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Digital mapping for archaeological heritage

open access: yesSCIRES-IT - SCIentific RESearch and Information Technology, 2016
This essay intends to show the results of a research about Phlegraean Fields, a large zone which extends to the west of the city of Naples, very important from an historical, archaeological and landscape point of view. Surveying and representation methods have been experimented which can read and effectively represent the complexity of areas ...
CATUOGNO, RAFFAELE, DI LUGGO, ANTONELLA
openaire   +3 more sources

The Layout and Size of an Early Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B Small Settlement Revealed by Geophysical Prospection at Harbetsuvan Tepesi in Southeastern Anatolia

open access: yesArchaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Upper Mesopotamia, the transition from the Pre‐Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) to Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) period, ca. 10 800–10 600 cal. BP, is marked by a series of changes in chipped stone industries, architectural forms, symbolic objects, regional distribution of settlements and long‐distance exchange networks among others.
Toshihiro Tada   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Africa, Archaeology, and World Heritage

open access: yesConservation and Management of Archaeological Sites, 2011
In this paper we discuss the initiative of the ICOMOS International Committee for Archaeological Heritage Management (ICAHM) to contribute to the UNESCO strategy to create a more representative and balanced World Heritage List. This can be done by concentrating on archaeological sites in Africa that potentially have Outstanding Universal Value.
Willems, W.J.H., Comer, D.
openaire   +3 more sources

New observations on the stratigraphy and radiocarbon dates at the Cross Creek site, Opito, Coromandel Peninsula [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper re-examines stratigraphy and radiocarbon dates at Cross Creek in Sarah's Gully. Three new radiocarbon dates are presented for Layer 9, the earliest, and previously undated, occupation.
Furey, Louise   +3 more
core   +1 more source

A Geomorphometric Approach to Estimate the Deterioration of Earthen Archaeological Sites by Rainfall and Diffusion Processes: The Huaca Chornancap (Eighth–14th Century ad), Lambayeque, Peru

open access: yesArchaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rain‐induced erosion processes can severely damage Earthen archaeological sites. Huaca Chornancap (HCH; eighth–14th century ad) is a platform located in the Lambayeque region (Peru) exposed to seasonal rain due to El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO).
Luigi Magnini   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The long and winding road

open access: yesDocumenta 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   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Students Meet Cultural Heritage: An Experience within the Framework of the Italian School-Work Alternation (SWA)—From Outcomes to Outlooks

open access: yesHeritage, 2019
Cultural heritage is the creative expression of a people’s presence in the past. It represents a driving force to create, develop, and consolidate the sense of identity, belonging, and citizenship, as well as a means to appreciate the diversity of ...
Fabrizio Terenzio Gizzi   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Archaeological and ethnographic survey in the Paikuli Area (Iraqi Kurdistan) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The Italian Archaeological Mission in Iraqi Kurdistan (MAIKI) of the Sapienza University of Rome aims to study the archaeological, historical, linguistic and cultural development of the Kurdish region through a wide historical period.
BOGDANI, JULIAN   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Coherence‐Gated Wrapped‐Phase InSAR With Matrix‐Based Uncertainty Diagnostics for Burial‐Mound Hotspot Ranking (Sicily, Italy)

open access: yesArchaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Burial mounds are key elements of Mediterranean funerary landscapes, but in intensively cultivated coastal plains their low‐relief expression is easily obscured by ploughing, levelling and rapidly changing surface conditions, making single‐date observations unreliable.
Salvatore Polverino   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From respect to reburial: negotiating pagan interest in prehistoric human remains in Britain, through the Avebury consultation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The recent Avebury Consultation on reburial has drawn considerable public and professional attention to the issue of pagan calls for respect towards the care of human remains.
Blain J.   +11 more
core   +1 more source

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