1. Grand challenges for archaeology.
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Kintigh, Keith W., Altschul, Jeffrey H., Beaudry, Mary C., Drennan, Robert D., Kinzig, Ann P., Kohler, Timothy A., Limp, W. Fredrick, Maschner, Herbert D. G., Michener, William K., Pauketat, Timothy R., Peregrine, Peter, Sabloff, Jeremy A., Wilkinsont, Tony J., Wright, Henry T., and Zeder, Melinda A.
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ARCHAEOLOGY & sociology , *SOCIAL mobility , *SOCIAL change , *IDENTITY (Psychology) , *INTERNET surveys - Abstract
The article offers the authors' insights regarding the most important scientific challenges in archaeology which were composed of their own proposed challenges and from the results of the survey they conduct in the U.S. Topics discussed include challenges such as mobility, societal transformation, and personal identity, dynamics of cultural processes, and coupled natural and human systems. Also mentioned are the project steering committee, web-based survey, and synthetic research.
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- 2014
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