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People are STRANGE: towards a philosophical archaeology of self

open access: yesPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
Philosophical preoccupation with the hard problem of self-consciousness often takes human becoming for granted. In archaeology, the opposite is the norm.
L. Malafouris
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Unfused transverse foramen of the atlas vertebra in the Neandertal lineage fossils

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract In anatomically modern humans, the atlas can display an unfused transverse foramen (UTF) but currently the presence of UTF in the Neandertal lineage is uncertain due to a scarcity of prevalence studies and no exhaustive record of its presence throughout the entire hominin fossil record.
Asier Gómez‐Olivencia   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

De l’art de re-présenter l’archéologie

open access: yesLes Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2013
A conversation between contemporary art and archaeology seems to have been initiated. Far to be only an inspiration for contemporary art, archaeology could find, by this kind of interplays, a way to get perceptible some of its epistemological ...
Pierre-Antoine Le Nay
doaj   +1 more source

Interdisciplinary Practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In commenting on the state of affairs in contemporary archaeology, Wylie outlines an agenda for archaeology as an interdisciplinary science rooted in ethical practices of stewardship.
Wylie, Alison
core  

Archaeology meets environmental genomics: implementing sedaDNA in the study of the human past

open access: yesArchaeological and Anthropological Sciences
Sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) has become one of the standard applications in the field of paleogenomics in recent years. It has been used for paleoenvironmental reconstructions, detecting the presence of prehistoric species in the absence of macro ...
K. T. Özdoğan   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Cortical bone distribution in the human mandibular symphysis: Ontogenic and morphometric approaches in archeological context

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The human mandibular symphysis concentrates multiaxial loads during function and remodels throughout growth, but the precise mechanisms underlying cortical bone shape during growth remain relatively unexplored. Approaches based solely on thickness or external cortical contours provide only partial insights and do not capture the functional ...
Ana Ribeiro   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Archaeology in a Stockholm Perspective —a Personal Reflection

open access: yesCurrent Swedish Archaeology, 1993
This paper presents a short sketch over Swedish archaeology from a Stockholm perspective. It starts from Montelius and leads via "New Archaeology" to a comment on the interpretive aspect of archaeology.
Åke Hyenstrand
doaj   +1 more source

The Internationalization and Institutionalization of Archaeology, or, How a Rich Man’s Pastime Became an International Scientific Discipline, and What Happened Thereafter

open access: yesBulletin of the History of Archaeology, 2020
Archaeology has been an “international” discipline since it emerged as a separate field of intellectual endeavor by the mid-eighteenth century. During the nineteenth century and into the twentieth it gradually became more institutional, as museums ...
David Fleming
doaj   +1 more source

Nourishing archaeology and science [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013
Archaeology is an interdisciplinary science par excellence. In its quest to reconstruct human behavior in the natural and cultural environment of the past, archaeology uses knowledge and techniques from many different academic disciplines. Indeed, there are very few sciences that have no relevance to archaeology.
Degryse, Patrick, Shortland, Andrew J.
openaire   +2 more sources

Pseudo-archaeology: The Appropriation and Commercialization of Cultural Heritage [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Heritage can be defined as the use of the past to construct ideas about identity in the present. The past that this definition references is most commonly linked to tangible objects, and therefore archaeological artifacts.
Bassett, Alecia
core   +2 more sources

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