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Postcolonial Theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Rather than agreeing to any one meaning or referent, most critics these days speak of ‘post-colonialisms’ to refer principally to ‘historical, social and economic material conditions’ and at other times to ‘historically-situated imaginative products’ and
Hawley, John C.
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Archaeology and Modern Architecture: A Comparative Reading [PDF]

open access: yesAthens Journal of Architecture
This essay explores the relationship between archaeology and modern architecture, moving beyond the conventional examination of modern archaeology to examine the role of archaeology in a modern context.
Gregorio Froio
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The archaeology of industrialisation and the textile industry : the example of Manchester and the south-western Pennine Uplands during the 18th century (part 2) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Between the early 18th century and the mid-19th century the north-west of England was turned from a relatively impoverished backwater to one of the major industrialisation zones in the world. This is thus a key region for understanding the archaeology of
Nevell, MD
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Writing the Roman Empire

open access: yesTheoretical Roman Archaeology Journal, 1993
The paper offers: a) A critique of traditionalist Roman archaeology, including its lack of contact with such overlapping issues as an archaeology of material culture, gender relations, structuration, the social meanings of power, and human agency.
Melania Cazzulo
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Post-Colonial Rome, and Beyond

open access: yesRevista de Historiografía, 2021
Roman archaeology is one of the major subfields of archaeology in which post-colonial theory has flourished, and not just in relation to the role of the past in the present, but also as a means to approach the interpretation of the Roman world itself ...
Andrew Gardner
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Trying to break new ground in aerial archaeology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Aerial reconnaissance continues to be a vital tool for landscape-oriented archaeological research. Although a variety of remote sensing platforms operate within the earth’s atmosphere, the majority of aerial archaeological information is still derived ...
Sevara, Christopher, Verhoeven, Geert
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«Μέγα τὸ τῆς θαλάσσης κράτος» (Θουκ. Ι 143, 5): αρχαιολογία της ιδέας

open access: yesHistorika : Studi di Storia Greca e Romana, 2016
This is a philological study that deals with the articulated ideas and it is not in the least concerned with the historicity of events; it is not the events but the ideas that I thought are worth writing about (cf. I 22, 2).
Ioannis N. Perysinakis
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Les vertus des études des sciences : retour sur une réception française du postmodernisme en archéologie

open access: yesLes Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2019
In 1995, Anick Coudart and Laurent Olivier explained the French reception of postmodernism in archaeology based on the idea that scientific practices are determined by national mentalities.
Sébastien Plutniak
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African-European contacts in the Kongo Kingdom (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries): new archaeological insights from Ngongo Mbata (Lower Congo, DRC) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Ngongo Mbata, the main and most affluent center of the Kongo kingdom’s Mbata province in the 17th century, is well known from the historical sources, but virtually unexplored in archaeological publications.
Bostoen, Koen   +7 more
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Analog to Digital: Transitions in Theory and Practice in Archaeological Photography at Çatalhöyük

open access: yesInternet Archaeology, 2016
Archaeology and photography has a long, co-constructed history that has increasingly come under scrutiny as archaeologists negotiate the visual turn. Yet these investigations do not make use of existing qualitative and quantitative strategies developed ...
Colleen Morgan
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