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Archaeology and post-colonialism in South Africa : the theory, practice and politics of archaeology after apartheid

, 1998
Includes bibliographical referencesI take my lead from a paper by Bruce Trigger (1984) in which he divides the disciplinary field into three modes or forms of archaeology: a colonialist archaeology, a nationalist archaeology and an imperialist ...
Shepherd, Nick
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7000 Years of Aboriginal Mining at Sugarloaf Hill in the Riverland Region of South Australia

Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Silcrete and chert are commonly represented in Aboriginal archaeological lithic assemblages across large parts of the southwestern Murray‐Darling Basin (MDB). In South Australia (SA), these materials were sourced from a series of quarries located along the incised course of the Murray River through the upper Riverland region.
Craig Westell, Ian Moffat, Richard Fullagar, Amy Roberts, Justine Kemp, Mike Morley, Marc Fairhead, Simon Hoad, River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Selection of Appropriate Metagenome Taxonomic Classifiers for Ancient Microbiome Research

mSystems, 2018
Metagenomics enables the study of complex microbial communities from myriad sources, including the remains of oral and gut microbiota preserved in archaeological dental calculus and paleofeces, respectively.
Irina M. Velsko, Laurent A. F. Frantz, Alexander Herbig, Greger Larson, Christina Warinner   +4 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Panorama de los estudios sobre Teotihuacan: una corrección historiográfica

Anales de Antropología, 2017
El libro de George Cowgill titulado Ancient Teotihuacan(Cowgill, 2015) es una magistral obra narrativa que sintetizacerca de mil a˜nos de la historia del Valle de Teotihuacan, engran parte con base en un análisis cuantitativo de los mate-riales ...
Esther Pasztory
doaj   +1 more source

A Geomorphometric Approach to Estimate the Deterioration of Earthen Archaeological Sites by Rainfall and Diffusion Processes: The Huaca Chornancap (Eighth–14th Century ad), Lambayeque, Peru

Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rain‐induced erosion processes can severely damage Earthen archaeological sites. Huaca Chornancap (HCH; eighth–14th century ad) is a platform located in the Lambayeque region (Peru) exposed to seasonal rain due to El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO).
Luigi Magnini, Maria Ilaria Pannaccione Apa, Robert Gutiérrez Cachay, Marco Fernández Manayalle, Carlos Eduardo Wester La Torre, Guido Ventura   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Bedrock of Rock Art: The Significance of Quartz Arenite as a Canvas for Rock Art in Central Sweden

Open Archaeology
In Scandinavia, numerous regions with high densities of rock art exist. One notable area is Mälardalen in central Sweden, where rock art, primarily dating from the Bronze Age and featuring various characters and symbolic meanings, is located along the ...
Löfstedt Joakim, Löwenborg Daniel
doaj   +1 more source

Archaeobotany in Estonia – history, state of the art and future perspectives [PDF]

Eesti Arheoloogiaajakiri
Archaeobotany is currently an underutilised discipline in Estonian archaeological research. This paper sheds light on the current state of archaeobotanical research in Estonia by analysing the spatial and temporal distribution of archaeobotanical ...
Kristiina Johanson, Agnes Unt, Sirje Hiie   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Coherence‐Gated Wrapped‐Phase InSAR With Matrix‐Based Uncertainty Diagnostics for Burial‐Mound Hotspot Ranking (Sicily, Italy)

Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Burial mounds are key elements of Mediterranean funerary landscapes, but in intensively cultivated coastal plains their low‐relief expression is easily obscured by ploughing, levelling and rapidly changing surface conditions, making single‐date observations unreliable.
Salvatore Polverino, Hourakhsh Ahmadnia, Rokhsaneh Rahbarianyazd Ahmadnia   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Microbial differences between dental plaque and historic dental calculus are related to oral biofilm maturation stage

Microbiome, 2019
Background Dental calculus, calcified oral plaque biofilm, contains microbial and host biomolecules that can be used to study historic microbiome communities and host responses. Dental calculus does not typically accumulate as much today as historically,
Irina M. Velsko, James A. Fellows Yates, Franziska Aron, Richard W. Hagan, Laurent A. F. Frantz, Louise Loe, Juan Bautista Rodriguez Martinez, Eros Chaves, Chris Gosden, Greger Larson, Christina Warinner   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

The evolution of prehistoric archaeology under the Third Reich: as seen in the experiences and work of German archaeologists, Nazis, and the Ahnenerbe Institute

, 2010
The discipline of prehistoric archaeology changed dramatically under the Third Reich. The Nazis manipulated data provided by archaeologists, anthropologists, ethnologists, linguists, and many more areas of study in order to promote the nationalistic ...
Christensen, Laura
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