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Katja Douze - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • a new chrono Cultural Marker for the early middle stone age in ethiopia the tranchet blow process on convergent tools from gademotta and kulkuletti sites
    Quaternary International, 2014
    Co-Authors: Katja Douze
    Abstract:

    The earliest stages of the MSA show the emergence of a number of technical innovations accompanying the appearance of uni-bifacial pointed tools that are the hallmarks of this period. Within the oldest sites of Gademotta and Kulkuletti, a specific technical process applied on convergent tools has been identified: the lateral tranchet blow technical process. This paper questions the value of this process in terms of technical skills and functional purpose and to a broader extent, its value as a chrono-Cultural Marker. The first clue of this study is to provide an accurate evidence of the intentionality of the tranchet blow process based on the identification of the recurrent technical stages implied in this process. With regards to the study of the emergence of projectile technology in the literature, the morpho-functional significance of this process is also questioned. The hypothesis supported in this paper favor the interpretation of the use of the tools with tranchet blow scars as cutting tools rather than hunting weapons. Therefore, the penetration function of those MSA triangular tools may precede their function as projectile. The discussion shows that, so far, the use of the tranchet blow process was restricted to the oldest sites of Gademotta and Kulkuletti. Since it has been recognized in Tiya surface collections, this process may be considered as a chrono-Cultural Marker for the Ethiopian MSA.

Danny Tzeken Wong - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • chinese popular music as a musical heritage and Cultural Marker of the malaysian chinese
    International Journal of Heritage Studies, 2017
    Co-Authors: Danny Tzeken Wong
    Abstract:

    AbstractChinese popular music, inspired by pre-war Shanghai music known as ‘shidai qu’ (时代曲) (songs of the era) and evolving to include Canto pop and Taiwanese Mandarin songs, has always been popular among the Chinese in Malaysia. This music is featured on radio, television, karaoke, and performed by orchestras such as the Dama Chinese Orchestra (大马) to enthusiastic reception. The songs have a broad appeal that transcends time, generation, and place. Of significance is the observation that the music has become a Cultural Marker and musical heritage for Chinese in Malaysia and in the region. The paper looks at factors behind this development.

Mark Sebba - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Named into being? Language questions and the politics of Scots in the 2011 census in Scotland
    Language Policy, 2019
    Co-Authors: Mark Sebba
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    Where censuses are concerned, politics and ideology are pervasive. The 2011 census in Scotland (a semi-autonomous part of the United Kingdom) was the first to ask a question about Scots, a close relative of English, which is historically the vernacular in many parts of Scotland. While at one time Scots had high status as the national language of Scotland, it is now widely regarded as a ‘dialect’ of English, and for many people it has associations of inferiority. At the same time, it has political relevance because of its potential to be an important Cultural Marker for an autonomous Scotland. The policy position of the current Scottish government, which advocates independence, is to protect and celebrate Scots. Adding a question about Scots to the census was an attempt to advance this by finding out who and where the users of Scots are. Research carried out before the census had shown that the public had differing ideas about what could be called Scots and whether it was, in fact, a different language from English: according to one previous survey, 64% did not think of it as a language at all. Given this background it is unsurprising that interpretations of the census results were controversial, reflecting to some degree existing language ideologies. According to some, the census provided no useful information, while according to others it demonstrated that there was a robust Scots-speaking population and a clear public understanding of what it meant to be a speaker of Scots. This paper discusses the history and political background to the problematic language questions in the Scottish census, and how the choice of questions, their wording and even their order on the questionnaire may have affected the results. Despite the flawed questions and many difficulties of interpretation, it seems that the 2011 census, whether or not it succeeded in enumerating accurately the speakers of Scots, may nevertheless have helped to raise public awareness of the language and to legitimise it. There are lessons to be learnt from the Scottish census, too, in other situations around the world where there are unclear boundaries between ‘language’ and ‘dialect,’ or where low-status and high-status varieties of ‘the same’ language coexist.

Esther Lopezmontalvo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • hunting scenes in spanish levantine rock art an unequivocal chrono Cultural Marker of epipalaeolithic and mesolithic iberian societies
    Quaternary International, 2018
    Co-Authors: Esther Lopezmontalvo
    Abstract:

    Abstract In the framework of the long-standing debate regarding the chronology of Spanish Levantine rock art, the hypotheses proposing its Cultural affiliation to the Epipalaeolithic and Mesolithic societies are largely based on the socio-economic activities depicted in the Levantine scenes, in particular hunting. This position is closely related to the belief that there is a radical opposition between hunter-gatherers and agropastoralist – wild vs. domestic – where hunting is not envisaged to have neither a complementary economic purpose nor a significant social and symbolic role during the settlement and expansion of the “Neolithic package”. In order to assess the validity of Levantine hunting scenes as a chrono-Cultural Marker of Epipalaeolithic-Mesolithic societies, this paper explores the role of hunting in Neolithic societies of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin (6th-3rd millennium cal BC). To do this, economic data, from archaeozoological and isotopic studies permitting the evaluation of wild and domestic animals consumption patterns, along with other social, identity-related and symbolic elements, such as the funerary record, personal ornaments and Levantine iconography itself, will be taking into account.

Valeriya A Esipova - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the use of script by siberian old believers as a Cultural Marker for texts
    Revue Mabillon, 2015
    Co-Authors: Valeriya A Esipova
    Abstract:

    L’analyse paleographique peut aider a discerner les preferences de lecture des Vieux-Croyants de Siberie en rupture avec l’Eglise russe orthodoxe depuis le xviie siecle. La recherche s’appuie sur des manuscrits slaves conserves au departement des manuscrits et des livres rares de la bibliotheque de recherche de l’Universite de Tomsk (Russie). Un de ces manuscrits contenant une collection de textes choisis (ms. ORKP NB TGU, B-17.986), caracteristique de la production des Vieux-Croyants au debut du xxe siecle, est analyse dans l’article de maniere approfondie. Parmi les extraits qui y sont copies, des textes de l’ancienneTradition chretienne russe voisinent avec des textes plus recents, de litterature moderne. Meme s’il n’y a pas de correspondance dans tous les cas entre types d’ecriture et textes reproduits, l’analyse montre que la maniere de mettre ces textes par ecrit peut servir de marqueur culturel dans la communaute des Vieux-Croyants. D’autres exemples tires d’autres manuscrits de la meme bibliothequ...