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Le site de Plomb « le Mesnil » (Manche), ixe-xiie siècle. Regard sur l’habitat rural du haut Moyen Âge dans l’Ouest français

Vincent Carpentier • Archéologie Médiévale (2007)

Overhanging a steep sided valley, the rural settlement of “Le Mesnil”, at Plomb (Manche), has yielded evidence of two occupation phases, one attributed to the 9th-10th centuries, the second to the 11th-12th centuries. The medieval settlemen...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.4000/archeomed.23160

Balagrae in the light of new discoveries at the campus of Omar al-Mukhtar University

Dr.Moftah Othman, Dr.Saleh al-Agab, M.Mohamed Al- Touati • مجلة الاتحاد العام للأثاريين العرب (2019)

As a result of the excavation work carried out by the Turkish company for the purpose of building an additional building beside the central library of the University of Omar al- Mukhtar discovered an archaeological site at a depth of a mete...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.21608/JGUAA.2019.6304.1034

To the question of agriculture in the Ananyino cultural and historical region

Chizhevsky Andrei A., Ponomarenko Elena V., Orudzhov Eduard I. • Поволжская археология (2025)

The issue of agriculture in the Ananyino cultural and historical region is one of the most acute in modern archaeology of the Volga region in the Early Iron Age. Since the end of the XIX century and up to the 80s of the XX century, it was c...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.24852/pa2025.1.51.35.42

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

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 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

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

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

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

Seeking the Unseen: A Multimodal Non-Invasive Investigation of a Post-Byzantine Overpainted Icon

Nikoleta V. Nikolaidou, Anastasios Asvestas, Agathi Anthoula Kaminari, Theodoros Panou et al. • Heritage (2025)

Religious panel paintings (icons) play a pivotal role in the rituals of the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church. However, their continuous use often results in physical degradation, prompting remedial interventions. Quite commonly, alteration...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/heritage8090377

Neolithic pottery from the settlement of Mergen 6 in the Lower Ishim (groups III and IV): characteristics and interpretation

Enshin D.N. • Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии (2022)

In this paper, a ceramic complex (groups III and IV) of the early Neolithic settlement of Mergen 6 (Lower Ishim River region, Western Siberia, 7th millennium BC) is examined. The aim of the work is to analyze the materials through the prism...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.20874/2071-0437-2022-57-2-2

Obtaining new resolutions in carnivore tooth pit morphological analyses: A methodological update for digital taphonomy.

Lloyd A Courtenay, Darío Herranz-Rodrigo, Rosa Huguet, Miguel Ángel Maté-González et al. • PLoS ONE (2020)

Modern day investigation in fields of archaeology and palaeontology can be greatly characterised by an exponential growth of integrated new technologies, nevertheless, while these advances are of great significance to multiple lines of rese...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0240328

El género de la deuda. Circulación de la deuda social entre mujeres de Ciudad Juárez, México

Maribel Núñez Rodríguez • Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología (2015)

The intention of this paper is to analyze the social debt contracted by women in southeastern Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), within the theoretical framework of feminist economic anthropology based on ethnographic data collected there during 2012 ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.7440/antipoda21.2015.03

The method for the treatment of pastels of the Instituto Português de Conservação e Restauro

Francisca Figueira, Joana Campelo, Rita Horta Costa • Conservar Património (2005)

A method is presented for the treatment of pastels, which has been developed at the Instituto Português de Conservação e Restauro (IPCR) since 1992. It consists of blotter washing in a humid environment (using ultrasonic humidification) and...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.14568/cp2_3

Tomb of Kairsu discovered in Abusir (AC 33)

Miroslav Bárta, Lucie Jirásková, Jaromír Krejčí, Martin Odler et al. • Pražské Egyptologické Studie (2020)

The tomb of Kairsu is located north of the pyramid of Neferirkare and is part of a so far unexplored cemetery dating to the reign of Neferirkare – Nyuserre. The mastaba features several highly unusual characteristics. Basalt blocks had been...

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Archaeology as Anthropology

Lewis R. Binford • American Antiquity (1962)

Abstract It is argued that archaeology has made few contributions to the general field of anthropology with regard to explaining cultural similarities and differences. One major factor contributing to this lack is asserted to be the tendenc...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/278380

Archaeology as Human Ecology

Karl W. Butzer • Cambridge University Press eBooks (1982)

Archaeology as Human Ecology is a new introduction to concepts and methods in archaeology. It deals not with artifacts, but with sites, settlements, and subsistence. Karl W. Butzer's goal is to interpret the ecosystem of which an archaeolog...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511558245