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Public Archaeology, Archaeology and the Public
2020Public archaeology is a flexible notion with several meanings: public engagement in protecting archaeological heritage, public interest in the results of research, and archaeology as a public service offered by qualified staff. Such a broad range of purposes and approaches involves various professionals and includes new disciplines supporting ...
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2014
Archaeological discipline is a search of knowledge of the past through material remains. This chapter anatomizes such a definition of the field in order to understand the decisions already taken by the discipline before arriving to particular contexts of practice. The working of archaeological discipline within the modern/colonial ontology is explored.
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Archaeological discipline is a search of knowledge of the past through material remains. This chapter anatomizes such a definition of the field in order to understand the decisions already taken by the discipline before arriving to particular contexts of practice. The working of archaeological discipline within the modern/colonial ontology is explored.
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2022
Abstract The cultural context in which the term “Gandhāra” is used initially refers to Vedic geography and then to the administrative limits of the homonymous Achaemenid satrapy. The most reliable information referring to the Middle Holocene period, in which the Gandhāran region must have met a climatically optimal ...
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Abstract The cultural context in which the term “Gandhāra” is used initially refers to Vedic geography and then to the administrative limits of the homonymous Achaemenid satrapy. The most reliable information referring to the Middle Holocene period, in which the Gandhāran region must have met a climatically optimal ...
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'Archaeologies of Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past'
Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, 2015This interview with Victor Buchli and Gavin Lucas was undertaken over email during the Summer / Autumn of 2013 and coordinated by Alfredo González-Ruibal on behalf of the editorial team: Alfredo González-Ruibal, Rodney Harrison, Cornelius Holtorf and Laurie Wilkie. An initial set of questions was drafted and agreed amongst members of the editorial team,
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Abstract This chapter delves into the rich history of archaeological collecting, the creation and development of archaeological museums, and museums with significant archaeological collections. It explores how the production of archaeological knowledge and heritage has been intricately shaped by the evolution of these collections ...
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Archaeology within, archaeology without
Archaeological Dialogues, 2016AbstractThe rise of the nation state has had a major influence on the development of archaeology. Nation states today, however, differ from their 19th- and 20th-century equivalents, and they both impact upon and use archaeology in different ways. By looking outwards from an individual country within a collective nation state, I will explore the forms ...
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2020
Contemporary archaeology can be understood from a number of perspectives including those who consider all archaeology contemporary in terms of the production of knowledge in comparison to those who explicitly conduct their research on the materiality of contemporary society.
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Contemporary archaeology can be understood from a number of perspectives including those who consider all archaeology contemporary in terms of the production of knowledge in comparison to those who explicitly conduct their research on the materiality of contemporary society.
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Archaeology, Archaeological Science, and Microarchaeology
2010The archaeological record is mainly composed of materials related to past human behavior. Some of these are visible to the naked eye – the so-called macroscopic record – and some require instruments, such as microscopes or spectrometers, to be seen and characterized.
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Nautical Archaeology and Biblical Archaeology
The Biblical Archaeologist, 1990The relationship between nautical archaeology and biblical archaeology has been apparent since the first ancient shipwreck was excavated in its entirety off Cape Gelidonya, Turkey, in 1970.
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Public Archaeology and Indigenous Archaeology
2012AbstractPublic archaeology, as a method of involving public groups in the practice of archaeology, has a powerful possibility of benefiting tribal groups by allowing their full involvement. Indigenous archaeology utilizes the general elements of archaeological theory associated with cultural historical, processual, and post-processual approaches.
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