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Public outreach and the "hows" of archaeology : archaeology as a model for education
, 2000 Jon Daehnke
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The Junction of Immersive Analytics and Virtual Reconstructions -- A Case Study on the Mausoleum of Emperor Maxentius [PDF]
arXivVirtual Archaeology has significantly evolved over the last decades through advancements in data acquisition and representation by, e.g., improved data recording technologies and virtual reality devices. Immersive environments provide novel ways to present historical events or objects with high visual quality for both, the general public as well as ...
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Affective assemblages of kinship and single mothers’ labour migration from a ‘climate hotspot’
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.In coastal Bangladesh, ‘affective assemblages of kinship’ produce differential abilities for landless single mothers to migrate to brick kilns, the garment industry, and the Gulf. This group of women who return to their natal homes as a response to violence or abandonment is neglected by anthropologists of kinship and migration. Thinking of assemblages
Camelia Dewan
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Open Archaeology, 2018 In his paper ‘Quantitative analysis of open-source data on metal detecting for cultural property’, Samuel Hardy suggested that permissive policy is ineffective in minimizing the damage done to cultural heritage by non-professional metal detecting.
Deckers Pieterjan +5 more
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Unbiased Cultural Transmission in Time-Averaged Archaeological Assemblages [PDF]
arXiv, 2012 Unbiased models are foundational in the archaeological study of cultural transmission. Applications have as- sumed that archaeological data represent synchronic samples, despite the accretional nature of the archaeological record. I document the circumstances under which time-averaging alters the distribution of model predictions.
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Crowd-sourcing archaeological research: HeritageTogether digital public archaeology in practice
, 2015 Archaeologists are increasingly working with crowd-sourced digital data. Using evidence from other disciplines about the nature of crowd-sourcing in academic research, we suggest that archaeological projects using donated data can usefully be ...
S. Griffiths +8 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article proposes that stigmas connected to social categories of exclusion prevalent during life extend into dealings with the dead, here referred to as ‘necro‐ostracism’, in the context of death and burial of Muslim nomadic populations in urban Afghanistan. Based on qualitative fieldwork carried out in Kabul, Herat, and Mazar‐e Sharif, it explores
Annika Schmeding
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The satellite archaeological survey of Egypt [PDF]
arXiv, 2011 A recent announcement of some pyramids, buried under the sand of Egypt and discovered by means of infrared remote sensing, renewed the interest on the archaeological surveys aided by satellites. Here we propose the use of images, obtained from those of Google Maps after some processing to enhance their details, to locate archaeological remains in Egypt.
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Activists fighting evictions in Madrid develop various social, affective, and material connections with and disconnections from their homes. This is especially important for people who are immersed in a regime of economic austerity and neoliberal housing policies that have provoked the social and material unmaking and remaking of homes. These processes
Ana Paola Gutiérrez Garza
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Mind: An Archaeological Perspective [PDF]
In R. A. Bentley, H. D. G. Maschner, & C. Chippendale (Eds.),
Handbook of theories and methods in archaeology (pp. 283-296). Walnut Creek,
CA: Altamira Press.(2008), 2013 What can relics of the past tell us about the thoughts and beliefs of the people who invented and used them? Recent collaborations at the frontier of archaeology, anthropology, and cognitive science are culminating in speculative but nevertheless increasingly sophisticated efforts to unravel how modern human cognition came about. By considering objects
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