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The paper introduces a recently commenced five-year research project on the history of Pacific archaeology, the Collective Biography of Archaeology in the Pacific (CBAP) Project.
Matthew Spriggs
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Scanning Parametric Sediment Echosounder as Tool for Underwater Archaeological Prospection
ABSTRACT Underwater cultural heritage 3D prospection techniques, especially for remains that are partly buried in the ground, are only very rarely available and often can only be applied with considerable technical effort. To overcome this limitation, we evaluate a methodological adaption of widely used and available single channel parametric sediment ...
Dennis Wilken +5 more
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Everyday Reorientation: Critical Cartographic Praxis in Non-Specialist Archaeological Maps
Maps are an indispensable tool of archaeological practice. However, in spite of their centrality to the discipline, critical reflections on what maps are, what they do, and how we use them have been largely absent from discourse among the many non ...
Kratimenos Panos
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The Community of Practice: An Essential and Elegant Framework for Archaeological Interpretation
Archaeologists deploy a variety of models and theories, often tailored to specific questions or situations, in making sense of the material record we study.
Randall Souza
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ABSTRACT This document is a report on the field application of non‐invasive geophysical and robotic prospecting methods at the submerged Neolithic site of La Marmotta (Lake Bracciano, Italy), within the LAHKE (LAke Heritage Knowledge and Exploration) project; the study focuses on the practical validation, adaptation and transfer of existing ...
dell' Erba Ramiro +4 more
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ABSTRACT The Coëby Neolithic cemetery, located in the commune of Trédion (Morbihan, France) and discovered in 1986, has been for several years the subject of a research programme focused on studying the various megalithic structures present. The spatial distribution of these remains highlights an unusual occupation of the territory, organized according
Philippe Gouézin, Vivien Mathé
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The study of prehistoric religion is shrouded in difficulties inherent to any disclipline dealing with the expression of concepts prior to the invention of writing.
David Warburton
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ABSTRACT The Roman city of Doclea is a key archaeological site of Montenegro, valued for its impressive remains and its role in the nation's cultural identity within European and the Mediterranean history. Doclea was the second‐largest city in the province of Roman Dalmatia, a municipium created in the first century ad and named after the Illyrian ...
Tatjana Koprivica +5 more
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Abstract Many theories of human information behavior (HIB) assume that information objects are in text document format. This paper argues four important HIB theories are insufficient for describing users' search strategies for data because of assumptions about the attributes of objects that users seek.
Anthony J. Million +3 more
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Navigating Dichotomies and Labels: Identifying and Interpreting Ritual Artefacts in Prehistory
Ritual artefacts are reported in most archaeological excavations from the Epipalaeolithic period of the Levant onwards. However, the topic of ritual remains a contentious issue in archaeology, especially regarding what it means for an artefact to be ...
Milena Gošić
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