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It’s a scale, scale, scale, scale world (part 2)

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

Following on my post from yesterday, I wanted to write a little more specifically about the significance of scale and our session at the AAAs. Paleoanthropological data are produced and address questions at different scales. Consider the following: Fossil – … Continue reading →

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It’s a scale, scale, scale, scale world (part 1)

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

I have to begin by thanking the panelists and discussants who participated in our AAA panel yesterday. Everyone delivered wonderful talks, that, to my infinite happiness, fit together into a cohesive theme about the study of later Pleistocene human evolution … Continue reading →

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Scales of time and space in prehistory

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Adam Van Arsdale

Steven Kuhn, talking about the importance of matching scales of explanation with scales of evidence (2012), and citing ecologist Simon Levin (1992): Levin makes a parallel observation about ecological processes: “…if there are predictable patterns that may be observed in … Continue reading →

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