Academic Articles & Research Papers

Cladistics and archaeology

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 ...

Nationalism and Archaeology in Europe

Archaeologists from many different European countries here explore the very varied relationship between nationalistic ideas and archaeological activity through the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The resurgence of national...

Gender and Archaeology

Gender and Archaeology. Rita P. Wright. ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. 296 pp....

Evolutionary Theory and Archaeology

Encyclopedia of archaeology

is a subject that fascinates us. From Egyptian tombs to a frozen Alpine wayfarer, from cities buried under volcanic ash to stone arrow heads turned up by the plow, archaeology is in the news and in our backyards. It is paradoxical that a su...

Archaeology

The “science of old things,” archaeology is marked by its care, obligation, and loyalty to things, from ancient cities in the Mexican heartland and megalithic monuments in Britain to the perfume jars of the ancient Greek city-state and Leic...

Seeing the Unseen. Geophysics and Landscape Archaeology

Selected Contents: List of lecturers List of students Program of the school Preface Introduction Acknowledgments Theoretical Section Field Work Section Author index Colour plates...

Handbook of geophysics and archaeology

Geophysics influences a wide range of subjects, from environmental studies to archaeology, palaeontology to counter-terrorism and law enforcement. 'Handbook of Geophysics and Archaeology' offers a comprehensive overview of geophysical techn...

Addressing Problems beyond Heritage, Patrimony, and Representation:  Reflections on Twenty Years of Community Archaeology in the Southwestern Maya Lowlands

Collaborative or community archaeology as a methodological approach has a long history and is becoming increasingly common in the Maya world. This article draws from the authors’ experiences on three distinct archaeological projects to disc...

Seeing Race in Biblical Egypt: Edwin Longsden Long’s Anno Domini (1883) and A. H. Sayce’s The Races of the Old Testament (1891)

To download this paper, please click here.This paper discusses the impact of ideas about the historical and racial origins of the Holy Family that are captured in the painting Anno Domini or the Flight into Egypt (1883/4) by Edwin Longsden ...

Volcanic Pozzolan from the Phlegraean Fields in the Structural Mortars of the Roman Temple of Nora (Sardinia)

In this paper, we discuss the presence of volcanic pozzolans in the structural mortars of the Roman Temple of Nora in Sardinia (3rd c. AD), represented by pyroclastic rocks (pumices and tuffs) employed as coarse and fine aggregates. The pro...

Early Islamic manufacture of crucible steel at Merv, Turkmenistan

Are museums the future of evolutionary medicine?

ALL-IN-ONE LASER SCANNING METHODS FOR SURVEYING, REPRESENTING AND SHARING INFORMATION ON ARCHAEOLOGY. VIA FLAMINIA AND THE FURLO TUNNEL COMPLEX

The aim of this paper is to describe the results of the laser scanner survey of an archaeological complex, aimed at knowledge, documentation and diagnostic operations to make premises secure. Archaeology has always been the most complex su...

My experience in pseudoarchaeology

Core of Romanticism

Review of the book: Isaija Berlin, 2012. Koreni romantizma, Melonova predavanja u Nacionalnoj umetničkoj galeriji, 1965. Vašington, DS (urednik britanskog izdanja: Henri Hardi; preveo sa engleskog: Branimir Gligorić; stihove prevela: Nataša...

Zooarqueología de una unidad doméstica Formativa: El caso de Loma Alta (Catamarca, Argentina) Zooarchaeology of a Formative domestic unit: The case of Loma Alta (Catamarca, Argentina)

El propósito de este trabajo es el de aportar datos e interpretaciones de la economía de una unidad doméstica de un sitio del Período Formativo del noroeste argentino (Loma Alta Núcleo E) relacionada con el manejo de camélidos. El registro ...

The song of air and water: Acoustic experiments with an Ecuadorian Whistle Bottle (c.900 BC–100 BC)

In Ecuador, bottles as containers for liquids appeared in the Late Formative period at the end of the Machalilla culture (1600 BC to 800 BC). Whistle bottles were created and perfected during the Chorrera culture (900 BC to 100 BC), and fin...

Weirs in the Waterworks of the Tsarev Settlement

The location and design of weirs as part of water supply system on the Tsarev settlement and its neighborhood are considered in the article. The descriptions of the 19th – early 20th cc. and archaeological data made it possible to establish...

Representing and Visualizing Archaeology. The Contribution of Graphic Sciences to Research in Archaeology

This article discusses the role of images in archaeological disciplines and the contribution that graphic sciences can make to research in this subject area. In archaeology, and not only, ‘visualization’ differs significantly from the more ...