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The Oxford companion to archaeology

• 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...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.34-6037

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

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

Uncovering the Past: DNA Analysis of Skeletal Remains from the Medieval Bosnian City of Bobovac

Mirela Džehverović, Amela Pilav, Belma Jusić, Edin Bujak et al. • Genetics & Applications (2024)

Numerous archaeological sites in Bosnia and Herzegovina represent a historical heritage and testify to the rich cultural, social, and political life of medieval Bosnia. Bobovac, the capital of the Bosnian Kingdom after King Tvrtko I's coron...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.31383/ga.vol8iss1ga04

Oca, origens, cultura e ambiente

Helena Pinto Lima, Cristina Nunes Galvão de Barros Barreto, Fernando Luís Tavares, Gabrielle de Amorim Botelho et al. • Revista Arqueologia Pública (2020)

Apresentamos um conjunto de ações, iniciadas em 2014 e hoje em andamento, no município de Gurupá, Pará. É um trabalho realizado pelo Projeto OCA – Origens, Cultura e Ambiente, do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Este texto discute formas de en...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.20396/rap.v14i1.8659077

Archaeological Theory Today

Ian Hodder (2012)

List of Figures and Tables. List of Contributors. 1. Introduction: A Review of Contemporary Theorectical. Debates in Archaeology (Ian Hodder). 2. Behavioral Archaeology: Toward a New Synthesis (Vincent M. LaMotta and Michael B. Schiffer). 3...

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The Archaeology of Inequality.

Matthew H. Johnson, Randall H. McGuire, Robert Paynter • Man (1992)

The archaeology of inequality - material culture, domination and resistance, Rober T.Paynter and Randall H.McGuire struggling with pots in South Carolina, Leland Ferguson the continued pattern of dominance - landlord and tenant on the postb...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2803940

Archaeologies of Ontology

Benjamin Alberti • Annual Review of Anthropology (2016)

Bruno Latour and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro provided the initial impetus for explicitly ontological research in archaeology. Their impact on archaeologists, however, has been quite different. What I call the “metaphysical archaeologists” tr...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102215-095858

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

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

Archaeology of Knowledge

Michel Foucault • Social Science Information (1970)

In France, a country that awards its intellectuals the status other countries give their rock stars, Michel Foucault was part of a glittering generation of thinkers, one which also included Sartre, de Beauvoir and Deleuze. One of the great ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/053901847000900108

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

A Catalog of Filaments in the Central Molecular Zone

Richard G. Arendt, F. Yusef-Zadeh, I. Heywood • The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (2025)

We present a catalog of 1.28 GHz radio filaments observed by MeerKAT over the innermost 200 pc of the Galaxy (roughly ±1 $\mathop{.}\limits^{\unicode{x000b0}}$ 5), which includes the central molecular zone. The catalog is generated by repur...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/ae1296

Core Scouring Dynamics and Gravitational Wave Consequences: Constraints on Supermassive Black Hole Binary Hardening

C. J. Harris, Kayhan Gültekin, Laura Blecha • The Astrophysical Journal (2026)

We present a multimessenger investigation of supermassive black hole binary (SBHB) hardening by jointly comparing models to the observed stellar mass deficits of nearby core galaxies and to nanohertz gravitational-wave background measuremen...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae9767

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