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The Sacred Engagement: Outline of a hypothesis about the origin of human ‘religious intelligence’. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The question that motivates the central hypothesis advanced in this paper regarding the emergence of early religious thinking is the following: ‘why does religion need material\ud culture?’ What basic functional or symbolic need renders material culture ...
Malafouris, Dr Lambros
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Predictive Archaeological Risk Assessment at Reservoirs with Multitemporal LiDAR and Machine Learning (XGBoost): The Case of Valdecañas Reservoir (Spain)

open access: yesRemote Sensing
The conservation and monitoring of archaeological sites submerged in water reservoirs have become increasingly necessary in a climatic context where water management policies are possibly accelerating erosion and sedimentation processes.
Enrique Cerrillo-Cuenca   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Freshwater Mussel Shells as Indicators of Seasonal Occupation of Archaeological Sites: Review of the Method [PDF]

open access: yes, 1976
Seasonal occupation of sites and utilization of resources by aborigines is a subject of growing importance to prehistoric archeologists; however, relatively few satisfactory techniques are available for making the necessary determinations.
Ray, Robert H.
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The material origin of numbers: Insights from the archaeology of the Ancient Near East [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
What are numbers, and where do they come from? A novel answer to these timeless questions is proposed by cognitive archaeologist Karenleigh A. Overmann, based on her groundbreaking study of material devices used for counting in the Ancient Near East ...
Overmann, Karenleigh Anne
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Archaeology of Atafu, Tokelau: Some initial results from 2008 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Surface survey, shovel testing, and stratigraphic excavations were done on Atafu Atoll in Tokelau during August 2008. Initial results suggest that Fale Islet has the most potential for further archaeological research.
Addison, David J.   +7 more
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