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ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT ISSUES CONCERNING ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES: COST ANALYSIS, STUDY OF TOURIST FLOWS AND SUSTAINABILITY PERSPECTIVES FOR THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK OF POMPEII

Valori e Valutazioni
The efficient allocation of the resources available to an archaeological park is particularly important in relation to excavation, restoration and conservation activities.
Gabriel Zuchtriegel, Luigi Petti, Antonio Nesticò, Gabriella Maselli, Vincenzo Calvanese, Anna Onesti, Arianna Spinosa   +6 more
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Typology, technology, composition and context of Muisca metalwork (Colombia, AD 600-1800): a database

Journal of Open Archaeology Data, 2012
This database presents a compilation of previously published and unpublished data on the chemical composition of over 200 Pre-Columbian gold and gold-alloy artefacts recovered in the archaeological region inhabited by the Muisca of Colombia (AD 600-1800),
Maria Alicia Uribe Villegas, Marcos Martinon-Torres   +1 more
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On ‘Organized Crime’ in the illicit antiquities trade: moving beyond the definitional debate [PDF]

, 2013
The extent to which ‘organized crime’ is involved in illicit antiquities trafficking is unknown and frequently debated. This paper explores the significance and scale of the illicit antiquities trade as a unique transnational criminal phenomenon that is ...
AV Orlova, B Bowman, C Alder, C Alder, C Renfrew, C Schetter, D Chappell, D Gill, E Tijhuis, FE Hagan, J Robinson, Jessica Dietzler, JO Finckenauer, K Lampe Von, L Paoli, M Felson, N Brodie, N Brodie, N Brodie, N Brodie, N Charney, S Mackenzie, S Mackenzie, UN, UNESCO   +24 more
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The long and winding road

Documenta Praehistorica
In this paper we address the biography of a set of copper nails recovered in 1998 from a Late Iron Age structure located at the archaeological site of Puig de Sa Morisca (Mallorca, Spain).
Laura Perelló Mateo, Bartomeu Llull Estarellas, Daniel Albero Santacreu, Jaume García Rosselló, Manuel Calvo Trias   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Single-Grain Quartz OSL Characteristics: Testing for Correlations within and between Sites in Asia, Europe and Africa

Methods and Protocols, 2019
We studied the characteristics of the optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) signal of single-grain quartz from three sites in China, Italy, and Libya, including the brightness, decay curve and dose response curve (DRC) shapes, recuperation, and ...
Yue Hu, Bo Li, Zenobia Jacobs
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Making Place for a Viking Fortress. An archaeological and geophysical reassessment of Aggersborg, Denmark

Internet Archaeology, 2014
This article revisits the archaeology of the Viking-age settlement and ring fortress at Aggersborg, Denmark, based on a large-scale geophysical survey using magnetic gradiometry and ground-penetrating radar, as well as legacy excavation data.
Hannah Brown, Helen Goodchild, Søren M. Sindbæk   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Steps towards operationalizing an evolutionary archaeological definition of culture [PDF]

, 2011
This paper will examine the definition of archaeological cultures/techno-complexes from an evolutionary perspective, in which culture is defined as a system of social information transmission.
Riede, F
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Inter‐microscope comparability of dental microwear texture data obtained from different optical profilometers: Part I Reproducibility of diet inference using different instruments

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA) has become a well‐established method for dietary inference and reconstruction in both extant and extinct mammals and other tetrapods. As the volume of available data continues to grow, researchers could benefit from combining published data from various studies to perform meta‐analyses.
Daniela E. Winkler, Mugino O. Kubo
wiley   +1 more source

Metaphor and Materiality in Early Prehistory [PDF]

, 2010
In this paper we argue for a relational perspective based on metaphorical rather than semiotic understandings of human and hominin1 material culture. The corporeality of material culture and thus its role as solid metaphors for a shared experience of ...
Coward, Fiona, Gamble, C.
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Ontogenetic changes and sexual dimorphism in the cranium and mandible of the Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus L.)

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Walruses have been an important subsistence and cultural resource for humans and have been exploited for millennia across their distribution. This exploitation has contributed to severe declines in several populations and local extirpations.
Katrien Dierickx, Oliver Kersten, Youri van den Hurk, Brenna A. Frasier, Richard Sabin, Bastiaan Star, James H. Barrett   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source