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Decolonization in Archaeological Theory

open access: yesEncyclopedia of Global Archaeology, 2014
Decolonizing approaches in archaeology emerged as a means to counter the dominance of colonial ideologies and improve the accuracy of Indigenous representations. Historically, the routines of mainstream archaeological practices have been shaped by Western (primarily elite Euro-American) beliefs and categories.
M. Bruchac
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‘Archaeology is but Ethnology in the past tense’. Theoretical Proofs and Intellectual Technologies in André Leroi-Gourhan’s Archived 'Archéologie du Pacifique-Nord', 1946

open access: yesBulletin of the History of Archaeology, 2023
The brief foray proposed here into the archives of French ethnologist, technologist and prehistorian André Leroi-Gourhan (1911–1986) focusses on the proof-correcting process of the very last page of his doctoral thesis, published in 1946.
Nathan Schlanger
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Theoretical Repositioning of Automated Remote Sensing Archaeology: Shifting from Features to Ephemeral Landscapes

open access: yesJournal of Computer Applications in Archaeology, 2021
Automated remote sensing has made substantial breakthroughs for archaeological investigation. Over the past 20 years, the reliability of these methods has vastly improved, and the total number of practitioners has been increasing.
Dylan Davis
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Going from Analogue to Digital: A Study of Documentation Methods during an Excavation of the Neolithic Flint Mines at Pilbladet, Sweden

open access: yesCurrent Swedish Archaeology, 2021
The ‘digital turn’ in archaeology has resulted in documentation, analysis, visualization and repository requirements becoming increasingly digital in recent years.
Åsa Ottosson Berggren, Anders Gutehall
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Rewriting the Past for the Changing Present: The Need for New and Pluriversal Histories of Archaeology

open access: yesBulletin of the History of Archaeology, 2023
Since the publication of the second edition of Bruce G. Trigger’s A History of Archaeological Thought in 2006, scholars have produced a negligible number of histories of archaeology.
Oscar Moro Abadía
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Retranslating Resilience Theory in Archaeology [PDF]

open access: yesAnnual Review of Anthropology, 2022
The environmental crisis is rendering increasingly large areas of the planet inhospitable. As it reaches a tipping point, global warming is initiating cascades of ecological transformation, mass extinction, and irreversible damage—all of them increasingly beyond human control. To mitigate this situation, we need intellectual tools that can call on both
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Geographic Information Systems in Archaeology: A Systematic Review

open access: yesJournal of Computer Applications in Archaeology, 2023
GIS are an essential element in archaeology. Their use has become widespread for their potential to store, reference, analyse and visualise spatial information.
Fernando Menéndez-Marsh   +12 more
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The beginning of the soviet theoretical archaeology: theoretical studies at the Institute of archaeology AS UkrSSR in the 1960s

open access: yesІсторія науки і техніки, 2021
The article is dedicated to an exploration of archaeological theory issues at the Institute of archaeology AS UkrSSR in the 1960s. This period is one of the worst studied in the history of Soviet archaeology.
Сергей Палиенко
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The Triviality of the New Innovation and Impact in Archaeology and Beyond

open access: yesCurrent Swedish Archaeology, 2018
What drives archaeology? Is it new empirical discoveries, new methods or new theory? These factors combined are the fuel of the discipline, is the obvious answer. However, debates and research articles frequently reveal how a perceived need for novelty,
Tim Flohr Sørensen
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A VIEW OF VINČA FROM CAMBRIDGE: MINNS’ REVIEWS OF THE 1930s PUBLICATIONS BY VASIĆ

open access: yesИстраживања, 2016
The article provides close readings of a series of book reviews of Vasić’s Vinča publications in the journal MAN of the Royal Anthropological Institute in Britain written in the 1930s by Russian and Eastern European studies expert and Cambridge-based ...
DUŠAN BORIĆ
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