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Hillforts to puzzle – Joining archaeology and citizen science to document and interpret remote drywalls at Tyvenborgåsen, Hvittingfoss, eastern Norway

open access: yesPrimitive Tider
This article enters the discourse on so-called hillforts as a joint endeavour of archaeology and citizen science. In Norwegian archaeology, drywall features on certain hills make up an extensive research topic.
Mats Skare
doaj   +1 more source

Colonial engagements in the global Mediterranean Iron Age [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The application of globalization theory to colonial contexts in recent years has emphasized articulations of the colonized and the colonizers. For the Mediterranean Iron Age, focus has been upon expressions of local (colonized) identities, and of ...
Hodos, T
core   +2 more sources

Reconstructing post‐crisis recovery in the hinterlands of Constantinople: A high‐resolution first‐millennium CE pollen record from Lake Yeniçağa (NW Türkiye)

open access: yesJournal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Facing a novel plague pandemic, military invasions, and political–economic transformations, societies of the eastern Roman (Byzantine) empire had to adapt to a variety of pressures and new ways of exploiting their natural environments during the mid‐1st millennium CE.
Cristiano Vignola   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reliability of Species Assessment of Archaeological Cremated Bone Fragments: Confidence in Diagnosis and Interobserver Agreement

open access: yesInternational Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The ancient practice of cremation has been documented across numerous cultures, yet burnt remains can indeed become a huge challenge for anthropologists, both in archaeological and in forensic contexts. The analysis of such skeletal material presents significant challenges associated with the alterations caused by the process of burning.
Carlotta Sala   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

'Kult' i religionsvidenskab og arkæologi

open access: yesReligionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2004
The word 'cult' is only rarely used in the Study of Religion today, whereas, instead, 'religion', 'ritual' and 'religious practice' are used. in Prehistoric and Classical Archaeology, as well as in Ancient History, however, 'cult' is a common term.
Lisbeth Bredholt Christensen
doaj   +1 more source

Writing in Britain and Ireland, c. 400 to c. 800 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
No abstract ...
Abrams   +1241 more
core   +1 more source

Chronic Disease and Disability in an 18th‐Century Portuguese Nun: An Integrative Multisource Approach

open access: yesInternational Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents an integrative approach to chronic disease and disability in a Portuguese nun who died in 1779. The aim is to interpret her condition by combining osteopathological and burial context evidence with written sources. It offers a concise example of how bringing these sources together can enhance pathological interpretation and
Nathalie Antunes‐Ferreira
wiley   +1 more source

A fart in the corridors of power: A socio-theological analysis of Evan Mawarire and Raymond Mpandasekwa’s activism

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023
#ThisFlag movement was started by Pastor Evan Mawarire in April 2016 bemoaning the collapse of the Zimbabwean economy at the hands of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) government under President Robert Mugabe.
Prosper Muzambi, Sylvester Dombo
doaj   +1 more source

Administrative Traditions of the Majority World: A Commentary and Future Research Agenda

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Decolonising public administration is an urgent and necessary endeavour. In this short article we argue that we cannot, however, settle for shallow decolonialisations. We argue that the specific iterations of bureaucracy evidenced in post‐colonial states across the majority world can be conceptualised through the lens of administrative ...
Ibrahim Bornoma   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Repatriation, doxa, and contested heritages: the return of the Altai princess in an international perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Using Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and doxa, the authors analyze the contested heritage debates surrounding the sensational Scythian burial discovery of the Altai Princess, also called the Ice Maiden, on the Ukok plateau.
Plets, Gertjan   +3 more
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