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Dorset culture

I responded to your query about missing comments on Talk:Dorset culture. ناهد/(Nåhed) _speak! 10:00, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

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I see that you are exceedingly knowledgeable about prehistoric Eskimo/Inuit cultures. Currently a translation of the German article Inuit-Kultur is in progress at User:Lithoderm/Inuit culture, where I am collaborating with a few native speakers of German (we're maybe halfway there). When finished it will cover all aspects of the cultural history and present day culture of the Inuit. By the way, this will also include the Pre-Dorset culture, remarkably absent on the English wiki, as you noted. Your knowledge will be very valuable to that article once the preliminary translation is finished, but comments are welcome at any time. Thanks, Lithoderm (talk) 02:32, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

User:Ratzer is my main collaborator. His project page is at User:Ratzer/Projects/Project2‎. Just to let you know. Lithoderm (talk) 15:07, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for commenting

Thank you for your comments at User talk:Lithoderm/Inuit culture. I must remind you however, that I am not the author of the article- that (primarily, of course) would be Dr. Ansgar Walk.

I myself am slowly becoming aware of the many gaps that are present in the article's coverage of the subject- Alaska is hardly covered; where are the Okvik, the Birnik, and ,as you mentioned, the Denbigh flint complex? While it is a featured article on the German Wikipedia, even a perfect translation would never achieve that status on the English wiki. I am not an expert in this field, and have difficulty finding sources. That is where you come in. I am sure that you have ample access to printed sources concerning this subject. Your comments are appreciated, and remember that if something is incorrect, fix it!

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Thanks again, Lithoderm (talk) 20:57, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Your erudition is really wonderful. However, I cannot include any of your suggestions in the article unless you cite your sources- I must have the name of the author, the date, preferably the ISBN, and the page numbers. My sources are obviously inadequate- my most comprehensive source is the Smithsonian's 1984 Handbook of the Native American Indians, volume 5. It still used Neo- and Paleo- eskimo terminology. The only source I have that alludes to those terms being obsolete is the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology- however the same source also states that the modern Inuit are the direct descendants of the Dorset, a dubious claim.

Obviously you have the knowledge to contribute greatly to this article- please cite your sources, so I know where it comes from!

Thank you, Lithoderm (talk) 14:23, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Category talk:English archaeologists

I responded to your comments there. Because there was no article on Geoffrey Bibby, I cobbled a short one together. You are welcome to add to it. Lithoderm (talk) 18:38, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Culture

Hi, I would really appreciate it if you would look over this article. As of a few days ago, I think it was a trainwreck - tangential material, lots of repetition, no contextualization. I did a major overhaul of it (but my approach was relatively conservative: I deleted fringe material and redundancies, and reorganized what was left according to distinctive points of view or approaches). It still needs work (I describe all this in greater detail on the talk page). One thing I did was provide a very abbreviated summary of how cultural anthropologists talk about culture. One thing that is sorely lacking is a section on material culture and archeology. Off the top of my head I think that something should be said about the first appearance of tools in hominan history, how archeologists study material culture (explaining words like matrix and assemblage), theories of material culture and the relationship between material culture and social organization/social life etc. Right now I am trying to focus on the core concepts/ways of conceptualizing/frameworks for study. But I do not have the knowledge of archeology to do this. So I am hoping that you can help out ... thanks Slrubenstein | Talk 19:39, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi I appreciate your message - the trick with this article is how to make it about "culture" without making it about anthropology. That said, any ideas you have for improving it will be welcome - whenever you have time. Since I wrote in January I did what research I could and added some of the material I thought was essential, but I am no expert on archeology, physical anthropology, paleoanthropology. The article is not and shouldn't be on these topics as such, but I just assume specialists in these fields bring other important points of view on what culture is and how to study it. I just want us to have a great, balanced article on "culture." Thanks, Slrubenstein | Talk 13:53, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

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Tanks, missiles, dates... and mistakes

Hi, Death Bredon, I answered to the topic you started here... Cheers ! Kintaro (talk) 08:11, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

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