Dear Ed,
I presume that WWII, therefore, fits into the "Historical" class of terms.
Early Modern represents the initiation of an economic reorganisation, with a start date in Wallerstein of ca 1460 for Europe generally. However, the dissolution of the monasteries which freed large rural estates and market town industries from monastic monopoly was the principle turning point for the take off of the new system in England.
No comments yet on the palaeo-environmental class of terms, but it's probably quite extensive. We have several sites with independent palaeo-environmental investigations referring to periods of one sort or another. Does the AEA or similar organisations have thesauri of periods ?
With reference to Contact Period,etc., I don't expect it to be necessarily included in a thesaurus list, but perhaps discussed in the preamble in relation to other terms. Peoples in lands peripheral to an expanding society / system / culture experience first indirect artefactual contact with the expanding system, and then direct face-to-face contact. Local native assemblages of artefacts exhibiting exotic trade items can be said to represent a Contact Period in the history of that culture. Where this contact involves pre-literate peoples coming into contact with literate people, the assemblage can be said to be Protohistoric. Where the local assemblage takes on characteristics of the expanding culture, indicating to some degree the integration of the economy and values of the expanding culture, then the assemblage could be said to represent a Colonial Period.
These are relative dating concepts, utilised largely in other parts of the world than the UK, where there is a longer time period between artefactual contact and documentary contact. Nevertheless, I am sure that there assemblages in the north of the UK which represent native cultures in contact with Roman culture but which are not Roman. If there was no other dating available, you could at least say they belonged to the Contact Period.
Cheers, Neil
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Hmm, thanks Phil. Yes I should have clarified my request for terms - please
send terms *plus* scope notes or indications of what you are referring to
for any terms that are ambiguous. Could you clarify 'Contact Period' please
Neil?
BTW, World War II would be a non preferred term. The preferred term would be
'SECOND WORLD WAR' a 'narrow term' of '20TH CENTURY', and a related term of
'MODERN'. It would also have narrow terms of specific historical events
within the WW2, e.g. BATTLE OF BRITAIN.
EARLY MODERN could be included as a non-preferred term of POST MEDIEVAL.
Edmund (the serious one at DSU)
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From: Carlisle, Philip [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 29 March 2000 16:40
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Subject: RE: Period Terms
Neil
By Contact Period, do you mean First Contact and if so should this be
Vulcan? ;-)
Phil
-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Campling [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 29 March 2000 16:26
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Subject: Period Terms
Dear All,
I think you might need another class for palaeo-environmental period terms,
such as Pollen Zone V, Holocene, Allerod, Little Ice Age, etc
I use the term Early Modern to refer to the period between the dissolution
of the monasteries and the beginnings of the industrial revolution (ca
1535-1690) after Wallerstein's "The Modern World System".
Which class does World War II fit in ?
There may be some broad terms which you might need to consider in
relationship to period terms, for example Contact Period, Protohistoric,
Colonial Period, etc
Cheers, Neil
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