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A New Approach to Reporting Archaeological Surveys: Connecting Rough Cilicia, Visible Past and Open Context through loose coupling and 3d codes [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities, 2014 (June 24, 2014) jdmdh:9, 2014
The project presents the strategy adopted by the Rough Cilicia Archaeological Survey team for publishing its primary data and reports via three potentially transformative strategies for digital humanities: Loose coupling of digital data curation and publishing platforms.
arxiv   +1 more source

Standing Buildings and Built Heritage [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This essay examines the available archive of articles on standing buildings published in Post-Medieval Archaeology. After setting out some general trends evident in a brief analysis of the number of buildings archaeology articles published over the last ...
Dixon, James, Green, Adrian
core   +2 more sources

Comparing different machine‐learning techniques to date Nile Delta sediments based on portable X‐ray fluorescence data

open access: yesGeoarchaeology, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 57-75, January/February 2023., 2023
Abstract Geomorphology generally aims to describe and investigate the processes that lead to the formation of landscapes, while geochronology is needed to detect their timing and duration. Due to restrictions on exporting geological samples from Egypt, modern geoscientific studies in the Nile Delta lack the possibility of dating the investigated ...
Martin Seeliger   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction: Public Archaeologies of Death and Memory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This Introduction to AP’s third special issue seeks to provide context and rationale to the study of ‘public mortuary archaeology’ before reviewing the development of the volume.
Williams, Howard
core   +3 more sources

Coherent changes in wood charcoals, site occupation and lithic technology across the MIS 4/3 transition at Klein Kliphuis rock shelter, South Africa

open access: yesJournal of Quaternary Science, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 38-48, January 2023., 2023
Abstract We explore the correspondence between changing palaeoenvironments, patterns of site use, and lithic technology at the rock shelter site Klein Kliphuis (South Africa) across the interval 65–55 000 years before present. This period coincides with the termination of Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 4, and the disappearance of an iconic late Pleistocene
Alex Mackay, Caroline R. Cartwright
wiley   +1 more source

De l’archéologie russo-soviétique en situation coloniale à l’archéologie post-coloniale en Asie centrale

open access: yesLes Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2011
This paper aims to analyze how Russian-Soviet archaeology of Central Asia raised in a colonial context and how this subject would be considered as a part of post-colonial studies.
Svetlana Gorshenina, Claude Rapin
doaj   +1 more source

'The Collective Biography of Archaeology in the Pacific': Seven Years of the CBAP Project

open access: yesBulletin of the History of Archaeology, 2023
The Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Project, The Collective Biography of Archaeology in the Pacific or ‘CBAP’ was funded between 2015-2020 and, due to COVID disruptions, associated events continued until the end of 2022.
Matthew Spriggs
doaj   +1 more source

Archaeological practices, knowledge work and digitalisation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Defining what constitute archaeological practices is a prerequisite for understanding where and how archaeological and archaeologically relevant information and knowledge are made, what counts as archaeological information, and where the limits are ...
Huggett, Jeremy, Huvila, Isto
core   +3 more sources

The Context Debate: An Archaeology

open access: yesArchitectural Theory Review, 2015
Context is a crucial concept in architecture in spite of the frequent ambiguity around its use. Although the consideration of context is intrinsic to the process of architectural design, in contemporary theory, little attention is paid to it. By way of contrast, in the 1950s, various architects, theorists, and teachers cultivated several perspectives ...
openaire   +4 more sources

The Cross-scale Interplay between Social and Biophysical Context and the Vulnerability of Irrigation-dependent Societies: Archaeology’s Long-term Perspective

open access: yes, 2010
What relationships can be understood between resilience and vulnerability in socialecological systems? In particular, what vulnerabilities are exacerbated or ameliorated by different sets of social practices associated with water management?
M. Nelson   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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