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A perfect storm: An archaeological management crisis in the Mississippi River Delta [PDF]
, 2020 Engineered projects resulting in unintended consequences, coastal erosion, subsidence, and sea-level rise are rapidly destroying archaeological sites in the Mississippi River Delta (MRD).
Britt, Tad +4 more
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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 +6 more
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Horses, Fish and Humans: Interspecies Relationships in the Nordic Bronze Age
Current Swedish Archaeology, 2020 In this article, we identify and discuss Nordic Bronze Age interspecies relationships through a relational approach that is open to ontologies that differ from our own. Drawing on bronze objects, faunal remains and rock art recovered from a multitude of
Jacob Kveiborg +2 more
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Multi-faceted analysis reveals the characteristics of silk fabrics on a Liao Dynasty DieXie belt
Heritage Science, 2023 The Liao Dynasty’s highly developed textile industry was characterized as “the best in the world” in ancient Chinese literature. This study analyzed two textiles on a 蹀躞 (DieXie) belt excavated from the No.1 Liao Dynasty noble tomb of Zhangjiayao Forest (
Ruochen Ge +9 more
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Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper reports on the excavation of a cache of stone artefacts, buried on the bank of a waterhole or ‘billabong’ in central western Queensland. This is an extremely rare find, and yet it is the second such site to be reported within less than a 10 km radius.
Yinika L. Perston +5 more
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Journal of Liberty and International Affairs, 2022 Conserving cultural heritage and archaeological sites have become a serious national concern in the Middle East for the war-affected countries, including Iraq and Syria.
Rukhsar Ahmad
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Does archaeology deliver evidence about the past or co-create contemporary values?
Ars & Humanitas, 2023 The paper focuses on heritage value systems, particularly investigating the archaeological understanding of heritage values and evaluation. The literature review shows that the postmodern archaeological paradigm predominantly covers the topic, while the
Jelka Pirkovič
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Pseudo-archaeology: The Appropriation and Commercialization of Cultural Heritage [PDF]
, 2013 Heritage can be defined as the use of the past to construct ideas about identity in the present. The past that this definition references is most commonly linked to tangible objects, and therefore archaeological artifacts.
Bassett, Alecia
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Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Saruq al‐Hadid, located at the edge of the Rub Al‐Khali desert near Dubai's southern border with Abu Dhabi, is among the region's richest archaeological sites. Renowned for its historical role in metallurgy, trade and human habitation, the site was occupied from the Umm an‐Nar period through the post–Iron Age. Despite its significance, much of
Moamen Ali +9 more
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Remote Sensing, 2018 Despite the recognized effectiveness of LiDAR in penetrating forest canopies, its capability for archaeological prospection can be strongly limited in areas covered by dense vegetation for the detection of subtle remains scattered over morphologically ...
Nicola Masini +8 more
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