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pre-eminently
Post-processual archaeology has been pre-eminently an archaeological practice situated in late-capitalist society glimpsed, as it were, from the centre of that society.
The classification of space and the attachment of meanings to it are therefore pre-eminently cultural constructs.
Thus, archaeology is pre-eminently a modern science, made possible by the advantages and contradictions of modern progress.
Given this representation, to try to follow the precedent is to look for a pre-eminently conspicuous continuation of the sequence.
The developing variation in section 1 is a pre-eminently teleological technique.
We maintain that this mesh is a pre-eminently cognitive act of "knowing" not only in infancy but also in everyday activities throughout the life span.
Only participants with a major depression showed a similarly pre-eminently reduced functioning.
But the records remain: reviews, paintings, photographs, histories - and pre-eminently the biographies and autobiographies of the trainers themselves.
A task pre-eminently suitable to disentangle processes related to attention and inhibition is the stop-signal task.
And it is pre-eminently the language of the world's media.
The landscape which pre-eminently lends itself to such an experience is the landscape with nature reserves and historical parks.
Nevertheless, optimists and pessimists agreed that the new cities, and pre-eminently the capital, had long been characterized by something akin to a quasi-racial occupational and social order.
Pidgins, in comparison with established languages, are pre-eminently marked by a reduced vocabulary, a general absence of bound morphological elements, and a limited or reduced range of syntactic structures.
This is pre-eminently a commercial society, where goods, ideas and people are constantly circulating; even the poor spend a fifth of their non-food expenditure on travel.
This serves as a basis for the position that an essentially emotional and feminine motivation may be better equipped for an enquiry into human morality than pre-eminently masculine pure reason.
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