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Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research examines rock art and dendroglyphs in the Wet Tropics of northeast Australia to investigate their relationship to linguistic social identity. The region was selected for its complex socio‐cultural landscape, marked by a diversity of languages in a distinct, relatively small area.
Alice Buhrich
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Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In Mirarr Kunred (Country) in the Alligator Rivers region of the Northern Territory, Australia, a particular form of scarred, culturally modified tree (CMT) is actively being created as Bininj (Aboriginal people) harvest bark to be used as art canvases (dolobbo).
Mia Dardengo +6 more
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Locating Traces of Arboreal Beings: Connecting the Tree and the Woodblock
Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Woodblocks for printmaking are multi‐perspectival communicators inscribed with layered narratives. The artistic process of cutting excavates the surface of a woodblock, making visible lesser‐seen traces of the past, reflective of the practice of archaeology.
Julian Laffan
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Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Waste disposal processes and landfill management are crucial subjects in the field of settlement archaeology. Our study is focused on understanding the processes that are connected to the formation of the infills of settlement features and the recycling of the building materials (daub and wood) and waste management.
Tereza Šálková +10 more
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Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents a novel methodology and workflow successful in identifying and mapping undercanopy archaeology in woodland Mediterranean areas. The study area is characterized by dense vegetation typical of the Mediterranean area, located in southern Tuscany (Italy), within the territory of the ancient city of Rusellae next to the ...
G. P. Cirigliano +6 more
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Jeffrey Abt, A Museum on the Verge: A Socioeconomic History of the Detroit Institute of Arts 1882–2000. Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 2001, 336 pp. 24 black-and-white illus., $26.95 US. [PDF]
, 2001 Reesa Greenberg
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Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study presents a comprehensive approach to verifying a presumed western gate at Pohansko by integrating nondestructive geophysical methods (ERT, magnetometry and core prospection) with traditional archaeological excavation. The identification and characterization of gates by nondestructive methods within early mediaeval fortified sites ...
Petr Dresler +6 more
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Gordon Robert and Michael Raber, Industrial Heritage in Northwest Connecticut. A Guide to History and Archaeology, Connecticut Academy of Arts and Scien [PDF]
, 2002 Philippe Erikson
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The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 1993 Opening many textbooks of art history, one finds "prehistoric" images like the paleolithic cave paintings from Lascaux or Altamira standing for the history of pictorial art from its hypothetical inception about forty thousand years ago until about 10,000 B.C., that is, for the first half or three-quarters of the entire preserved duration of human image
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The history of anatomical engagement
Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.Abstract The public's fascination with anatomy has evolved over time and progressed from avoidance of the tainted yet saintly corpse, to their fascination with cabinets of curiosities. The current narrative review explores public engagement (PE), from its potential origins as cave paintings, to the rise of the disciplinarity of anatomy.
Quenton Wessels, Adam M. Taylor
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