Earliest Egyptian glyphs: writing evolved simultaneously in Mesopotamia and Egypt
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The oldest known examples of Egyptian writing, dated between 3400 and 3200 BC, have been discovered at Abydos. The evidence suggests that writing probably developed at the same time in Mesopotamia and Egypt and that the two systems influenced each other. These predynastic glyphs from Abydos provide the earliest examples of phonetic writing, being a rebus system in which the pictures are used to represent sounds.
Publication Name: Archaeology
Subject: Anthropology/archeology/folklore
ISSN: 0003-8113
Year: 1999
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"This ain't the English department;" on becoming an archaeologist in the 1950s at Florida State University
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Reminiscences of the anthropology department in the 1950s at Florida State University are given. Professor Hale Smith was an original who leant the department much of its exuberance and character. Charles Fairbanks was the department's intellectual center, the scholar whom every student wanted to become. Opportunities for fieldwork in this area so important to Southeastern archaeology abounded.
Publication Name: Archaeology
Subject: Anthropology/archeology/folklore
ISSN: 0003-8113
Year: 2000
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Writing unwritten history; an archaeologist and American Indian walks the tightrope of a double life
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Standing Rock Sioux activist and Bureau of Indian Affairs archaeologist for southeastern Oklahoma Vine DeLoria Jr. is profiled. DeLoria discusses being caught in the middle between his ethnicity and his chosen field of work.l
Publication Name: Archaeology
Subject: Anthropology/archeology/folklore
ISSN: 0003-8113
Year: 2000
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