Practices (Other Keyword)

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A combination of ethnoarchaeology, experimental archaeology and use-wear analysis as a mean to recover testimonies of past human activities in Southeast Asian rainforests. (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hermine Xhauflair.

In order to recover the activities that took place a long time ago in the rainforests, it is desirable to have an idea of the ones which can possibly be carried out in this specific environment with the resources available. Such knowledge can be acquired by conducting field investigation among forest experts: local populations who currently inhabit it and rely on plants, animals and minerals for their daily subsistence. To be able to identify these activities in the archaeological record, it is...

Negotiating social identity through practices with stone (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pip Rath.

Dazzling, large, highly retouched obsidian objects comprised part of the material world of prehistoric people from West New Britain, Papua New Guinea from sometime between ca 6300- to 3300 years ago BP. Beyond their role as valuables, the seemingly mundane practices of choosing and acquiring raw material together with the application of a sequence of actions on the material and knowledge used in making them were fundamental for creating and structuring social relations. A case study,...