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Biogeomorphic recovery of a river reach affected by mining
The Grogwynion reach of the River Ystwyth,Wales, affected by mining in the 19th and 20th centuries, has shown a progressive reversion to a sinuous single‐channel planform since 2001 from an active braided pattern. A critical factor has been a change in the extent and type of riparian vegetation occurring within the active zone of the river due to the ...
Martin Dawson+2 more
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Archaeology in a Stockholm Perspective —a Personal Reflection
This paper presents a short sketch over Swedish archaeology from a Stockholm perspective. It starts from Montelius and leads via "New Archaeology" to a comment on the interpretive aspect of archaeology.
Åke Hyenstrand
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Pseudo-archaeology: The Appropriation and Commercialization of Cultural Heritage [PDF]
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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Experimental archeology and serious games: challenges of inhabiting virtual heritage [PDF]
Experimental archaeology has long yielded valuable insights into the tools and techniques that featured in past peoples’ relationship with the material world around them. However, experimental archaeology has, hitherto, confined itself to rigid,
Bergman B.+8 more
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Abstract The effects of the Younger Dryas (YD) fluctuation on Late Pleistocene hunter‐gatherers' settlement and subsistence systems in the southern Alps are poorly known. This is primarily due to the scarcity of archaeological sites dating from the YD, in contrast with the extensive evidence available from the lateglacial interstadial and the early ...
Diego E. Angelucci+2 more
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Archaeological University Education and Professional Archaeology in Sweden
During the 19th century very few persons in Sweden recieved a doctoral degree in archaeology. Most of them found prestigious top-positions. Today there are about 100 persons with Ph.
Gustav Wollentz
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Pansharpening of PRISMA products for archaeological prospection [PDF]
Hyperspectral data recorded from satellite platforms are often ill-suited for geo-archaeological prospection due to low spatial resolution. The established potential of hyperspectral data from airborne sensors in identifying archaeological features has, on the other side, generated increased interest in enhancing hyperspectral data to achieve higher ...
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Evolution in Archaeology [PDF]
This review begins with a brief outline of the key concepts of Darwinian archaeology. Its history is then summarized, beginning with its emergence as a significant theoretical focus within the discipline in the early 1980s; its main present-day currents ...
Shennan, SJ
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Mineral Pigments in Archaeology: Their Analysis and the Range of Available Materials
Naturally occurring minerals or their synthetic analogues have been important as pigments used in artistic and cosmetic contexts in global antiquity. The analysis and identification of mineral pigments, though routine to the petrologist or mineralogist ...
R. Siddall
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