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Communities and the Dead in Africa and Ancient Ethiopia (50–800 CE)

memories of past, the hawelti remain glittering stones where people gather. People do not always think about death when they see these monuments. Instead, they feature in music videos, on political flyers ... here to discuss points of philosophy and culture. The children stray and their ball skirts by the old philosophers. The men yell and shoo the kids off and discuss the philosophy of children, the

School Learning Enriched by Doing: An Apprenticing Model

educators can draw on archaeology to enrich and enliven student learning through doing, both within and beyond the African continent. Problematizing an Academic Model of the Mind Western philosophy has long ... .” Qualification here is not limited to a specific trade or role in society but includes “the many ways we become part of a particular social, cultural, and political ‘orders’” (Biesta, 2016, p. 20) . Viewed in

There is only one más: Spanish que/de comparative alternation

spellout . Dordrecht: Springer. Baker , Mark. 1988 . Incorporation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Bale , Alan. 2008 . A universal scale of comparison . Linguistics and Philosophy 31 : 1 - 55 . https ... : Indefiniteness and islands . Linguistics and Philosophy 43 : 427 - 472 . Chierchia , Gennaro. 1998 . Reference to kinds across language . Natural Language Semantics 6 ( 4 ): 339 - 405 . Chomsky , Noam. 1957

Spatial Organization and Socio-Economic Differentiation at the Dhar Tichitt Center of Dakhlet el Atrouss I (Southeastern Mauritania)

The emergence of socio-political differentiation is a core theme in world prehistory, and the West African archaeological record offers unique insights into the range of pathways towards increasing ... degree of compound size variation at the site and neighborhood levels using well-established econometric methods that increasingly feature in archaeological studies of inequality and socio-political

“All the world

envisioned as a resource for awakening the interests of the African publics to the relevance of archaeology for social, political, economic, and “developmental” aspirations. To achieve this goal, it is ... the African Diaspora, his scholarship has significantly advanced our understanding of the early modern world, state formation, political economy of landscape, and urbanism. He has conducted extensive

Storytelling in Archaeology and the Quest for a Pedagogy of Renewal

” (Ogundiran, 2012) , a philosophy, technique, and process of teaching and learning that reinvigorates, restores, revives, and reaffirms African heritage, environment, epistemology, value systems, and ontology

Earth, Water, Air, and Fire – Thinking about Farming and Farmscapes

when prolonged droughts stretch over several decades, and their resilience systems can fail when larger-scale political processes impact local strategies. In South Africa, a prolonged drought that ... resulted in inter-community violence, which caused the scattering of refugees and large-scale migrations. Oral traditions recall the rippling destruction associated with the political conflict and migrations

The Politics of Knowledge Production: Training and Practice of Archaeological Science in Africa

informed by asymmetrical power relations along racial lines and gender dynamics (Bryant, 2014; Fongwa, 2018; Tilley, 2011) . For example, the Global North, with its political and economic power, dominates ... , there is research associated with the attainment of political independence in most African countries from the late 1950s to the 1990s (Stahl, 2014) . These sociopolitical contexts produced contrasting

Greek non-negative min, epistemic modality, and positive bias

. Giannakidou , Anastasia, and Alda Mari . 2018 . The semantic roots of positive polarity: Epistemic modal verbs and adverbs . Linguistics and Philosophy 41 : 623 - 664 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-018- 9235 ... . Hans J. Eikmeyer and Hannes Rieser , 38 - 74 . Berlin: de Gruyter. Kratzer , Angelika. 1989 . An investigation of the lumps of thought . Linguistics and Philosophy 12 : 607 - 653 . Kratzer , Angelika

Embodying Ethiopia’s Global Golden Age on the Muslim-Christian Frontier: The Allure of Glass Beads

conversion and political expansionism (Fauvelle-Aymar & Poissonnier, 2016, p. 64) . At the same time, and precisely because of their inbetween location, the Shay benefited from economic exchanges, especially ... functioned as a currency. Indeed, glass beads were used in other regions of Africa during the same period as “currency for negotiating political power, economic relations, and cultural/spiritual values

A Contextual Reintegration of Shaw’s 1959–1964 Igbo-Ukwu Excavation Sites and Their Material Culture

& Cartwright, this issue). This debate took place because the early radiocarbon dates (apparently ninth century) disrupted what had been settled views about the origins of complex West African “forest” political ... -cultural entities and the character of regional political organization more generally. Igbo society was supposed to have been “stateless” (cf. Horton, 1971) from time immemorial, while institutional

Connecting the Dots: Ceramics and the Creation of Foundational Narratives in East African Archaeology

social aspects of the ceramics groupings also, with subheadings relating to social and political structure, food-producing economy, technology, etc. He tries to move beyond the simplistic equation of

Detecting variable force in imperatives: A modalized minimal approach

This paper draws attention to various environments in Greek which show that imperatives convey possibility and not necessity as widely assumed in the literature. The interaction of imperatives with other operators reveals the presence of an existential operator. At the same time, however, it is shown that imperatives cannot be analysed as invariably conveying possibility. Instead...

Alisa LaGamma (Ed.): Sahel: Art and Empir es on the Shores of the Sahara

visual forms of expression contemporaneous with events as they unfolded on the ground” (p. 7). In other words, the goal of the initiative was to bring to light the long-term cultural and political ... history, and philosophy. Material culture is at the core of the narrative process; objects made of clay, wood, and metal, as well as buildings, are interwoven with the concepts and ideas they materialize

On Food, Pots, Gender, Iron, and Archaeological Theory: Interview with Professor Randi Haaland

and thus paved the way for Gunnar. During this time, Jaafar Nimeiry was the president (ruled, 1969–1985); the political situation was unstable, and there were many attempted coups. Different political ... discipline, which was being strained by very difficult political circumstances. All my students, except one, continued to work in Zimbabwe. LV and MJ: Two papers published in high-ranking journals have

How African Pasts Can Inspire Alternative Responses to Climate Change: a Creative Writing Experiment

questions. They heard about the wars of the mid-nineteenth century, the locust plagues of the 1930s, the horrible droughts of the late 1960s, and the political challenges of the early 1980s. Each time, their

Jacques Aymeric Nsangou: Les fortifications endogènes au Sénégal Oriental (17ème – 19ème siècle)

research on indigenous fortifications in Senegal. Chapter  4 deals with the environmental characteristics of the Falémé Valley, while Chapter 5 introduces the occupation and political history of this and ... not also at times used as temporary storehouses for captives. Even though the answer to this question was beyond the scope of research, the fact is that the historical and political framework of the

Sequence of tense and cessation implicatures: evidence from Polish

, Universitätsstr. 150, 44801 Bochum, Germany Abusch , Dorit. 1997 . Sequence of tense and temporal de re. Linguistics and Philosophy 20 ( 1 ): 1 - 50 . Altshuler , Daniel. 2008 . Narrative effects in Russian ... . Ryan . 2016 . Past time reference in a language with optional tense . Linguistics and Philosophy 39 ( 4 ): 247 - 294 . Bochnak , M. Ryan , Vera Hohaus, and Anne Mucha . 2019 . Variation in tense and

The Territory of Ancient Tipasa, Algeria: Archaeological Survey, Material Culture, and Connectivity in Central Maghreb

, especially from contexts of similar periods under current investigation in Águilas (Murcia), Cartagena (Murcia), and Ebusus (Ibiza), and how long-term economic variations affect political relations, and vice ... versa. There were also natural disasters that disrupted production and affected political affairs. We should consider events such as earthquakes as possible moments of tension that could disrupt long-term

A Day on the Nile: Living in a Town in Nubia

who had military, political, and economic roles because they left more traces archaeologically than other demographics. Women and children are more difficult to identify in settlement contexts, but they