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Post-conflict ethics, archaeology and archaeological heritage: a call for discussion [PDF]
Ethics are fundamentally important to all forms of archaeological theory and practice and are embedded within many professional codes of conduct. The ethics of archaeological engagement with conflicts around the world have also been subject to scrutiny ...
Newson, Paul, Ruth Young, Ruth L.
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Evolution and Material Culture
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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Landscape Archaeology in the Wādī al-ʿArab Region
As an integral part of the Gadara-Region-Project, a survey of the Wādī al-‘Arab region was conducted during the years 2009-2012, by the Biblical-Archaeological Institute Wuppertal and the German Protestant Institute for Archaeology in order to achieve a ...
Soennecken Katja +3 more
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Pottery Production in Egypt: the chaîne opératoire as a Heuristic Tool
The main steps in the production of pottery are well known and are often similar across much of the world. However, the loci of production where such steps took place, namely the workshops/workspaces, have traditionally attracted less attention from ...
Paul Nicholson
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The present article focuses on the activity of the Hungarian archaeologist István Ferenczi (1921-2000) in the field of Roman frontier studies. On the occasion of his 100th birthday, we consider it more than necessary to review his enormous pioneering ...
Cociș, Horațiu
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Archaeology, Evolution and Darwinism
This paper presents a short history of the influence evolutionary thinking has had on anthropology and archaeology. The focus is on four major "schools" in evolutionist thought: the classical evolutionism of the 19th century, Neo-evolutionism, social ...
Aleksandar Palavestra, Marko Porčić
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EATING FOOD, EATING ANIMALS. THEORETICAL CONCEPTUALIZATIONS TOWARDS A ZOOARCHAEOLOGY OF FOOD
This paper seeks to insert zooarchaeological analyzes within the field of study of the Archaeology of food. To do this, I will focus on a theoretical approach to the multidimensional nature of food.
Jesica Carreras
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Archaeological narratives in ethnicity studies
In order to study ethnicity through Archaeology, the first challenge is to fully understand what that form of identity is and how it works. In recent years scholars have started to overcome the ‘introduction to ethnicity’ syndrome —whereby recent ...
Guillermo Reher +1 more
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In 1995, Anick Coudart and Laurent Olivier explained the French reception of postmodernism in archaeology based on the idea that scientific practices are determined by national mentalities.
Sébastien Plutniak
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After Interpretation: Remembering Archaeology
In the light of some significant anniversaries, this pa- per discusses the fate of archaeological theory after the heyday of postprocessualism. While once considered a radical and revolutionary alternative, post- processual or interpretative archaeology
Bjørnar Olsen
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