Linda Hurcombe
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 249351 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Linda Hurcombe |
| PRENOMES | Linda |
| SOBRENOME | Hurcombe |
| ASSINATURA | HURCOMBE L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6128-6792 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 79 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1988 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Joining hands
Hand depictions are among the most widespread motifs in global rock art, appearing from the Pleistocene to the present and often representing some of the earliest symbolic practices. At Cerro Azul and Paredones del Potrero in Amazonian Colombia, red handprints feature diverse decorations – including spirals, braided lines and geometric infill – whose production and significance remain little understood. This study presents the first detailed typo…
Life and death in upper palaeolithic mongolia
The dispersal of Upper Palaeolithic groups after 45 ka bp into Mongolia and Inner Mongolia was remarkable because it was one of the most challenging environments of the Palaeolithic, principally because of its bitterly cold winters and unpredictable rainfall but also because of the difficulties of successful ambush hunting, of maintaining effective mating and information networks over large distances, and of obtaining sufficient animal fat. Here,…
Meat and Hide
Bushcraft as cultural continuity in 'English' hunter-gathering
This paper argues that the relationship bushcraft creates between artisan, landscape and tools to enable the acquisition of food and spatial mobility expresses a broadly-based environmental cultural continuity in English foraging practices. The perspective of bushcraft practitioners has rarely been represented in academic literature, partly, perhaps, because it cuts across many different sectors of research and practice. Accordingly, we bring a t…
How and why is Homo sapiens so successful
By 30,000 years ago, Homo sapiens was the only type of hominin and had colonised most environments in the Old World. We argue that this success resulted from its ability to increase its population because more H. sapiens women than their contemporaries were able to have three or more children that survived into adulthood. This increased reproductive rate was accompanied by the development of a rounder brain and a longer childhood. A rounder brain…
Perishable Material Culture in Prehistory
Perishable Material Culture in Prehistory provides new approaches and integrates a broad range of data to address a neglected topic, organic material in the prehistoric record. Providing news ideas and connections and suggesting revisionist ways of thinking about broad themes in the past, this book demonstrates the efficacy of an holistic approach by using examples and cases studies. No other book covers such a broad range of organic materials fr…
Morgawr
This paper reports on the construction of a full-scale Bronze Age-type sewn-plank boat based on the Ferriby boats. The boat, which was named Morgawr, was constructed in the National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth, England, during 2012 and the first months of 2013, as part of a larger exhibition in the museum. This paper provides the background and context of the project, describes the process of building the craft, and reflects in particula…
Organics from inorganics
The value and diversity of experimental archaeology as a research tool are explored with reference to organic material culture, also termed 'perishables'. Ethnographic and contemporary data clearly show that the majority of all material culture is composed of materials which do not survive well in temperate conditions. Perishable material culture is therefore the 'missing majority' of archaeological material culture. Yet no society isolates mater…
A sense of materials and sensory perception in concepts of materiality
Objects are a key aspect of archaeological evidence and theories about them should contribute to interdisciplinary debates on materiality and material culture. Despite the primacy of this evidence there is considerable scope for further debate about the role of materials in concepts of materiality and the social construction of sensory perception. This is as true for a past society as it is for our own but the two world views may be ill-matched a…
Theory
Excavations at a Neolithic Cursus, Springfield, Essex, 1979–85
A long cropmark enclosure at Springfield, Essex, interpreted as a Neolithic cursus, was investigated betwee 1979–85 to confirm its date and establish a site sequence. The enclosure was c. 690 m long and 37–49 m wide the ditch being uninterrupted in all areas examined, features within the interior at the eastern end included a incomplete ring of substantial post-pits which it is suggested originally formed a complete circle. Peterborou pottery, pr…
Representations of Gender from Prehistory to the Present
Focusing primarily on visual forms of representation, but also including material on literary representation, this volume brings together studies as apparently disparate as the iconography of power in
Gender and Material Culture in Archaeological Perspective
Comment on Pedra Furada
An issue in the status of the flaked stones from Pedra Furada, Brazil is whether they are artefacts or fractures naturally made on falling stone. An experiment by other researchers is pertinent.
Our own engendered species
The study of gender in ancient societies seems inseparable from the place of gender in our own society-and therefore inseparable from the particular attitudes and expectations those contemporary manners create. This BIG problem is explored, and some approaches to its resolution are developed
Some criticisms and suggestions in response to Newcomer et al. (1986)
A sense of materials and sensory perception in concepts of materiality
Objects are a key aspect of archaeological evidence and theories about them should contribute to interdisciplinary debates on materiality and material culture. Despite the primacy of this evidence there is considerable scope for further debate about the role of materials in concepts of materiality and the social construction of sensory perception. This is as true for a past society as it is for our own but the two world views may be ill-matched a…
Organics from inorganics
The value and diversity of experimental archaeology as a research tool are explored with reference to organic material culture, also termed 'perishables'. Ethnographic and contemporary data clearly show that the majority of all material culture is composed of materials which do not survive well in temperate conditions. Perishable material culture is therefore the 'missing majority' of archaeological material culture. Yet no society isolates mater…
Excavations at a Neolithic Cursus, Springfield, Essex, 1979–85
A long cropmark enclosure at Springfield, Essex, interpreted as a Neolithic cursus, was investigated betwee 1979–85 to confirm its date and establish a site sequence. The enclosure was c. 690 m long and 37–49 m wide the ditch being uninterrupted in all areas examined, features within the interior at the eastern end included a incomplete ring of substantial post-pits which it is suggested originally formed a complete circle. Peterborou pottery, pr…
Morgawr
This paper reports on the construction of a full-scale Bronze Age-type sewn-plank boat based on the Ferriby boats. The boat, which was named Morgawr, was constructed in the National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth, England, during 2012 and the first months of 2013, as part of a larger exhibition in the museum. This paper provides the background and context of the project, describes the process of building the craft, and reflects in particula…
Our own engendered species
The study of gender in ancient societies seems inseparable from the place of gender in our own society-and therefore inseparable from the particular attitudes and expectations those contemporary manners create. This BIG problem is explored, and some approaches to its resolution are developed
Some criticisms and suggestions in response to Newcomer et al. (1986)
Comment on Pedra Furada
An issue in the status of the flaked stones from Pedra Furada, Brazil is whether they are artefacts or fractures naturally made on falling stone. An experiment by other researchers is pertinent.
Our own engendered species
The study of gender in ancient societies seems inseparable from the place of gender in our own society-and therefore inseparable from the particular attitudes and expectations those contemporary manners create. This BIG problem is explored, and some approaches to its resolution are developed
Representations of Gender from Prehistory to the Present
Focusing primarily on visual forms of representation, but also including material on literary representation, this volume brings together studies as apparently disparate as the iconography of power in
Gender and Material Culture in Archaeological Perspective
Theory
Excavations at a Neolithic Cursus, Springfield, Essex, 1979–85
A long cropmark enclosure at Springfield, Essex, interpreted as a Neolithic cursus, was investigated betwee 1979–85 to confirm its date and establish a site sequence. The enclosure was c. 690 m long and 37–49 m wide the ditch being uninterrupted in all areas examined, features within the interior at the eastern end included a incomplete ring of substantial post-pits which it is suggested originally formed a complete circle. Peterborou pottery, pr…
A sense of materials and sensory perception in concepts of materiality
Objects are a key aspect of archaeological evidence and theories about them should contribute to interdisciplinary debates on materiality and material culture. Despite the primacy of this evidence there is considerable scope for further debate about the role of materials in concepts of materiality and the social construction of sensory perception. This is as true for a past society as it is for our own but the two world views may be ill-matched a…
Organics from inorganics
The value and diversity of experimental archaeology as a research tool are explored with reference to organic material culture, also termed 'perishables'. Ethnographic and contemporary data clearly show that the majority of all material culture is composed of materials which do not survive well in temperate conditions. Perishable material culture is therefore the 'missing majority' of archaeological material culture. Yet no society isolates mater…
Perishable Material Culture in Prehistory
Perishable Material Culture in Prehistory provides new approaches and integrates a broad range of data to address a neglected topic, organic material in the prehistoric record. Providing news ideas and connections and suggesting revisionist ways of thinking about broad themes in the past, this book demonstrates the efficacy of an holistic approach by using examples and cases studies. No other book covers such a broad range of organic materials fr…
Morgawr
This paper reports on the construction of a full-scale Bronze Age-type sewn-plank boat based on the Ferriby boats. The boat, which was named Morgawr, was constructed in the National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth, England, during 2012 and the first months of 2013, as part of a larger exhibition in the museum. This paper provides the background and context of the project, describes the process of building the craft, and reflects in particula…
How and why is Homo sapiens so successful
By 30,000 years ago, Homo sapiens was the only type of hominin and had colonised most environments in the Old World. We argue that this success resulted from its ability to increase its population because more H. sapiens women than their contemporaries were able to have three or more children that survived into adulthood. This increased reproductive rate was accompanied by the development of a rounder brain and a longer childhood. A rounder brain…
Meat and Hide
Bushcraft as cultural continuity in 'English' hunter-gathering
This paper argues that the relationship bushcraft creates between artisan, landscape and tools to enable the acquisition of food and spatial mobility expresses a broadly-based environmental cultural continuity in English foraging practices. The perspective of bushcraft practitioners has rarely been represented in academic literature, partly, perhaps, because it cuts across many different sectors of research and practice. Accordingly, we bring a t…
Joining hands
Hand depictions are among the most widespread motifs in global rock art, appearing from the Pleistocene to the present and often representing some of the earliest symbolic practices. At Cerro Azul and Paredones del Potrero in Amazonian Colombia, red handprints feature diverse decorations – including spirals, braided lines and geometric infill – whose production and significance remain little understood. This study presents the first detailed typo…
Life and death in upper palaeolithic mongolia
The dispersal of Upper Palaeolithic groups after 45 ka bp into Mongolia and Inner Mongolia was remarkable because it was one of the most challenging environments of the Palaeolithic, principally because of its bitterly cold winters and unpredictable rainfall but also because of the difficulties of successful ambush hunting, of maintaining effective mating and information networks over large distances, and of obtaining sufficient animal fat. Here,…
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 obras) · History (7 obras) · Archaeology (6 obras) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (5 obras) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (4 obras) · Art (4 obras) · Sociology (4 obras) · Anthropology (3 obras) · Craft (3 obras) · Philosophy (3 obras)