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First Nations Aboriginal Ring Trees in New South Wales—Establishing a Cultural Context and Basic Archaeological Recording Typology

open access: yesArchaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines ring trees—a type of culturally modified tree, intentionally created by Australian First Nations Aboriginal peoples by manipulating tree growth to form permanent loops (rings) within the structure. Historically, this site type has been underrepresented and underappreciated by academics and archaeologists.
Hannah Morris   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Arboreal Alterations: An Introduction to Culturally Modified Trees (CMTs) in Australia

open access: yesArchaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Culturally modified trees (CMTs) were once ubiquitous throughout the Australian landscape but they have been significantly affected by tree‐clearing practices associated with pastoralism, residential expansion and forestry. These, in addition to effects of bushfires and floods have had a massive impact on the survival of both dead and living ...
Sue O'Connor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Archaeological evaluation : Oldfield Road, Salford [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Salford Archaeology was commissioned by Muse Developments to undertake an archaeological evaluation of land on Oldfield Rd (centred on NGR: SJ82573 98439), currently being developed as part of Salford’s regeneration scheme. This report consists of the
Cook, OE, Mottershead, SC
core   +1 more source

The Architecture of Large Kurgans of the Scythians and Their Periphery: A Challenge for Magnetometer Prospections in the Eurasian Steppe Belt

open access: yesArchaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The burial mounds of the early Iron Age, which we will refer to below as kurgans, from the nomadic equestrian warriors of Eurasia, form a very complex group of archaeological monuments. Archaeological excavations in Aržan 2 (Siberia) and Aleksandropol (Ukraine) show that the large burial mounds are complex architectural constructions.
Jörg W. E. Fassbinder, Anton Gass
wiley   +1 more source

Starry Messages: Searching for Signatures of Interstellar Archaeology

open access: yes, 2009
Searching for signatures of cosmic-scale archaeological artifacts such as Dyson spheres or Kardashev civilizations is an interesting alternative to conventional SETI.
Carrigan Jr, Richard A.
core  

Refrain from Standards? French, Cavemen and Computers. A (short) Story of Multidimensional Analysis in French Prehistoric Archaeology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Focusing on the history of prehistoric archaeology in the 20th century, this papers shows (1) that statistical multidimensional analyses were carried out by a new kind of actors who challenged the previous common language shared by prehistorians.
Plutniak, Sébastien
core   +2 more sources

From Survey to Rescue Excavation: Ground Truthing Geophysical Data From the Timișoara‐Freidorf La Tène Culture Settlement

open access: yesArchaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The current study employs a geophysical approach, integrating magnetic and Electrical Resistivity Tomography techniques, to unveil the Timișoara‐Freidorf La Tène culture settlement in the lowlands of the Banat region, southwestern Romania, within the context of a rescue excavation.
A. C. Ardelean   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pottery Studies and Archaeometry: Between Scientific Analyses and Archaeological Interpretation

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2017
The consideration of the relationship between pottery studies and the application of hard sciences in archaeology includes the scrutiny of the importance of pottery studies in the history of archaeology as a discipline, and especially the differences in ...
Jasna Vuković
doaj   +1 more source

Archaeological applications of naturally occurring nanomagnets

open access: yesJournal of Physics: Conference Series, 2005
The ubiquitous presence of iron minerals within the soils and sediments forming archaeological sites can often provide a valuable record of past human activity. These records are formed through the alteration of weakly magnetic minerals to fine grained iron oxides, such as magnetite or maghaemite, that leave an almost indelible magnetic ''finger print''
openaire   +2 more sources

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