Mastodons, Mound Builders, and Montroville Wilson Dickeson: pioneering American archaeologist

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Issues discussed concern the life and work of one of the first American archaeologists, Montroville Wilson Dickeson, who spent many years researching the relics of the Mound-builders in the Mississippi Valley. Topics addressed include Dickeson's research methods, his discovery of prehistoric humans living at the same time as Mastadons, and his theories on when people initially settled in America.

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Babies as ancestors, babies as spirits: The culture of infancy in West Africa

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The way in which a baby is accorded full linguistic comprehension when most of the Westerners see babies merely on the threshold of any cognitive competence, linguistic or otherwise is studied. For this purpose the cultural contours of childhood as it is imagined in one corner of rural West Africa is investigated.

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Landscapes of ancestors: early iron age hillforts and their mound cemeteries

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The costumes, ornaments, technology, farming practices, architecture and other material remains of the early Celtic speaking Iron age people who lived in Southwest Germany, eastern France and Switzerland are discussed.

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