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Sport, Agency and Pigeon Snaring in the Ancient Tongan Chiefdom

open access: yesArchaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pigeon snaring was an élite sport in the traditional Tongan chiefdom, undertaken on purpose‐built mounds known as sia heu lupe. LiDAR imagery combined with field survey and mound documentation on the island of Tongatapu has identified a comprehensive corpus of these sites.
David V. Burley   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Land off Oldmixon Road, Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset: Archaeological Evaluation (OASIS ID: cotswold2-355325)

open access: yes, 2019
An evaluation was carried out on site in March and April 2018 by Cotswold Archaeology; 22 trenches were excavated. Five trenches contained archaeology mainly comprising ditches and pits of Roman date.
Cotswold Archaeology
core   +1 more source

Images from an Evaluation and Watching Brief at the Department of Zoology and Administrative Modular Building, University of Oxford, 2017

open access: yes, 2021
This collection contains photographic images produced by Oxford Archaeology in 2017 when undertaking an archaeological evaluation and watching brief on the proposed site of temporary teaching laboratories between Mansfield and St Cross Road, University ...
Oxford Archaeology (South)
core   +1 more source

Leveraging Big Multitemporal Multisource Satellite Data and Artificial Intelligence for the Detection of Complex and Invisible Features: The Case of Extensive Irrigation Mapping

open access: yesArchaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The detection of buried or obscured archaeological features remains a central challenge in landscape archaeology, particularly in the irrigated floodplains of Mesopotamia where levees and canals formed the basis of complex agrarian systems. This study presents a deep learning–based approach for the large‐scale, automated detection of ancient ...
Nazarij Buławka   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimizing Strategies for Non‐Invasive Prospection of Settlements in the Intertidal Zone: A Case Study From the Centre of the Drowned Medieval Village of Tolsende (Scheldt Estuary, the Netherlands)

open access: yesArchaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Medieval and early modern drowned villages in the intertidal zone of the Scheldt estuary (the Netherlands) constitute intriguing yet largely understudied components of north‐western Europe's underwater cultural heritage. Despite their high archaeological potential as time capsules of past settlement landscapes, research has remained limited ...
Jan Trachet   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Images from an Archaeological Watching Brief at Cable Wayleave, Cirencester Park, Gloucestershire 2017

open access: yes, 2021
This collection comprises images from an archaeological watching brief was undertaken by Cotswold Archaeology during groundworks associated with a series of broadband cable trenches within Cirencester Park ...
Cotswold Archaeology
core   +1 more source

Scanning Parametric Sediment Echosounder as Tool for Underwater Archaeological Prospection

open access: yesArchaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Underwater cultural heritage 3D prospection techniques, especially for remains that are partly buried in the ground, are only very rarely available and often can only be applied with considerable technical effort. To overcome this limitation, we evaluate a methodological adaption of widely used and available single channel parametric sediment ...
Dennis Wilken   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

West Heslerton: WEB-CD The application of HTML and WEB Tools for creating a distibuted excavation archive in the form of a WEB-CD

open access: yesInternet Archaeology, 1998
The excavation between 1986 and 1995 of a complete Early and Middle-Saxon settlement at West Heslerton, North Yorkshire, England, by The Landscape Research Centre on behalf of English Heritage (Archaeology Commissions Programme) remains one of the ...
Dominic Powlesland   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Technology Transfer to Underwater Archaeology: The LAHKE Project at the Submerged Neolithic Site of La Marmotta

open access: yesArchaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This document is a report on the field application of non‐invasive geophysical and robotic prospecting methods at the submerged Neolithic site of La Marmotta (Lake Bracciano, Italy), within the LAHKE (LAke Heritage Knowledge and Exploration) project; the study focuses on the practical validation, adaptation and transfer of existing ...
dell' Erba Ramiro   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

WIGGOLD: The archaeology of a 'lofty open country'. Project Design: Phase 1 (2007) [PDF]

open access: yes
WIGGOLD: The archaeology of a lofty open country is a research project jointly conceived and run by Bournemouth University School of Conservation Sciences,Cotswold Archaeology,and Abbey Home Farm (Cirencester) to promote a greater understanding of the ...
Darvill, Timothy
core   +4 more sources

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