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Rock Art and Archaeology – a Short Visit to Zolat el Hammad, Northern Sudan

open access: yesArchaeologia Polona, 2020
The striking sandstone formation of Zolat el Hammad is located in the southern Libyan Desert, about halfway between the Middle Wadi Howar and El Atrun. The place has been known for its numerous rock engravings for more than a hundred years.
Friederike Jesse
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Potential responses and resilience of Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age societies to mid-to Late Holocene climate change on the southern Iberian Peninsula

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2021
In this investigation, we use a socio-environmental multi-proxy approach to empirically test hypotheses of recurrent resilience cycles and the role of climate forcing in shaping such cycles on the Iberian Peninsula during mid-Holocene times. Our approach
Mara Weinelt   +4 more
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Stratigraphy and Chronology of Sodicho Rockshelter – A New Sedimentological Record of Past Environmental Changes and Human Settlement Phases in Southwestern Ethiopia

open access: yesFrontiers in Earth Science, 2021
The preservation of archaeological remains and environmental information in a sediment accumulation can vary in caves and rockshelters, depending on external climatic conditions, and the circumstances within the shelter.
Elena A. Hensel   +3 more
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The Casting Mould and the Wetland Find – New Data on the Late Bronze Age Peschiera Daggers

open access: yesDissertationes Archaeologicae: Ex Instituto Archaeologico Universitatis de Rolando Eötvös Nominatae, 2020
This study discusses an unprovenanced dagger mould from the collection of the MoD IMMH1 and a new bronze dagger found in Tahitótfalu-Szentendre Island. Both artefacts belong to the group of Peschiera daggers, which were the most characteristic in Europe ...
Gábor János Tarbay
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Build n burn: using fire as a tool to evoke, educate and entertain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The visceral nature of fire was exploited in the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods in Britain by the burning down of timber buildings and monuments, as well as the cremation of the dead. These big fires would have created memories, perhaps even ‘flashbulb
Brophy, Kenneth   +2 more
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The Role of Sculpture in Communicating Archaeology in Museums [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In this article I discuss an innovative museum strategy that aims to create a more evocative and engaging visitor experience. I argue that the inclusion of contemporary art, and specifically sculpture in exhibition design, activates visitor agency ...
Roberts, LA
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Type Gyermely Hoards and Their Dating A Supplemented Thesis Abstract: A Supplemented Thesis Abstract

open access: yesDissertationes Archaeologicae: Ex Instituto Archaeologico Universitatis de Rolando Eötvös Nominatae, 2020
of PhD thesis submitted in 2019 to the Archaeology Doctoral Programme, Doctoral School of History, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest under the supervision of Gábor V. Szabó.
Gábor János Tarbay
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APIS – A DIGITAL INVENTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE BASED ON REMOTE SENSING DATA [PDF]

open access: yesISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2017
Heritage managers are in need of dynamic spatial inventories of archaeological and cultural heritage that provide them with multipurpose tools to interactively understand information about archaeological heritage within its landscape context ...
M. Doneus   +4 more
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Social and biophysical vulnerability of prehistoric societies to Rapid Climate Change

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2010
Previous studies of the impact of Rapid Climate Change (RCC) on prehistoric com- munities have often been restricted in their explanatory power due to the lack of an appropriate analytical tool capable of combining palaeoclimate data with archaeological ...
Lee Clare, Bernhard Weninger
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