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Standardizing Visualization in Ancient Maya Lidar Research: Techniques, Challenges and Recommendations

open access: yesArchaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Airborne laser scanning (ALS, lidar) has become a key method for studying ancient Maya landscapes, offering unprecedented visibility of anthropogenic terrain modifications in densely forested environments. Despite this progress, the visualization of elevation data remains understandardized, with many researchers relying on ad hoc or ...
Žiga Kokalj
wiley   +1 more source

Data, not documents: Moving beyond theories of information‐seeking behavior to advance data discovery

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 4, Page 649-664, April 2025.
Abstract Many theories of human information behavior (HIB) assume that information objects are in text document format. This paper argues four important HIB theories are insufficient for describing users' search strategies for data because of assumptions about the attributes of objects that users seek.
Anthony J. Million   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Digitising and Re-examining Vere Gordon Childe’s ‘Dawn of European Civilization’: a celebration of the UCL Institute of Archaeology’s 80th Anniversary

open access: yesArchaeology International, 2017
This article presents a detailed examination of Gordon Childe’s The Dawn of European Civilization, one of the best known books in European Archaeology.
doaj   +2 more sources

La vie quotidienne des habitations sucrières aux Antilles : l’archéologie à la découverte d’une histoire cachée

open access: yesIn Situ, 2013
The archaeology of the colonial period allows us to gain a better understanding of how enslaved Africans on sugar plantations in the French Caribbean survived and to track changes in practices and use of artefacts which mark the beginning of Creole ...
Kenneth G. Kelly
doaj   +1 more source

Usage of the term provenance in LIS literature: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Provenance is the story of how something has come to be. In this paper, we provide a systematic literature review to categorize the various notions of provenance in Information Sciences. The goal of this review is to paint a broader picture of the multiple uses of provenance at play and to enhance our understanding of the importance of ...
Rhiannon Bettivia   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Excavaciones arqueológicas y el entorno urbano de Berlín : recordar y olvidar la huellas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This essay examines how the Second World War can be remembered through archeology at two tourism sites in Berlin. Through data collected from site visits and observations, the motifs of burial, authenticity, and historical value are found to engage ...
Florence, Eloise
core  

Evolution in Archaeology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
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
core   +1 more source

Researchers' data processing descriptions—Understanding paradata creation practices and their underpinning instrumentalities

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Researchers increasingly share data, both on their own initiative and as a result of requirements by funding agencies and publishers. For data to be accessible and reusable, it must be understandable. While typical metadata covers rudimentary information about data, data re‐users often need more contextual information, including paradata ...
Isto Huvila, Lisa Andersson, Olle Sköld
wiley   +1 more source

Archaeometric Analyses of Medieval Pottery from the Lower Danube Region, Romania

open access: yesChemPlusChem, EarlyView.
This study is about the pottery manufacturing in the Lower Danube region during the Early Medieval period (8th–10th c. AD). Optical microscopy, Particle induced X‐ray emission, and X‐ray diffraction analyses performed on 32 representative ceramic shards excavated at Pantelimonu de Sus, Constanţa County, Romania, provide clues on the raw materials and ...
Constantin Haită   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

History of Latin American Archaeology

open access: yesBulletin of the History of Archaeology, 1995
Two recent contributions (Oyuela-Caycedo 1994 and Politis 1995) to analyses of the intellectual development of archaeology in Latin America provide us with new perspectives. A theme shared by both is the perception by the
David L. Browman
doaj   +1 more source

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