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Cambridge Archaeol J 17 (1)
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Cambridge Archaeol J 17 (1)
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Cambridge Archaeological Journal
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17 (1)
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Journal
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John Robb
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Cambridge University Press
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2007
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24 Sep 2007
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Abstract
Visualizing archaeologies: a manifesto
Andrew Cochrane
Ian Russell
3 - 19
The authors argue that, within current archaeological discourse, there are a growing number of requests for expressions which illuminate and expose the interpretive and artistic qualities of presentation and narration. They call for a development of a critically reflexive practice of visual archaeological expressionism, which seeks to contest traditional modes of thought and action.
The times of their lives: from chronological precision to kinds of history a...
Alasdair W R Whittle
Alex Bayliss
21 - 28
The authors explain why they believe that the seven papers published in the special supplement of the Cambridge Archaeological Journal have more than regional or period significance. The case studies presented in the supplement are all of Early Neolithic long barrows and long cairns of the fourth millennium cal BC in southern England. They offer two reasons why a study of the dating of constructions that held the remains of selected human dead, from a particular region of northwest Europe, at a particular point in the regional Neolithic sequence, have wider importance. Firstly, they are applying to a group of monuments rather than to individual sites, a method for the interpretation of radiocarbon dates which enables much more precise estimates of chronology. Secondly, it is argued that from this promise of more robust and precise dating come implications for the kinds of agents that archaeologists may wish to people their pasts, for the kinds of lives they lived, and for the histories that can be written about them.
Did meditating make us human?
Matt J Rossano
47 - 58
The author argues that campfire rituals of focused attention created Baldwinian selection for enhanced working memory among our Homo sapiens ancestors. This model grounded in five propositions: the emergence of symbolism occurred late in the archaeological record; this emergence was caused by a fortuitous genetic mutation that enhanced working memory capacity; a Baldwinian process where genetic adaptation follows somatic adaptation was the mechanism for this emergence; meditation directly affects brain areas critical to attention and working memory; and shamanistic healing rituals were fitness-enhancing in our ancestral past. Each proposition is discussed and defended. Supporting evidence and potential future tests are presented.