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Archaeology in the Digital Age: From Paper to Databases

open access: yes, 2015
Research units in archaeology often manage large and precious archives containing various documents, including reports on fieldwork, scholarly studies and reference books.
Ferguth, Johan   +3 more
core  

Wetlands as environments of early human occupation: A new classification for freshwater palaeowetlands

open access: yesThe Depositional Record, EarlyView.
A new classification for inland freshwater palaeowetlands to be used in the field or core laboratory by sedimentologists, providing examples from the Guadix Basin (southern Spain). Abstract Present wetlands have proven to be delicate, biodiverse ecosystems, that are natural sinks for CO2 and act as good indicators for climate changes.
S. Pla‐Pueyo   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Research, protection and evaluation of Sicilian and Mediterranean marine cultural heritage

open access: yesConservation Science in Cultural Heritage, 2009
Underwater archaeology in the Mediterranean should be based on a comprehensive, deep knowledge of a wide context of cultural environment. It is impossible to carry out an in-depth study of a specific wreck or site without having an overall cultural as ...
Sebastiano Tusa
doaj   +1 more source

Participatory Action Design Research in Archaeological Context [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This chapter presents an overview of the results of an interdisciplinary collaboration between several domain experts in the frame of archaeological projects. Since 2001, different independent interactive systems have been co-designed, developed, and tested on the field, in the frame of the “Tarquinia Project” carried out since 1982 in the ancient ...
B.R. Barricelli   +5 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Understanding ‘the community’ before community archaeology: A case study from Sudan

open access: yesParticipatory Archaeology and Heritage Studies, 2017
Since 2014, UCL Qatar has undertaken a diverse programme of community engagement as part of an archaeometallurgical research project at the Royal City of Meroe, Sudan.
J. Humphris, R. Bradshaw
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Microbialite cathodoluminescence: A tool for investigating palaeoredox conditions, alteration histories and primary textures across time

open access: yesThe Depositional Record, EarlyView.
Microbialites are common throughout the rock record and key to our understanding of Earth history, yet a relatively common microscopy technique—cathodoluminescence (CL)—has not previously been leveraged to understand them. In this contribution, we examine microbialites of varying ages (modern to Proterozoic) with CL and report on the patterns and ...
Cedric J. Hagen   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Late Pleistocene to Holocene sedimentation in the Great Blue Hole (Lighthouse Reef, Belize): Results from a 30 m long core

open access: yesThe Depositional Record, EarlyView.
A 30 m long sedimentary succession at the bottom of the Belize Blue Hole represents terrestrial cenote (12.5–7.2 ka BP), restricted marine swamp (7.2–5.7 ka BP) and fully marine lagoonal phases (5.7–0 ka BP) on Lighthouse Reef carbonate platform. Post‐glacial and Holocene sea‐level rise largely controlled the sedimentological, faunal and floral changes
Eberhard Gischler   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Brexit, Archaeology and Heritage: Reflections and Agendas

open access: yesPapers from the Institute of Archaeology, 2017
This brief reflection considers some of the inter-relationships of, and implications for, archaeology and heritage in the narrow majority ‘Leave’ vote in the 2016 referendum on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, and the ...
doaj   +2 more sources

Experimental archeology and serious games: challenges of inhabiting virtual heritage [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Experimental archaeology has long yielded valuable insights into the tools and techniques that featured in past peoples’ relationship with the material world around them. However, experimental archaeology has, hitherto, confined itself to rigid,
Bergman B.   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Understanding Chinese jade in a world context

open access: yes, 2018
For millennia, jade has been valued in many cultures in Chinese archaeology. The favoured types and sources of jade have changed over time, as has our knowledge of the stones themselves.
G. Barnes
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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