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Mark Nathan Cohen - The Food Crisis in Prehistory: Overpopulation and the Origins of Agriculture (New Haven: Yale University Press)

Agastya

The Tamil Society had of cource under the religious and cultural influences of the North even before the beginning of the Cankam Age but had maintained its linguistic identity.From what we now know of the linguistic prehistory of India,it is more plausible to assume that the Yadavas were the Aryanised descendants of an original Non-Aryan people that to consider the Tamil Velir as the later offshoot of the indo-Aryan speaking Yadavas.

Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki

The new wing hosts two exhibitions: The Gold of Macedon, with artifacts from the cemeteries of Sindos, Agia Paraskevi, Nea Filadelfia, Makrygialos, Derveni, Lete, Serres, and Evropos; and The Thessaloniki Area in Prehistory, with material from prehistoric settlements, dating from the Neolithic to the Early and Late Bronze Age.

Archaeology of Samoa

There is evidence of human occupation in Samoa's prehistory and that the caves were used as a place of refuge by the people of Tuamasaga district.

Bluefish Caves

The Bluefish Caves in Beringian Prehistory by Jacques Cinq-Mars, Archaeological Survey of Canada

Deep history

The concept of prehistory is thus recast as an arbitrary boundary that limits the longue durée perspective of historians, and which rests upon outmoded assumptions that history follows a teleological path beginning with the origins of civilization in Ancient Mesopotamia.

Erdesbach

Four prehistoric barrows stand in a row on the heights along the municipal limit with Altenglan (Ortsteil of Patersbach).

Gudrun Corvinus

See also: Institute for Prehistory, Erlangen University; German Research Foundation/German Research Council (DFG); Dr. Ludwig Reisch; German Archaeological Society; University of Pune; Second World War; Bonn

Hypogeum of Ħal-Saflieni

The Hypogeum of Paola, Malta, (Ipoġew in Maltese) literally meaning "underground" in Greek, is a subterranean structure dating to the Saflieni phase (3000-2500 BC) in Maltese prehistory.

Jacques Malaterre

Among the latter A Species Odyssey, Homo sapiens and The Rise of Man, dedicated to prehistory and human evolution with scientis Yves Coppens as a consultant, had a wide audience with the general public.

Johanna Mestorf

Johanna Mestorf (17 April 1828, Bad Bramstedt, Duchy of Holstein - 20 July 1909, Kiel) was a German prehistoric archaeologist, the first female museum director in the Kingdom of Prussia and usually said to be the first female professor in Germany.

Johanna Nichols

Her research interests include the Slavic languages, the linguistic prehistory of northern Eurasia, language typology, ancient linguistic prehistory, and languages of the Caucasus, chiefly Chechen and Ingush.

John Macnish

Educated Austin Friars School, Carlisle then Sheffield University, degree in Prehistory & Archaeology.

Manfred Korfmann

In 1982 he received a professorship of prehistoric and ancient archaeology at the University of Tübingen, where he became Director of the Institute for Prehistory.

Martin Gusinde Anthropological Museum

#Primordial Patagonia: describes the prehistory of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, which is generally considered to date from around 11,000-12,000 years ago, towards the end of the Ice Age, when the first bands of land-based hunter-gatherers reached Última Esperanza, the Strait of Magellan and Tierra del Fuego.

Merrow, Surrey

Merrow Downs in prehistory is the setting for two of the Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling: "How the First Letter was Written" and "How the Alphabet was Made".

Punctuated equilibrium

In linguistics, R. M. W. Dixon has proposed a punctuated equilibrium model for language histories, with reference particularly to the prehistory of the indigenous languages of Australia and his objections to the proposed Pama–Nyungan language family there.

Richard Rudgley

In a review of the same work in Isis, however, archaeologist Denise Schmandt-Besserat is harshly critical, stating that Rudgley first fabricated a non-existent controversy about pre-historic cultures, then created heroes and villains by characterizing archaeologists as "wicked morons who conspire to keep prehistory in obscurity".

Richborough

Although now some distance from the sea, Richborough stood at the southern end of the Wantsum Channel from prehistory to the early mediaeval period.

Ross Cordy

His cousin, Alana Cordy-Collins is an anthropologist and archaeologist who specializes in Peruvian prehistory, and her father was Mayanist Napoleon Cordy.

Saalburg

Since prehistoric times, trade routes like the Lindenweg or Linienweg connected the Rhine-Main plain with the Usingen basin, which had been a centre of population since the Neolithic.

Sandberg Celtic city

The Museum for Prehistory in Asparn an der Zaya has constructed a life-size model of the large sanctuary.

Sheffield Brightside by-election, 1968

Colin Renfrew, for the Conservatives, was lecturer in the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology at the University of Sheffield

Šmihel pod Nanosom

This prehistoric site attracted much attention in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when it was suggested that it was the site of Metalum, one of the main settlement of the Iapydes.

St Lythans burial chamber

Mark Nathan Cohen, The Food Crisis in Prehistory: Overpopulation and the Origins of Agriculture. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1977) ISBN 0-300-02016-3.

Star King

According to Kirth Gersen, their development on their homeworld, which they call "Ghnarumen" (Lambda Gruis III), was profoundly influenced by the artificial introduction of Neanderthal men in prehistory.

Thomas G. Palaima

In this area of research, he has focused on paleography, scribal systems, and the use of the Linear B tablets to answer questions about many aspects of life in Greek prehistory.

UCL Institute of Archaeology

Amongst the staff who work there are noted archaeologists such as Mark Roberts, who directed the Boxgrove Quarry project, Late Prehistory specialist Sue Hamilton, Mediaeval specialist Andrew Reynolds, Public Archaeology specialist Tim Schadla-Hall and Caribbean archaeologist José Oliver.

Vanessa Beeman

She studied prehistory at Manchester and Liverpool, and for a Post Graduate Diploma in Education in Wales before teaching at a school in Truro, going on to a post with the Federal Department of Antiquities in Nigeria, and afterwards to teach at Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria.

Vix Grave

The area around the village of Vix in northern Burgundy, France is the site of an important prehistoric complex from the Celtic Late Hallstatt and Early La Tène periods, comprising an important fortified settlement and several burial mounds.


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