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The State of the Art of Digital Archiving in Romania­

Internet Archaeology, 2023
The aim of this article is to put into perspective the efforts of more than 150 years of attempts to create archaeological repertoires and archives at a national level in Romania that correspond to changing needs through time.
Marius Streinu , Bogdan Șandric
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Settlement, environment, and climate change in SW Anatolia: Dynamics of regional variation and the end of Antiquity.

PLoS ONE, 2022
This paper develops a regional dataset of change at 381 settlements for Lycia-Pamphylia in southwest Anatolia (Turkey) from volume 8 of the Tabula Imperii Byzantini-a compilation of historical toponyms and archaeological evidence.
Matthew J Jacobson, Jordan Pickett, Alison L Gascoigne, Dominik Fleitmann, Hugh Elton   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Soil archives of a Fluvisol: subsurface analysis and soil history of the medieval city centre of Vlaardingen, the Netherlands – an integral approach [PDF]

SOIL, 2016
The medieval city of Vlaardingen (the Netherlands) was strategically located on the confluence of three rivers, the Maas, the Merwede, and the Vlaarding. A church of the early 8th century AD was already located here.
S. Kluiving, T. de Ridder, M. van Dasselaar, S. Roozen, M. Prins   +4 more
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Legacy and Springboard: The Untapped Potential of Archaeological Archives for Scientific Innovation

Internet Archaeology
Archaeological archives form a public resource that enables the reinterpretation of original findings from archaeological investigations, provides the raw material for further research, informs museum displays and teaching collections, and gives society ...
Barney Sloane
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Life after Life of Archaeological Archives – Accessibility and Re-use of Archaeological Collections in Heritage Management: Preface

Internet Archaeology
Preface to the volume Life after Life of Archaeological Archives – Accessibility and Re-use of Archaeological Collections in Heritage Management in Issue ...
Marjolein Verschuur
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Over the edge: Empirical evidence for the cliff‐edge model of obstetric selection

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The cliff‐edge model of obstetric selection maintains that larger neonates and smaller birth canals confer a positive selective advantage until labor becomes obstructed and vaginal delivery is no longer possible, eliciting an abrupt reduction in fitness.
Laura M. Watson, Pierre Frémondière, Kaspar Staub, Philipp Mitteroecker, Barbara Fischer, Martin Haeusler, Nicole M. Webb   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pathways to Inclusive Digital Archaeological Archives

Advances in Archaeological Practice
This article addresses the historical and ongoing exclusion of descendant and local communities, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), from digital archaeological archives.
Hiba Alkhalaf, J. A. Baird, Anne Chen, Melissa S. Cradic, Isber Sabrine, Valeria Vitale   +5 more
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Poseidon's Sanctuary at Samikon—The Discovery of an Ancient Temple Through an Integrated Geophysical and Geoarchaeological Survey Approach for Lagoonal and Swampy Environments

Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Below the classical fortress of Samikon at the coast of the western Peloponnese, ancient writer Strabo mentioned a sanctuary of Poseidon which served as the centre of the religious association of the Triphylian cities. In this paper, we describe the discovery and investigation of a building structure by means of geophysical and ...
Dennis Wilken, Birgitta Eder, Sarah Bäumler, Elena Appel, Peter Fischer, Tina Georg, Federica Iannone, Lena Slabon, Timo Willershäuser, Erofili‐Iris Kolia, Andreas Vött   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Leveraging Big Multitemporal Multisource Satellite Data and Artificial Intelligence for the Detection of Complex and Invisible Features: The Case of Extensive Irrigation Mapping

Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The detection of buried or obscured archaeological features remains a central challenge in landscape archaeology, particularly in the irrigated floodplains of Mesopotamia where levees and canals formed the basis of complex agrarian systems. This study presents a deep learning–based approach for the large‐scale, automated detection of ancient ...
Nazarij Buławka, Hector A. Orengo, Felipe Lumbreras Ruiz, Iban Berganzo‐Besga, Ekta Gupta   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards the creation of archaeological archives in Ghana: Reflections from Begho

Afriques
Begho, an ancient market town located in Ghana, was the focus of archaeological and ethnographic research in the 1970s due to its past trade links with Jenne in the Niger Bend.
Daniel Kumah
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