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Societies in Transition: Technology and Transition in the 21st Century

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Professor Rayner talks about society in the 21st century the impacts of science and technology, particularly cyber-technology and the Internet. He also asks how new technology will change society and what it means to be a person.

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Societies in Transition
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Steve Rayner
Keywords
futurology
anthropology
internet
societies
technology
cyber-culture
Department: Linacre College
Date Added: 24/03/2009
Duration: 01:01:18

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Societies in Transition: Technology and Transition in the 21st Century

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Professor Rayner talks about society in the 21st century the impacts of science and technology, particularly cyber-technology and the Internet. He also asks how the new technology will change society and what it means to be a person.
Professor Steve Rayner is the James Martin Professor of Science and Civilisation, Said Business School.

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Keble College
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Steve Rayner
Keywords
futurology
anthropology
internet
societies
technology
cyber-culture
Department: Keble College
Date Added: 24/03/2009
Duration: 01:01:18

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Societies in Transition: Industrial Transformation

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Professor Palmer looks at the Industrial Revolution and how it transformed societies. She also examines the idea that the Revolution is as important to civilization as the transition from hunter-gatherers to farming societies thousands of years ago.

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Societies in Transition
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Marylyn Palmer
Keywords
innovation diffusion continuity
industrial revolution
industrialization
transition
anthropology
societies
Department: Linacre College
Date Added: 24/03/2009
Duration: 00:59:47

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Societies in Transition: The End of Roman Civilization

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Dr Ward-Perkins (Trinity College, Oxford) examines the Roman-made ecological disasters and examines how far the environmental pollution contributed to the fall of Rome and why this matters in today's world.

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Societies in Transition
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Bryan Ward-Perkins
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Environment
ecology
roman empire
anthropology
Britain
rome
Dark Age
archaeology
pollution
Department: Linacre College
Date Added: 24/03/2009
Duration: 00:48:46

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Societies in Transition: Becoming Roman in Britain

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Lecture on Britain under Roman rule and the incorporation of Britain into the Roman world. Professor Gosden also talks about the significance of our environment, the outside, material world, and how it influences historical events in ancient history.

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Societies in Transition
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Chris Gosden
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Roman Britain
Iron Age
Bronze Age
anthropology
rome
societies in transition
archaeology
Department: Linacre College
Date Added: 24/03/2009
Duration: 00:57:03

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Societies in Transition: Becoming Roman in Britain

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Lecture on Britain under Roman rule and the incorporation of Britain into the Roman world. Professor Gosden also talks about the significance of our environment, the outside, material world, and how it influences historical events in ancient history.
Professor Chris Gosden is the Professor of European Archaeology, Oxford University.

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Keble College
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Chris Gosden
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Roman Britain
Iron Age
Bronze Age
anthropology
rome
societies in transition
archaeology
Department: Keble College
Date Added: 24/03/2009
Duration: 00:57:03

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Societies in Transition: Volcanogenic Origins of the Classical World

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A lecture on the origins of the classical world: from the growth of Minoan Crete during the Bronze Age, 2000 BCE, where a possible volcanic eruption on Santorini led to the destruction of Minoan Crete and a catalyst to the creation of the Classical world.

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Societies in Transition
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Stuart Manning
Keywords
attica
Minoan
classical civilization
Bronze Age
anthropology
greek
Santorini
Crete
archaeology
societies
Department: Linacre College
Date Added: 24/03/2009
Duration: 00:56:01

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Societies in Transition: Early Metallurgy Around the World

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Professor David Killick (Dept. Anthropology, University of Arizona) talks about the invention of metallurgy and the transition from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age and what the social roles of emerging metallurgy were in societies throughout the world.

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Societies in Transition
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David Killick
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metallurgy
Bronze Age
anthropology
society
Linacre college
stone age
archaeology
Department: Linacre College
Date Added: 24/03/2009
Duration: 00:58:02

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Societies in Transition: Farming in Island Southeast Asia

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Professor Graeme Barker talks about the transition from hunter-gatherer societies to farming societies in the Stone Age in South East Asian Islands. He discusses the various reasons why this transition took place and the advantages it brought to people.

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Societies in Transition
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Graeme Barker
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foraging
Philippines
anthropology
society
south east Asia
hunter-gatherer
migration
farming
archaeology
Department: Linacre College
Date Added: 24/03/2009
Duration: 00:51:06

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Societies in Transition: The Neanderthal-Modern Human Transition

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Professor Chris Stringer, Research Leader in the Paleontology department at the Natural History Museum, discusses skeletal, DNA and behavioural evidence that sheds light on the transition between neanderthals and modern humans.

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Societies in Transition
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Chris Stringer
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neanderthal
transition
anthropology
Cro-Magnon
modern man
societies
Department: Linacre College
Date Added: 24/03/2009
Duration: 00:59:14

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