Drivers of Historical Sequences

2020 ◽  
pp. 39-53
Author(s):  
Paul Hallwood
Keyword(s):  
Historical Sequences

Path Dependence

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Hegmon
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
General Level ◽  
Historical Contingency ◽  
Difficult Decision ◽  
Critical Junctures ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Path Dependent ◽  
Historical Sequences ◽  
Lock In

Path dependence concepts, thus far, have seen little application in archaeology, but they have great potential. At a general level, these concepts provide tools for theorizing historical sequences, such as patterns of settlement on a landscape and divergent historical traditions. Potential applications include issues of historical contingency in the late Rio Grande, settlement in the Mesa Verde region, and divergent trajectories in the post-Chaco period. Specific concepts from path dependence theory, including lock-in and critical junctures, are illustrated by an analysis of the growth of Hohokam irrigation, which exhibited a path-dependent trajectory. As archaeological study of path dependence builds awareness of the importance of decision-making on the future, it contributes to difficult decision-making in today’s world.

Reconnaissance Wars of the Planetary Frontierland

2002 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 81-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zygmunt Bauman
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Power Elite ◽  
Global Space ◽  
Historical Sequences

The events of 11th September 2001 have many meanings. Although seen as a turning point in a number of historical sequences, perhaps their longest-lasting significance will prove to be that they mark the symbolic end to the era of space.. The article explores the consequences of this in terms of global space, which now becomes a new frontierland, where refugees, in a caricature of the new power elite, have come to epitomize extraterritoriality, and where floating coalitions and confluent enmities are both the promoters and beneficiaries of the new global disorder.

Archaeology in Eastern Africa: Recent Developments and More Dates

1984 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 369-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Robertshaw
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Eastern Africa ◽  
East African ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
East African Coast ◽  
Northern Tanzania ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
First Millennium ◽  
Historical Sequences

Obsidian hydration dating has been successfully applied to East African archaeological sites. Chemical sourcing of obsidian artefacts has documented long-distance movement of obsidian from the Central Rift valley. A date in the ninth or eighth century b.c. has been obtained for iron objects in the Er Renk District of the Southern Sudan. Tentative culture-historical sequences are available from excavations around the Sudd and in the Lake Besaka region of Ethiopia. Archaeological research has begun in the interior of Somalia. In northern Kenya, claims that Namoratunga II is an archaeo-astronomical site have been challenged. Excavations at Mumba-Höhle and Nasera have shed new light on the transition from the Middle to Later Stone Age in northern Tanzania perhaps 20,000 to 30,000 years ago. Knowledge of the Elmenteitan Tradition has been considerably advanced by excavations in south-western Kenya. Iron-smelting furnaces with finger-decorated bricks have been discovered in south-eastern Kenya, though not yet dated. New dates falling in the last few centuries have caused first millennium a.d. dates obtained previously for Engaruka to be rejected. Excavations at several sites on the East African coast indicate that the beginnings of coastal occupation from the Lamu archipelago to Mozambique fall in the ninth century a.d. In Malawi the Shire Highlands seem to have been settled around the tenth century a.d. Investigations of large smelting-furnaces in central Malawi indicate that they were used as concentrators of poor-quality iron ore. Excavations in rock-shelters on the southern edge of the Copperbelt have produced a culture-historical sequence spanning the last 18,000 years. The western stream of the Early Iron Age was established in the Upper Zambezi valley by about the mid fifth century a.d.

Hunter-Gatherer Mobility and Versatility: A Consideration of Long-Term Lithic Supply in the Midwest

2019 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-131
Author(s):  
Mark F. Seeman ◽  
Amanda N. Colucci ◽  
Charles Fulk
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
North America ◽  
Behavioral Changes ◽  
Size And Shape ◽  
Historical Sequences

Hunter-gatherer societies held sway in midwestern North America for at least 11,000 years. Those at the end of this period were more complex and less mobile, and they supported larger populations than those at the beginning, but there are relatively few general conceptions as to when and how this took place. Here we examine the fit of gradual, one-way social change as it relates to the size and shape of lithic supply zones for Upper Mercer and Flint Ridge flint as well as the inflow of exotic materials. Our results show no singular cline either in the size of successive lithic supply zones or in the inflow of exotic materials. Hunter-gatherer societies can make remarkable behavioral changes through time and not necessarily in any consistent (unilineal) direction. Such differences impose more contingency—and less directionality—into particular historical sequences.

Stratigraphic Evidence of Human Disturbance in an Estuary

1984 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grace S. Brush ◽  
Frank W. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Chesapeake Bay ◽  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Human Disturbance ◽  
Cultivated Land ◽  
Dramatic Decrease ◽  
Planktonic Diatoms ◽  
The Past ◽  
European Settlement ◽  
Compositional Changes ◽  
Historical Sequences

Prior to European settlement, oligohaline and mesohaline sections of Chesapeake Bay draining Piedmont saprolite supported diverse and abundant diatom and macrophyte populations. Compositional changes in diatoms and macrophytes in oligohaline sections correspond with 17th- and 19th-century deforestation and increased siltation, while effects on downstream populations were less notable. After deforestation, previously sparse diatom populations in a mesohaline estuary draining sandy Coastal Plain soils became more abundant. Fertilization of cultivated land was accompanied by increased production of both attached and free-floating diatoms. After the discharge of sewage, diatom populations increased enormously in the affected areas, followed by a dramatic decrease. The decrease suggests silica limitation after intense phosphorus enrichment. The loss of macrophytes and increase in planktonic diatoms in oligohaline areas in recent years resemble the historical sequences observed in lakes undergoing eutrophication. However, in the estuary, similar declines have also occurred in macrophyte populations in mesohaline areas where eutrophication is much less severe, but where chlorine and herbicide toxicity during the past 20 yr is similar to upstream areas.

scholarly journals Orientation of Ancient Temples and Places of Worship

1876 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 188-230
Author(s):  
Charles Warren
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Historical Sequences ◽  
Gains And Losses ◽  
Lateral Range

On some ancient fragments are represented two or more historical sequences, forming together one picture, such as the scene of the temptation of Eve in conjunction with the expulsion from Paradise; and from these we may obtain an idea as to the tendency and power of the untutored mind to take an instantaneous many-sided view of the subject it contemplates, and it may assist us in realising that though our mental view is more extended and clearer than that of early races, yet it may also be much more limited in lateral range. That the educated mind does not assume power over the exercise of certain faculties, there can be no doubt; for this we have only to look into matters of everyday life: to see the unlettered mechanic guess, or, rather, instinctively calculate, the weight of materials; to hear the shopwoman, innocent of figures, total up her gains and losses, or enumerate her stock-in-trade with a rapidity and with a precision which could not be exceeded if all the appliances of science had been employed. And we again see it in the power which the Indian savage or European trapper possesses in tracking his way through the forest by signs and method of reasoning hardly intelligible to those whose minds are more cultivated.

scholarly journals AWAKENING LOCAL TOURISM BASED ON INDISCHE ARCHITECTURE IN INDONESIA. CASE STUDY KAJOETANGAN KAMPONG HERITAGE OF MALANG

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 437-444
Author(s):  
Wahyu Tyas PRAMONO ◽  
◽  
Swastika Dhesti ANGGRIANI ◽  
Nanda Harda Pratama MEIJI ◽  
Norsidah UJANG ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Tourism Management ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Historical Sequences ◽  
Depth Interviews

Kajoetangan or Kayutangan kampong heritage is a new tourist spot in Malang that emphasizes the empowerment of local communities in realizing settlement-based sustainable tourism that existed during the colonial era which was composed of dozens of Indische architecture in the late 19th to early 20th centuries. Kayutangan heritage villages are composed of settlements with a small size with access in the form of a small footpath combined with a mural and various outdoor plants. The houses in the area have not changed for nearly a hundred years, which have been passed down from generation to generation. Descriptive qualitative method is used in this research by combining the data obtained based on in-depth interviews, survey and combined with literature studies. Purpose of this research is to explore historical sequences and processes of sustainable tourism management controlled by local residents with financial assistance from various partners. The results of the study show that the role of local communities is quite positive in efforts to support tourists either by being directly or indirectly involved by building supporting facilities for core tourism such as culinary spots and souvenirs. Collaboration with several government agencies, universities and banks also makes the additions and directions in making and using additional facilities more structured.

scholarly journals Theorizing Region: Links to Ethnicity, Nation, and Race

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
John D. Skrentny
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Control Variables ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Historical Sequences ◽  
Over Time

The concept of “region” is widespread in the social sciences but rarely theorized. I argue here that region is a multivalent concept similar to ethnicity, nation, and race. Building on the work of Bourdieu, Brubaker, and Griswold, I show that all four concepts can be understood as both “categories of analysis” and “categories of practice.” Moreover, all four have fundamental similarities regarding (1) ontology and relation to space; (2) historical sequences and relation to time; and (3) protean boundaries that may change with social scientists’ research questions. Among the payoffs to this approach are improved precision and appropriateness of regional boundaries when social scientists use regions as independent or control variables and greater appreciation for how regions, as categories of practice, are made over time.

Optimal Matching Methods for Historical Sequences

1986 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Abbott ◽  
John Forrest
Keyword(s):  
Optimal Matching ◽  
Matching Methods ◽  
Historical Sequences
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