Papers by Andrzej Kazimierz Wierciński
Anthropological Review
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Światowit : rocznik poświęcony archeologii przeddziejowej i badaniom pierwotnej kultury polskiej i słowiańskiej, 1975
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Ethnologia Polona, 1991
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Estudios Latinoamericanos, Dec 27, 1985
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Dialogue and Humanism, 1994
Pourquoi malgre la nature specifique commune a tous les etres humains, l'histoire humaine con... more Pourquoi malgre la nature specifique commune a tous les etres humains, l'histoire humaine contient-elle autant de dissonances et antagonismes? La notion de nature humaine a-t-elle perdu sa signification, est-elle devenue obsolete? Afin de repondre a ces questions, l'A. cherche une perspective theorique plus large que celle proposee par l'anthropologie
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Current Anthropology, Oct 1, 1964
I cannot agree with Czekanowski's views in many respects. In his definition of anthropology h... more I cannot agree with Czekanowski's views in many respects. In his definition of anthropology he says that "the object of anthropology consists in the description of human groups" (CA 3:481). I understand anthropology in a much wider sense as a science dealing with the ontoand phylogenetic development of man and his immediate forebears, as well as with the influences which determine or modify this development. Such a definition covers the whole field of physical anthropology including human genetics, and must include consideration of pathology as well as normal development. Czekanowski considers man as a point in an n-dimensional space. I consider man as a living being who develops under the influence of an inborn hereditary foundation, through the mutual interaction of genes and the internal and external environment. The development continues until death, although it must be admitted that there are periods which may be looked upon as the culmination of his bodily development, but these are not unchanging stable plateaus. While the statistical approach is useful, it seems to me that Czekanowski goes too far when he reduces anthropology to a mathematicalstatistical problem. He lays great stress on the metrical aspect of anthropology. I should like to mention that a fundamental characteristic like the length of skull may be influenced by disease (rickets or pre-rachitic states) or by the way the child lies in the cradle, etc. Why is it assumed that at the present time the dolichocephalic Mediterranean man is recessive to the so-called "small races," whereas, in the 4th to 13th centuries, Mediterranean man was dominant? The formulas given by Czekanowski prove only that skulls of the Middle Ages were more commonly dolichocephalic. He does not and cannot explain why brachycephalization has occurred. Czekanowski considers the 4 fundamental "small races" in Europe as a biological reality (CA 3:481-82), even though he lacks valid proof. For me, these so-called "small races" represent no more than a combination of marks whose hereditary foundation is mostly unknown to us. I reiect categorically the conception that any phenotypic mark must be unconditionally evoked by a given constellation of genes. Finally, the importance that some anthropologists lay on the question
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Current Anthropology, Feb 1, 1962
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Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 1956
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Almogaren, 1976
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Human Evolution, Jul 1, 1992
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Archeologia Polski, 1964
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Current Anthropology, 1962
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Current Anthropology, 1978
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Current Anthropology, 1966
sium-argon dates and the Cenozoic mammalian chronology of North America. Amnerican Journal of Sci... more sium-argon dates and the Cenozoic mammalian chronology of North America. Amnerican Journal of Science 262:14598. FIREY, WALTER I. 1960. Man, mind, and land: A theory of resource use. Glencoe: Free Press. FOSTER, GEORGE M. 1960. Culture and conquest: America's Spanish heritage. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology no. 27. FRIED, MORTON H. 1962. "Land tenure, geography and ecology in the contact of cultures," Readings in cultural geography. Edited by Philip L. Wagner and Marvin W. Mikesell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (First published in 1952.) GOLDSTEIN, JOSEPH D. 1956. Care of casualties caused by nuclear weapons. American Journal of Nursing 56:157680. HARRIS, MARVIN. 1960. Adaptation in biological and cultural science. Transactions of the New York Academy of Science 23:59-66. HONIGMANN, JOHN J. 1959. The world of man. New York: Harper. IKAWA, FUMIKO. 1964. Comments on Befu's "Patrilineal descent and personal kindred in Japan." American Anthropologist 66: 159-62. JOLLY, CLIFFORD C. 1963. A suggested case of evolution by sexual selection in primates. Man no. 222. KNELLER, G. F. 1965. Educational anthropology, an introduction. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. KROEBER, ALFRED L. 1948. Revised edition. Anthropology: Race, language, culture, psychology, prehistory. New York: Harcourt, Brace. KURTEIN, BJ6RN. 1952. The Chinese Hipparion fauna. Societas Scientiarum Fennica, Commentationes Biologicae 13(4): 1-82. 1957. Percrocuta Kretzoi (Mammalia, Carnivora), a group of Neogene hyenas. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 2:375-404. LILLY, JOHN C. 1961. Man and dolphin. Garden City: Doubleday. MALINOWSKI, BRONISLAW. 1944. A scientific theory of culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. MARLER, PETER. n.d. "Communication in monkeys and apes," in Primate behavior. Edited by Irvin DeVore. In press. MEAD, MARGARET. 1955. Energy changes under conditions of cultural change. Sociometry 18:457-67. 1964. Continuities in cultural evolution. New Haven: Yale University Press. MOORE, WILBERT E. 1963. Social change. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall. MURPHY, GARDNER, LOIS B. MURPHY, and THEODORE M. NEWCOMB. 1937. Revised edition. Experimental socal psychology. London: Harper. MURPHY, ROBERT F. 1957. Intergroup hostility and social cohesion. American Anthropologist 59:1018-35. ODUM, EUGENE P. 1959. 2nd edition. Fundamentals of ecology. Philadelphia: Saunders. PILGRIM, G. E. 1931. Catalogue of the Pontian Carnivora in the Department of Geology. London: British Museum (Natural History). 1932. The fossil Carnivora of India. Palaeontologia Indica, n.s. 18:1-323. ROMER, ALFRED S. 1954. 3rd edition. Man and the vertebrates. Vol. 1. Baltimore: Penguin Books. SAHLINS, MARSHALL D. 1955. Esoteric efflorescence in Easter Island. American Anthropologist 57:1045-52. SAHLINS, MARSHALL D., and ELMAN R. SERVICE. 1960. Evolution and culture. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. SCHAUB, SAMUEL. 1941. Ein neues Hyaenidengenus von der Montagne de Perrier. Eclogae geologicae Helvetiae 34:279-86. SIMONS, ELWYN L. 1961. The phyletic position of Ramapithecus. Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, Postilla 57, pp. 1-9. 1963. Some fallacies in the study of hominid phylogeny. Science 141: 87989. 1964. On the mandible of Ramapithecus. Proceedings, National Academy of Sciences 51:528-35. SIMPSON, GEORGE GAYLORD. 1949. The meaning of evolution. New Haven: Yale University Press. SPIER, LESLJE. 1935. The Prophet dance of the Northwest and its derivatives. Menasha, Wis.: George Banta. TAX, SOL. 1958. Changing consumption in Indian Guatemala. Consumer Behavior 3:227-38. THENIUS, E. 1954. Zur Abstammung der Rotwolfe (Gattung Cuon Hodgson). Osterreichische Zoologische Zeitschrift 5: 377-87. VAYDA, ANDREW P. 1959. Polynesian cultural distributions in new perspective. American Anthropologist 61:817-28. 1961. Expansion and warfare among swidden agriculturists. American Anthropologist 63:346-58. VOGT, EVON Z. 1960. On the concept of structure and process in cultural anthropology. American Anthropologist 62: 18-33. WEBER, MAX. 1930. The Protestant ethic antd the spirit of capitalism. Translated from the German by Talcott Parsons. New York: Scribner. WHITE, LESLIE A. 1945. History, evolutionism, and functionalism: three types of interpretation. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology. Vol. 1:221-248. 1959. The evolution of culture: The development of civilization to the fall of Rome. New York: McGraw-Hill. WYNNE-EDWARDS, VERO C. 1962. Animal dispersion in relation to social behaviour. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd. ZIPF, GEORGE K. 1949. Human behavior and the principle of least effoort. Cambridge: Addison-Wesley.
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Radiocarbon, 1995
We established a database of 14C dates from archaeological sites of the Central Andes region of P... more We established a database of 14C dates from archaeological sites of the Central Andes region of Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia on an IBM PC-compatible microcomputer running on an MS-DOS operating system using software package dBASE IV, version 1.1. Relevant data are stored in three DBF-type database files. The file ANDY.DBF contains information on dates and samples; REFERENC.DBF contains references to relevant publications and CALAND.DBF contains calibrated dates. The total number of records of the ANDY database slightly exceeds 2650.
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Estudios Latinoamericanos, 2019
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