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- noun As a proper noun, usually used to refer to the period of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.
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An article in Antiquity suggests that a cave painting in Western Australia depicts a marsupial lion.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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An article in Antiquity suggests that a cave painting in Western Australia depicts a marsupial lion.
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Indeed, even the flags in Antiquity procalim "est 2007" upon them.
WHEN is Caledon? ZenMondo Wormser 2007
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We were excavating burials that showed pretty clear evidence of cut and stab wounds by steel edged weapons - physical anthropologist Robert Blakely described them in an article in American Antiquity in 1990.
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This was brought home to me by an article in American Antiquity (sorry only the abstract is available on line) by two California archaeologists last year, who argue that costly signaling explains some patterns seen in the Middle Archaic (4500 - 1000 BP) of the Great Basin.
Archive 2006-06-01 2006
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This was brought home to me by an article in American Antiquity (sorry only the abstract is available on line) by two California archaeologists last year, who argue that costly signaling explains some patterns seen in the Middle Archaic (4500 - 1000 BP) of the Great Basin.
Costly Signaling 2006
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In 1992, however, Gordon Hillman, along with archaeologist Andrew Moore, who had led the excavations at Abu Hureyra, published a paper in American Antiquity reviewing the most recent research into Near Eastern climatic conditions.
The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005
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In a paper he published with Craig Cessford in American Antiquity entitled “Daily Practice and Social Memory at Çatalhöyük,” Ian spelled out these ideas in greater detail.
The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005
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Many American archaeologists would date the beginnings of modern flotation methods to a 1968 article in American Antiquity by Stuart Struever, an archaeologist at Northwestern University in Illinois, in which he describes the use of galvanized steel washtubs, wire mesh, and various chemical procedures to capture the plant remains left by early Native Americans.
The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005
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I'm sure that the "fur will fly" in American Antiquity's Comments section in the coming months and I will report to you on what results!
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