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Sea-level rise and archaeological site destruction: An example from the southeastern United States using DINAA (Digital Index of North American Archaeology)

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2017
The impact of changing climate on terrestrial and underwater archaeological sites, historic buildings, and cultural landscapes can be examined through quantitatively-based analyses encompassing large data samples and broad geographic and temporal scales.
David G. Anderson   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Comparing different machine‐learning techniques to date Nile Delta sediments based on portable X‐ray fluorescence data

open access: yesGeoarchaeology, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 57-75, January/February 2023., 2023
Abstract Geomorphology generally aims to describe and investigate the processes that lead to the formation of landscapes, while geochronology is needed to detect their timing and duration. Due to restrictions on exporting geological samples from Egypt, modern geoscientific studies in the Nile Delta lack the possibility of dating the investigated ...
Martin Seeliger   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reflections on the 1943 ‘Conference on the Future of Archaeology’

open access: yesArchaeology International, 2013
At the height of the Second World War the Institute of Archaeology hosted a conference in London to map out the post-war future for archaeology.
doaj   +2 more sources

Squeezing minds from stones: Cognitive archaeology and the evolution of the human mind [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Cognitive archaeology is a relatively new interdisciplinary science that uses cognitive and psychological models to explain archaeological artifacts like stone tools, figurines, and art. Edited by cognitive archaeologist Karenleigh A.
Coolidge, Frederick Lawrence   +1 more
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River archaeology – a new tool for historical hydrology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
River archaeology is consisting of underwater research of the rivers themselves, and also the archaeology of the valleys/floodplains with special interest in humanenvironmental interactions (reconstructing space, environment, economy and society on ...
Tóth, János Attila
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Coherent changes in wood charcoals, site occupation and lithic technology across the MIS 4/3 transition at Klein Kliphuis rock shelter, South Africa

open access: yesJournal of Quaternary Science, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 38-48, January 2023., 2023
Abstract We explore the correspondence between changing palaeoenvironments, patterns of site use, and lithic technology at the rock shelter site Klein Kliphuis (South Africa) across the interval 65–55 000 years before present. This period coincides with the termination of Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 4, and the disappearance of an iconic late Pleistocene
Alex Mackay, Caroline R. Cartwright
wiley   +1 more source

"Doctoral Research in Cambridge (1922- 1987)" , Archaeological Review from Cambridge, edited by Sarah Taylor, Occasional Paper I, Department of Archaeology, Cambridge University, Spring 1989

open access: yesBulletin of the History of Archaeology, 1992
The Department of Archaeology, Cambridge University (England), has done a great service to scholars interested in the history of archaeology by issuing Occasional Paper 1 under its umbrella publication the Archaeological Review ...
Douglas R. Givens
doaj   +1 more source

The Internationalization and Institutionalization of Archaeology, or, How a Rich Man’s Pastime Became an International Scientific Discipline, and What Happened Thereafter

open access: yesBulletin of the History of Archaeology, 2020
Archaeology has been an “international” discipline since it emerged as a separate field of intellectual endeavor by the mid-eighteenth century. During the nineteenth century and into the twentieth it gradually became more institutional, as museums ...
David Fleming
doaj   +1 more source

Can BERT Dig It? -- Named Entity Recognition for Information Retrieval in the Archaeology Domain [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2021
The amount of archaeological literature is growing rapidly. Until recently, these data were only accessible through metadata search. We implemented a text retrieval engine for a large archaeological text collection ($\sim 658$ Million words). In archaeological IR, domain-specific entities such as locations, time periods, and artefacts, play a central ...
arxiv  

The ethics of archaeology : philosophical perceptives on archaeological practice. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The question of ethics and their role in archaeology has stimulated one of the discipline's liveliest debates. In this collection of essays, an international team of archaeologists, anthropologists and philosophers explore the ethical issues archaeology ...
Scarre, G. F., Scarre, C.
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