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Archaeology of NIDDM. Excavation of the "thrifty" genotype
Diabetes, 1991Since the 1940s, numerous cases of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) have been observed in certain American Indian populations. Extremely high prevalence rates of NIDDM occur most strikingly in several tribes of Paleo-Indians, whose ancestors migrated to North America >11,000 yr ago.
M, Wendorf, I D, Goldfine
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Archaeology Excavation Simulation
Journal of Museum Education, 2012AbstractMuseums offering archaeological programs often attempt to use the “sandbox approach” to simulate archaeological excavation work. However, in light of the definition of simulation, and given the realities of actual professional practice in archaeological excavation, the author argues that the activity of troweling for artifacts in loose sand ...
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Reflections on the archaeology of archaeological excavation
Archaeological Dialogues, 2011AbstractThe present study adopts a reflexive, critical stance in examining the premises underlying the conference session and, by extension, those underlying archaeology as a discipline. The role played by excavation in archaeology both today and historically underlines a wide variety of and changing perceptions about the goals and even the definition ...
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Medieval Archaeology and Excavations
2022Through the study of material culture, archaeology can provide fundamental insights for reconstructing the past. In the last twenty years, the discipline has developed theoretical approaches focusing on materiality and unique applications of quantitative and computational methodologies. As Giorgio Buccellati has suggested, archaeology can be considered
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Excavation: the Role of Archaeology
Industrial Archaeology Review, 1992Abstract The author, a professional archaeologist, describes some techniques of late twentieth century archaeological excavation on industrial sites, drawing on his own experience on mining and metallurgical sites; it is hoped that the conclusions will be more widely applicable.
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Archaeological Excavations in Chiapas
American Antiquity, 1946When the Spaniards conquered the central portion of the Mexican state of Chiapas in 1524 they found it occupied by the so called Chiapanecs, a brave tribe which the Aztecs never permanently subdued, but who on the contrary, succeeded in seriously disturbing commerce between the Aztec metropolis and their most southern provinces.Both the origin and the ...
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Archaeological excavations at Mungo
Archaeology in Oceania, 1998AbstractThis is a report on the uncompleted programme of field surveys and excavations of two large trenches, carried out by the author at Mungo between 1974 and 1980. The objective was to substantiate and develop the discoveries of 1969. Influences on the research design and methods, and a short history of ideas in Archaeology and their impact during ...
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Virtual recovery of excavated archaeological finds
Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems (Cat. No.98TB100241), 2002This work aims at a virtual recovery of excavated archaeological finds in cyberspace for ancient relic preservation, archaeology research, and multimedia material generation. Many excavated pottery artifacts have already suffered from a certain degree of damage when they are discovered.
Jiang Yu Zheng +2 more
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Why excavate? Triaging the excavation of archaeological sites
Archaeological Dialogues, 2011The issue is not ‘why excavate?’, nor is it whether or not to excavate sites. Nor is it the numerous ancillary considerations mentioned at the round table and in the papers – too many sites, too few resources, too large a backlog of unpublished sites, or saving sites for future techniques.
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