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The Pacific Archaeology Radiocarbon Database

open access: yesArchaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the Pacific Archaeology Radiocarbon Database (PARD), which includes radiocarbon data from archaeological sites excavated in an area commonly described as Near and Remote Oceania. The collated 14C database is available using ArcGIS Online, an online geospatial system with searchable fields and locational navigation.
Simon H. Bickler   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction: Doing Archaeology as a Feminist [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Gender research archaeology has made significant contributions, but its dissociation from the resources of feminist scholarship and feminist activism is a significantly limiting factor in its development.
Wylie, Alison
core  

The Southern Frontier of the Meroitic State: The View from Jebel Moya [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The site of Jebel Moya, excavated in the early twentieth century, represents arguably the largest pastoral mortuary complex in Africa. Jebel Moya is resituated in relation to the neighbouring Meroitic-era agro-pastoral settlements and the only known ...
Brass, M
core   +1 more source

Raw Material Economisation in Aotearoa New Zealand: Evidence for Manufacture and Recycling of Adzes on Ahuahu Great Mercury Island

open access: yesArchaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Raw materials are used to characterise the early settlement of Aotearoa Te Wai Pounamu New Zealand by Māori. Current models suggest change in raw material use over time occurred in response to changing social organisation and reduced resource availability. However, few studies have examined spatial variation in raw material use.
Rebecca Phillipps   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Looking for the Young of the Brazilian archaeology [PDF]

open access: yesBoletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, 2007
Comments four papers of a symposium about territorial frontiers and socio-cultural Identities: reasons and significance for the variability of artifacts in the archaeological record presented during the XIII Congress of the Society of Brazilian ...
Klaus Hilbert
doaj  

Un préhistorien japonais à Paris : Nakaya Jiujirō (1929-1932)

open access: yesEbisu: Études Japonaises, 2014
The Japanese archaeologist Nakaya Jiujirō (1902-1936), who lived in Paris from 1929 to 1932, holds a special place in the context of the interwar years, shedding light on the history of Japanese archaeology and French-Japanese scientific interactions ...
Laurent Nespoulous
doaj   +1 more source

The Manufacture of Rochia nilotica rings: The chaîne opératoire Identified for Lapita Sites in Vanuatu

open access: yesArchaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rings made on marine shell are a conspicuous artefact form found throughout cultural sequences for much of the Pacific over millennia. Despite their importance in both recent and ancient times, in‐depth consideration of the manufacturing processes involved in shell ring production are limited.
Michelle C. Langley   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fire Histories and Rainforest Aboriginal Archaeology in the Wet Tropics Bioregion, North Queensland

open access: yesArchaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Unlike the dominant Australian savanna‐sclerophyll vegetation, tropical rainforests do not burn easily. Any evidence of fire in Australian rainforests therefore invites explanations of its source. Analysis of 187 radiocarbon dates that include selected charcoal fragments from 23 soil pits and 7 archaeological sites from the Wet Tropics ...
Richard Cosgrove   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Internationalisation as a Long-Term Strategic Project of the Post-War Renewal of the Yugoslav Archaeology (1950–1971)

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2020
Archaeology in the countries which belonged to Yugoslavia (1918–1991) was mosaic of different traditions. The development of archaeology was greatly affected by political changes in the last 150 years; all of them required significant re ...
Črtomir Lorber, Predrag Novaković
doaj   +1 more source

Geographical Information System in Iran’s Archaeological Researches; History, Trends and Problems [PDF]

open access: yesInterdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, 2017
Geographical information system (GIS) technology  has a variety of facilities and programs based on software features and functionalities. It has been increasingly used within archaeological research contexts over the last 30 years.
M. Heydarian   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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