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Single Context Archaeology as Anarchist Praxis [PDF]
The organization of archaeological fieldwork often resembles a military-style campaign structured around rigid, top-down hierarchies. This is reflected in many aspects of current practice, including the ultimate authority of the site director, the use of excavation methodologies that remove the act of interpretation from field archaeologists, and the ...
Morgan, Colleen Leah, Eddisford, Daniel
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An Open Context for "Near Eastern Archaeology" [PDF]
The common use by archaeologists of ubiquitous technologies such as computers and digital cameras means that archaeological research projects now produce huge amounts of diverse, digital documentation. However, while the technology is available to collect this documentation, we still largely lack community-accepted dissemination channels appropriate ...
Kansa, Sarah Whitcher+2 more
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The Apparatus of Digital Archaeology
Digital Archaeology is predicated upon an ever-changing set of apparatuses – technological, methodological, software, hardware, material, immaterial – which in their own ways and to varying degrees shape the nature of Digital Archaeology.
Jeremy Huggett
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STRATIGRAPHIC UNITS INSIDE HERITAGE BUILDING INFORMATION MODEL: A NOVEL APPROACH FOR THE REPRESENTATION OF BUILDING ARCHAEOLOGY [PDF]
The paper discusses the representation of Stratigraphic Units (SUs) and the communication of Building Archaeology analysis in three dimensions within the context of Historic Building Information Modeling (HBIM).
C. Stanga
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Is There Such a Thing as Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology?
This paper examines two related questions: firstly, whether there is a distinctive field of practice that might be called “hunter-gatherer archaeology” and which is different than other kinds of archaeology, and secondly, how such a claim might be ...
Graeme Warren
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The MIMA project. Design, construction and performances of a compact hodoscope for muon radiography applications in the context of archaeology and geophysical prospections [PDF]
The Muon Imaging for Mining and Archaeology (MIMA) project aims at the development of a non-invasive technique for imaging dense structures or cavities, hidden in the underground or anyway surrounded by huge volumes of matter, based on Muon Absorption ...
G. Baccani+11 more
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Despite the wealth of Late Pleistocene archaeology that exists across southern Africa’s open landscape, it is routinely neglected in favour of rock shelter (re)excavation, biasing interpretation of human–environment interaction. This is compounded by the
Natasha Phillips+3 more
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The Complex Taxonomy of ‘Nubian’ in Context
The meaning of the word ‘Nubian’ in Middle Palaeolithic archaeology has changed markedly since its first published use in 1965 in the context of the Nubian rescue campaign in southern Egypt and northern Sudan. Initially referring to two types of prepared
E. Hallinan, A. Marks
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“Global” vs. “Local”: Two Readings of Theoretical and Methodological Position of Branko Gavela
The paper presents two possible readings of one discussion by Branko Gavela on the problems of protohistoric archaeology. From two distinct perspectives – one based upon the general pattern of development of archaeological thought, the other taking into ...
Vladimir D. Mihajlović
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Les effets du numérique sur l’archéologie et les archéologues
In the context of a Ph.D, engaged since November 2019, we propose to present here the first results of the study of the effects of the digital on archaeology and on practices, discourses and images of archaeologists.
Christophe Tufféry
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