The Effect of the Direct Historical Approach on the Development of Theory in Plains Archaeology: A Comment on Mitchell's Analysis of the MBP Legacy

2007 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 785-788 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna C. Roper
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Plains Archaeology ◽  
The Rich

Mark Mitchell's analysis of the legacy of the Missouri Basin Project (MBP) identified the direct historical approach as one discourse that shaped the MBP legacy. While that identification is certainly correct, the discussion is too limited in two ways. First, the use of the direct historical approach for tracing ethnicity was more limited than is generally recognized. Second, and more seriously, the rich documentary and ethnographic record of the Plains Village lifeway became a too readily used source of specific analogies for reading the archaeological record. Theory became irrelevant. Some of the numerous inaccuracies this produced are only recently being corrected.

Palaeolithic Central and Eastern Europe

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Farbstein
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Figurative Art ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Palaeolithic Art

This chapter discusses the rich archaeological record of Upper Palaeolithic symbolic material culture from sites in Central and Eastern Europe. In particular, it focuses on art and ornaments excavated from sites in Czech Republic, Austria, Ukraine, and Russia. Following a review of some influential and provocative interpretations of the most frequently discussed figurative art, in particular the so-called ‘Venus’ figurines, it proposes new contextual frameworks that facilitate a more comprehensive understanding of the diverse records of symbolic material culture, which include large quantities of zoomorphic, non-figurative art, and ornaments which have been the focus of relatively less research to date. Furthermore, it argues for the need for more nuanced approaches to the study of Palaeolithic art, particularly those which recognize that the socially embedded production of art could offer as much insight into these assemblages as the traditional approaches which focus on the iconography or appearance of the most aesthetically striking figurines.

A Lost Landscape: Ancient Settlement of Samaca and Ullujaya

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Beresford-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Changes ◽  
Archaeological Survey ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Spanish Conquest ◽  
Late Horizon ◽  
Early Horizon ◽  
The Rich

This chapter explores the archaeology of the lower Ica Valley. This is based upon many seasons of archaeological fieldwork with the purpose of gathering different datasets with which to reconstruct geomorphological, ecological, and land-use changes in the Samaca and Ullujaya basins. The chapter looks at the rich archaeological record in these basins from the Early Horizon (c.750 bc) through to the Inca Late Horizon that ended abruptly with Spanish conquest in ad 1532, as revealed through detailed archaeological survey and excavation.

scholarly journals FEATURE OF ISLAM WHICH IS DISTINGUISHED FROM OTHER RELIGIONS

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Omar Moftah ◽  
Ahmed Elsaddig Dawelnor Abdel Gadir
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Cultural Patterns ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Universal Statement ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Other World ◽  
Islamic Civilization

<p><em>The few people who do not understand the meaning of nationalism and the easiness of religions try to attack nationalism by the name of religion without comprehending the sublime meanings of Islam, which have made holy nationalism and called for easiness and facilitation. Easiness and facilitation is considered the first feature of the Islamic civilization, one aspect of its manifestations, and the first that encourages its acceptance by way of its carrying values, legislations, manners and cultural patterns. The importance of this paper is to show easiness and facilitation that Muslim civilization brought and applied in reality. Such feature is what proved such civilization’s reality and by which it won amazing bets in wars of challenge and interaction with the other world civilizations. </em><em>Due to this, the inductive and historical approach has been adopted to show Islam’s easiness and facilitation. Among the results of this paper is the revelation that Islam put the first universal statement in rights of citizenship without discriminating between followers of religions, doctrines, race, or color. Also, easiness in Islam has established social solidarity: the rich give the poor; and </em><em>the orphan seeks all Muslims as fathers caring for him. </em></p> <br /><em></em>

Plains Archaeology, 1935–60

1961 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Waldo R. Wedel
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Water Control ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Control Programs ◽  
Research Organizations ◽  
Plains Archaeology ◽  
Archaeological Work ◽  
The Rich ◽  
High Degree

AbstractA review of archaeological research in the short-grass Plains and adjacent Prairie regions shows that although early travelers observed evidences of the prehistoric occupation of the area, no systematic archaeological work was undertaken until very recently. The publication of Strong's Introduction to Nebraska Archeology in 1935 opened the quarter-century of growth which was at first characterized by intensive surveys and testing, then by the excavations sponsored by the federal relief agencies, and since World War II by the large-scale salvage work connected with federal water-control programs, especially the Missouri Basin Project. These salvage operations have produced an enormous body of new data on all major time horizons and from all parts of the Plains, as well as an awareness of the rich potential of Plains pre-history. The scope of these operations has required a high degree of cooperation between research organizations and has led to the development of new excavation techniques, especially those involving heavy earth-moving machinery. Efforts to organize these new data have resulted in a uniform method of site designation and broadly applicable artifact classifications, but no scheme for culture classification to replace the Midwestern Taxonomic System which has been the conventional method of expressing cultural similarities. The direct historical approach to the problem of the ethnic identification of archaeological complexes, settlement pattern studies, and the relationship between man and environment, which have long been major interests of Plains archaeologists, continue to dominate the interpretive scene.

Introduction

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian W. McLean
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rates ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
Income Status ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Rich Countries ◽  
India And China

This introductory chapter provides an inquiry into why Australia is rich—which adopts a historical approach because the roots of prosperity are embedded in the past. The levels of income observed in the currently rich economies are in every case the result of very long-run processes. Economies do not move rapidly from poverty and backwardness to advanced industrial status and concomitant prosperity despite the achievements of some being described as “economic miracles.” Even with the impressive growth rates recently recorded in a number of poor countries such as India and China, attaining incomes comparable to the rich countries takes many decades. The need for a historical perspective arises also because any persuasive explanation for Australia's current high-income status must highlight long-established features of its economy and society.

Poor and Hidden Among the Rich and Not So Rich

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 51 (49) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia M. Berliner
Keyword(s):  
The Rich

Institutional Theory of Endless Redistribution

2005 ◽  
pp. 4-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Sonin
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
Rent Seeking ◽  
Economic Institutions ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Protection Systems ◽  
Private Protection ◽  
The Rich

In unequal societies, the rich may benefit from shaping economic institutions in their favor. This paper analyzes the dynamics of institutional subversion by focusing on public protection of property rights. If this institution functions imperfectly, agents have incentives to invest in private protection of property rights. The ability to maintain private protection systems makes the rich natural opponents of public protection of property rights and precludes grass-roots demand to drive the development of the market-friendly institution. The economy becomes stuck in a bad equilibrium with low growth rates, high inequality of income, and wide-spread rent-seeking. The Russian oligarchs of the 1990s, who controlled large stakes of newly privatized property, provide motivation for this paper.

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