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Zaproszenie do teorii aktora-sieci – ontologia relacyjna a archeologia

open access: yesPrzegląd Archeologiczny, 2022
Actor-Network Theory and the related ontological turn is one of the most important paradigmatic changes in contemporary social sciences. In Polish archaeological discourse Actor-Network Theory is not widely discussed.
Jakub Mugaj
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Households without Houses : Mobility and Moorings on the Eurasian Steppe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The research that provided the basis for this paper was carried out in collaboration with the Institutes of History and Archaeology of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences and would not have been possible without my colleagues Chunag Amartuvshin, William ...
Wright, Joshua
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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
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Archaeology, Evolution and Darwinism

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2008
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
doaj   +1 more source

Interpretation at the controller's edge: designing graphical user interfaces for the digital publication of the excavations at Gabii (Italy) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper discusses the authors’ approach to designing an interface for the Gabii Project’s digital volumes that attempts to fuse elements of traditional synthetic publications and site reports with rich digital datasets.
Johnson, Tyler D., Opitz, Rachel S.
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Space Matters: A Reflection on Archaeological Theory and Method for Interpreting the Materiality of Space

open access: yes, 2016
Every paradigm in the history of archaeological theory has in some way dealt with space in interpreting the archaeological record; either bringing it into the spotlight or using it to assist description of other observed phenomena. This has resulted in a
Monika Baumanova
semanticscholar   +1 more source

What makes a market in preindustrial societies? A comparative, spectrum-based analysis of Byzantium and the prehispanic Andes

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Dynamics
This article reconsiders the nature of marketplace exchange in premodern economies by comparing two distinct cases: the monetized system of the Byzantine Empire and the exchange networks of the prehispanic central Andes.
Katerina Ragkou, Christian Mader
doaj   +1 more source

EATING FOOD, EATING ANIMALS. THEORETICAL CONCEPTUALIZATIONS TOWARDS A ZOOARCHAEOLOGY OF FOOD

open access: yesLa Zaranda de Ideas, 2021
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
doaj  

Archaeological narratives in ethnicity studies

open access: yesArcheologické Rozhledy, 2015
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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Use, Purpose, and Function—Letting the Artifacts Speak

open access: yesHeritage, 2020
Archaeologists have likely collected, as a conservative estimate, billions of artifacts over the course of the history of fieldwork. We have classified chronologies and typologies of these, based on various formal and physical characteristics or ethno ...
Jennifer A. Loughmiller-Cardinal   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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