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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (1): 35–69.
Published: 01 January 2006
... fossils were first discovered in the lower Omo Valley at the beginning of the twentieth century, but the first multidisciplinary international expedition to investigate the region was that of the International Omo Research Expedition in 1967. The National Museums of Kenya participated in the first IORE...
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (1): 71–93.
Published: 01 January 2006
..., K. W., G. L. Isaac, J. L. Richardson, and C. Washbourn-Kamau 1972 Radiocarbon Dating of East African Lake Levels. Science 175 : 1069 -76. Cole, Sonia 1963 The Prehistory of East Africa . New York: Macmillan. Coon, C. S. 1971 A Fossilized Human Mandibular Fragment from Kangatotha...
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Ethnohistory (2023) 70 (3): 418–419.
Published: 01 July 2023
... laborers common in fossil fuel histories to focus on nonindustrial, marginalized groups in the Brazilian dictatorship’s energy agenda. By situating these peoples as actors and not just collateral costs of development, Before the Flood expands the limits of a growing field in an exciting way. ...
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Ethnohistory (2022) 69 (1): 125–126.
Published: 01 January 2022
... by exterminating local predatory mammals and investigating mammoth fossils. As white settlers gained a foothold in Iroquoia, they also produced local legends, often connected to landmarks, in which “Indians appeared as foils for heroic frontiersmen to battle” (109). Anderson traces the evolving legends of two...
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (2): 329–333.
Published: 01 April 2017
..., he followed the illustrious example set by Blumenbach’s star student Alexander von Humboldt. Among the many ethnographic artifacts, plants, fossils, animal skeletons, skulls, and skins packed up and shipped back home to Neuwied were neatly labeled human remains, in particular skulls. He valued Indian...
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (1): 3–11.
Published: 01 January 2006
...- tion of its elephants. Today, Lake Rudolf is known not only for its spectacu- lar beauty but also for its myriads of fossils, buried in layered deposits on the lake’s eastern shores. Here, at Koobi Fora,2 the world’s largest hominid research site, scientists have since the late 1960s been exploring...
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Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (1): 195–219.
Published: 01 January 2006
... Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler on 25 July 1934 to survey the island’s geology and to gather natural species, as well as to investigate the story of the Elmolo people that had been told to Cavendish. They found potsherds, human fossils, and a number of domes- ticated goats, but the island was uninhabited...
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (3): 401–426.
Published: 01 July 2017
...,” which identifies indigenous peoples as living fossils (McNiven and Russell 2005 : 8). Perhaps the predominant trope, illustrated in the remarks of Piers and Patterson, is “migrationism,” which imagines indigenous peoples not as “original inhabitants,” but as relatively recent interlopers who had...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 January 2013
... village of Angoon to obtain coal for its steam-powered­ engine. Three days later, on 14 February, under the cover of night, the Saginaw arrived at the Kéex’ Kwáan village of Yaandayen Aan (Backpacking Vil- lage), also known as Fossil Bluffs Village, located in Saginaw Bay.54 Accord- ing...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 371–406.
Published: 01 April 2005
... Medical Association Transactions 16 : 264 -94. Davin, Ann 1978 Imperialism and Motherhood. History Workshop , no. 5: 9 -57. Dawson, J. W. 1880 Fossil Men and Their Modern Representations: An Attempt to Illustrate the Characters and Conditions of the Pre-historic Men in Europe by Those...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (2): 495–498.
Published: 01 April 2000
... paintings and sculpture, ancient coins, gems, and inscriptionsnatu- ralwonderssuchascoral,fossils, petrified objects, mandrakes, barnacle geese, birds of paradise, sharks’ teeth, flying fish, mermaids, the horns of unicorns, chameleons...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (2): 499–502.
Published: 01 April 2000
... paintings and sculpture, ancient coins, gems, and inscriptionsnatu- ralwonderssuchascoral,fossils, petrified objects, mandrakes, barnacle geese, birds of paradise, sharks’ teeth, flying fish, mermaids, the horns of unicorns, chameleons...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (2): 506–508.
Published: 01 April 2000
... paintings and sculpture, ancient coins, gems, and inscriptionsnatu- ralwonderssuchascoral,fossils, petrified objects, mandrakes, barnacle geese, birds of paradise, sharks’ teeth, flying fish, mermaids, the horns of unicorns, chameleons...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (2): 503–504.
Published: 01 April 2000
... paintings and sculpture, ancient coins, gems, and inscriptionsnatu- ralwonderssuchascoral,fossils, petrified objects, mandrakes, barnacle geese, birds of paradise, sharks’ teeth, flying fish, mermaids, the horns of unicorns, chameleons...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (2): 504–506.
Published: 01 April 2000
... paintings and sculpture, ancient coins, gems, and inscriptionsnatu- ralwonderssuchascoral,fossils, petrified objects, mandrakes, barnacle geese, birds of paradise, sharks’ teeth, flying fish, mermaids, the horns of unicorns, chameleons...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (2): 508–510.
Published: 01 April 2000
... paintings and sculpture, ancient coins, gems, and inscriptionsnatu- ralwonderssuchascoral,fossils, petrified objects, mandrakes, barnacle geese, birds of paradise, sharks’ teeth, flying fish, mermaids, the horns of unicorns, chameleons...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (2): 493–495.
Published: 01 April 2000
... paintings and sculpture, ancient coins, gems, and inscriptionsnatu- ralwonderssuchascoral,fossils, petrified objects, mandrakes, barnacle geese, birds of paradise, sharks’ teeth, flying fish, mermaids, the horns of unicorns, chameleons...
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Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (2): 510–512.
Published: 01 April 2000
... paintings and sculpture, ancient coins, gems, and inscriptionsnatu- ralwonderssuchascoral,fossils, petrified objects, mandrakes, barnacle geese, birds of paradise, sharks’ teeth, flying fish, mermaids, the horns of unicorns, chameleons...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (2): 195–217.
Published: 01 April 2013
... at which archeologists uncovered twelve skeletons and various ceramic pieces. While the skeletons show diverse stages of fossilization, the archaeologists could identify three as contemporaneous with the Enriquillo rebellion, two of which were adult African males and one whose ethnicity could...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (3): 445–468.
Published: 01 July 2015
... Ch’olan substrate in the Madrid Codex, although it does include some Ch’olan vocabulary. It is likely, how- ever, that these were archaic forms that had become fossilized graphically, much as was true of the month glyphs used in the codices. Evidence from the codex instead reflects what appears...