prehistoric archaeology

collocation in English

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prehistoric
adjective
uk
/ˌpriː.hɪˈstɒr.ɪk/us
/ˌpriː.hɪˈstɔːr.ɪk/
describing the period before there were ...
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archaeology
noun[U]
uk
/ˌɑː.kiˈɒl.ə.dʒi/us
/ˌɑːr.kiˈɑː.lə.dʒi/
the study of the buildings, graves, tools, and other objects that belonged to people who lived in the past, in order to learn about their culture ...
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These points are critical for the study ofprehistoricarchaeology.
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More specifically, thisprehistoricarchaeologyproved twice topical to its promoters and practitioners.
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The search for a body of theory or perspective which we can import intoprehistoricarchaeologyand thereby solve our problems is fruitless.
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If you look at the four-field structure of anthropology, there isprehistoricarchaeology, linguistics, physical anthropology and social/cultural anthropology.
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One effect at any rate seems to be a further increase in the influence of the historical-anthropological approach, possibly withinprehistoricarchaeology, as well.
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Don't you underestimate the role of empirical constraints in theoretical developments inprehistoricarchaeology, palaeoanthropology, and related disciplines?
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Indeed, the case of medieval archaeology is very different from that ofprehistoricarchaeologywhere no historical evidence can be adduced to support academic theories.
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But this can be an immensely hard thing to do, especially inprehistoricarchaeology.
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There is no need to rehearse the issues raised by the use of ethnographic analogy inprehistoricarchaeology, which by now should be familiar enough to us all.
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Social archaeology of the kind we are doing now frequently doesn't do justice to the empirical properties of what's being explored, especially inprehistoricarchaeology.
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You can demonstrate this time and again, about how the archaeological record (especially that ofprehistoricarchaeology) is not a record of those sorts of things.
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Prehistoricarchaeologyis the study of the past before historical records began.
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As a historical discipline the subject ofprehistoricarchaeologyis concerned with the study of artefacts and monuments and their cultural and historical significance.
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Attached to the museum is a specialised library onprehistoricarchaeologywith over 50,000 volumes.
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By definitionprehistoricarchaeologyis dealing with pre-written sources only, so that all prehistory is anonymous.
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His main interests were inprehistoricarchaeologyand classical antiquity.
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Functionalism and processualism are two schools of archaeological thought which have made a great contribution toprehistoricarchaeology.
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As such, very little earlyprehistoricarchaeologyhas been recorded.
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His research themes included: slavery, marriage arrangements, funeral practices, gift and exchange, typology of societies, the political, the evolution of the societies, and questions of interpretation inprehistoricarchaeology.
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Such a lack of concrete information means thatprehistoricarchaeologyis a contentious field and the arguments that rage over it have done much to inform archaeological theory.
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