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Artemis Papatheodorou • Diyâr
(2020)
From its earliest days, photography was linked to material remains of the past. Western pioneers of the medium were attracted to photographing Ottoman lands, especially the land of the Pharaohs, and the Holy Land. The Ottomans also seized u...
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DOI: 10.5771/2625-9842-2020-1-108
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315748474
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-091908-164310
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511800313
• 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 ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511558252
Anthony Snodgrass • University of California Press eBooks
(1987)
Classical archaeology probably enjoys a wider appeal than any other branch of classical or archaeological studies. As an intellectual and academic discipline, however, its esteem has not matched its popularity. Here, Anthony Snodgrass argue...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520912786
• 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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.34-6037
Giovanna Marussi, Matteo Crosera, Stefano Fornasaro, Elena Pavoni et al. • Heritage
(2026)
This study investigates 49 gold solidi issued between the 4th and 5th century AD to determine their chemical composition. The coins were first catalogued by recording mass, diameter, and thickness. All specimens underwent non-destructive µ-...
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DOI: 10.3390/heritage9010038
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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Jan-Michael Cayme • SPAFA Journal
(2021)
Countries in Southeast Asia have a unique and diverse culture due to its varied ethnic groups having different traditions and beliefs. The process of manufacturing building materials such as brick masonry is one aspect where this distinctiv...
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DOI: 10.26721/spafajournal.2021.5.651
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...
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijppaw.2024.101030
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...
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0240328
Andrea Seelenfreund, Carole Sinclaire, Patricio De Souza, María Inés Dinator et al. • Estudios Atacameños
(2004)
Se entregan los resultados del estudio preliminar de caracterización por métodos fisicoquímicos (PIXE y EDXRF) y mineralógico de muestras líticas identificadas a nivel macroscópico como "basalto vítreo" procedentes de sitios arqueológicos d...
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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 ...
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DOI: 10.7440/antipoda21.2015.03
Zdeňka Měchurová • Archaeologia Historica
(2013)
Poprvé na tento fenomén upozornil J. L. Píč v roce 1904 po nálezu dvou tauzií zdobených seker u Palackého mostu v Praze-Podskalí. Podle žlutého plátování jedné z nich se soudilo na pozlacené exempláře doby hradištní. B. Novotný v roce 1956 ...
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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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/278380
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511558245
A. Mark Pollard, Carl P. Heron, R. D. Gillard • Royal Society of Chemistry eBooks
(2008)
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...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/9781847558299
Yannis Hamilakis, Andrew Meirion Jones • Cambridge Archaeological Journal
(2017)
Assemblage is a concept common to a number of academic disciplines, most notably archaeology and art, but also geology and palaeontology. Archaeology can claim a special link to the term assemblage, though novel approaches to the concept of...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959774316000688
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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