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Archaeological Chemistry

A. Mark Pollard, Carl P. Heron, R. D. Gillard • Royal Society of Chemistry eBooks (1996)

The application of chemistry within archaeology is an important and fascinating area. It allows the archaeologist to answer such questions as "what is this artefact made of?", "where did it come from?" and "how has it been changed through b...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/9781847550156

A History of Archaeological Thought

Bruce G. Trigger • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2006)

In its original edition, Bruce Trigger's book was the first ever to examine the history of archaeological thought from medieval times to the present in world-wide perspective. Now, in this new edition, he both updates the original work and ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511813016

Archaeology and Modernity

Julian Thomas • Routledge eBooks (2004)

This is the first book-length study to explore the relationship between archaeology and modern thought, showing how philosophical ideas that developed in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries still dominate our approach to the material re...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203491119

An archaeology of capitalism

Prof Christopher, N. Matthews • Choice Reviews Online (1996)

Capitalism has been the focus of a great deal of social thinking and activity since the 18th-century. Understanding capitalism as both an economic and a cultural phenomenon has shed light on its inner workings as a system as well as guided ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.33-5878

The Archaeology of Ethnicity

Sian B Jones • Routledge eBooks (2002)

The question of ethnicity is highly controversial in contemporary archaeology. Indigenous and nationalist claims to territory, often rely on reconstructions of the past based on the traditional identification of 'cultures' from archaeologic...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203438732

The Archaeology of Personhood

Chris Fowler • Routledge eBooks (2004)

Bringing together a wealth of research in social and cultural anthropology, philosophy and related fields, this is the first book to address the contribution that an understanding of personhood can make to our interpretations of the past Ap...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203583210

Archaeology and the Senses

Yannis Hamilakis • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2013)

This book is an exciting new look at how archaeology has dealt with the bodily senses and offers an argument for how the discipline can offer a richer glimpse into the human sensory experience. Yannis Hamilakis shows how, despite its intens...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139024655

Grand challenges for archaeology

Keith Kintigh, Jeffrey H. Altschul, Mary C. Beaudry, Robert D. Drennan et al. • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2014)

Archaeology is a source of essential data regarding the fundamental nature of human societies. Researchers across the behavioral and social sciences use archeological data in framing foundational arguments. Archaeological evidence frequentl...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1324000111 PMC: 3903258

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

Archaeology: The Key Concepts

Colin Renfrew • Routledge eBooks (2013)

From two of the best-known archaeological writers in the trade, this outstanding resource provides a thorough survey of the key ideas in archaeology, and how they impact on archaeological thinking and method. Clearly written, and easy to fo...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203491096

The archaeological process

Ian Hodder (1999)

List of Illustrations. Preface: Digging Outside the Shelter. Acknowledgements. 1. Crises in Global Archaeology. 2. Archaeology - Bridging Humanity and Science. 3. How do Archaeologists Reason?. 4. Interpreting Material Culture. 5. Towards a...

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Cladistics and archaeology

• Choice Reviews Online (2004)

is a method used in biology and paleobiology to establish phylogeny: what produced what and in what order. It is a very specific method, developed in Germany in the 1950s and currently the primary phylogenetic method in the world. has also ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.41-6619

Measurement of the Y(1S) pair production cross section and search for resonances decaying to Y(1S)μ+μ− in proton-proton collisions at s=13TeV

A.M. Sirunyan, A. Tumasyan, W. Adam, F. Ambrogi et al. • Physics Letters B (2020)

The fiducial cross section for Y(1S) pair production in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV in the region where both Y(1S) mesons have an absolute rapidity below 2.0 is measured to be 79±11(stat)±6(syst)±3(B)pb ass...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2020.135578

Best practice relief supply for emergency services in a developed economy

Mark M.J. Wilson, Peter Tatham, John Payne, Cécile L’Hermitte et al. • Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management (2018)

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the challenges inherent in planning and responding to disaster events in a multi-agency context where numerous governmental and non-governmental actors and agencies are involved in the plann...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1108/JHLSCM-03-2017-0008

Quantifying the Overlap between Cadastral and Visual Boundaries: A Case Study from Vanuatu

Xianghuan Luo, Rohan Bennett, Mila Koeva, Christiaan Lemmen et al. • Urban Science (2017)

Cadastres are argued as an essential tool to support land tenure security. Low cadastral coverage in developing countries creates a driver for innovative methods to expedite the mapping processes. As a human construct, the morphology of par...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/urbansci1040032

Pengembangan Ketahanan Pangan Melalui Pemberdayaan Masyarakat di Kawasan Rawan Konflik Timika Papua

Rizal Syarief, Sumardjo, Agit Kriswantriyono, Yulia Puspadewi Wulandari • Jurnal Ilmu Pertanian Indonesia (2017)

Conflict handling in Papua so far is more often done with the repressive approach. The impact of conflict level is not decreasing, even international rejection is increasing. For that reason, a more humanistic approach is needed, including ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.18343/jipi.22.3.163