William Y Adams

• Peasant archaeology in Nubia

  William Y Adams•ARTICLE•Azania Archaeological Research in…•2004•Referências: 3

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  It is now acknowledged that nearly all the great achievements of the early civilizations were based on the work of mostly impoverished peasants. It is through the studies undertaken during the Aswan High Dam Salvage Campaign, of the 1960s, that we have obtained, for the first time, an adequate picture of what their life in Nubia was like for the last 2000 years. This paper gives an account of that life, based on the archaeological work in Lower N…

• Nubia

  William Y Adams, R G Morkot et al.•CHAPTER•2003

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• Qasr Ibrim. The Late Mediaeval Period

  W H C Frend, William Y Adams•ARTICLE•The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology•1998

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• Dispensing with Definitions

  Open Access•William Y Adams•ARTICLE•Anthropology News•1996

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• The Health and Nutrition of a Medieval Nubian Population

  Open Access•Dennis P Van Gerven, Susan Guise Sheridan et al.•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1995•Citada por: 36•Referências: 21

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  Human remains from two cemeteries at Kulubnarti in Sudanese Nubia present an ideal opportunity to assess the biological impact of political and economic change. Remains from the early cemetery come from Nubia's medieval period, characterized by political unification and important achievements in art and architecture. Remains from the second cemetery come from the later emergent feudal age, characterized by regional isolation and return to a subsi…

• Four-Field Anthropology

  Open Access•William Y Adams•ARTICLE•Anthropology News•1993

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• Archaeological Typology and Practical Reality

  J-c Gardin, William Y Adams et al.•ARTICLE•Man•1992•Citada por: 9

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• Archaeological Typology and Practical Reality

  Open Access•William Y Adams, Ernest W Adams•BOOK•Archaeological Typology and…•1991

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  Classifications are central to archaeology. Yet the theoretical literature on the subject, both in archaeology and the philosophy of science, bears very little relationship to what actually occurs in practice. This problem has long interested William Adams, a field archaeologist, and Ernest Adams, a philosopher of science, who describe their book as an ethnography of archaeological classification. It is a study of the various ways in which field …

• What the New Archaeology Has Accomplished [and Comments and Reply]

  Richard A Watson, William Y Adams et al.•ARTICLE•Current Anthropology•1991•Citada por: 20

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• Ceramic Industries of Medieval Nubia

  Mark Horton, William Y Adams•ARTICLE•Journal of Field Archaeology•1990

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• Wadi Qitna and Kalabsha-South. Vol. 1. Archaeology . Eugen Strouhal

  William Y Adams•ARTICLE•Journal of Near Eastern Studies•1988

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• Archaeological classification

  Open Access•William Y Adams•ARTICLE•Antiquity•1988•Citada por: 5•Referências: 24

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  Classification is fundamental to all artefactual archaeology, and no one who works with artefacts can be unaware of the doubts that surround many classifications. How similar are the similar things that belong together? How different are the different things that belong apart? What do the classes of similar things actually amount to? This paper looks at some fundamental questions of classification, believing that classification is too important a…

• The Vision Quest

  Open Access•William Y Adams•ARTICLE•Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly•1988

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• Migrations in Prehistory

  William Y Adams, Irving Rouse•ARTICLE•Man•1987•Citada por: 23

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• Africa in Antiquity. The Arts of Ancient Nubia and the Sudan

  Cl Vandersleyen, William Y Adams et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology•1985

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• "Doubts about the "Lost Pharaohs

  William Y Adams•ARTICLE•Journal of Near Eastern Studies•1985•Citada por: 3

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• Meroitistische Forschungen 1980

  Abdelgadir M Abdalla, William Y Adams et al.•BOOK•Meroitistische Forschungen 1980•1984

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• The First Colonial Empire

  Open Access•William Y Adams•ARTICLE•Comparative Studies in Society…•1984•Citada por: 6•Referências: 2

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  A century ago the phrases 'darkest Africa' and 'the dark continent' were encountered often in European and American literature. The darkness, one would suppose, was in the minds of the writers, signifying their general ignorance of African geography and ethnography. Yet I doubt if many who spoke of darkest Africa thought of it in quite those terms. For most of them, the darkness was in the minds of the Africans themselves; a metaphor for their mo…

• Meroitic Studies

  Abdelgadir M Abdalla, William Y Adams et al.•BOOK•Meroitic Studies•1983

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• Primis and the "Aethiopian" Frontier

  William Y Adams•ARTICLE•Journal of the American Research…•1983

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  L' Ethiopie , ou Nubie, a exerce une fascination particuliere sur les auteurs classiques, tels Homere, Diodore, Strabon, Pline et Ptolemee. La portion de la Nubie qui a toujours presente un interet direct pour l'Egypte commence a Syene (Assouan), a cause des mines d'or du desert oriental. Le statut de la Basse Nubie, ou Triacontaschene, est obscur pour la periode pre-romaine (evidences archeologiques des Ptolemees et des Kuschites, mais aucune pr…

• The Overprofessionalized Profession

  Open Access•William Y Adams•ARTICLE•Anthropology News•1983

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• Once More to the Fray

  William Y Adams•ARTICLE•Journal of Anthropological Research•1983

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  Anthropologists have puzzled over the seeming "fuzziness" in Navajo social organization for more than forty years. Because Navajos belong to matrilineal clans, it has usually been assumed that the smaller and more localized units of social organization also have a matrilineal basis. However, data from the western Navajo community of Shonto clearly show that this is not the case. Coresident and cooperating kin groups are the product not of formal …

• Ecology and Economy in the Empire of Kush

  William Y Adams•ARTICLE•Zeitschrift für Ägyptische…•1981•Citada por: 2

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• Evolution of Specialized Pottery Production

  P M Rice, William Y Adams et al.•ARTICLE•Current Anthropology•1981•Citada por: 138

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  Craft specialization, a concomitant of evolving social complexity, is regarded as a process of regulating variety in extractive or productive activities. A trial model for the evolution of specialization in pottery production is presented, together with test implications for the archaeological recognition of specialized production. Emphasis is on standardization vs. variability or diversity in decorative, technological, and formal pottery attribu…

• Shonto

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• Evolution of Specialized Pottery Production

  P M Rice, William Y Adams et al.•ARTICLE•Current Anthropology•1981•Citada por: 138

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  Craft specialization, a concomitant of evolving social complexity, is regarded as a process of regulating variety in extractive or productive activities. A trial model for the evolution of specialization in pottery production is presented, together with test implications for the archaeological recognition of specialized production. Emphasis is on standardization vs. variability or diversity in decorative, technological, and formal pottery attribu…

• The Retreat from Migrationism

  William Y Adams, Dennis P Van Gerven et al.•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Anthropology•1978•Citada por: 59•Referências: 11

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  One of the most persistent, though least acknowledged, explanatory para­ digms in culture history is that which attributes the growth and spread of culture to the movement of peoples. We are not here referring to diffusion, but to theories which specifically envision the movements and displace­ ments of populations. As will be shown presently, migration and diffusion theories have quite different intellectual pedigrees, and their relationship in …

• The Health and Nutrition of a Medieval Nubian Population

  Open Access•Dennis P Van Gerven, Susan Guise Sheridan et al.•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1995•Citada por: 36•Referências: 21

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  Human remains from two cemeteries at Kulubnarti in Sudanese Nubia present an ideal opportunity to assess the biological impact of political and economic change. Remains from the early cemetery come from Nubia's medieval period, characterized by political unification and important achievements in art and architecture. Remains from the second cemetery come from the later emergent feudal age, characterized by regional isolation and return to a subsi…

• Migrations in Prehistory

  William Y Adams, Irving Rouse•ARTICLE•Man•1987•Citada por: 23

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• What the New Archaeology Has Accomplished [and Comments and Reply]

  Richard A Watson, William Y Adams et al.•ARTICLE•Current Anthropology•1991•Citada por: 20

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• On the Argument From Ceramics to History

  William Y Adams, Leland J Abel et al.•ARTICLE•Current Anthropology•1979•Citada por: 20•Referências: 6

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  The assumption that major changes in pottery closely reflect change in other areas of culture has been widely accepted by prehistorians, but it has seldom been tested against independent historical or ethnographic evidence. It is here suggested, on the basis of dated pottery types and of independently dated historical developments, that there is not necessarily a close connection between the two. The evidence for this conclusion is derived from h…

• Invasion, Diffusion, Evolution

  Open Access•William Y Adams•ARTICLE•Antiquity•1968•Citada por: 14•Referências: 11

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• Archaeological Typology and Practical Reality

  J-c Gardin, William Y Adams et al.•ARTICLE•Man•1992•Citada por: 9

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• Shonto Revisited

  Open Access•William Y Adams, Lorraine T Ruffing et al.•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1977•Citada por: 7•Referências: 12

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  Between 1954 and 1956 the senior author of this article carried out a detailed social and economic study of the community of Shonto, situated in what was then a particularly remote corner of the Navajo Indian Reservation in northeastern Arizona. In 1972 the junior author returned to do a restudy of the same community. A comparison of the data obtained in the two studies provides unique measures of social and economic change, and also of social an…

• The First Colonial Empire

  Open Access•William Y Adams•ARTICLE•Comparative Studies in Society…•1984•Citada por: 6•Referências: 2

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  A century ago the phrases 'darkest Africa' and 'the dark continent' were encountered often in European and American literature. The darkness, one would suppose, was in the minds of the writers, signifying their general ignorance of African geography and ethnography. Yet I doubt if many who spoke of darkest Africa thought of it in quite those terms. For most of them, the darkness was in the minds of the Africans themselves; a metaphor for their mo…

• Archaeological classification

  Open Access•William Y Adams•ARTICLE•Antiquity•1988•Citada por: 5•Referências: 24

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  Classification is fundamental to all artefactual archaeology, and no one who works with artefacts can be unaware of the doubts that surround many classifications. How similar are the similar things that belong together? How different are the different things that belong apart? What do the classes of similar things actually amount to? This paper looks at some fundamental questions of classification, believing that classification is too important a…

• "Doubts about the "Lost Pharaohs

  William Y Adams•ARTICLE•Journal of Near Eastern Studies•1985•Citada por: 3

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• Organizational Problems in International Salvage Archaeology

  William Y Adams•ARTICLE•Anthropological Quarterly•1968•Citada por: 3

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  William Y. Adams, Organizational Problems in International Salvage Archaeology, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 3, Dam Anthropology: River Basin Research (Special Issue) (Jul., 1968), pp. 110-121

• Architectural Evolution of the Nubian Church, 500-1400 A.D

  William Y Adams•ARTICLE•Journal of the American Research…•1965•Citada por: 3

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• Ecology and Economy in the Empire of Kush

  William Y Adams•ARTICLE•Zeitschrift für Ägyptische…•1981•Citada por: 2

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• Sacred and secular polities in ancient Nubia

  William Y Adams•ARTICLE•World Archaeology•1974•Citada por: 2•Referências: 4

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  It is well known from textual records that Nubia in the early centuries A.D. comprised a single imperial state. However, archaeological evidence suggests that the institutions of political control were far from uniform in the different provinces of the Nubian empire. In particular, government in the northern province seems to have rested on a much more secular basis than was true in the southern provinces. This article examines the evidence for p…

• Navajo Social Organization

  Open Access•William Y Adams•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1971•Citada por: 2•Referências: 2

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• Ethnohistory and Islamic Tradition in Africa

  William Y Adams•ARTICLE•Ethnohistory•1969•Citada por: 1

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• Navajo and Anglo Reconstruction of Prehistoric Sites in Southeastern Utah

  Open Access•William Y Adams•ARTICLE•American Antiquity•1959

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  Examples of the rebuilding of a boulder structure by Navajo and of a cliff dwelling by uranium prospectors, both buildings in Pueblo III sites in the lower San Juan River drainage, illustrate the difficulty of establishing universally valid, diagnostic house types

• Ethnology

  Open Access•William Y Adams•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1961

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• Post-Pharaonic Nubia in the Light of Archaeology. I

  William Y Adams•ARTICLE•The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology•1964

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• Post-Pharaonic Nubia in the Light of Archaeology. I

  Open Access•William Y Adams•ARTICLE•The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology•1964

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• Post-Pharaonic Nubia in the Light of Archaeology. II

  William Y Adams•ARTICLE•The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology•1965

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• Post-Pharaonic Nubia in the Light of Archaeology. II

  Open Access•William Y Adams•ARTICLE•The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology•1965

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• Architectural Evolution of the Nubian Church, 500-1400 A.D

  William Y Adams•ARTICLE•Journal of the American Research…•1965•Citada por: 3

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• Post-Pharaonic Nubia in the Light of Archaeology. III

  William Y Adams•ARTICLE•The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology•1966

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• Post-Pharaonic Nubia in the Light of Archaeology. III

  Open Access•William Y Adams•ARTICLE•The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology•1966

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• The Late Nubian Settlement at Arminna West. BRUCE G. TRIGGER. The Classic Christian Townsite ar Arminna West. Kent R. Weeks

  Open Access•William Y Adams•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1968

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• Ceramic Studies of the Historic Periods in Ancient Nubia . F lorence C. L ister

  Open Access•William Y Adams•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1968

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• Navaho Automotive Terminology

  Open Access•William Y Adams•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1968

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• Invasion, Diffusion, Evolution

  Open Access•William Y Adams•ARTICLE•Antiquity•1968•Citada por: 14•Referências: 11

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• Organizational Problems in International Salvage Archaeology

  William Y Adams•ARTICLE•Anthropological Quarterly•1968•Citada por: 3

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  William Y. Adams, Organizational Problems in International Salvage Archaeology, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 3, Dam Anthropology: River Basin Research (Special Issue) (Jul., 1968), pp. 110-121

• Ethnohistory and Islamic Tradition in Africa

  William Y Adams•ARTICLE•Ethnohistory•1969•Citada por: 1

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• University of Kentucky Excavations in Nubia

  Open Access•William Y Adams•ARTICLE•Anthropology News•1970

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• Navajo Social Organization

  Open Access•William Y Adams•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1971•Citada por: 2•Referências: 2

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• J. L. Burckhardt, Ethnographer

  J L Burckhardt, William Y Adams•ARTICLE•Ethnohistory•1973

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• Sacred and secular polities in ancient Nubia

  William Y Adams•ARTICLE•World Archaeology•1974•Citada por: 2•Referências: 4

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  It is well known from textual records that Nubia in the early centuries A.D. comprised a single imperial state. However, archaeological evidence suggests that the institutions of political control were far from uniform in the different provinces of the Nubian empire. In particular, government in the northern province seems to have rested on a much more secular basis than was true in the southern provinces. This article examines the evidence for p…

• Shonto Revisited

  Open Access•William Y Adams, Lorraine T Ruffing et al.•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•1977•Citada por: 7•Referências: 12

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  Between 1954 and 1956 the senior author of this article carried out a detailed social and economic study of the community of Shonto, situated in what was then a particularly remote corner of the Navajo Indian Reservation in northeastern Arizona. In 1972 the junior author returned to do a restudy of the same community. A comparison of the data obtained in the two studies provides unique measures of social and economic change, and also of social an…

• The Retreat from Migrationism

  William Y Adams, Dennis P Van Gerven et al.•ARTICLE•Annual Review of Anthropology•1978•Citada por: 59•Referências: 11

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  One of the most persistent, though least acknowledged, explanatory para­ digms in culture history is that which attributes the growth and spread of culture to the movement of peoples. We are not here referring to diffusion, but to theories which specifically envision the movements and displace­ ments of populations. As will be shown presently, migration and diffusion theories have quite different intellectual pedigrees, and their relationship in …

• Nubia

  Margaret Shinnie, William Y Adams•REVIEW•Geographical Journal•1978

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• Nubia. Corridor to Africa

  Philip E L Smith, William Y Adams•ARTICLE•The International Journal of…•1978

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• On the Argument From Ceramics to History

  William Y Adams, Leland J Abel et al.•ARTICLE•Current Anthropology•1979•Citada por: 20•Referências: 6

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  The assumption that major changes in pottery closely reflect change in other areas of culture has been widely accepted by prehistorians, but it has seldom been tested against independent historical or ethnographic evidence. It is here suggested, on the basis of dated pottery types and of independently dated historical developments, that there is not necessarily a close connection between the two. The evidence for this conclusion is derived from h…

• Ecology and Economy in the Empire of Kush

  William Y Adams•ARTICLE•Zeitschrift für Ägyptische…•1981•Citada por: 2

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