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The Archaeology of Human Bones

Simon A. Mays • Routledge eBooks (2010)

The Archaeology of Human Bones provides an up to date account of the scientific analysis of human skeletal remains from archaeological sites. This completely revised edition reflects the latest developments in scientific techniques for stud...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203851777

The Archaeology of the Caribbean

Samuel M. Wilson • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2007)

A comprehensive synthesis of Caribbean prehistory from the earliest settlement by humans more than 4000 years BC, to the time of European conquest of the islands. The Caribbean was the last large area in the Americas to be populated, and it...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511816505

Models in Archaeology

David L. Clarke • Routledge eBooks (2014)

This major study reflects the increasing significance of careful model formation and testing in those academic subjects that are struggling from intuitive and aesthetic obscurantism toward a more disciplined and integrated approach to their...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315748474

Amazonian Archaeology

Michael Heckenberger, Eduardo Góes Neves • Annual Review of Anthropology (2009)

Amazonian archaeology has made major advances in recent decades, particularly in understanding coupled human environmental systems. Like other tropical forest regions, prehistoric social formations were long portrayed as small-scale, disper...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-091908-164310

Symbolic and Structural Archaeology

• Cambridge University Press eBooks (1982)

This volume presents a searching critique of the more traditional archaeological methodologies and interpretation strategies and lays down a firm philosophical and theoretical basis for symbolist and structuralist studies in archaeology. A ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511558252

Understanding the Archaeological Record

Gavin Lucas • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2012)

This book explores the diverse understandings of the archaeological record in both historical and contemporary perspective, while also serving as a guide to reassessing current views. Gavin Lucas argues that archaeological theory has become...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511845772

The Oxford companion to archaeology

• Choice Reviews Online (1997)

When we think of archaeology, most of us think first of its many spectacular finds: the legendary city of Troy, Tutankhamun's golden tomb, the three-million-year-old footprints at Laetoli, the mile-high city at Machu Picchu, the cave painti...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.34-6037

The Neolithic Settlement Landscape of the Southeastern Swabian Alb

Corina Knipper, Susan K. Harris, Lynn Fisher, Rainer Schreg et al. • Journal of Neolithic Archaeology (2005)

This paper presents goals, methods, and preliminary results of a collaborative project investigating Neolithic settlement and land use of the southeastern Swabian Alb limestone plateau region in southwestern Germany. The project combines sy...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.12766/jna.2005.12

Analysis of Chemical Composition of Non-Ferrous Metal Items from the Ananyino Burial Ground

Saprykina Irina А., Kuz’minykh Sergei V., Pelgunova Lubov А. • Поволжская археология (2016)

The article presents results of an analysis conducted by the authors in order to study chemical composition of items from non-ferrous metals found on the Ananyino burial ground. A number of research methods, including OES, XRF and TXRF was ...

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Widespread geographic distribution of filarioid nematodes in caribou (Rangifer tarandus sspp.) in Canada

Aparna Mariyam Thomas, Guilherme G. Verocai, John Soghigian, Fabien Mavrot et al. • International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife (2025)

The caribou (Rangifer tarandus sspp.) is a keystone wildlife species in northern ecosystems that plays a central role in the culture, spirituality and food security of Indigenous People. The Arctic is currently experiencing an unprecedented...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.ijppaw.2024.101030

Instrumenta de los murileguli. Una visión desde el taller de púrpura romano de Lobos 1 (isla de Lobos, Fuerteventura, Islas Canarias)

Ramón Cebrián-Guimerá, María del Carmen Del Arco-Aguilar, María Mercedes Del Arco-Aguilar, José Ángel Afonso-Vargas • Lucentum (2026)

Las excavaciones en el yacimiento de Lobos 1, de época tardorrepublicana y altoimperial, han proporcionado un importante registro de las herramientas usadas por los trabajadores de la púrpura. Realizamos un estudio, de forma contextual y em...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.14198/LVCENTVM.29345

Pergunte ao pó: Considerações sobre o início da preservação arqueológica em São Nicolau/RS

Tobias Vilhena de Moraes • Revista Arqueologia Pública (2015)

Este artigo tratará de uma reflexão sobre a consolidação do conceito de Preservação Arqueológica nas Missões Jesuítico-Guaranis, localizadas no sul do Brasil. A análise concentrar-se-á, particularmente, no período final dos anos 1970, quand...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.20396/rap.v9i1.8639475

Morphological features of the Eneolithic — Early Bronze population as a result of adaptation to the geographical and bioclimatic conditions of the Altai highlands

Solodovnikov K.N., Kravchenko G.G., Rykun M.P. • Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии (2018)

This paper is aimed at scrutinizing the dependence between the morphological features of the Eneolithic — Early Bronze population and the geographical and bioclimatic conditions in the Altai valleys and intermountain basins. Across the terr...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.20874/2071-0437-2018-43-4-120-135

Rings of Power or in Search of Early Elites

Igor Manzura • Archaeologia Lituana (2022)

The article discusses the problem of identification of prehistoric elites on the example of the Usatovo culture. Archaeological evidence allows us to discern in the culture three separate strata or classes which are conditionally designated...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.15388/ArchLit.2022.23.7

Handbook of Archaeological Sciences

A. Mark Pollard, Don R. Brothwell • University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (2001)

List of Contributors. Foreword: Martin Aitken FRS. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Archaeological Science: A current Perspective (D. Brothwell & A. Pollard). DATING.Overview -- Dating in Archaeology: Past, Present and Future (R. Hedges). Qu...

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The archaeology of knowledge

Gary M. Gutting • Cambridge University Press eBooks (1989)

It would be too much to claim that the histories of thought Foucault wrote before the methodological reflections of AK were, from the beginning, part of a single coherent project. He himself remarks that it was only after finishing OT that ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139172141.008

Nomads in Archaeology

Roger Cribb • Cambridge University Press eBooks (1991)

Nomads in Archaeology addresses the problem of how to study mobile peoples using archaeological techniques. It therefore deals not only with the prehistory and archaeology of nomads but also with current issues in theory and methodology, pa...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511552205

Archaeologies of Ontology

Benjamin Alberti • Annual Review of Anthropology (2016)

Bruno Latour and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro provided the initial impetus for explicitly ontological research in archaeology. Their impact on archaeologists, however, has been quite different. What I call the “metaphysical archaeologists” tr...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102215-095858

A Companion to archaeology

• Choice Reviews Online (2004)

Bintliff, John, ed., A Companion to Archaeology. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. word archaeology conjures up images of people in pith helmets digging into the sandy earth of the desert or monumental buildings rising above jungle foliag...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.42-1649