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Negotiating Political Economy at Late Postclassic Tututepec (Yucu Dzaa), Oaxaca, Mexico

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Saving Indigenous Peoples from Ourselves: Separate but Equal Archaeology is not Scientific Archaeology

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What If the Aztec Empire Never Existed? The Prerequisites of Empire and the Politics of Plausible Alternative Histories

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Mediational techniques and conceptual frameworks in archaeology

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Carib as a Colonial Category: Comparing Ethnohistoric and Archaeological Evidence from Dominica, West Indies

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Public archaeology, knowledge meetings and heritage ethics in southern Africa: an approach from Mozambique

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Ethnoarchaeology Beyond Correlates

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Writing for Many: Interdisciplinary Communication, Constructionism, and the Practices of Writing

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Silences and Mentions in History Making

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The perils of ethnographic analogy. Parallel logics in ethnoarchaeology and Victorian Bible customs books

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Chapter 15. Archaeology Is Anthropology

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Biodiversity and the human past: Lessons for conservation biology

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The Representation of Guayaquil's Sexual Past: Historicizing the Enchaquirados

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Intellectual Decolonization and Harmful Nativism: Arabic Knowledge Production of Ancient Egyptian Literature

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1 Past is Present: The Production and Consumption of Archaeological Legacies in Mexico

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A Posthumanist Approach to the Origins of Rice Agriculture in Southern China

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Teaching revolutionary archaeology: African experiments in history making and heritage management

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Geoarchaeology and Heritage Management: Identifying and Quantifying Multi-Scalar Erosional Processes at Kisese II Rockshelter, Tanzania

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Talking of Human Rights: Histories, Heritages, and Human Remains

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That obscure object of desire: Machu Picchu as myth and commodity

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Writ on the Landscape: Racialization, Whiteness, and River Street

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Historical Disruptions in Ecuador: Reproducing an Indian Past in Latin America

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Disciplining the Past, Policing the Present: The Postcolonial Landscape of Ecuadorian Nostalgia

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Dimensions of Power in Swaziland Research: Coercion, Reflexivity, and Resistance

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Living with Heritage: The Potentials of and Pressures on the Heritage Landscape of Gwollu, Upper West Region, Ghana

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Representing the World's Earliest Man: A Story of Palaeontology in East Africa

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Boka Botuom and the Decorated Stones of the Cross River Region, Eastern Nigeria

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Wholes, Halves, and Vacant Quarters: Ethnohistory and the Historical Method

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Excavating the Quiet History of a Providence Plantation

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The Politics of the Past in Dagestan: National Unity and Symbolic Revolt

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Response and responsibility (before and after the ‘facts’). Postcolonial thoughts on ethical writing

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An Artifact of Postmedieval European Preconceptions: The Chiefdom Model Versus the Principle of ActualismPreprint

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The Inka mummy from Mount Aconcagua: Decoding the geographic origin of the ?Messenger to the Deities? by means of stable carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur isotope analysis

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