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Thermal‐Infrared Measurements of the North‐East Tower at Ardrossan Castle
Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Thermal‐infrared imaging of buildings is used to investigate a range of phenomena including the accumulation of moisture. In general, the presence of moisture poses a direct danger to historic structures and must be characterized prior to any intervention.
Michael Bowry +15 more
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Kuwaiti Youth Attitudes toward Archaeology
Internet Archaeology, 2018 This study assesses the level of knowledge, interest, and awareness of archaeology among Kuwaiti youth in keeping with the social learning theory (Bandura 1977), which emphasises the social context in which learning takes place.
Majed Almutairi
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M74 public archaeology programme evaluation report [PDF]
, 2009 Report on public engagement activities with the M74 Public Archaeology Project, a partnership project between Transport Scotland, Glasgow City Council, South Lanarkshire Council and Renfrewshire Council in connection with the M74 Motorway Completion ...
Morton, Diana, Walker, David
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Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Airborne laser scanning (ALS, lidar) has become a key method for studying ancient Maya landscapes, offering unprecedented visibility of anthropogenic terrain modifications in densely forested environments. Despite this progress, the visualization of elevation data remains understandardized, with many researchers relying on ad hoc or ...
Žiga Kokalj
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Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 2001 The two editors argue in their preface to the volume that the particular sociopolitical context of Latin America has led to a regionalism not seen in North America or Europe, resulting in a unique variety of archaeology.
David L. Browman
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Pseudo-archaeology: The Appropriation and Commercialization of Cultural Heritage [PDF]
, 2013 Heritage can be defined as the use of the past to construct ideas about identity in the present. The past that this definition references is most commonly linked to tangible objects, and therefore archaeological artifacts.
Bassett, Alecia
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Pre‐Excavation Identification and Dating of Iron Age Destruction Events
Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.ABSTRACT To maximize extracted data while minimizing excavated areas, archaeologists increasingly use archaeological surveys, geophysical surveys and remote sensing to gain comprehensive regional pictures and decide if and where to excavate. The goal of this effort is to leave sufficient unexcavated areas for future generations and save time and ...
Yoav Vaknin +5 more
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Archaeology of Us and the Local Identity. An Interdisciplinary Context
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Archaeologica, 2019 In this paper, the Author presents the semantic and methodological scope and characteristics of a new field the archaeology of the contemporary past.
Olgierd Ławrynowicz
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WIGGOLD: The archaeology of a 'lofty open country'. Project Design: Phase 1 (2007) [PDF]
WIGGOLD: The archaeology of a lofty open country is a research project jointly conceived and run by Bournemouth University School of Conservation Sciences,Cotswold Archaeology,and Abbey Home Farm (Cirencester) to promote a greater understanding of the ...
Darvill, Timothy
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A quantitative history of Japanese archaeology and natural science [PDF]
, 2018 This study examines the relationship between Japanese archaeology and natural science through a quantitative analysis of the two most authoritative archaeological journals and two other relevant journals in Japan.
Nakao, Hisashi
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