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Clermont, Norman, and Philip E. L. Smith. "Prehistoric, prehistory, prehistorian … who invented the terms?" Antiquity 64, no. 242 (March 1990): 97–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00077322.

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Who first used a word for the idea of ‘prehistory’? Chippindale, in a paper published last year, tried to clear up this old confusion once and for all. He failed. Here are more answers to the question — a matter of real historical importance since the invention of a prehistoric past was so central to the 19th-century development of archaeology.
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Hakonen, Aki. "Communities Beyond Society: Divergence of Local Prehistories on the Bothnian Arc, Northern Europe." Open Archaeology 7, no. 1 (January 1, 2021): 211–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opar-2020-0132.

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Abstract This article presents a comparison of material records of two nearby regions on the coast of the Bothnian Bay. The timeframe is 5300–2000 BCE. The focus is on regional differences, which indicate a schizmogenesis of communal identities. The study calls for a reorientation of research concerning Fennoscandian prehistory. More attention should be paid to localized prehistories. It is argued that when prehistoric society is used as a fundamental group category, especially in the context of forager communities, the modern concept of state society distorts the underlying framework. Focusing on the regional level by constructing local prehistoric narratives limits the anachronistic effect and allows the proliferation of local communal identities. Such local prehistories, when collated and compared, offer a pathway to understanding prehistoric stateless societies, which are misrepresented by simplistic material cultural zones and the inherent homogeny ingrained within the concept of society. In this paper, the analysis is focused on practices representing local traditions. Two divergent themes that arise from the local prehistoric narratives are the Late Mesolithic use of local stone materials and regional changes in Neolithic dwelling forms.
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Coye, Noël, and Arnaud Hurel. "Émile Cartailhac (1845–1921): une préhistoire en constante reconstruction." ORGANON 55 (December 12, 2023): 25–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/00786500.org.23.002.18779.

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Émile Cartailhac (1845–1921): A Prehistory in Constant Reconstruction At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, French prehistory underwent a conceptual and methodological overhaul in line with the movement affecting the human sciences at the time. This change was brought about by a new generation of prehistorians, but some of the earliest, including Émile Cartailhac, were also at the forefront of the movement. The Toulouse prehistorian was not a systemic thinker, but conducted research into, and dissemination and promotion of prehistory at both the national and international level. He played an active role in the main debates renovating prehistory and proposed a series of compromises that reconfigured prehistoric practice by the renovation of methods and the opening up of new areas of investigation.
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Pelayo, Francisco. "Origins and circulation of prehistoric collections in Madrid museums." Aulas Museos y Colecciones de Ciencias Naturales 7-2020 (2020): 77–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.29077/aula/7/06_pelayo.

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The National Museum of Natural Sciences was the first scientific institution in Madrid that guarded a collection of prehistoric objects. The donation was sent in 1847 by a Spanish diplomat appointed in Copenhagen. Twenty years later this collection would be transferred to the National Archaeological Museum, created in 1867. This was the beginning of the circulation of prehistoric collections among the museums of Madrid. The purchase by the State of private collections of prehistoric objects, collected by amateurs, increased the specimens of the two great national museums, that of Natural Sciences and that of Archeology. These two state museums exchanged collections, passing the copies of anthropology, paleontology and geology to the Natural Sciences Museum, and the stone tools to the Archeology Museum. The transfer of collections between museums was extended after the creation of the Anthropology Museum in 1910 and the Prehistoric Museum of the Madrid City Council in 1929. After the Civil War, the prehistory collections of the Anthropology Museum were transferred to the Archaeological Museum. El Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales fue la primera institución científica de Madrid que custodió una colección de objetos prehistóricos. La donación fue enviada en 1847 por un diplomático español destinado en Copenhague. Veinte años después esta colección se transfirió al Museo Arqueológico Nacional, creado en 1867. Este fue el comienzo de la circulación de colecciones de prehistoria entre los museos de Madrid. La compra por el Estado de colecciones privadas de objetos prehistóricos, recogidas por aficionados, incrementaron los fondos de los dos grandes museos nacionales, el de Ciencias Naturales y el de Arqueología. Estos dos museos estatales intercambiaron colecciones, pasando al de Ciencias Naturales los ejemplares de antropología, paleontología y geología, y al Arqueológico los instrumentos líticos. La transferencia de colecciones entre museos se extendió tras la creación del Museo de Antropología en 1910 y del Museo Prehistórico del Ayuntamiento de Madrid en 1929. Tras la Guerra Civil, los fondos de prehistoria del Museo de Antropología se traspasaron al Museo Arqueológico.
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Venegas Ramos, Alberto. "El consumo de la Prehistoria a través del videojuego, representaciones, tipologías y causas = The Prehistory through the Videogames: Representations, Tipologies and Causes." Espacio Tiempo y Forma. Serie I, Prehistoria y Arqueología, no. 10 (December 4, 2017): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/etfi.10.2017.19174.

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Las representaciones de la Prehistoria en la cultura popular siempre han sido parciales, deformadas por los propios creadores para fijar una “marca prehistórica” que fuera fácilmente reconocible para los consumidores. En este trabajo intentaremos trazar un recorrido por la historia de las representaciones del videojuego ambientados en la Prehistoria para establecer una tipología y una serie de rasgos generales. Como conclusión ligaremos esta tipología, las diferentes representaciones y rasgos generales con las nociones de consumo, el pasado y el uso de la Historia en la cultura popular expresadas en los trabajos de Barthes Samuel (2012), David Lowenthal (2015) y Jerome de Groot (2016).The representation of the Prehistory in popular culture have been always partial, deformed by the creators of contents to create a “prehistoric brand” that be easily recognoscible for the consumer. In this paper we will try to trace a history of the prehistoric representations in the video games and stablish a typology for the different manifestations. In the last place, we will question himself the reasons for this representations in relation with the works of Barthes Samuel (2012), David Lowenthal (2015) and Jerome de Groot (2016) and their notions of the relation between the consuming, the past and the use of History in the popular culture.
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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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Tipping, Richard, Richard Bradley, Jeff Sanders, Robert McCulloch, and Robert Wilson. "Moments of crisis: climate change in Scottish prehistory." Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 142 (November 30, 2013): 9–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.9750/psas.142.9.25.

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There is strong evidence for many key turning points in Scottish and north-west European prehistory – what we call moments of 'crisis' – to be associated with evidence for widespread and abrupt natural changes in climate. Association or coincidence are not cause, though, and the testing of specific hypotheses to establish this relation is needed. The timing of these moments of abrupt climatic change in Scottish prehistory is proposed in a review of the many new data-sets of prehistoric climate change affecting the North Atlantic region. The case is made that Scotland in prehistory, because of its location in the North Atlantic region, should become a testing-ground of the relation between prehistoric society and climate change, to move debate beyond merely coincidence matching.
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CHARLES, D. K. "Japanese Prehistory: Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers In Japan." Science 235, no. 4791 (February 20, 1987): 916b—917b. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.235.4791.916b.

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Wood, Jacqui. "Food and drink in European prehistory." European Journal of Archaeology 3, no. 1 (2000): 89–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/eja.2000.3.1.89.

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There is a wealth of archaeological evidence, from bones excavated in prehistoric middens, piles of fruit stones and sea shells, that give us concrete indications of food consumed at various prehistoric sites around Europe. In addition to this information, we have pollen analysis from settlement sites and charred plant macrofossils. Wetland archaeology informs us in much more detail about not only the types of foods that were being eaten in prehistory but also, in some cases, their cooking techniques. This paper will explore whether or not a popular misconception about the daily diet in prehistory has its roots in the analysis of stomach contents of various bog bodies found in Europe.
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Harry, Karen G. "Ceramic Specialization and Agricultural Marginality: Do Ethnographic Models Explain the Development of Specialized Pottery Production in the Prehistoric American Southwest?" American Antiquity 70, no. 2 (April 2005): 295–319. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40035705.

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Ethnographic data indicate that historically, ceramic specialization is strongly correlated with agricultural and economic marginality. Where such specialization is concentrated geographically, it often is found in areas having agriculturally poor lands (Arnold 1985). Although this association is well established for modern-day and historic peasant communities, the degree to which this pattern extended into prehistory is unknown. In this paper, I evaluate the applicability of the agricultural marginality model to the prehistoric American Southwest by considering evidence from six areas where specialized pottery production is known to have occurred. The data from these areas suggest that, in the prehistoric Southwest, agricultural marginality was not the primary or sole factor leading to the adoption of part-time ceramic specializations. To understand why the ethnographic model does not apply to the prehistoric Southwest, attention must be focused on understanding the differing social and economic contexts within which prehistoric farmers and historic and modern-day peasants operated.
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Benjamin, Jonathan, and Alex Hale. "Marine, Maritime, or Submerged Prehistory? Contextualizing the Prehistoric Underwater Archaeologies of Inland, Coastal, and Offshore Environments." European Journal of Archaeology 15, no. 2 (2012): 237–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/1461957112y.0000000007.

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Studies in submerged prehistoric archaeology have gained momentum in recent years with particular focus on the inundated landscapes of the European continental shelf. Although this renewed interest lies primarily in modern coasts and seas, there are a variety of differences between the submerged prehistoric archaeologies of inland and marine environments, ranging from questions of scientific research to heritage management to practical field methods. Some of these differences are the result of location, function, and period. Despite this, there exist similarities that, if ignored, risk increased marginalization of the archaeology of submerged landscapes from the greater field of prehistoric archaeology. A holistic evaluation of prehistoric archaeological landscapes must include inland waters and coastal zones and their relationships. Aquatic environments, viewed both as individual locations as well as continuous and connecting waterways, are introduced for their differences and similarities, and simplified examples of material and legislation are introduced in order to contextualize submarine sites and practices within the greater fields of prehistory and underwater archaeology.
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Chippindale, Christopher. "The Invention of Words for the Idea of ‘Prehistory’." Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 54 (1988): 303–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0079497x00005867.

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The standard recent authorities on the history of archaeology date the invention of a specific word for prehistory to 1833, saying that Paul Tournal of Narbonne used the adjective préhistorique (‘prehistoric’ in the English translation in Heizer 1969, 91; and in Daniel 1967, 25, following Heizer 1962) or the noun préhistoire (Daniel 1981,48) in an article about French bone-caves.This is not true. The word Tournal used was antéhistorique (Tournal 1833, 175), and the mistake has arisen from working with an idiomatic translation into English, which rendered ‘anté-historique’ as ‘prehistoric’ (Tournal [1959]) instead of the original French. (Grayson 1983, 102., however, quotes Tournal's original French correctly.) The earliest use of ‘prehistoric’ seems to be Daniel Wilson's of 1851 in The Archaeology and Prehistoric Annals of Scotland (1851), as the older histories of archaeology say (eg Daniel 1950, 86 (reprinted in Daniel 1975, 86); Daniel 1962, 9), before the error about Tournal began to circulate.
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Rowley-Conwy, Peter. "The concept of prehistory and the invention of the terms ‘prehistoric’ and ‘prehistorian’: the Scandinavian origin, 1833–1850." European Journal of Archaeology 9, no. 1 (2006): 103–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461957107077709.

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It is usually assumed by historians of archaeology that the ‘concept of prehistory’ and the terms ‘prehistoric’ and ‘prehistorian’ first appeared in Britain and/or France in the mid-nineteenth century. This contribution demonstrates that the Scandinavian equivalent terms forhistorisk and förhistorisk were in use substantially earlier, appearing in print first in 1834. Initial usage by Molbech differed slightly from that of the present day, but within three years the modern usage had been developed. The concept of prehistory was first developed at the same time by C.J. Thomsen, though he did not use the word. It was used more frequently in the nationalism debates of the 1840s, particularly by J.J.A. Worsaae. One of the other protagonists, the Norwegian Peter Andreas Munch, was probably responsible for introducing the concept to Daniel Wilson in 1849, and suggesting that an English equivalent to forhistorisk was required.
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Gathercole, Peter. "Childe, Marxism, and Knowledge." European Journal of Archaeology 12, no. 1-3 (2009): 181–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461957109339695.

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Childe withdrew from revolutionary politics after his post-university years in Australia in favour of a career in prehistoric archaeology in Britain. Though remaining a Marxist, his application of Marxist principles to prehistory developed only slowly as his interpretations became more sophisticated. He became increasingly interested in knowledge about prehistory from studying results of the interactions between material remains and their interpretation (in Marxist terms, the relationships between practice and theory). In his paper ‘Retrospect’, Childe (1958b:73) charted the development in his thinking to where he rejected ‘transcendental laws determining history and mechanical causes … automatically shaping its course’ with an understanding that a prehistoric society's knowledge of itself was ‘known or knowable … with its then existing material and conceptual equipment’. Thus the prehistory of Europe could be seen not as a product of Oriental civilization, but as an independent entity. Childe could then write a prehistory of Europe ‘that should be both historical and scientific’ (1958b:74). This book, The Prehistory of European Society (1958a), also demonstrated his use of the epistemology of knowledge to understand prehistory as a sociological phenomenon.
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Besse, M., S. Fragnière, A. Müller, M. Piguet, L. Dubois, D. Miéville, S. Schoeb, and D. Schumacher. "Learning About Archaeology and Prehistoric Life." Science & Education 28, no. 6-7 (May 25, 2019): 759–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11191-019-00047-z.

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Abstract This article is about an intervention introducing prehistoric life in primary education. Its objectives were to foster openness and interest for prehistory and archaeology, as well as content knowledge and conceptual learning with a focus on four main facets: basic knowledge about prehistoric life; conceptual learning/change regarding prehistory; learning about archaeologists and archaeology as a scientific discipline; and learning about interactions of archaeology and other disciplines (interdisciplinarity). Students participated in two workshops about the creation of a prehistoric object, highlighting the close interaction between the natural sciences and humanities within archaeology. The workshop emphasised dialogue between students, teachers and researchers, as well as active participation by the students. The educational effects of the workshops were studied using a pre-post design (N = 439, ages 8–10 years). Results show that the workshops had sizeable positive effects on both affective and cognitive variables. The appreciation of the workshops ranged from ≈ 70 to 90% (of maximum value) for interest, perceived educational value and further aspects. We also found a positive impact of the intervention on cognitive variables, e.g. for several elements of key knowledge about prehistory (such as where prehistoric people lived and with what resources; medium to large effect sizes: d > 0.9 and d = 0.46, respectively). Regarding conceptual learning, we found improved understanding of the link between climate change and long-term changes in wildlife in a given area (medium to large effect sizes, d = 0.5–0.8). A positive impact was also found for the understanding of archaeology encompassing both humanities and the natural sciences (e.g. understanding of climate change as inferred from archaeological knowledge, d = 0.3–0.5). No differences of the various outcomes were found between girls and boys; the workshops appear suitable for both genders. We conclude with a discussion of the interpretation of our findings, of some limitations and possible improvements, and of future perspectives, in particular for further classroom implementation.
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Cooney, Gabriel. "A sense of place in Irish prehistory." Antiquity 67, no. 256 (September 1993): 632–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00045865.

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Peter Woodman's survey-article in ANTIQUITY, ‘Filling the spaces in Irish prehistory’ (66: 295–314), was developed from his paper to the Prehistoric Society, ‘What's new in Irish prehistory?’ Was it actually new? Did it fill the spaces in the periods of earlier Irish prehistory that ANTIQUITYasked Professor Woodman to address? Gabriel Cooney offers a different perspective on Irish prehistory.
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Hutton, Ronald. "Romano-British Reuse of Prehistoric Ritual Sites." Britannia 42 (April 18, 2011): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068113x1100002x.

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AbstractMuch interest has been taken recently in the reuse of prehistoric ceremonial sites during later prehistory and early history, but only limited attention has been paid to this phenomenon during the Romano-British period. This article seeks to build on existing work by making a detailed study of such activity in three specific cases: the limestone caves of the Bristol Channel region, the Neolithic chambered tombs of the Cotswold-Severn area and the Peak District, and the three most spectacular prehistoric monuments of the Wessex chalklands: Stonehenge, the Avebury complex and the Uffington White Horse.
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Moundrea-Agrafioti, Antikleia. "The "global" and the "local" in the Aegean Bronze Age: The case of Akrotiri, Thera." Ekistics and The New Habitat 73, no. 436-441 (December 1, 2006): 64–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.53910/26531313-e200673436-441102.

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The author is Assistant Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology, Department of History Archaeology and Social Anthropology , University of Thessaly, Greece. After undergraduate studies in History and Archaeology at the University of Athens she obtained her Masters as well as her Ph. D degree in Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Paris X, Nanterre in 1981. Her research interests focus on Aegean prehistory, spanning the Palaeolithic to Late Bronze Age, the prehistoric stone and bone technology, the obsidian characterization studies and the material culture issues, the interaction between technology and prehistoric communities and aspects involved in the contextual analysis. Her current fieldwork interests concern survey and excavation involving new technologies. Since 2005 she is the Director of the Zerelia Excavations Program, of the University of Thessaly. She has a long affiliation with The Akrotiri Thera Excavations since 1983. On the site she is involved in the excavation, study and publication of stone tools industries, and the database and GIS applications. Dr Moundrea Agrafioti is a member of the World Society for Ekistics.
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Robb, John. "Prehistoric Art in Europe: A Deep-Time Social History." American Antiquity 80, no. 4 (October 2015): 635–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.7183/0002-7316.80.4.635.

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Although many researchers have studied prehistoric European artthere has been virtually no attention paid to the broad prehistory of art as a specialized form of material culture: virtually all studies focus narrowly on single bodies of art. This paper presents a new approach to analyzing prehistoric art: quantitative deep time study. It analyzes a database of 211 art traditions from across Europe and from 40,000 B.C. to 0 AD.to identify changes in the amountnatureand use of prehistoric art. The results reveal clear long-term trends. The amount of art made increased sharply with the origins of sedentary farming and continued to rise throughout prehistory. New forms of art arise in conjunction with new ways of life: “period genres “ are closely tied into patterns of social change. There are also long-term shifts in aesthetics and the uses of art (such as a gradual shift from arts of ritual and concealment to arts of surface and display). These resultsthough preliminaryshow that a deep-time approach familiar from topics such as climate change is applicable to art; the resulting social history can illuminate both art and its social context.
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Gatsov, Ivan, and Nikolay Sirakov. "Book review: Raiko Krauß: Ovčarovo-Gorata. Eine frühneolitische Siedlung in Nordostbulgarien." Documenta Praehistorica 43 (December 30, 2016): 527–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/dp.43.29.

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In the first half of the 1980s, lithic materials from the prehistoric settlement of Ovčarovo-Gorata in northern Bulgaria were studied by Vietnamese archaeologist Nguyen Van Binh. At that time, he was a doctoral student in the Department of Prehistory of the National Archaeological Institute and Museum Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. In 1985, Nguyen Van Binh completed his doctoral thesis “Prehistoric flint artifact assemblages from the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene on the basis of materials from North East Bulgaria”, which presents the results of lithic assemblages processed from the site.
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Anderson, Atholl. "The chronology of colonization in New Zealand." Antiquity 65, no. 249 (December 1991): 767–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00080510.

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New Zealand was the last substantial landmass to be colonized by prehistoric people. Even within Oceania, where there are much smaller and more remote islands, such as Pitcairn and Easter Island, New Zealand stands out as the last-settled archipelago. Its prehistory promises, therefore, better archaeological evidence concerning prehistoric colonization of pristine land-masses than is the case anywhere else, as is apparent in the extinction of megafauna (Anderson 1989a). But much depends on the precise antiquity of human colonization and this, following a long period of consensus, is now a matter of sharp debate.
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Tilley, Leia Kristen. "Re-wilding Ritual: An Archaeological Study of Plants in Ritual Contexts in the Traprain Law Environs, Scotland." Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural 13, no. 1 (March 1, 2024): 76–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/preternature.13.1.0076.

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ABSTRACT The study of European prehistory has often associated natural objects as menacing presences rooted in fears concerning, at a basic level, continued subsistence and combative conciliatory ritual practice. Nevertheless, in this time, ritual is imprinted upon entire landscapes with natural objects manipulated to construct ritual spaces. This article considers the nature and purpose of natural objects, specifically plant species, within prehistoric ritual practice in Scotland through consideration of the Traprain Law environs, East Lothian. Within prehistoric contexts, the Traprain Law environs are formed partly through the physical manifestations of ideology in a network of ritual sites. In this context, plants as natural objects are a community integral to ritual networks, whether through ritualized clearance, symbolic usage in cremation, votive offering, or deposition prior to site abandonment. There are many ways in which plant remains occupied space within ritual taskscapes in prehistoric Scotland.
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Robinson, M. E., D. W. Shimwell, and G. Cribbin. "Re-assessing the logboat from Lurgan Townland, Co. Galway, Ireland." Antiquity 73, no. 282 (December 1999): 903–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00065662.

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Recent study of the prehistoric Lurgan logboat reveals many details of its construction and date. Speculation on how the boat was used and why it was incomplete offer an insight into Irish prehistory.
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Barfield, Lawrence, and Christopher Chippindale. "Meaning in the Later Prehistoric Rock-Engravings of Mont Bégo, Alpes-Maritimes, France." Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 63 (1997): 103–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0079497x00002395.

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The later prehistoric rock-engravings of Mont Bégo, in the Maritime Alps on the French–Italian border, provide a rare possibility of grasping the meaning of a group in prehistoric art. Two elements in their limited repertoire of forms are daggers and halberds, which also occur as physical objects or as images in the contemporary sites of adjacent north Italy; their contexts show they are, in that area, associated with the status of adult males in society. That same interpretation is applied to the Mont Bégo figures, and this is found congruent with other motifs — especially ploughs and cattle — in the repertoire. It may explain also the other common motif, a geometrical form interpreted as a map of a prehistoric farmstead, by associating it with plough agriculture and land division. The insights developed from the study for what ‘meaning’ amounts to in the study of prehistory are set down.
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Török, Béla. "The Story of the International Scientific Commission of the UISPP for Archaeometry of Pre- and Protohistoric Inorganic Artifacts, Materials and Technologies." Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica Natural Sciences in Archaeology XIII, no. 2 (November 2, 2022): 181–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.24916/iansa.2022.2.7.

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The International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP), an organisation with over 90 years of history, includes all the fields and disciplines that contribute to the development of prehistory and protohistory. To achieve their goals, the UISPP organises periodically a world congress on prehistoric and protohistoric sciences. Based on proposals received, the general assembly decides on the creation of scientific commissions, following the advice of the executive committee of the UISPP. The main objective of these commissions is to promote and coordinate international research in a specific or specialised domain of the prehistoric and protohistoric sciences between each world congress. Based on the success and interest shown in a session of the 17th UISPP Congress, the need has arisen to create a new scientific commission in the field of archaeometry. This brief text describes the creation of this commission and its scientific activities to date. The commission aims at discussing and transmitting the archaeometric approaches to technologies in Prehistory and Protohistory concerning lithic technology, metallurgy, ceramics and glass making; gathering and organising the results, conclusions and circumstances of archaeometric case studies of artifacts; paying particular attention to production, procurement and characterisation of raw materials, and fabrication technologies; and discussing relevant interdisciplinary investigation methods and techniques.
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Whittaker, William E. "Determining the Age of GLO-mapped Trail Networks." Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 40, no. 2 (July 1, 2015): 134–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/26599914.

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Abstract Between 1833 and 1861, the Government Land Office (GLO) mapped almost 11,000 km of trails in Iowa. It is unknown if substantial portions of this GLO-mapped trail system predate the arrival of Euro-Americans; it is possible they were established in prehistory and used into the historical period. This Geographical Information Systems study compares a sample of archaeological sites within 1 km of the GLO trails in northern Iowa with a control sample. It was expected that GLO trails would be more common near Late Prehistoric sites if much of the GLO trail system was established before Euro-American arrival. Analysis indicates a relationship between GLO-mapped trails and Late Prehistoric, early historic Indian, and early historic Euro-American sites. Statistically, the connection between GLO trails and early historic Euro-American sites is by far the strongest; however, biases in the data suggest the association between Late Prehistoric and early historic Indian sites and GLO trails is underestimated.
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Renfrew, Colin, Theodora Bynon, Merritt Ruhlen, Aron Dolgopolsky, and Peter Bellwood. "Is there a Prehistory of Linguistics?" Cambridge Archaeological Journal 5, no. 2 (October 1995): 257–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774300015055.

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There are few aspects of human behaviour more fundamental than our ability to use language. Language plays a key role in the study of any living human society, and of all historical communities which have left us written records. In theory it could also throw enormous light on the development and relationships of prehistoric human communities. But here there is a huge and obvious problem: what evidence can there be for human languages in the pre-literate, prehistoric age? In other words, what hope is therefor a prehistory of linguistics? There is no easy answer, yet it is hard to accept that any account of human prehistory can be considered adequate without some knowledge of prehistoric languages and linguistic relationships, if only at the broadest scale.The list of questions we might wish to pose stretches back to the period of the very earliest hominids. When did our human ancestors first begin to talk to each other? Was language acquisition sudden or gradual? Did human language arise in one place, and then spread and diversify from- that point? Or did it emerge independently, among separate groups of early humans in different parts of the world?Leading on from this is the study of ethnicity and ethnogenesis. Since the end of the nineteenth century one of the biggest problems facing prehistoric archaeologists has been the identification and interpretation of archaeological cultures and cultural groups. Do these have any social or ethnic reality? Is it right to speak of a Beaker ‘folk’? Was the Bandkeramik colonization the work of one people or of many? These questions would be so much easier to resolve if only we could trace the prehistory of languages, and could establish, for instance, whether all Bandkeramik and Beaker users spoke the same or a related language.Such possibilities may seem exciting and hopeful to some, irredeemably optimistic to others. Whatever view we take, they clearly merit serious discussion. In the present Viewpoint, our third in the series, we have asked five writers — two archaeologists (Renfrew & Bellwood), three linguists (Bynon, Ruhlen & Dolgopolsky) — to give their own, personal response to the key question ‘Is there a prehistory of linguistics?’ Can we, from the evidence of archaeology, linguistics (and now DNA studies), say anything positive about langtiage in prehistory?
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Rückemann, Claus-Peter. "The Coherent Multi-disciplinary Knowledge Case of Prehistorical Insight: Information Science at the Edge of Structured Data Comprehension." Information Theories and Applications 28, no. 1 (2021): 3–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.54521/ijita28-01-p01.

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Up to these days, we are experiencing an omnipresent lack of a general approach for cognitive addressing of knowledge structures. This article presents new results and component reference implementations based on frameworks of coherent conceptual knowledge. Coherent conceptual knowledge provides valuable instruments for multi-disciplinary contextualisation, e.g., for contexts in prehistory and protohistory. This research addresses scientific methodologies, valorisation and intelligent re-valorisation of any scientific insight, cognostic addressing of structures, also known as nucleal cognstructures. The resulting component reference implementations enable productive, fertile environments, and learning-improvement-cycles. Central goal of this research is a consistent coherent conceptual integration of knowledge. Prehistory and prehistoric archaeology and their contexts and contextualisation provide a plethora of instructive multi-disciplinary scientific scenarios of high complexity. Thus, component reference implementations for these scenarios are implementation blueprints for informational modeling, industrial learning, and improvement cycles. The results of this long-term research provide solutions based on practical information science, beneficial for prehistory, prehistoric archaeology, and their multi-disciplinary contexts as well as for providing approaches to general solutions.
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Parker-Pearson, M. "From corpse to skeleton: dealing with the dead in prehistory." Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris 28, no. 1-2 (March 1, 2016): 4–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13219-016-0144-y.

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The shortcomings of the archaeological record raise many challenges for the interpretation of prehistoric funerary practices, particularly because the remains of most people in prehistory have left no trace at all. Throughout prehistory, most human remains were treated in ways that are archaeologically invisible. A brief review of the sequence of funerary practices in British prehistory reveals major gaps and deficiencies in the burial record. It may well be that the normative rites for much of British prehistory were those that left little or no archaeological trace, such as excarnation through exposure of corpses or scattering of cremated ashes.One form of mortuary practice only recently demonstrated for British prehistory is that of mummification. Scientific analysis of Late Bronze Age skeletons from Cladh Hallan, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, has revealed that they were not only composites of multiple individuals but were also mummified prior to burial. In particular, histological analysis of bioerosion in the bone microstructure reveals that putrefaction was arrested soon after death. This method of histological analysis has been applied to a large sample of prehistoric and historical human remains, and reveals that patterns of arrested decay are particularly a feature of the British Bronze Age from the Bell Beaker period onwards.
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Green, Stanton W., and Marek Zvelebil. "The Mesolithic Colonization and Agricultural Transition of South-east Ireland." Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 56 (1990): 57–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0079497x0000503x.

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This paper presents the first systematic archaeological evidence from the early prehistory of south-east Ireland. The research is designed to investigate the colonization of the area during the Mesolithic period and the subsequent transition to agriculture. From a theoretical perspective, we offer a view of indigenous development. That is, we look for continuities between Mesolithic and Neolithic Ireland in terms of technology and settlement. The data, we are gathering include surface and excavated materials. Lithic assemblages were systematically collected from ploughsoils surrounding the Waterford Harbour area during the years 1983 through 1987. These materials are analyzed from the point of view of geography, raw material, reduction sequences, manufacturing technology, and chronological typology to yield an initial glimpse into the rich prehistory of the region and its pattern of settlement. Excavations during 1986, 1987 and 1989 have begun to fill in some detail including the region's first prehistoric barley, a Neolithic radiocarbon date, prehistoric pottery, a rhyolite quarry and several rich lithic assemblages.
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Owen, Janet. "From Down House to Avebury: John Lubbock, prehistory and human evolution through the eyes of his collection." Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science 68, no. 1 (November 27, 2013): 21–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2013.0048.

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When Sir John Lubbock died in May 1913, his estate included a seemingly eclectic assortment of prehistoric stone tools and ethnographic artefacts displayed on the walls of his home at High Elms and hidden away in storage. However, detailed analysis of the history of this collection reveals a fascinating story of a man inspired by Darwin and like-minded evolutionary thinkers, who became one of the most important intellectuals in Victorian Britain to examine the controversial subject of human evolution. Six acquisitions are used in this article to explore how Lubbock began as Darwin's friend and scientific apprentice and became an international champion for the study of prehistory and the protection of prehistoric ancient monuments.
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Lepofsky, Dana. "A Radiocarbon Chronology for Prehistoric Agriculture in the Society Islands, French Polynesia." Radiocarbon 37, no. 3 (1995): 917–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033822200014995.

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I discuss a suite of 29 radiocarbon age determinations from four valleys on the islands of Mo'orea and Raiatea in the Society Archipelago. These dates provide the first sequence for the development of prehistoric agricultural production and human-induced environmental change in the Society Islands. Indirect evidence of small-scale agriculture, and by association, human occupation, dates to at least the 7th–10th centuries ad. Agricultural sites themselves date from the early 13th century ad until the late prehistoric/early historic period, with most agricultural activity clustering at the end of the temporal sequence. Valleys with the greatest arable potential were cultivated earlier than less preferred sites. Evidence for extensive landscape transformation in the Opunohu Valley, likely associated with clearing for agricultural purposes, begins soon after the earliest evidence for cultivation and continues throughout prehistory. A larger sample of 14C determinations from strati-graphic excavations in both archaeological sites and “off-site” contexts is required to address many as yet unanswered questions about the prehistoric social and economic development of the Society Islands.
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Kunnas-Pusa, Liisa. "Eighteenth-century visions of the Stone Age." 1700-tal: Nordic Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 18 (July 2, 2021): 11–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/4.5905.

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Archaeological concepts of prehistory and the Stone Age are rooted in nineteenth-century scientific discoveries, which extended the human past much further back in time than was previously thought. Without this deep past, the disciplines of archaeology and history would not be what they are today. However, when the division of prehistory into the ages of stone, bronze, and iron was introduced in 1836, it was already an old idea. Stone Age artefacts and the initial phase of human history were discussed in the eighteenth-century academic world, even though the periodisation of history was constructed differently. In the philosophy of the Enlightenment several ideas surfaced which were essential to the formation of archaeology as a scientific practice, and which still affect the way the prehistoric past is imagined. This article examines the concept of a prehistoric, furthest past in Finnish scientific texts, within the framework of eighteenth-century Swedish traditions of science and historiography. How did the scholars in the Academy of Turku view Stone Age artefacts that had a multi-faceted nature in the antiquarian tradition? In what way did their visions of the earliest phase of the Nordic past set up later nationalistic narratives about prehistory?
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Budja, Mihael. "Neolithic pottery and the biomolecular archaeology of lipids." Documenta Praehistorica 41 (December 30, 2014): 196–224. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/dp.41.11.

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In this paper, we present archaeological and biochemical approaches to organic food residues, the lipids that are well preserved in ceramic matrices on prehistoric vessels. The ‘archaeo- logical biomarker revolution’ concept is discussed in relation to pottery use, animal exploitation and the evolution of dietary practices in prehistory.
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Till, Rupert. "Songs of the Stones: An Investigation into the Acoustic History and Culture of Stonehenge <br> doi:10.5429/2079-3871(2010)v1i2.10en." IASPM Journal 1, no. 2 (January 20, 2011): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.5429/308.

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This paper investigates the acoustic culture of Stonehenge, an iconic British prehistoric stone circle. It addresses references to the structure within popular music culture, as well as Thomas Hardy’s discussion of the site. It investigates ritual activities in prehistory from an analytical consideration of its acoustics, using theoretical, digital modeling, physical modeling and field measurement approaches. Stonehenge in prehistory is found to have significant acoustic features that are likely to have had an impact in prehistory. Conclusions are drawn about what we can learn from the similarities between ritualistic musical culture in prehistory and in contemporary popular culture.
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Kalogirou, Alexandra, Douglass W. Bailey, Ivan Panayotov, and Stefan Alexandrov. "Prehistoric Bulgaria." American Journal of Archaeology 100, no. 4 (October 1996): 782. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/506681.

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Hanson, William S. "Prehistoric occupation." Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports 98 (May 30, 2022): 83–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.9750/issn.2056-7421.2022.98.83-86.

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Oestigaard, Terje. "Prehistoric Ethics." Current Swedish Archaeology 26, no. 1 (June 10, 2021): 65–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.37718/csa.2016.06.

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Chippindale, Christopher, and Timothy Darvill. "Prehistoric Britain." American Journal of Archaeology 93, no. 2 (April 1989): 288. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/505097.

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Barrett, John C., and Timothy Darvill. "Prehistoric Britain." American Historical Review 94, no. 2 (April 1989): 413. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1866843.

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Kerig, Tim. "Prehistoric mining." Antiquity 94, no. 375 (May 21, 2020): 802–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.75.

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Prehistoric copper mining in the north-east of the Iberian Peninsula continues the previous work on copper mining by the editors and main authors N. Rafel Fontanals, M.A. Hunt Ortiz, I. Soriano and S. Delgado-Raack. The site La Turquesa, a deposit mainly of Gossan type (iron cap), belongs to the same fault zone and mining basin as the already published Solano del Bepo (Rafel Fontanals et al. 2017). Mining of copper and lead (galena) at the site cannot certainly be traced back into prehistory, let alone to the Neolithic, and the earliest radiometric dates point to mining beginning before the early Middle Ages. The typo-chronology of mining tools is inconclusive, as is usual at these sites, and as the reader may infer from the comprehensive 80-page catalogue of hammerstones and picks. In his archaeo-metallurgical chapter, Montero Ruiz concludes convincingly that, currently, the most reliable date for mining at La Turquesa is in the Copper Age or the Early Bronze Age: the isotope signature of the mine's ore seems to accord with isotope ratios measured in a handful of artefacts from that period. The geology and mineralogy of the deposit is instructively summarised, adding archaeologically relevant information on visibility, accessibility and workability (with A. Andreazini and J.C. Melgarejo as co-authors). Traces of prehistoric opencast copper mining in small and irregular shafts have been heavily damaged by nineteenth- or twentieth-century mining of turquoise and variscite (with accessory chalcopyrite and malachite). The archaeological documentation of shafts and galleries from recent and pre-industrial times is cursory and does not fully attend to the three-dimensionality of the deposit. The use of more up-to-date measurement technology would have offered a clearer understanding of the site in its excavation, analysis and publication. No traces of tools were documented, making it impossible to combine the mineralogy of the deposit with the practical mining work. Without any quantitative information on heap material the mine's productivity cannot be estimated. The discovery of evidence for fire-setting using thermoluminescence (detailed in the chapter by A.L. Rodrigues et al.) seemed a promising test for archaeological hypotheses. Unfortunately, the palynological sediment sample gives a terminus ante quem of the seventh or eighth century AD (chapter by S. Pérez Díaz and J.A. López Sáez). Alongside unpublished indeterminate pottery, 117 mining tools are described in detail (including use-wear, lithology and surface types). Comparison with material from nearby Solana del Bepo (Rafel Fontanals et al. 2017) reveals that the artefacts from La Turquesa are less sophisticated and more opportunistic: mainly hammerstones modified during use or simple picks, sometimes with a picked groove that indicates hafting. Delgado-Raack argues convincingly that the tools were used in a context of direct extraction, for crushing the rock as well as for fragment-crushing copper ore at the site.
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CUSACK, MAGGIE. "Prehistoric molecules." Lethaia 32, no. 4 (March 29, 2007): 269–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3931.1999.tb00545.x.

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Whallon, Robert, and Timothy Champion. "Prehistoric Europe." Man 21, no. 2 (June 1986): 351. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2803170.

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Rohrlich, Ruby, and Marija Gimbutas. "Prehistoric Puzzles." Women's Review of Books 7, no. 9 (June 1990): 14. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4020765.

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Rudwick, Martin. "Prehistoric archaeology." Nature 366, no. 6453 (December 1993): 388. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/366388a0.

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Battersby, Stephen. "Prehistoric monsters." Nature 387, no. 6632 (May 1997): 451. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/387451a0.

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O'RIORDAN, M. C. "Prehistoric protection." Nature 322, no. 6075 (July 1986): 106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/322106b0.

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Lewin, Sarah. "Prehistoric Swagger." Scientific American 312, no. 6 (May 19, 2015): 18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican0615-18.

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MACKIE, E. W., and A. E. ROY. "Prehistoric calendar." Nature 316, no. 6030 (August 1985): 671. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/316671c0.

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Dunn, Margaret J., and Christopher J. Dunn. "Prehistoric Dartmoor." Archaeological Journal 147, sup1 (January 1990): 18–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00665983.1990.11770928.

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