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- noun The
ethnographic study of peoples forarchaeological reasons.
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The study of both assemblages (and the data collected on each) is also a result of archaeological research (a particular kind of archaeological research called "ethnoarchaeology") and exemplifies the primary goal of archaeology.
Archive 2006-04-01 Christopher O'Brien 2006
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The study of both assemblages (and the data collected on each) is also a result of archaeological research (a particular kind of archaeological research called "ethnoarchaeology") and exemplifies the primary goal of archaeology.
Bone Fragments and Archaeology Christopher O'Brien 2006
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For a long time, however, Ian made little connection between the intellectual questions posed by the reading he was doing and the down-to-earth problems he was having with his ethnoarchaeology research in Africa.
The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005
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Ian, with some strategic help from the famous Kenyan anthropologist Richard Leakey, decided to launch his own ethnoarchaeology studies among the Baringo tribes.
The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005
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He agreed to let her carry out an ethnoarchaeology project in the villages around Çatalhöyük.
The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005
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At that time, archaeologists were becoming increasingly excited by the promise of what was called “ethnoarchaeology,” the study of present-day cultures as an aid to the interpretation of past societies.
The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005
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Yet hardly anyone was doing ethnoarchaeology in Turkey.
The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005
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Her research interests include faunal analysis, ethnoarchaeology, domestic architecture, state control of storage, and reciprocity.
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Some archaeologists have employed ethnoarchaeology, living for long periods among surviving hunter-gatherer and subsistence-farming societies like the San hunter-gatherers of the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa.
3. Interpretation 2001
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Archaeologists use three major approaches to interpretation: ethnographic analogy, ethnoarchaeology, and controlled experimentation.
3. Interpretation 2001
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