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Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Cultivation pits represented the principal form of horticultural features developed by past atoll communities in Central‐East Polynesia (CEP), and they are still utilised on some atolls in Oceania. The majority of information about the use of cultivation pits in CEP derives from ethnographic and preliminary archaeological investigations.
Elisa Scorsini +5 more
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The 2005 Rolt memorial lecture. Industrial archaeology or the archaeology of the industrial period? Models, methodology and the future of industrial archaeology [PDF]
, 2006 This paper outlines in brief the development of Industrial Archaeology in Britain as a mainstream branch of archaeology over the last 50 years, before then reviewing some of the recent methodological developments in IA.
Nevell, MD
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Geographical Information System in Iran’s Archaeological Researches; History, Trends and Problems [PDF]
Interdisciplinary 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
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Shared Archaeological Heritage: the European Archaeology Days
Internet Archaeology, 2021 A discipline where several scientific fields meet, archaeology studies the material traces of civilisations, from prehistory to the contemporary era.
Pascal Ratier
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Kuwae, Epi and Tongoa Islands: Transformations of a volcanic landscape in central Vanuatu
Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents a detailed overview of archaeological research undertaken on Epi and Tongoa, in central Vanuatu. These islands were previously connected to one another and respectively formed the western and eastern portions of Kuwae, one of the largest islands in the Vanuatu archipelago, until the catastrophic Tombuk volcanic eruption ...
ROBERT HENDERSON +7 more
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Bowls, Bobbins and Bones: Resolving the human remains crisis in British archaeology, a response [PDF]
, 2011 In 2010 and 2011 a series of articles appeared in British Archaeology describing a crisis surrounding the archaeological investigation of human remains.
Sayer, Duncan
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Automated Detection of Hillforts in Remote Sensing Imagery With Deep Multimodal Segmentation
Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent advancements in remote sensing and artificial intelligence can potentially revolutionize the automated detection of archaeological sites. However, the challenging task of interpreting remote sensing imagery combined with the intricate shapes of archaeological sites can hinder the performance of computer vision systems.
Daniel Canedo +7 more
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Etnoantropološki 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
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A Needle in a Haystack: Landscape Survey and Archaeological Detection Experiments in Apalachee Bay
Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents the results of a pilot landscape‐scale seismic survey undertaken in Apalachee Bay, Florida, across a submerged landscape that contains dozens of Pre‐Contact sites. In addition to the goals of improving the geophysical and remote sensing ground model for this submerged landscape, the survey also sought to undertake the first
Simon Fitch, Jessica Cook Hale
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Mind: An Archaeological Perspective [PDF]
In R. A. Bentley, H. D. G. Maschner, & C. Chippendale (Eds.),
Handbook of theories and methods in archaeology (pp. 283-296). Walnut Creek,
CA: Altamira Press.(2008), 2013 What can relics of the past tell us about the thoughts and beliefs of the people who invented and used them? Recent collaborations at the frontier of archaeology, anthropology, and cognitive science are culminating in speculative but nevertheless increasingly sophisticated efforts to unravel how modern human cognition came about. By considering objects
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