Archaeological Review from Cambridge, Volume 9Department of Archaeology, 1990 - Archaeology |
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Page 89
... present it ( i ) aims to reduce the com- plexity of culture to a single measurable criterion ; and ( ii ) acts as a kind of discriminant func- tion , maximising on one axis the difference between present day human beings and their rela ...
... present it ( i ) aims to reduce the com- plexity of culture to a single measurable criterion ; and ( ii ) acts as a kind of discriminant func- tion , maximising on one axis the difference between present day human beings and their rela ...
Page 96
... modern Homo sapiens sapiens , held to be so crucial , shows little evidence of ... present , the microliths do not for another 50,000 years at least . There is ... day : the bottleneck has been shifted this time by telecommunications and ...
... modern Homo sapiens sapiens , held to be so crucial , shows little evidence of ... present , the microliths do not for another 50,000 years at least . There is ... day : the bottleneck has been shifted this time by telecommunications and ...
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... present day with a technology little more complicated than that of a million years ago . This is perhaps a warning against seeing human evolution as ' technology driven ' , in an autocatalytic feedback model such as that of Tobias ...
... present day with a technology little more complicated than that of a million years ago . This is perhaps a warning against seeing human evolution as ' technology driven ' , in an autocatalytic feedback model such as that of Tobias ...
Contents
TECHNOLOGY IN THE HUMANITIES | 3 |
Nathan Schlanger | 18 |
Pierre Lemonnier | 27 |
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