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Containing Histories Past and Present: Making Samples in the “Huntington Collection” (1893–1921)
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Huntington Anatomical Collection (1893–1921) includes the skeletal remains of immigrants, migrants, and lifelong New York City residents. The collection's formation was coeval with the formalization of physical anthropology, and the collection was made to serve research aims centered on race and origin.
Alanna L. Warner‐Smith
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Aspects of the Romano-British landscape around holme on Spalding moor, east Yorkshire [PDF]
, 1987 An examination was undertaken of the nature and extent of Romano-British settlement and industry in the context of the landscape around Holme on Spalding Moor.
Halkon, Alfred Peter Machin
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Participarea studenților la cercetările arheologice de la cetatea Soroca. Campania 2015
Plural: History, Culture, Society, 2015 Student participation in archaeological excavations in the city of Soroca.
Sergiu Musteata, Ion Tentiuc, Ion Ursu
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Археология евразийских степейThe article presents the results of an analysis of materials from excavations of some reference archaeological complexes of the Golden Horde city of Solkhat.
Emil I. Seidaliev
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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
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Archaeological mitigation at the Diamond Jubilee Fountain, Halifax Public Gardens [PDF]
, 2014 Lacking Appendix B – Artifact TableIn June 2014 the Halifax Regional Municipality retained Northeast Archaeological Research to monitor mechanical excavations in the Halifax Public Gardens associated with the installation of four rose arbours at the ...
Fowler, Jonathan, 1972- +1 more
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.Abstract Focusing on Southern Europe, this article sheds light on the mining landscape of the early Middle Ages. Based on the current state of historical and archaeological knowledge, the article raises a number of questions that can be extended to other European regions.
Nicolas Minvielle Larousse
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Jebel Moya (Sudan): new dates from a mortuary complex at the southern Meroitic frontier
, 2013 This paper proposes a new chronology for the burial complex at Jebel Moya, south-central Sudan. It reassesses the body of evidence from Sir Henry Wellcome's original 1911–1914 excavations in order to place the site within a firm chronological framework ...
Schwenniger, J-L, Brass, M
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.Abstract Soils that contain swelling clay minerals (e.g., montmorillonite) expand and contract during wetting and drying, causing movement within the soil profile. This process, known as argilliturbation, can alter artefact distributions, destroy stratigraphy and complicate the interpretation of archaeological deposits.
Caroline Mather +11 more
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Missing, Presumed Buried? Bone Diagenesis and the Under-Representation of Anglo-Saxon Children
, 2000 YesSam Lucy (1994: 26) has stated that a `recognised feature of pre-Christian early medieval cemeteries in eastern England is the smaller number of younger burials recovered¿. Although taphonomic factors such as the increased rate of decay of the remains
Buckberry, Jo
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