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THE POTENTIAL OF ARCHIVES IN INFORMAL PLACEMAKING OF FORMER MENTAL ASYLUMS: Insights from Pionta Commoning Archival Practices Toward a Living Urban Archive

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores various forms of archives—such as institutions, collections, records and cities—as urban commons. It highlights the importance of community and institutional collaboration in curating archives to promote learning, discovery and well‐being through grassroots initiatives, transforming archives and their urban settings into ...
Gozde Yildiz, Francesca Bianchi
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Assessing vicarious trauma and attitudes toward mental health services for forensic sciences professionals

Journal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Research indicates that forensic science professionals operate under significant pressure, the magnitude of which varies depending on their field, workload, case type, tenure, and the evidentiary significance of their testimony in court. This study conducted a needs analysis of forensic science professionals by examining their psychological ...
Kathryn C. Seigfried‐Spellar, Sonali Tyagi   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Archaeological approaches to plastics and plastic pollution: A critical overview

Cambridge Prisms: Plastics
In this overview, we examine some of the ways in which archaeologists have increasingly turned their attention to the contemporary world, focusing not on ancient artefacts but on the material legacies that we ourselves are creating and what they tell us ...
Estelle Praet, John Schofield, Raveena M. Tamoria   +2 more
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Assemblage, archive, and ancestor: Developing more‐than‐human historical geography with salmon

Geographical Research, EarlyView.
This paper interrogates recent geographic literature on the more‐than‐human archive and argues that there needs to be more specificity when conceptualising and researching the more‐than‐human. It then answers this call for specificity by theorising three modes of more‐than‐human historical geography that are developed through empirical encounters with ...
Austin Read
wiley   +1 more source

Non-utilitarian context of the burnt flint artifacts from the Bronze Age settlements in the Seversky Donets River region

Tyragetia, 2017
This brief overview discusses the burnt flint found at the Bronze Age settlements located in the middle flow of the Seversky Donets River region. The objects came from the settlements’ layers associated with various archaeological cultures and periods ...
Alexandr Kolesnik
doaj  

Computer Simulation of Multidimensional Archaeological Artefacts

Virtual Archaeology Review, 2013
The main purpose of this ongoing research is to understand possible function(s) of archaeological artefacts through Reverse Engineering processes. In addition, we intend to provide new data, as well as possible explications of the archaeological record ...
Vera Moitinho de Almeida, Juan Anton Barceló   +1 more
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Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-38, March 2025.
Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
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Reframing the Chipped Edge: Combining Materiality, Ontology, and Embodiment to Rethink Stone Tool‐Making and Human Conscious Behavior in the Paleolithic Past

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Combining different theoretical frameworks can lead to new insights into the role of material things in shaping human experience in the Paleolithic period. This paper first presents a historical review of three theoretical approaches in archaeology, anthropology, and the philosophy of mind: Material culture and materiality studies, the ...
Bar Efrati
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The First Step towards FAIR-ness in Bulgarian Archaeology: the Archaeological Map of Bulgaria in ARIADNE and ARIADNEplus

Internet Archaeology
This article provides an overview of the participation of the National Archaeological Institute with Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (NAIM-BAS) as a partner in both the ARIADNE and ARIADNEplus projects and the SEADDA COST Action.
Nadezhda Kecheva
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Picturing the Meaning of Scandinavian Rock Art – Graphic Representations, Archaeological Interpretations and Material Alterations

Current Swedish Archaeology, 2016
The paper presents a reflective overview of the recursive relation between the archaeological practice of picturing Scandinavian rock art in printed works since the mid-19th century, and how archaeologists have constructed its meaning.
Magnus Ljunge
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