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Introduction - Archaeology and the Natural Environment
Internet Archaeology, 2023 Archaeological sites and monuments are defined as spatial entities and are therefore an intrinsic part of any environment, as humans perceive it. Landscape archaeology and concepts such as 'landscape biography' have taught us that our environment has developed over millennia of interactions between humans and nature.
Andreas Picker
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Archaeology and the Natural Environment. Foreword
Internet Archaeology, 2023 The contributions in this volume were first presented in the stunning venue that is the Museum of Natural History in Vienna, itself a host of some fabulous archaeological exhibits, at a time when strict divisions between cultural heritage management and natural environment management are beginning to dissolve.
Barney Sloane
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The Natural Will: Community in Roman Archaeology
Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal, 2009 None
Melania Cazzulo
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Rice Paddy Field in Archaeological and Natural Science
The Quaternary Research (Daiyonki-Kenkyu), 1989 In carrying out archaeological excavations and studies on remains of rice paddy fields, many problems cannot be solved without the help of the methods and techniques of natural science. Several such problems of considerable importance are detecting the sites, analyzing for what purpose they were used, clarifying the system for their utilization ...
Masaru Matsushita
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Archaeology at the Crossroads between the Humanities and Natural Sciences [PDF]
Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2021 In this study archaeological sites are defined as objects comprised of two major components. One of them is regarded as culturological, and the other one — as natural-historical. The first component is mainly represented by the artefacts, and thus it supplies cultural-historical information, examination and interpretation of which is one of the primary
V. S. Bochkarev
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“Natural or synthetic”:The identification history of an object in an archaeological context
Microchemical JournalMaterials characterisation by non-invasive analytical methods is already a standardised practice in Archaeology. However, problems may arise in the chemical identification of certain materials that lead to erroneous interpretations. In this study, we address the case of a fragment found in the well-documented archaeological site of Colonia Celsa ...
Gallello, Gianni +8 more
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Speak, Memory: An Archaeology of Books Known to ChatGPT/GPT-4 [PDF]
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023 In this work, we carry out a data archaeology to infer books that are known to ChatGPT and GPT-4 using a name cloze membership inference query. We find that OpenAI models have memorized a wide collection of copyrighted materials, and that the degree of ...
Kent K. Chang +3 more
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Further Frontiers in GIS: Extending Spatial Analysis to Textual Sources in Archaeology
Open Archaeology, 2015 Although the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has a long history in archaeology, spatial technologies have been rarely used to analyse the content of textual collections.
Patricia Murrieta-Flores, I. Gregory
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Archaeological applications of natural gold analyses [PDF]
Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 2021 Abstract Compositional studies of natural gold usually have a geological focus, but are also important in archaeological provenancing. Both methodologies rely on compositional comparison of two sets of samples, one of which is geographically constrained.
C. D. Standish +4 more
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Machine Learning Arrives in Archaeology
Advances in Archaeological Practice, 2021 Overview Machine learning (ML) is rapidly being adopted by archaeologists interested in analyzing a range of geospatial, material cultural, textual, natural, and artistic data.
Simon H. Bickler
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