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Characterization of Ancient Tripitaka

Y. X. Gong, L. Geng, D. C. Gong • The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences (2015)

Tripitaka is the world’s most comprehensive version of Buddhist sutra. There are limited numbers of Tripitaka currently preserved, most of them present various patterns of degradation. As little is known about the materials and crafts used...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-5-W7-159-2015

Review of Novum Inventorium Sepulchrale: Kentish Anglo-Saxon Graves and Grave Goods in the Sonia Chadwick Hawkes Archive (Online Digital Corpus)

Tara-Jane Sutcliffe • Internet Archaeology (2008)

In 2007, the year in which the Society of Antiquaries of London celebrated its tercentenary, what more fitting tribute to those industrious individuals than that their work be made accessible to a new generation of students. One means was b...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.11141/ia.23.6

Agricultural Transformations and Their Influential Factors Revealed by Archaeobotanical Evidence in Holocene Jiangsu Province, Eastern China

Haiming Li, Haiming Li, Haiming Li, Zhen Liu et al. • Frontiers in Earth Science (2021)

The development and adoption of agriculture has been investigated for decades, and remains a central topic within archaeology. However, most previous studies focus on the crop’s domestication centers, leading to gaps in knowledge, particula...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/feart.2021.661684

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

Palaeoenvironments and hominin evolutionary dynamics in southeast Asia

Anne-Marie Bacon, Nicolas Bourgon, Elise Dufour, Fabrice Demeter et al. • Scientific Reports (2023)

Abstract Secure environmental contexts are crucial for hominin interpretation and comparison. The discovery of a Denisovan individual and associated fauna at Tam Ngu Hao 2 (Cobra) Cave, Laos, dating back to 164–131 ka, allows for environmen...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-43011-2

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 Animals

Simon Davis • Routledge eBooks (2012)

Ever since the discovery of fossil remains of extinct animals associated with flint implements, bones and other animal remains have been providing invaluable information to the archaeologist. In the last 20 years many archaeologists and zoo...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203060131

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

Archaeology of Death

Robert Chapman, Ian Kinnes, Klavs Randsborg (1981)

List of contributors Preface 1. Approaches to the archaeology of death Robert Chapman and Klavs Randsborg 2. The search for rank in prehistoric burials James A. Brown 3. Social configurations and the archaeological study of mortuary practic...

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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

Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology

Hisao Mabuchi, Edward V. Sayre, Pamela B. Vandiver, James R. Druzik et al. • Studies in Conservation (1991)

the purpose of this meeting is to present new and current research which: shares an empirical methodology of observation and measurement; concerns interdisciplinary studies of art, archaeology, architecture, ancient technology, and conserva...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/1506337

Symmetrical archaeology

Michael Shanks • World Archaeology (2007)

Symmetry is an epistemological and ethical principle developed in the social study of scientific practice. This essay connects a symmetrical archaeology to major trends in the discipline since the 1960s and to key components of archaeologic...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00438240701679676

Archaeology of Ancient Australia

Peter Dixon Hiscock • Routledge eBooks (2007)

This book is an introduction to the archaeology of Australia from prehistoric times to the eighteenth century AD. It is the only up-to-date textbook on the subject and is designed for undergraduate courses, based on the author's considerabl...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203448359

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