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Projectile weaponry is a key component of all recent human subsistence strategies, but its origins and antiquity remain poorly understood. Cross-sectional area variation among North American arrowheads and spearthrower dart tips is used as a criterion for evaluating hypotheses about possible stone projectile points from Eurasian Middle Paleolithic and African Middle Stone Age contexts. Analysis of...
Like all periods, the Palaeolithic is sub-divided into smaller units, and these tend to form the main units of study as blocks of relatively static behavior. This volume takes a different approach by focusing attention on the transitions between periods, when hominin behavior, or some component of the environment, changed over a relatively short period of time. This chapter reviews four of the volume...
This chapter examines the earliest forms of Greek training and education for the young, by providing a sketch of the relevant features of those neighboring societies with which Bronze and early Iron Age “Greeks” are known to have had significant contact. A Sumero‐Babylonian curriculum of scribal training came into existence toward the end of the third millennium BCE at Nippur, and was extended to...
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