to estimate prehistoric grassland distribution and infer fire frequency in central coastal California. Our data strongly indicate that many areas in the region were dominated by perennial bunchgrasses for at least several hundred years before European contact. Because grass-dominated grasslands in the East Bay hills are disturbance-dependent, our data suggest prehistoric fire frequency was of the order of 5 years or less in the region. Phytolith analysis is a useful technique for prehistoric fire regime reconstruction for grasslands and shrublands worldwide, leading to improved, data-based land management.
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Soshkin, Evgeny. "Unknown play by Vladimir Bogoraz-Tan." Literary Fact, no. 15 (2020): 8–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2020-15-8-41.
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Vladimir Germanovich Bogoraz (1865–1936, pseudonyms: Tan, Tan-Bogoraz, Bogoraz-Tan), the famous ethnographer, linguist, religious scholar, and researcher of Northern peoples, was also a prolific and popular fiction author, in particular, a prominent representative of the so-called prehistoric fiction, i.e. fiction about prehistoric times. This is the first publication of Bogoraz’s play “Dragon Victims” which is a revision of his prehistoric novel under the same name (1909, “Sons of Mammoth” in English translation of 1929), commissioned in 1920 by the Section of Historical Pictures at the Petrograd Theater Department of the People's Commissariat of Education, after Bogoraz, at that time an employee of the Petrograd Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, had been invited by the Section to write an introduction for the upcoming paleophantastic play “Rhino Hunt” by N.S. Gumilev. The text of Bogoraz’s play “Dragon Victims”, preserved in the archive (St. Petersburg Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences Archives), is published according to the typescript with author’s handwritten corrections. In a detailed introductory article, the publisher clarifies the dating, the history of creating, and the literary characteristics of the play as compared to the novel, as well as the programmatic nature of the encouraging attitude to composing plays on prehistoric themes that came from A.M. Gorky, the founder and head of the Section.
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OIKKONEN, VENLA. "Kennewick Man and the Evolutionary Origins of the Nation." Journal of American Studies 48, no. 1 (January 23, 2014): 275–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875813001497.
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This article addresses the recent attempts to integrate evolutionary history in the US national narrative. Focussing on the cultural, legal, and scientific controversy over Kennewick Man, the ancient human remains discovered in Washington state in 1996, the article explores the narrative politics of American national belonging. Through a popular historical novel on Kennewick Man's life, the article further theorizes nostalgia as a narrative tool in imagining the evolutionary origins of the nation. The article argues that nostalgia produces a temporal dynamic that bridges the gap between national history and global prehistory, and that this dynamic is reinforced through cultural ideas of genetic knowledge. At the same time, prehistoric nostalgia renders problematic ideas of ethnic difference largely invisible.
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Tomova, Anna, Iva Tomova, Evgenia Vasileva-Tonkova, Irina Lazarkevich, Margarita Stoilova-Disheva, Dimitrinka Lyutskanova, and Margarita Kambourova. "Myroides guanonis sp. nov., isolated from prehistoric paintings." International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 63, Pt_11 (November 1, 2013): 4266–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.050831-0.
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A novel psychrotolerant, strictly aerobic, non-motile, rod-shaped bacterial strain, designated IM13T, was isolated from a sample taken from prehistoric guano paintings in Magura Cave, northwest Bulgaria and subjected to a polyphasic taxonomic study. Strain IM13T formed yellow colonies on LB agar plates and was Gram-staining-negative, heterotrophic and alkalitolerant. It grew optimally at pH 7.5 and 30 °C in the absence of NaCl. Phylogenetic analysis of the whole 16S rRNA gene revealed that strain IM13T branched with representatives of the genus Myroides with sequence similarity of 93–94 % with other species of the genus. The novel isolate contained iso-C15 : 0 (49.1 %), iso-C17 : 1ω9c (18.2 %) and iso-C17 : 0 3-OH (14.0 %) as dominant fatty acids. The DNA G+C content of strain IM13T was 33.5 mol%. Based on phylogenetic inference and phenotypic characteristics, it was concluded that strain IM13T represents a novel species of the genus Myroides , for which the name Myroides guanonis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is IM13T ( = DSM 26542T = NBIMCC 8736T).
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Lundström, Victor, Robin Peters, and Felix Riede. "Demographic estimates from the Palaeolithic–Mesolithic boundary in Scandinavia: comparative benchmarks and novel insights." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 376, no. 1816 (November 30, 2020): 20200037. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0037.
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Prehistoric demography has recently risen to prominence as a potentially explanatory variable for episodes of cultural change as documented in the archaeological and ethnographic record. While this has resulted in a veritable boom in methodological developments seeking to address temporal changes in the relative size of prehistoric populations, little work has focused on the manner in which population dynamics manifests across a spatial dimension. Most recently, the so-called Cologne Protocol has led the way in this endeavour. However, strict requirements of raw-material exchange data as analytical inputs have prevented further applications of the protocol to regions outside of continental Europe. We apply an adjusted approach of the protocol that makes it transferable to cases in other parts of the world, while demonstrating its use by providing comparative benchmarks of previous research on the Late Glacial Final Palaeolithic of southern Scandinavia, and novel insights from the early Holocene pioneer colonization of coastal Norway. We demonstrate again that population size and densities remained fairly low throughout the Late Glacial, and well into the early Holocene. We suggest that such low population densities have played a significant role in shaping what may have been episodes of cultural loss, as well as potentially longer periods of only relatively minor degrees of cultural change. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Cross-disciplinary approaches to prehistoric demography’.
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Randsborg, Klavs. "Classical Blues." Current Swedish Archaeology 9, no. 1 (June 10, 2021): 77–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.37718/csa.2001.06.
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The development of a consciousness of history, in particular hinged on material forms, and of archaeology as such is discussed with particular reference to the traditions of prehistoric and classical archaeology in Scandinavia. The conservative attitudes of traditions are deplored, and globalization seen as the novel challenge.
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Fisher, Jacob L. "Diversity of forager lifeways in the prehistoric past." Antiquity 94, no. 374 (March 17, 2020): 533–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.12.
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The underlying theme of Foraging in the past is how archaeology can be used to identify the full range of diversity among hunter-gatherers in the absence of ethnographic analogues. In the introduction, Ashley Lemke argues that forager diversity must have been greater in the past than is suggested by comparison with the spatially and temporally restricted ethnographic record of modern hunter-gatherer societies. The deep prehistoric past covers timeframes with no modern environmental analogue, and the subjects of our study include a broader range of human ancestors than just anatomically modern humans. Consequently, archaeologists must use models and hypotheses to identify novel forager adaptations that lack any modern ethnographic equivalent.
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van der Kuyl, Antoinette C. "Historic and Prehistoric Epidemics: An Overview of Sources Available for the Study of Ancient Pathogens." Epidemiologia 3, no. 4 (October 7, 2022): 443–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/epidemiologia3040034.
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Since life on earth developed, parasitic microbes have thrived. Increases in host numbers, or the conquest of a new species, provide an opportunity for such a pathogen to enjoy, before host defense systems kick in, a similar upsurge in reproduction. Outbreaks, caused by “endemic” pathogens, and epidemics, caused by “novel” pathogens, have thus been creating chaos and destruction since prehistorical times. To study such (pre)historic epidemics, recent advances in the ancient DNA field, applied to both archeological and historical remains, have helped tremendously to elucidate the evolutionary trajectory of pathogens. These studies have offered new and unexpected insights into the evolution of, for instance, smallpox virus, hepatitis B virus, and the plague-causing bacterium Yersinia pestis. Furthermore, burial patterns and historical publications can help in tracking down ancient pathogens. Another source of information is our genome, where selective sweeps in immune-related genes relate to past pathogen attacks, while multiple viruses have left their genomes behind for us to study. This review will discuss the sources available to investigate (pre)historic diseases, as molecular knowledge of historic and prehistoric pathogens may help us understand the past and the present, and prepare us for future epidemics.
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Higham, T. F. G., and W. J. Gumbley. "Early preserved Polynesian kumara cultivations in New Zealand." Antiquity 75, no. 289 (September 2001): 511–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00088694.
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Archaeological evidence for prehistoric gardening practices in Polynesia includes stone boundary walls, storage pits and structures, drainage systems and evidence for the modification of soil, but often the remains of horticultural practise are ephemeral. Maori developed a range of novel modifications to their traditional horticultural methods which enabled the successful introduction of the range of Polynesian cultigens into the temperate New Zealand environment, the furthest southwards these crops were introduced. They modified the soil by adding charcoal, shell and alluvial gravels to change the friability and temperature retention, and stored tubers in semi-subterannean pits for the next growing season (Jones 1991: 14–8; Challis 1976). Here, we report what we believe is the first direct archaeological evidence for the actual layout of prehistoric kumara gardens in New Zealand. Our interpretation receives support from the accounts of early Europeans in New Zealand, including Joseph Banks and William Colenso.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Prehistoric novel":
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Hummel, Clément. "Modernités du roman scientifique chez J.-H. Rosny aîné." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Normandie, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023NORMC033.
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J.-H. Rosny aîné (1856-1940) est l’auteur d’une importante somme littéraire, composée de romans, de nouvelles, d’articles publiés dans la presse et dans des journaux scientifiques. L’histoire littéraire retient sa participation à la contestation du naturalisme zolien, son implication au sein de l’Académie Goncourt dont il fut membre fondateur et Président, la maturité qu’il apporte au récit préhistorique grâce à son roman-phare La Guerre du feu, et d’innombrables textes qui contribuent aujourd’hui à le situer comme l’un des précurseurs, en France, de la science-fiction. L’intérêt d’un tel auteur ne tient pas tant à ce qu’il annonce, mais se situe plutôt dans la modernité littéraire qu’il théorise et met en pratique, au moment où, en France, l’art romanesque est en crise et le récit scientifique ne parvient pas à dépasser le modèle des Voyages Extraordinaires de Jules Verne. Cet ouvrage analyse en particulier les liens que cet auteur protéiforme entretient avec les sciences qui exercent chez lui une « passion poétique » et dont il se revendique comme étant le réformateur. S’il a pu produire différents essais de philosophie scientifique et présenter certaines de ses réflexions à l’Académie des Sciences, c’est par le biais du roman qu’il invente à la fois une science et une littérature modernesJ.-H. Rosny aîné (1856-1940) is the author of a large literary work, including novels, short stories, articles published in the press and in scientific journals. Literary history remembers his involvement in the dispute against Émile Zola's naturalism, his role in the Goncourt Academy, of which he was a founding member and President, the maturity he brought to prehistoric narratives through his seminal novel La Guerre du feu and numerous texts that now position him as one of the pioneers of science fiction in France. The interest of that author lies not so much in what he foreshadowed but rather in the literary modernity he both theorized and practiced at a time when the art of the novel was in crisis in France, and scientific storytelling struggled to move beyond the model set by Jules Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires. This work particularly analyzes the multifaceted connections that this versatile author maintained with the sciences, which held a “poetic passion” for him and to which he declared himself a reformer. While he produced various essays on scientific philosophy and presented some of his reflections to the Academy of Sciences, it’s through the medium of the novel that he invents both modern science and literature
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Whitten, Christopher Mark. "A novel approach for elucidating the complex maternal prehistories of Siberian ethnolinguistic groups using complete mitochondrial genomes." Doctoral thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-215526.
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Siberia is an ideal region for exploring population histories from a molecular anthropological perspective given the diverse human populations, in terms of linguistic affiliation and lifestyle, currently inhabiting this geographically large region. As such, this thesis explores new methodologies for the investigation of the genetic histories of Siberian populations. While previous genetic work in this area of the world was able to provide detailed insights into paternal histories based on Y chromosomal data, it was not as successful on the maternal side. There existed difficulties in exploring the complex maternal demographic histories due to high levels of sequence identity between individuals in different populations when using only a very small region of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), known as the hypervariable region I (HV1). This realization led to the initial focus of this dissertation which was to identify and test improved methods of sequencing entire mtDNA genomes. This was necessary because the mtDNA genomes that were published for human Siberian populations and across the globe prior to the work described here were chosen based on specific sub-sample selection criteria that introduced an ascertainment bias rendering them unusable for population-wide analyses. After testing multiple next generation DNA sequencing methods, I helped develop a sequencing library preparation method based on multiplexing and hybridization enrichment of mtDNAs for sequencing by synthesis that has since become widely used in labs across the globe. Comparing the same samples sequenced by both the traditional and new methods for five ethnolinguistic populations showed that these new methods were robust and could lead to different inferences about population histories while avoiding a sampling bias. Based on the results of this thesis it is now recommended for researchers to sequence complete mtDNA genomes for all relevant samples within a collection. By applying these methods to additional Siberian populations it was possible to better describe maternal population contact and identify demographic changes over time. This additional information allowed for the identification of putative drops in the maternal effective population sizes in the Siberian populations examined here. When examining the potential migrations and population contact between Turkic-speaking Yakuts and the Tungusic-speaking Even and Evenks, there exists a differential sharing of haplotypes suggesting that the Tungusic speaking populations herein were already in the northern region and split prior to the expansion of the Yakuts into their territory. The putative origin of the Yakuts as being around Lake Baikal was given additional support from the analyses included in this study and the origins of the Dolgans were shown to predominately include the admixture of Yakuts and Evenks.
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Whitten, Christopher Mark [Verfasser], Svante [Gutachter] Pääbo, and Graciela [Gutachter] Cabana. "A novel approach for elucidating the complex maternal prehistories of Siberian ethnolinguistic groups using complete mitochondrial genomes / Christopher Mark Whitten ; Gutachter: Svante Pääbo, Graciela Cabana." Leipzig : Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1240695837/34.
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Whitten, Christopher Mark. "A novel approach for elucidating the complex maternal prehistories of Siberian ethnolinguistic groups using complete mitochondrial genomes." Doctoral thesis, 2016. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A15162.
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Siberia is an ideal region for exploring population histories from a molecular anthropological perspective given the diverse human populations, in terms of linguistic affiliation and lifestyle, currently inhabiting this geographically large region. As such, this thesis explores new methodologies for the investigation of the genetic histories of Siberian populations. While previous genetic work in this area of the world was able to provide detailed insights into paternal histories based on Y chromosomal data, it was not as successful on the maternal side. There existed difficulties in exploring the complex maternal demographic histories due to high levels of sequence identity between individuals in different populations when using only a very small region of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), known as the hypervariable region I (HV1). This realization led to the initial focus of this dissertation which was to identify and test improved methods of sequencing entire mtDNA genomes. This was necessary because the mtDNA genomes that were published for human Siberian populations and across the globe prior to the work described here were chosen based on specific sub-sample selection criteria that introduced an ascertainment bias rendering them unusable for population-wide analyses. After testing multiple next generation DNA sequencing methods, I helped develop a sequencing library preparation method based on multiplexing and hybridization enrichment of mtDNAs for sequencing by synthesis that has since become widely used in labs across the globe. Comparing the same samples sequenced by both the traditional and new methods for five ethnolinguistic populations showed that these new methods were robust and could lead to different inferences about population histories while avoiding a sampling bias. Based on the results of this thesis it is now recommended for researchers to sequence complete mtDNA genomes for all relevant samples within a collection. By applying these methods to additional Siberian populations it was possible to better describe maternal population contact and identify demographic changes over time. This additional information allowed for the identification of putative drops in the maternal effective population sizes in the Siberian populations examined here. When examining the potential migrations and population contact between Turkic-speaking Yakuts and the Tungusic-speaking Even and Evenks, there exists a differential sharing of haplotypes suggesting that the Tungusic speaking populations herein were already in the northern region and split prior to the expansion of the Yakuts into their territory. The putative origin of the Yakuts as being around Lake Baikal was given additional support from the analyses included in this study and the origins of the Dolgans were shown to predominately include the admixture of Yakuts and Evenks.
Books on the topic "Prehistoric novel":
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Mackey, Mary. The year the horses came: A novel. [San Francisco, Calif.]: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993.
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Bruchac, Joseph. Dawn land: A novel. Golden, Colo: Fulcrum Pub., 1993.
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Bruchac, Joseph. Dawn land: A novel. Colorado: Fulcrum publishing, 1993.
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Brailsford, Barry. Song of the whale: A novel. Hamilton, N.Z: Stoneprint Press, 1997.
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Ribeiro, Stella Carr. Sambaqui: A novel of pre-history. New York, N.Y: Avon Books, 1985.
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Hearst, Dorothy. Secrets of the wolves: A novel. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011.
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Denzel, Justin F. Hunt for the last cat: A novel. New York: Philomel Books, 1991.
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Barrus, Emery. Legacy of a hunter: A novel. Santa Barbara, Calif: Fithian Press, 1995.
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Gear, Kathleen O'Neal. People of the owl: A novel of prehistoric North America. New York: Forge, 2003.
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Walker, Martin. The caves of Périgord: A novel. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002.
Book chapters on the topic "Prehistoric novel":
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Arabadjis, Dimitris, Solomon Zannos, Constantin Papaodysseus, Fotios Giannopoulos, Michalis Exarhos, Panagiota Tsakalidou, Evangelos Fotopoulos, and Dimitrios Kanellopoulos. "A Novel Information System for the Automatic Reconstruction of Highly Fragmented Objects with Application to the Reassembly of Prehistoric Wall Paintings and Vessels." In 10th International Symposium on the Conservation of Monuments in the Mediterranean Basin, 571–78. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78093-1_62.
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Peeren, Esther. "The Hinterland at Sea." In Planetary Hinterlands, 225–37. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24243-4_14.
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AbstractThe hinterlands of contemporary global capital are as contested as those of the heydays of colonialism, but instead of as yet-to-be-developed, they manifest as overdeveloped, laid waste to. I explore what it means to live in a hinterland of abandonment by turning to Ben Smith’s Doggerland (2019), set on a windfarm in the North Sea in a dystopian future. This novel, I argue, not only literally places the hinterland at sea, but conceptualizes it as a realm of the at sea, of people, materials, and elements as constantly shifting and sifting in a struggle for survival unfolding at the scale of the protagonists’ lives and at that of the deep time narrative of water, which includes the prehistory of the North Sea as a landmass.
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ZEANAH, DAVID W., BRIAN F. CODDING, DOUGLAS W. BIRD, REBECCA BLIEGE BIRD, CHLOE MCGUIRE, GEORGE T. JONES, and ROBERT G. ELSTON. "The Role of Theory and Ethnographic Analogies in Understanding Paleoindian Obsidian Acquisition, Mobility, and Mating Strategies in the Great Basin." In Archaeology on the Threshold, 18–35. University Press of Florida, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813069531.003.0002.
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Interpreting Pleistocene foragers by analogy with ethnographic hunter-gatherers can be tricky because the former lived in climatic circumstances and at population densities unlike the latter. Our challenge is to use theoretically informed predictions, validated by ethnographic observations, to recognize past behavior that may fall outside the range of ethnographically documented variability. This is no novel insight, but analogies fail if they serve only to explain away the past variation they were intended to clarify. We refer to western Australian hunter-gatherers as an analogy to pose an explanation of Paleoindian obsidian acquisition and conveyance in the Great Basin but are mindful that good analogies serve to build understandings of prehistoric behavior that are grounded in theory and serve to clarify critical similarities and differences between prehistoric and ethnographic cases.
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Galanidou, Nena, and Christina Papoulia. "Between the Aegean and the Adriatic: The Balkan Palaeolithic and the Sea." In The Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of South-Eastern Europe, 225–51. Oxford University PressNew York, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780197267509.003.0008.
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Abstract Focusing on the southern tip of the Balkan Peninsula, this chapter discusses the paradigm shift towards an archaeology that incorporates the Quaternary Sea and investigates the profound effect of the fluctuating sea-levels on (a) Palaeolithic hunter gatherers and (b) archaeological visibility. It examines the sea as a resource, a water-crossing challenge and a terrestrial route to novel territories at periods of low sea-level stand. In tune with Continental Shelf Archaeology it describes two research projects in islands of the central Ionian Sea (Lefkas and the Inner Ionian Archipelago) and the north-east Aegean Sea (Lesbos) that address the ways Palaeolithic groups responded to climate and sea-level change, and their initial attempts to cross the sea or the land bridges that emerged as windows of opportunity for dispersal during times of low sea-level stands.
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Galanidou, Nena, and Christina Papoulia. "Between the Aegean and the Adriatic: The Balkan Palaeolithic and the Sea." In The Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of South-Eastern Europe. Oxford: British Academy, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197267509.003.0008.
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Abstract Focusing on the southern tip of the Balkan Peninsula, this chapter discusses the paradigm shift towards an archaeology that incorporates the Quaternary Sea and investigates the profound effect of the fluctuating sea-levels on (a) Palaeolithic hunter gatherers and (b) archaeological visibility. It examines the sea as a resource, a water-crossing challenge and a terrestrial route to novel territories at periods of low sea-level stand. In tune with Continental Shelf Archaeology it describes two research projects in islands of the central Ionian Sea (Lefkas and the Inner Ionian Archipelago) and the north-east Aegean Sea (Lesbos) that address the ways Palaeolithic groups responded to climate and sea-level change, and their initial attempts to cross the sea or the land bridges that emerged as windows of opportunity for dispersal during times of low sea-level stands.
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Keymer, Tom. "7. Passion and Persuasion." In Jane Austen: A Very Short Introduction, 103–16. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198725954.003.0008.
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‘Passion and Persuasion’ explores psychology in Jane Austen’s Persuasion (1817), a novel focused on the suppression and eventual resurgence of passion. Memory is one of the work’s central themes, and the pressures exerted by past choices on consciousness in the present, and on future life. Indeed, the first volume of Persuasion narrates not a shallow capacity for passion but the crushing psychological consequence of wrong decisions and ongoing regret—a pattern amplified by the rich historical (indeed prehistoric) resonances of Lyme Regis, where a pivotal phase of the action takes place. Ultimately, Persuasion unfolds for the heroine as a clever but relentlessly painful reversal of the standard narrative trajectory of courtship fiction. We can observe how in Persuasion, the navy offers a salutary model of national progress in the post-war future.
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Buchanan, Briggs, and Marcus J. Hamilton. "Networks and Cultural Transmission in Hunter-Gatherer Societies." In The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Network Research, 459–74. Oxford University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198854265.013.34.
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Abstract In this chapter we examine current research on networks and cultural transmission in modern, historic, and prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies. Understanding networks in hunter-gatherer societies is important because hunting and gathering has been the socioeconomic framework for the vast majority of human evolutionary history. A better understanding of the structure and function of social networks in hunting and gathering societies has the potential to shed light on the evolution of human social organization. Our discussion of the structure and function of networks in hunter-gatherer societies uses studies of contemporary hunter-gatherers, ethnohistorical data, and ethnoarchaeological observations to frame inferences about prehistoric societies observable only in the archaeological record. We summarize recent work with contemporary hunter-gatherers that shows how large-scale networks link both unrelated and related individuals, optimizing flows of energy, material, and information. Next, we describe ethnohistorical and ethnoarchaeological studies of hunter-gatherers that link observations of the structure of modern hunter-gatherer societies to the archaeological record. Lastly, we examine case studies of Paleoindian hunter-gatherers from late Pleistocene North America. These studies focus on macro-scale cultural transmission in the deep past to show how network theory plays a fundamental role in understanding how low-density, sparsely populated groups adapted to the novel environmental conditions of the New World. We suggest that future research in hunter-gatherer studies should focus on the diversity of network structures across societies, especially in sedentary hunter-gatherer societies, and with the introduction of agricultural economies.
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Müldner, G., and M. P. Richards. "Diet in Medieval England: The Evidence from Stable Isotopes." In Food In Medieval England, 228–38. Oxford University PressOxford, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199273492.003.0016.
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Abstract This chapter introduces a relatively novel method of exploring medieval food- ways, the direct measure of past human diets through stable isotope analysis of bone collagen. This analysis reflects long-term dietary averages and is used to gain information on broad categories of foods consumed by humans in the past. In medieval historical and archaeological studies there is a tendency to focus on the specifics of diet. Approaches such as isotope analysis, which provide evidence of general dietary patterns, have therefore only rarely been applied. By contrast, isotopic methods are widely used in prehistoric archaeology, as this field does not have the benefit of documentary sources. The method is briefly outlined here and then the chapter presents results of the isotope analyses for a number of English medieval sites. It aims to demonstrate that in combination with the rich textual evidence from this period, isotope analysis can tell us new and unique information about diet and its role in medieval society.
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Tucker-Abramson, Myka. "Introduction." In Novel Shocks, 1–24. Fordham University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823282708.003.0001.
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Beginning with James Baldwin’s Another Country, this introduction argues that urban renewal was a crucial context for, and concern of, the mid-century US novel and that novelists turned to the symptomology of “shock” to depict and negotiate their experiences of the renewed city. The introduction then lays out the book’s two main interventions. First, in turning our attention back to the prehistories of neoliberalism, Novel Shocks brings into relief the material histories and struggles that produced the neoliberal forms of reason and affective structures that critics have identified in the contemporary novel. Second, by shifting the mid-century’s horizon from Cold War ideology to expanding US hegemony, Novel Shocks challenges the subversion/containment framework, which continues to govern our reading practice, and thus refigures our thinking about Cold War literary culture.
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Kukkonen, Karin. "John Cleland versus the Novel." In A Prehistory of Cognitive Poetics, 201–17. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190634766.003.0014.
Reports on the topic "Prehistoric novel":
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Saville, Alan, and Caroline Wickham-Jones, eds. Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Scotland : Scottish Archaeological Research Framework Panel Report. Society for Antiquaries of Scotland, June 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.9750/scarf.06.2012.163.
Abstract:
Why research Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Scotland? Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology sheds light on the first colonisation and subsequent early inhabitation of Scotland. It is a growing and exciting field where increasing Scottish evidence has been given wider significance in the context of European prehistory. It extends over a long period, which saw great changes, including substantial environmental transformations, and the impact of, and societal response to, climate change. The period as a whole provides the foundation for the human occupation of Scotland and is crucial for understanding prehistoric society, both for Scotland and across North-West Europe. Within the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods there are considerable opportunities for pioneering research. Individual projects can still have a substantial impact and there remain opportunities for pioneering discoveries including cemeteries, domestic and other structures, stratified sites, and for exploring the huge evidential potential of water-logged and underwater sites. Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology also stimulates and draws upon exciting multi-disciplinary collaborations. Panel Task and Remit The panel remit was to review critically the current state of knowledge and consider promising areas of future research into the earliest prehistory of Scotland. This was undertaken with a view to improved understanding of all aspects of the colonization and inhabitation of the country by peoples practising a wholly hunter-fisher-gatherer way of life prior to the advent of farming. In so doing, it was recognised as particularly important that both environmental data (including vegetation, fauna, sea level, and landscape work) and cultural change during this period be evaluated. The resultant report, outlines the different areas of research in which archaeologists interested in early prehistory work, and highlights the research topics to which they aspire. The report is structured by theme: history of investigation; reconstruction of the environment; the nature of the archaeological record; methodologies for recreating the past; and finally, the lifestyles of past people – the latter representing both a statement of current knowledge and the ultimate aim for archaeologists; the goal of all the former sections. The document is reinforced by material on-line which provides further detail and resources. The Palaeolithic and Mesolithic panel report of ScARF is intended as a resource to be utilised, built upon, and kept updated, hopefully by those it has helped inspire and inform as well as those who follow in their footsteps. Future Research The main recommendations of the panel report can be summarized under four key headings: Visibility: Due to the considerable length of time over which sites were formed, and the predominant mobility of the population, early prehistoric remains are to be found right across the landscape, although they often survive as ephemeral traces and in low densities. Therefore, all archaeological work should take into account the expectation of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic ScARF Panel Report iv encountering early prehistoric remains. This applies equally to both commercial and research archaeology, and to amateur activity which often makes the initial discovery. This should not be seen as an obstacle, but as a benefit, and not finding such remains should be cause for question. There is no doubt that important evidence of these periods remains unrecognised in private, public, and commercial collections and there is a strong need for backlog evaluation, proper curation and analysis. The inadequate representation of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic information in existing national and local databases must be addressed. Collaboration: Multi-disciplinary, collaborative, and cross- sector approaches must be encouraged – site prospection, prediction, recognition, and contextualisation are key areas to this end. Reconstructing past environments and their chronological frameworks, and exploring submerged and buried landscapes offer existing examples of fruitful, cross-disciplinary work. Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology has an important place within Quaternary science and the potential for deeply buried remains means that geoarchaeology should have a prominent role. Innovation: Research-led projects are currently making a substantial impact across all aspects of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology; a funding policy that acknowledges risk and promotes the innovation that these periods demand should be encouraged. The exploration of lesser known areas, work on different types of site, new approaches to artefacts, and the application of novel methodologies should all be promoted when engaging with the challenges of early prehistory. Tackling the ‘big questions’: Archaeologists should engage with the big questions of earliest prehistory in Scotland, including the colonisation of new land, how lifestyles in past societies were organized, the effects of and the responses to environmental change, and the transitions to new modes of life. This should be done through a holistic view of the available data, encompassing all the complexities of interpretation and developing competing and testable models. Scottish data can be used to address many of the currently topical research topics in archaeology, and will provide a springboard to a better understanding of early prehistoric life in Scotland and beyond.