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Análisis polínico del yacimiento de Botiquería (Mazaleón, Teruel)

Pilar López García, José Antonio López Sáez, José Juan Sánchez Villapadierna • Trabajos de Prehistoria (1991)

Se realiza el análisis polínico de seis muestras procedentes del yacimiento de Botiqueria de los Moros, situado en la localidad de Mazaleón en la provincia de Teruel. Tomadas de uno de los cortes de la excavación de 1. Barandiarán de 1974. ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3989/tp.1991.v48.i0.537

Photography and archaeology

• Choice Reviews Online (2012)

Through photographs we preserve the past, and looking for the past is the very job of the archaeologist. But what are we looking at in an archaeological photograph? Archaeological photography is often largely deserted, to be scanned with a ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.49-5484

Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past

Victor Buchli, Gavin Lucas • Routledge eBooks (2002)

Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past turns what is usually seen as a method for investigating the distant past onto the present. In doing so, it reveals fresh ways of looking both at ourselves and modern society as well as the discipline ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203185100

The Archaeology of Rank

Paul K. Wason • Cambridge University Press eBooks (1994)

Social archaeology is concerned with how one might use the archaeological record of the present to elucidate how social interactions were ordered in a past society. This requires a meaningful model of society, considerable archaeological da...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511521195

The Craft of Archaeology

Michael Shanks, Randall H. McGuire • American Antiquity (1996)

The idea of archaeology as craft challenges the separation of reasoning and execution that characterizes the field today. The Arts and Crafts Movement of the late nineteenth century established craftwork as an aesthetic of opposition. We es...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0002731600050046

Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology

Hisao Mabuchi, Edward V. Sayre, Pamela B. Vandiver, James R. Druzik et al. • Studies in Conservation (1991)

the purpose of this meeting is to present new and current research which: shares an empirical methodology of observation and measurement; concerns interdisciplinary studies of art, archaeology, architecture, ancient technology, and conserva...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/1506337

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

Archaeologies of Complexity

Robert Chapman • Routledge eBooks (2003)

An up-to-date and critical analysis of how archaeologists study past societies, Archaeologies of Complexity addresses the nature of contemporary archaeology and the study of social change, and debates the transition from perceived simple, e...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203451779

Principles of Archaeological Stratigraphy

A. J. B. Humphreys, Edward Cecil Harris • The South African Archaeological Bulletin (1981)

This book is the only text devoted entirely to archaeological stratigraphy, a subject of fundamental importance to most studies in archaeology. The first edition appeared in 1979 as a result of the invention, by the author, of the Harris Ma...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/3888021

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

African Archaeology

David W. Phillipson • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2005)

Research in Africa is now accepted as an integral part of global archaeological studies. As well as providing archaeologists with the oldest material, Africa is also widely recognised as the birthplace of modern man and his characteristic c...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511800313

Symmetrical archaeology

Michael Shanks • World Archaeology (2007)

Symmetry is an epistemological and ethical principle developed in the social study of scientific practice. This essay connects a symmetrical archaeology to major trends in the discipline since the 1960s and to key components of archaeologic...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00438240701679676

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

Archaeologies of Colonialism

Michael Dietler • University of California Press eBooks (2010)

This book presents a theoretically informed, up-to-date study of interactions between indigenous peoples of Mediterranean France and Etruscan, Greek and Roman colonists during the first millennium B.C. Analyzing archaeological data and anci...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520947948

Archaeology: The Basics

Clive Gamble • Routledge eBooks (2007)

This second edition from our successful Basics series presents another chance to delve into this increasingly popular subject. Fully updated, Archaeology: The Basics has been revised to reflect growth in areas such as material culture, huma...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203007709

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