Ancient civilisations
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A nine page paper which considers various aspects of ancient civilisations, including the transition from the Neolithic to the early Bronze period, the differences between the Egyptian and Indus cultures, and the relevance of ancient Greek thought to the modern intellectual world.
Filename: JLancciv.rtf
Essay Title: Ancient civilisations

Ancient Cyprus
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This 10 page paper provides an overview of the ancient civilization and culture of the island of Cyprus. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
Filename: Acyprus.wps
Essay Title: Ancient Cyprus

Ancient Egypt and Early Mesopotamia: Similarities in Structure and Rule
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A 3 page discussion of the governmental structure and rulers of these cultures. The author emphasizes the span of time covered by each and observes that the rulers were at the head of a strongly stratified system. This arrangement allowed these leaders to achieve great cultural accomplishments. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: PPegyRul.rtf
Essay Title: Ancient Egypt and Early Mesopotamia: Similarities in Structure and Rule

Ancient Egypt: Upper And Lower
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5 pages in length. For most of the prehistoric period, two distinct cultures emerged in ancient Egypt: Upper and Lower Egypt. When the student compares and contrasts social evolution in each of the two areas, he or she will find pertinence to primary environmental factors and how those factors might be considered both limiting and enabling in terms of socioeconomic development, as well as the importance of critical factors that contribute to the development of complex societies. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: TLCAncEg.rtf
Essay Title: Ancient Egypt: Upper And Lower

Ancient Korean Pottery
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This 5 page paper discusses ancient Korean pottery and the influence China had on this art. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: HVKorPot.rtf
Essay Title: Ancient Korean Pottery

Animal Thinking and Language
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In ten pages this paper discusses how animals think and communicate and the correlation that exists between language and thinking, the gestured communications of apes, the shared human and animal capacity for language, and the impact of socialization on language complexity. Six sources are cited in the bibliography.
Filename: TGanispeak.rtf
Essay Title: Animal Thinking and Language

Anthropological Concepts and Definitions
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A 5 page discussion of social anthropological concepts. Provides definitions for the concepts of language as a relational system, total social fact as suggested by Mauss, reciprocity, binary opposition, oppositional thought, deep and surface structure in relation to non linguistic phenomena as entailed by the field of Marxist Anthropology (social formation and production). Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: PPanthDf.rtf
Essay Title: Anthropological Concepts and Definitions