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The Tay Landscape Partnership Scheme: Report on the assessment of Mesolithic lithic artefacts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The archaeological record for Mesolithic events in Perth and Kinross has proved elusive. On behalf of the Tay Landscape Partnership Scheme an investigation of the lithic assemblages from Perth and Kinross held in the collections of the National Museums ...
Wright, Dene
core  

Zooarchaeological Analysis of an Atoll Assemblage From Central Micronesia

open access: yesArchaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There has been a dearth of archaeological research on atolls in the central‐eastern Caroline Islands of Micronesia. This has limited our understanding of pre‐contact subsistence and settlement strategies in these more marginal and remote environments, particularly in regards to zooarchaeological data.
Philippa Jorissen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

FIELD RESEARCH OF DEPARTMENT OF ARCHAELOGY, FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES [PDF]

open access: yesHum, 2013
The paper gives an overview of field researches made by the oldest Study of Archaeology in the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was established in 2001 at the University of Mostar.
Nina Čuljak, Tino Tomas
doaj  

Field fortifications from the Second World War: possibilities of archaeological research on post-military landscapes in South Moravia (Czech Republic)

open access: yesActa Universitatis Carolinae Geographica, 2019
Field fortifications from the end of World War 2 which were located in South Moravia are almost forgotten nowadays. This paper presents first results of archaeological research of their remains.
Jiří Zubalík
doaj   +1 more source

Imagining a Maya Archaeology That Is Anthropological and Attuned to Indigenous Cultural Heritage

open access: yesHeritage, 2020
Taking an aspirational approach, this article imagines what Maya Archaeology would be like if it were truly anthropological and attuned to Indigenous heritage issues.
Patricia McAnany
doaj   +1 more source

Repatriation, doxa, and contested heritages: the return of the Altai princess in an international perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Using Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and doxa, the authors analyze the contested heritage debates surrounding the sensational Scythian burial discovery of the Altai Princess, also called the Ice Maiden, on the Ukok plateau.
Plets, Gertjan   +3 more
core  

Tracking the Dynamics of human Colonisation and Adaptation in Central Vanuatu: Preliminary Results From Excavation and Survey at Pangpang, East Efate

open access: yesArchaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In October 2022 an extensive archaeological landscape was identified by staff of the Vanuatu Cultural Centre at Pangpang on the east coast of Efate Island in central Vanuatu. It included midden deposits on the banks of the Pangpang River near the sea at Forari Bay where Lapita and Early Erueti‐style pottery sherds were recovered.
Stuart Bedford   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

The microstratigraphy of middens: capturing daily routine in rubbish at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Microstratigraphy — the sequencing of detailed biological signals on site — is an important new approach being developed in the Çatalhöyük project. Here the authors show how microscopic recording of the strata and content of widespread middens on the ...
Almond, Matthew J.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

The Devil Is in the Detail: Tasmanian Devil and Tasmanian Tiger Paintings From Awunbarna and Injalak Hill, Northern Territory, Australia

open access: yesArchaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Both the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) and the Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus) are believed to have become extinct on the Australian mainland about 3000 years ago. However, until now there were only 23 known rock art depictions of the Tasmanian devil and about 150 Tasmanian tiger paintings and petroglyphs, mostly at rock art
Paul S. C. Taçon   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Internationalization and Institutionalization of Archaeology, or, How a Rich Man’s Pastime Became an International Scientific Discipline, and What Happened Thereafter

open access: yesBulletin of the History of Archaeology, 2020
Archaeology has been an “international” discipline since it emerged as a separate field of intellectual endeavor by the mid-eighteenth century. During the nineteenth century and into the twentieth it gradually became more institutional, as museums ...
David Fleming
doaj   +1 more source

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