Robin Derricourt
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 146572 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Robin Derricourt |
| NOMBRES | Robin |
| APELLIDO | Derricourt |
| FIRMA | DERRICOURT R |
| AFILIACIONES | UNSW Sydney |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 139 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1966 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Interpretations, Influences, Personalities, and the Phylogeny of Paleoanthropology
Five Innovations That Changed Human History
We live in an era of major technological developments, post-pandemic social adjustment, and dramatic climate change arising from human activity. Considering these phenomena within the long span of human history, we might ask: which innovations brought about truly significant and long-lasting transformations? Drawing on both historical sources and archaeological discoveries, Robin Derricourt explores the origins and earliest development of five ma…
Five Innovations That Changed Human History
Five Innovations That Changed Human History
Bones and Bodies
Journal Article Bones and Bodies: How South African Scientists Studied Race, by Alan G. Morris Get access Bones and Bodies: How South African Scientists Studied Race, by Alan G. Morris (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2022; pp. xx + 338. ZAR375). Robin Derricourt Robin Derricourt University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Histo…
Mup
MUP: A Centenary History." Australian Historical Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
The challenges of attribution
The making of a radical archaeologist
Vere Gordon Childe is the most prominent archaeologist produced by Australia to date. His writing influenced two generations of the public’s understanding of the human past, alongside the academic interpretation and teaching of prehistory, while his work has stimulated more professional conferences and critiques than any other in the discipline. This paper explores how close Childe came to taking a different path, outlining the circumstances that…
The changing careers of Vere Gordon Childe
It was Antiquity (Daniel 1980) that revealed details of the death of "the greatest prehistorian in Britain, and probably in the world" (Piggott 1958: 312), the Australian Vere Gordon Childe (1892-1957). Antiquity would later note what is still the over-modest marker of his final resting place (Barton 2000). And it was Antiquity that published Childe's 'Retrospect' in which he summarised his archaeological career, noting that it began at Oxford, a…
Pyramidologies of Egypt
The pyramids of Egypt, and especially the Great Pyramid at Giza, have long been the subject of speculation. Notably from the mid-nineteenth century to today Western writers have proselytized numerous interpretations at odds with those of specialist scholars, and such alternative ideas have attracted wide if disparate followings. In surveys of Egypt written for a general audience from a traditional Egyptological framework these ideas are often ign…
Peer Review
The key to a successful program of scholarly book publishing lies with the knowledge, creativity, and drive of the commissioning (acquisitions) editor. Peer review is a useful tool for testing and confirming the editor's judgment and arguing the case for publication, but the role of peer review alone can often be overrated. Too many funding and appointment systems are based on a fetishised image of this concept. Despite the debates and changing p…
La Dame Blanche et l'Atlantide – Ophir et le Grand Zimbabwe
Pseudoarchaeology
The familiar term "pseudoarchaeology" allows us to categorise and comfortingly dismiss a diverse group of alternative presentations of the past, and reinforce our own professionalism as scholars and scientists. Glyn Daniel regularly denounced the ideas of a "lunatic fringe" inAntiquityeditorials, and contributors to a recent unforgiving book analyse "how pseudoarchaeology misrepresents the past" (Fagan 2006). Other terms like "alternative" or "cu…
Inventing Africa
Raymond Dart and the danger of mentors
Archaeology, like all scientific and scholarly disciplines, requires the transmission of knowledge and ideas. This commonly involves the influence of mentors and role models: figures who can at times take on the role of gurus. But adherence to mentors has its dangers. That is shown in the career of Raymond Dart, whose professional work was deeply flawed by the adherence he paid to his mentor Grafton Elliot Smith. His status has been maintained by…
Patenting Hominins
■ Palaeoanthropology - the study of hominin evolution - has features which differentiate it from most other sciences. It has long been characterized by the announcement of a dramatic discovery of fossil hominin remains - often following a long and arduous process of field exploration. Commonly this has been accompanied by naming a new species, or even a new genus, to mark the importance and uniqueness of the find. In time, the discipline of palae…
Getting “Out of Africa
Striated Grinding Grooves in Central Africa
Man on the Kafue
Man on the Kafue
Man on the Kafue-The Archaeology and History of the Itezhitezhi Area of Zambia
Man on the Kafue
People of the Lakes
Archaeology and Development [and Comments and Reply]
The establisment of a national site survey in the Solomon Islands provides a case study of the way in which the discipline of archaeology, developed in highly industrialised, wealthy countries, must be adapted if it is to prove meaningful in other parts of the world. Such changes are not only organisational and logistical; they extend to the conceptual basis of archaeology and to the relationship of the discipline to society. Specifically discuss…
Cultural Resource Management and Archaeological Research
Cultural resource management studies, which provide archaeological information for planning purposes, are currently burgeoning in American archaeology. A general approach is developed which aims at bringing such studies into conformity with legal requirements and the high standards of modern archaeological research. This approach is founded on the precept that cultural resource management cannot attain its management goals without solid research …
Getting “Out of Africa
Cultural Resource Management and Archaeological Research
Cultural resource management studies, which provide archaeological information for planning purposes, are currently burgeoning in American archaeology. A general approach is developed which aims at bringing such studies into conformity with legal requirements and the high standards of modern archaeological research. This approach is founded on the precept that cultural resource management cannot attain its management goals without solid research …
Archaeology and Development [and Comments and Reply]
The establisment of a national site survey in the Solomon Islands provides a case study of the way in which the discipline of archaeology, developed in highly industrialised, wealthy countries, must be adapted if it is to prove meaningful in other parts of the world. Such changes are not only organisational and logistical; they extend to the conceptual basis of archaeology and to the relationship of the discipline to society. Specifically discuss…
Patenting Hominins
■ Palaeoanthropology - the study of hominin evolution - has features which differentiate it from most other sciences. It has long been characterized by the announcement of a dramatic discovery of fossil hominin remains - often following a long and arduous process of field exploration. Commonly this has been accompanied by naming a new species, or even a new genus, to mark the importance and uniqueness of the find. In time, the discipline of palae…
Radiocarbon Chronology for Egypt and North Africa
THE difference between Egyptian radiocarbon dates and historically established dates can be understood in terms of the changing intensity of the geomagnetic field; radiocarbon dating of bristlecone pine produces a curve showing the deviation of radiocarbon and calendar years (Fig. 1). Plotting of the full range of radiocarbon dates from Egypt and Nubia (Figs. 2-4) confirms the validity of radiocarbon dating as a relative chronology. A coherent pa…
Raymond Dart and the danger of mentors
Archaeology, like all scientific and scholarly disciplines, requires the transmission of knowledge and ideas. This commonly involves the influence of mentors and role models: figures who can at times take on the role of gurus. But adherence to mentors has its dangers. That is shown in the career of Raymond Dart, whose professional work was deeply flawed by the adherence he paid to his mentor Grafton Elliot Smith. His status has been maintained by…
Pseudoarchaeology
The familiar term "pseudoarchaeology" allows us to categorise and comfortingly dismiss a diverse group of alternative presentations of the past, and reinforce our own professionalism as scholars and scientists. Glyn Daniel regularly denounced the ideas of a "lunatic fringe" inAntiquityeditorials, and contributors to a recent unforgiving book analyse "how pseudoarchaeology misrepresents the past" (Fagan 2006). Other terms like "alternative" or "cu…
Striated Grinding Grooves in Central Africa
Some Coastal Shell Middens in Southern Moçambique
The making of a radical archaeologist
Vere Gordon Childe is the most prominent archaeologist produced by Australia to date. His writing influenced two generations of the public’s understanding of the human past, alongside the academic interpretation and teaching of prehistory, while his work has stimulated more professional conferences and critiques than any other in the discipline. This paper explores how close Childe came to taking a different path, outlining the circumstances that…
Peer Review
The key to a successful program of scholarly book publishing lies with the knowledge, creativity, and drive of the commissioning (acquisitions) editor. Peer review is a useful tool for testing and confirming the editor's judgment and arguing the case for publication, but the role of peer review alone can often be overrated. Too many funding and appointment systems are based on a fetishised image of this concept. Despite the debates and changing p…
Early European travellers in the Transkei and Ciskei
Lukolwe and the Mbwela of North-Western Zambia
(1976). LUKOLWE AND THE MBWELA OF NORTH-WESTERN ZAMBIA. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 169-176
Samfya Forest and the Chronology of the Iron Age of Northern Zambia
(1976). SAMFYA FOREST AND THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE IRON AGE OF NORTHERN ZAMBIA. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 153-159
Robertsdrift, an Iron Age site and settlement on the banks of the Vaal and Klip rivers near Standerton, South‐Eastern Transvaal
1973). Robertsdrift, an Iron Age site and settlement on the banks of the Vaal and Klip rivers near Standerton, South‐Eastern Transvaal. African Studies: Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 183-193
Ware Analysis of Ceramic Assemblages
E. Towry Whyte's List of the Kings of Egypt
E. Towry Whyte's List of the Kings of Egypt
Radiocarbon Chronology for Egypt and North Africa
THE difference between Egyptian radiocarbon dates and historically established dates can be understood in terms of the changing intensity of the geomagnetic field; radiocarbon dating of bristlecone pine produces a curve showing the deviation of radiocarbon and calendar years (Fig. 1). Plotting of the full range of radiocarbon dates from Egypt and Nubia (Figs. 2-4) confirms the validity of radiocarbon dating as a relative chronology. A coherent pa…
Human Ecology and Site Resource Analysis
The Pleasures of Archaeology
Ware Analysis of Ceramic Assemblages
The Archaeology of the Flooded Volta Basin
The Literature of Ancient Egypt
Robertsdrift, an Iron Age site and settlement on the banks of the Vaal and Klip rivers near Standerton, South‐Eastern Transvaal
1973). Robertsdrift, an Iron Age site and settlement on the banks of the Vaal and Klip rivers near Standerton, South‐Eastern Transvaal. African Studies: Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 183-193
A Soapstone Sculpture from Rhodesia
In the East London Museum is a broken soapstone sculpture with a unique combination of style, subjectmatter and context (figs 1-4). The piece was presented by a local resident, Mr B. R. Reid, in 1964 and is catalogued 'Archaeology 606'. According to the donor's notes, presented with the sculpture, it was: 'recovered broken in the roots of a large mopani tree (?) about 6 feet underground in an ancient working (gold) about 1912. The tree was a very…
Some Coastal Shell Middens in Southern Moçambique
A Supplementary Bibliography of the Archaeology of Zambia 1967-1973
Early European travellers in the Transkei and Ciskei
Lukolwe and the Mbwela of North-Western Zambia
(1976). LUKOLWE AND THE MBWELA OF NORTH-WESTERN ZAMBIA. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 169-176
Samfya Forest and the Chronology of the Iron Age of Northern Zambia
(1976). SAMFYA FOREST AND THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE IRON AGE OF NORTHERN ZAMBIA. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 153-159
Finds From Mufuli Stream, North-Western Zambia
Itezhitezhi
Cultural Resource Management and Archaeological Research
Cultural resource management studies, which provide archaeological information for planning purposes, are currently burgeoning in American archaeology. A general approach is developed which aims at bringing such studies into conformity with legal requirements and the high standards of modern archaeological research. This approach is founded on the precept that cultural resource management cannot attain its management goals without solid research …
Archaeology and Development [and Comments and Reply]
The establisment of a national site survey in the Solomon Islands provides a case study of the way in which the discipline of archaeology, developed in highly industrialised, wealthy countries, must be adapted if it is to prove meaningful in other parts of the world. Such changes are not only organisational and logistical; they extend to the conceptual basis of archaeology and to the relationship of the discipline to society. Specifically discuss…
People of the Lakes
Striated Grinding Grooves in Central Africa
Man on the Kafue
Man on the Kafue
Man on the Kafue-The Archaeology and History of the Itezhitezhi Area of Zambia
Man on the Kafue
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