It is especially appropriate to address in this publication questions concerning the complex relationship between religious traditions and intellectual life. Too often such traditions are still viewed as providing fixed and final answers to questions whose force and meaning do not depend on these traditions. This overvalues traditions in one respect and undervalues them in another. As a set of ...

For decades archaeologists have struggled with the problem of accurately determining organic and mineral-based paints in pottery from the American Southwest. Using Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS), we have developed a simple and cost-effective method that permits classification of painted surfaces into mineral and organicbased categories. By applying this ...

In this chapter I argue that in preindustrial societies where resources were difficult to monopolize and physical coercion was not an option, ideology provided a significant source of social power. This avenue toward social power was especially important in the prehispanic Andes, and the establishment and negotiation of that power was often through ritual feasting involving politically charged ...

This article is devoted to the publication of results excavations Late Bronze Age settlement Zymogiria 4 in basin Lugan river. The indication culture a debatable question that has led involvement habitations different archeological cultures: bilozerka, Srubnaya, boguslav- ivanovka, otradnenska cultures. Observation inheritances population Berezhnovka-Maevka Srubnaya and Final proceed with mater...

The transition between the Majiayao (5300–4000 BP) and Qijia (4200–3500 “cultures” in what is now northwestern China’s Gansu Province has typically been defined by major technological changes pottery forms, subsistence practices, site locations. These are thought to have driven a combination of climate change induced cooling drying as well human migration into region from areas further east. Ba...