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Are We There Yet? A Review and Assessment of Archaeological Passive Airborne Optical Imaging Approaches in the Light of Landscape Archaeology

open access: yesGeosciences, 2017
Archaeologists often rely on passive airborne optical remote sensing to deliver some of the core data for (European) landscape archaeology projects.
Geert J. Verhoeven
doaj   +1 more source

The Influence of Environmental Factors on the Quality of GPR Data: The Borre Monitoring Project

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2022
The Borre Monitoring Project investigated how environmental factors, in particular, precipitation and soil moisture variation as well as different soil and sediment types, affect the quality of GPR data collected for archaeological purposes.
Petra Schneidhofer   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Patterns of Enslavement and Economic Oppression of Central Virginia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
I address how anthropologists can identify the patterns and development of slavery and economic oppression through archaeology and the visualization of Virginia enslavement. I focus on the enslaved people of James Madison\u27s Montpelier.
Bedwell, Hannah
core   +1 more source

Asymmetry of Caddo Ceramics from the Washington Square Mound Site: An Exploratory Analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
While pursuing a study of 3D geometric morphometrics for ceramic burial vessels that often articulate with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) from the ancestral Caddo region, there have been no shortage of potentially ...
Selden, Robert Z., Jr.
core   +2 more sources

Claiming kinship through ‘filial heart’: migrant care workers in ageing Shanghai Revendiquer la parenté par le « cœur filial » : travailleurs migrants du care dans Shanghai vieillissante

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Drawing on the ethnography of migrant care workers in eldercare in Shanghai, this article reveals the evolving landscape of caregiving and kinship practices in contemporary China. The ethnography presents the emic perspective of care workers, who actively develop symbolic trajectories for claiming kinship through ‘filial heart’ in caregiving.
Xinyuan Wang
wiley   +1 more source

MODELLING BUILDING COSTS FROM 3D BUILDING MODELS – ESTIMATING THE CONSTRUCTION EFFORT FROM IMAGE-BASED SURFACE MODELS OF DRY-STONE SHEPHERD SHELTERS (KRAS, SLOVENIA) [PDF]

open access: yesThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2019
In the second half of the 19th and early 20th century, sheep shepherds have built dry-stone shelters all over the Slovene Kras (or Karst) region. Despite being made out of stones that are interlocked without the use of any binding material, many of these
S. Štuhec, G. Verhoeven, I. Štuhec
doaj   +1 more source

Using electronic resources to support dialogue in undergraduate small‐group teaching: The ASTER project [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Learning through dialogue is an important element of UK higher education, supported by tutorial, seminar and workshop classes. Since 1998, the ASTER project has been exploring how Information and Communication Technologies support learning in small ...
Condron, Frances
core   +2 more sources

Kinship through code, personhood as node: AI afterlives and new technologies of the self Parenté par le code, personne nodale : vie posthume dans l'IA et nouvelles technologies du moi

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article examines how emerging generative AI technologies in Europe and North America are being used to reanimate the dead, prompting users to define the ‘edges’ of self and personhood through coding practices. These technologies invite new engagements with fundamental questions of relatedness and the construction of the self, challenging and ...
Jennifer Cearns
wiley   +1 more source

Engaging with the Canopy—Multi-Dimensional Vegetation Mark Visualisation Using Archived Aerial Images

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2016
Using Montarice in central Adriatic Italy as a case study, this paper focuses on the extraction of the spectral (i.e., plant colour) and geometrical (i.e., plant height) components of a crop canopy from archived aerial photographs, treating both ...
Geert Verhoeven, Frank Vermeulen
doaj   +1 more source

Documentation and modelling of a hypothetical reconstruction of the first Roman watermill in Hispania

open access: yesVirtual Archaeology Review, 2021
The accurate graphic survey of an archaeological site is fundamental for its analysis and research. Furthermore, if this site is to be covered by a building and will not be accessible or visible, its documentation is essential, not only to continue with ...
Josefina García-León   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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