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Reflections on the archaeology of archaeological excavation

Archaeological Dialogues, 2011
AbstractThe 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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LEVER AS A COLLECTOR OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND AS A SPONSOR OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS

Journal of the History of Collections, 1992
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Excavation: the Role of Archaeology

Industrial Archaeology Review, 1992
Abstract 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, 1946
When 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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Virtual recovery of excavated archaeological finds

Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems (Cat. No.98TB100241), 2002
This 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, Zhong Li Zhang, Norihiro Abe   +2 more
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Why excavate? Triaging the excavation of archaeological sites

Archaeological Dialogues, 2011
The 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mentioned at the round table and in the papers – too many sites, too few resources, too large a backlog of unpublished sites, or saving sites for future techniques.
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Archaeology and excavations in difficult contexts

2023
Archaeology and excavation in difficult contexts are the subject of this 16th volume of Archéo.doct, which stems from and completes the exchanges held during the 16th doctoral day of ED 112 at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in 2021. The twenty articles deal with archaeological excavation (preventive and programmed) in the face of natural ...
de Andreis, Sonia, Guillaume, Gwendoline, Salviani, Clément, Taïeb, Juliette   +3 more
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Skulls and Skeletons from Documented, Overseas and Archaeological Excavations: Portuguese Trajectories

, 2018
A. L. Santos
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Balloon Photography and Archaeological Excavation

Antiquity, 1932
It is a great help to the understanding of a piece of country, a town or a building to get to some high point in the vicinity and look down upon it, and the more nearly vertical one's point of view the more accurate is one's impression. In the ‘nineties, as a boy, I used to spend hours at the top of the spire of Rouen Cathedral gazing down upon the ...
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The Directing of Archaeological Excavations

The South African Archaeological Bulletin, 1972
Roger Summers, John Alexander
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