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Archaeology, anthropology and the stuff of time [PDF]

Archaeological Dialogues, 2015
Lucas's discussion of contemporaneity makes an important contribution to archaeological understandings of chronology and dating and to broader debates about temporality. Extending his earlier work on time (Buchli and Lucas 2001; Lucas 2001; 2005), Lucas's central insight is that contemporaneity is not a function of a shared unit of time but of the ...
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Traditional land use is integral to ecological function in SW Madagascar

Scientific Reports
Historic land-use practices are important for understanding present-day patterns of ecological productivity and resilience. A longstanding challenge, however, has been how to discern different land-use activities across landscapes from archaeological and
Dylan S. Davis, George Manahira, Bram Tucker, Kristina Douglass   +3 more
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Polar bears and expanding sea ice in the Mid Holocene Aleutian Islands, Alaska

Scientific Reports
The archaeological record offers the opportunity to infer the effects of regional climatic shifts on species distributions and human-animal interactions.
Lillian Draper Parker, Catherine F. West, Kaylee Hope Tatum, Michael Etnier, Brandi Bethke, Katherine Reedy, Nikkita Shellikoff, Courtney A. Hofman   +7 more
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Society of Archaeological Masters Students Annual Conference V

Papers from the Institute of Archaeology, 2017
The Society of Archaeological Masters Students Conference is an opportunity for UCL Institute of Archaeology masters students to present their research.
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Guide to the National Anthropological Archives: Smithsonian Institution, by James R. Glenn, National Anthropological Archives, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 1993

Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 1993
The historian of archaeological science will find this volume an indispensable source for culling research materials from the National Anthropological Archives. The Guide is "an overview of the documentation in the Department of
Douglas R. Givens
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Archaeology and Anthropology [PDF]

The American Naturalist, 1889
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Evaluating Livestock Culling Practices Using Population Projection Models in Neolithic Dalmatia

Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology
Mortality profiles derived from age-at-death estimates of archaeological animal remains reveal the outcomes of prehistoric herders slaughtering decisions.
Nicholas Triozzi, Sarah B. McClure
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Publisher Correction: Localized management of non-indigenous animal domesticates in Northwestern China during the Bronze Age

Scientific Reports, 2021
Petra Vaiglova, Rachel E. B. Reid, Emma Lightfoot, Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch, Hui Wang, Guoke Chen, Shuicheng Li, Martin Jones, Xinyi Liu   +8 more
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Widespread platinum anomaly documented at the Younger Dryas onset in North American sedimentary sequences

Scientific Reports, 2017
Previously, a large platinum (Pt) anomaly was reported in the Greenland ice sheet at the Younger Dryas boundary (YDB) (12,800 Cal B.P.). In order to evaluate its geographic extent, fire-assay and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (FA and ICP ...
Christopher R. Moore, Allen West, Malcolm A. LeCompte, Mark J. Brooks, I. Randolph Daniel, Albert C. Goodyear, Terry A. Ferguson, Andrew H. Ivester, James K. Feathers, James P. Kennett, Kenneth B. Tankersley, A. Victor Adedeji, Ted E. Bunch   +12 more
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Adopt, Adapt, and Share! FAIR Archeological Data for Studying Roman Rural Landscapes in Northern 'Noricum'

Journal of Open Humanities Data
This paper offers a detailed overview of the archeological data from the “Roman Rural Landscapes in Noricum” (RRLN) project. It focuses on the less-explored northern and northeastern rural regions of Roman-period Noricum (c. 16/15 BC to 488 AD).
Dominik Hagmann
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