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'That Darned Sandstorm': A Study of Procedural Generation through Archaeological Storytelling [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Procedural content generation has been applied to many domains, especially level design, but the narrative affordances of generated game environments are comparatively understudied. In this paper we present our first attempt to study these effects through the lens of what we call a generative archaeology game that prompts the player to archaeologically
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Snake and Moon ‘Right Way Marriage’ Stories on Stone and Bark
Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In northwest Australia, boab trees hold significant cultural values for First Nations people. Their leaves, bark, roots and nuts are important as traditional resources for food, medicine, fibre, water and shade and serve as reference points in the landscape. Some of the tree trunks are inscribed with images and symbols which tell of events and
Jane Balme +7 more
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Mind: An Archaeological Perspective [PDF]
In R. A. Bentley, H. D. G. Maschner, & C. Chippendale (Eds.),
Handbook of theories and methods in archaeology (pp. 283-296). Walnut Creek,
CA: Altamira Press.(2008), 2013 What can relics of the past tell us about the thoughts and beliefs of the people who invented and used them? Recent collaborations at the frontier of archaeology, anthropology, and cognitive science are culminating in speculative but nevertheless increasingly sophisticated efforts to unravel how modern human cognition came about. By considering objects
arxiv
The Dark Souls of Archaeology: Recording Elden Ring [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Archaeology can be broadly defined as the study and interpretation of the past through material remains. Videogame worlds, though immaterial in nature, can also afford opportunities to study the people who existed within them based on what they leave behind.
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Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper outlines preliminary results from our multimethod research about Culturally Modified Trees (CMTs) and associated bark and wooden material culture in Yagara Country in southeast Queensland. Methods employed include historical source and modern database analysis, archaeological field surveys, semi‐structured interviews with Yagara ...
Kate Greenwood +3 more
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The Historiography of Archaeology and Canon Greenwell
Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 2005 In this paper I will focus the bulk of my remarks on setting studies of Canon Greenwell in two broader contexts. The first of these comprises the general issues raised by research into the historiography of archaeology, which I ...
Tim Murray
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What may be learnt about the archaeology of islands from archaeologically derived models of the exploration of Polynesia, 1966-2001? [PDF]
, 2008 Polynesian archaeology is one regional specialization in the world-wide practice of archaeological investigations of islands, oceans and seas. It is timely to consider how Polynesian archaeology fits within that newly-articulated framework of theoretical
Sutton, Douglas G.
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Antisocial media in archaeology? [PDF]
, 2014 An increasing number of individual archaeologists, archaeological organizations and institutions are using social media platforms for professional discussion and networking, research, public outreach and community archaeology.
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The satellite archaeological survey of Egypt [PDF]
arXiv, 2011 A recent announcement of some pyramids, buried under the sand of Egypt and discovered by means of infrared remote sensing, renewed the interest on the archaeological surveys aided by satellites. Here we propose the use of images, obtained from those of Google Maps after some processing to enhance their details, to locate archaeological remains in Egypt.
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Evidential Reasoning in Archaeology
, 2016 How do archaeologists work with the data they identify as a record of the cultural past? How are these data collected and construed as evidence? What is the impact on archaeological practice of new techniques of data recovery and analysis, especially ...
R. Chapman, Alison Wylie
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