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Les fouilles suisses à Tabo (1965-1974). Plongée dans la mémoire archivistique d’une mission archéologique au Soudan

Afriques
The site of Tabo, the occupation of which spans from the 2nd millennium BCE to the Medieval (Christian) period, is in northern Sudan. It was excavated between 1965 and 1974 by a mission from the University of Geneva.
Xavier Droux, Séverine Marchi, Noémie Monbaron, Aurélie Quirion   +3 more
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V.D. Smirnov – researcher of the Crimean archives [PDF]

Крымское историческое обозрение
. During a business trip to the Crimea in 1886, V.D. Smirnov studied the composition of the Simferopol archives. The trip of the orientalist was initiated by the St. Petersburg Archaeological Institute.
Andrey Nepomnyashchy
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Materials and Music: Selective Imperfection as a Generative Framework for Analysis, Creativity and Discovery

Interdisciplinary Materials, EarlyView.
Vibrations in matter, from spider webs to molecules, water to flames, share a grammar with music. We propose that creativity emerges when constraints force expansion beyond existing possibilities. Selective imperfection restores balance, enabling invention.
Markus J. Buehler
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Late Holocene environmental history of Dojran, Macedonia: Investigating the interplay of imperial dynamics and climatic change

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents a high‐resolution, multi‐proxy reconstruction of environmental and land‐use change from Lake Dojran over historical times (last 2500 years), combining pollen, biomarkers, radiocarbon dating, Ottoman taxation records and other historical data.
Alessia Masi, Lucrezia Masci, Georgios C. Liakopoulos, Monica Bini, Alexander Francke, Ilaria Isola, Carlo Ricotta, Laura Sadori, Alexander Sarantis, Sławomir Sprawski, Jakub Sypiański, Irene Tunno, Cristiano Vignola, Bernd Wagner, Giovanni Zanchetta, Adam Izdebski   +15 more
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The Continued Lifecycle of Archaeological Archives in Ireland

Internet Archaeology
This article will discuss how the archaeological collections of Ireland are currently managed in line with archiving principles, how the provision of access to such a wealth of information is the ultimate goal, and how this is being achieved in spite of ...
Rachel Barrett
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Ostracod faunal and geochemical evidence for the impact of Hoxnian (MIS 11c) sea levels in eastern England

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Marine isotope substage 11c (~426–366 ka) is widely regarded as the most recent Pleistocene interglacial that is broadly analogous to the Holocene. The timing and magnitude of sea‐level changes during MIS 11 have been much debated, particularly concerning whether sea levels were significantly higher than during the Holocene. Empirical evidence
Tom S. White, Jonathan A. Holmes, David J. Horne, David R. Bridgland   +3 more
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Art & Archaeology: Uncomfortable Archival Landscapes

International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2020
AbstractThis paper conceptualises practice in the space between and beyond Art & Archaeology as a zone where disciplinary certainties and known practices are unsettled, expanded and re‐cast. We will outline our current thinking about heritage landscapes as places and temporalities for engagement in the practice of what Henk Slager calls the para ...
Wall, Gina, Hale, Alex
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Integrating ZooMS and taphonomy further highlights differential processing of animal and Neandertal carcasses in the Quina Mousterian at Les Pradelles (Marillac‐le‐Franc, southwest France)

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The cave of Les Pradelles (Marillac‐le‐Franc, France) was repeatedly visited by Neandertals ~55 000 years ago and is a key site in discussions of Neandertal cannibalism. Excavations between 1967 and 1980 (Vandermeersch) and between 2001 and 2013 (Maureille/Mann) produced a rich faunal assemblage (>20 000 bones), alongside Quina Mousterian ...
Pauline Raymond, Jean‐Jacques Hublin, Karen Ruebens, Geoff M. Smith, Sandrine Costamagno, Cédric Beauval, Alan Mann, Bruno Maureille   +7 more
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Jewelled Byzantine and Medieval Reliquaries of the True Cross: Peridots and Other Gemstones in Material and Symbolic Perspective

Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, EarlyView.
An interdisciplinary in situ study of jewelled reliquaries of the True Cross integrates gemmology and portable analytical techniques, revealing new evidence on the identification and symbolic role of peridots and other gemstones. ABSTRACT Jewelled crosses containing relics of the True Cross occupy a central position in the devotional, artistic and ...
Stefania Martiniello, Stefano Legnaioli, Simona Raneri   +2 more
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Excavating the Archive / Archiving the Excavation: Archival Processes and Contexts in Archaeology

Advances in Archaeological Practice, 2022
ABSTRACTThis article focuses on the production of archaeological knowledge within the fieldwork archive. Archaeological archives do not always reflect the reality of evidence uncovered during fieldwork processes or even the fieldwork processes themselves.
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