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Decolonization in Archaeological Theory

Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, 2020
Decolonizing approaches in archaeology emerged as a means to counter the dominance of colonial ideologies and improve the accuracy of Indigenous representations.
M. Bruchac
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Theory adrift: The matter of archaeological theorizing

Journal of Social Archaeology, 2018
At a possible transition towards a ‘flat’, post-human or new-materialist environment, many have suggested that archaeological theory and theorizing is changing course; turning to metaphysics; leaning towards the sciences; or, even is declared dead ...
þóra Pétursdóttir, Bjørnar Olsen
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Are We There Yet? A Review and Assessment of Archaeological Passive Airborne Optical Imaging Approaches in the Light of Landscape Archaeology

Geosciences, 2017
Archaeologists often rely on passive airborne optical remote sensing to deliver some of the core data for (European) landscape archaeology projects.
Geert J. Verhoeven
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Geographic Information Systems in Archaeology: A Systematic Review

Journal 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, Mohammed Al-Rawi, João Fonte, Rita Dias, Luis Jorge Gonçalves, Luis Gonçalves Seco, João Hipólito, José Pedro Machado, Jorge Medina, José Moreira, Tiago do Pereiro, Marta Vázquez, António Neves   +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

Історія 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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‘Archaeology is but Ethnology in the past tense’. Theoretical Proofs and Intellectual Technologies in André Leroi-Gourhan’s Archived 'Archéologie du Pacifique-Nord', 1946

Bulletin 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

Journal 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

Current 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

Bulletin 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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Evolution and Material Culture

Current Swedish Archaeology, 2009
In this paper the authors argue that the renewed interest in cultural evolution in archaeology may have a fundamental effect on the taxonomies employed and the role of archaeology as a discipline.
Jan Apel, Kim Darmark
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