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The Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation and the Department of Archaeology at Ghent University are delighted to announce an upcoming International Conference entitled "GIS in Crete: Archaeological Questions and Computational Answers", which will take place in Athens on 30-31 May 2024. This conference aims to...
Call for Papers: International Workshop, 26-27 January 2024, Munich: New Perspectives on Personifications in Roman, Late Antique and Early Byzantine Art (200-800 AD).
Please submit an abstract of 300 words and a bio of 100 words by 15 September 2023.
The aim of this workshop is to explore the formal patterns, roles and meanings, continuities an...
The 2nd International Congress on Roman Bioarchaeology will take place at the Science and Technology in Archaeology and Culture Research Center (STARC), The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus, from the 26th to 28th of October 2023, in a hybrid format. Its aim is to provide an international forum for scholars working on sites across the Roman Empire...
In 2022, the ACE & CREATIVITY blog of the University of Liverpool, Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology started with the aim of encouraging – and giving the chance to – undergraduates, postgraduate, and early career researchers to express their creativity and engage with Antiquity. The blog has been published monthly on the ACE depart...
The Amosian oracles against the nations (Amos 1:3–2:16) with the superscription (Amos 1:1–2), present an important source for all disciplines of peri-exilic scholarship—from biblical studies to Ancient Near Eastern history and archeology. This paper suggests a new approach to their dating. While scholars have generally maintained that Amoian corpus...
The objective of the research is to document this information in systematic and scientific pattern. Previously no any archaeologists study in this tomb. Researcher selects this tomb decided to archaeological record. Sindh is the second largest province of Pakistan which is fertile and rich in cultural heritage both tangible and intangible in which...
El desarrollo de la Arqueología de época visigoda en las últimas décadas de la investigación hispánica representa el descubrimiento de una realidad cultural y patrimonial que rompe con la tradicional imagen regresiva atribuida a las postrimerías de nuestro pasado clásico.
Las jornadas tienen por objetivo la confrontación y difusión de los resultado...
ABSTRAK Kepedulian masyarakat terhadap pelestarian warisan budaya sekarang ini semakin besar. Hal ini dibuktikan dengan semakin banyaknya komunitas pemerhati warisan budaya yang secara aktif mendatangi situs-situs arkeologi. Namun, tidak jarang komunitas tersebut tidak tahu bagaimana mereka dapat membantu proses pelestarian warisan budaya secara le...
Se presentan los resultados de las primeras intervenciones desarrolladas en el marco del proyecto multidisciplinario de Arqueología Ferroviaria en la Provincia de Tucumán (Argentina), las cuales tuvieron lugar en el Sitio Estación Monteagudo (Departamento de Simoca), una de las primeras estaciones ferroviarias edificadas con la llegada del ferrocar...
The Tichitt culture of the Ceramic Late Stone Age is known for its large settlement sites, built from dry stone walls. It is centered on the cliffs of southeastern Mauritania, but its links to the Middle Niger and the later urban developments there have long been a topic of research. This article adds a further piece of evidence linking the two reg...
Since the 19th century, the study of shell middens has played an important role in archaeological research. Shell midden and broader coastal archaeology have transformed our understanding of human relationships with aquatic habitats, demonstrating the importance of marine environments to human evolution and ecology, the colonization of islands and...
Na Amazônia, os animais além de terem sido utilizados para o consumo e fornecimento de matérias prima, são criados, cuidados e algumas vezes, enterrados. Este trabalho apresenta um estudo de caso sobre as relações vivenciadas por pessoas com os seus animais de criação em Santarém-PA. Foram realizadas 12 entrevistas com pessoas que atualmente possue...
O Brazilian Zooarch Database (ZooarchBR) é o primeiro banco de dados zooarqueológico colaborativo e de acesso aberto do Brasil, em que o usuário pode visualizar e contribuir na inserção de novos dados para expansão da fauna registrada em sítios arqueológicos no país. Atualmente, o ZooarchBR é composto por 71 publicações produzidas entre 1975 e 2022...
El propósito de este trabajo no es una simple exploración de arqueología económica, es demostrar la importancia de una reforma monetaria combinada con políticas económicas y sociales que han permitido avanzar hacia un proceso de afianzamiento de la institucionalidad y un crecimiento económico con equidad, basado en los principios de equilibrio macr...
Tradicionalmente, as pesquisas arqueológicas na Amazônia se voltam para as ocupações indígenas pré-coloniais, ou, quando se ocupam do período pós-colonial, se concentram nos grandes centros urbanos. O período histórico pós-colonial em cidades periféricas é, por sua vez, pouco pesquisado. Em resposta a esse panorama, implantou-se o projeto de pesqui...
Neste artigo, discutiremos, através de uma experiência compartilhada de pesquisadores indígenas Wai Wai e não indígena [karaiwa], a análise e classificação de artefatos cerâmicos arqueológicos Pocó e Konduri, que fazem parte da coleção da Casa de Cultura da Prefeitura de Oriximiná/PA. Essa diferença de olhares sobre as peças cerâmicas gerou interpr...
Mountain ranges comprise a high variety of landscapes and ecologies. This chapter presents a detailed case study from the Western Taurus Mountains (Southwest Turkey) where many of these variabilities occur on a microscale. Here, we investigate to what extent this landscape diversity is reflected in the local archaeology. By comparing the archaeolog...
Significant riverine archaeological sites around the world are vulnerable to flooding associated with climate change. However, identifying sites most at risk is not straightforward. We critically review the parameters used in 22 published analyses of risk to riverine archaeology from climate change (ARRACC). Covering 17 countries globally, the ARRA...
Some of Michel Foucault’s work focusses on an archeological and genealogical analysis of certain aspects of the medical episteme, such as ‘Madness and Civilization’ (1964/2001), ‘The Birth of the Clinic’ (1973) and ‘The History of Sexuality’ (1978/2020a). These and other Foucauldian works have often been invoked to characterize, but also to normati...
Článek seznamuje s objektově-ontologickými teoretickými a epistemologickými přístupy, které jsou diskutované především v západoevropských (anglo-amerických) archeologických vědeckých komunitách. Tyto přístupy mají ambici, alespoň to některé z nich prohlašují, stát se novým teoretickým myšlením a radikálně změnit dosavadní pojetí archeologie, zejmén...
The general purpose of this research is to examine the objects in the Güzelyurt Archeology and Nature Museum in the context of museum education. Answers to the following questions were sought: which archeological objects are in this museum in line with this general purpose? Can these objects be used in museum education activities in line with the l...
Conmemorando el bicentenario del nacimiento de Manuel de Góngora y Martínez, se preparó una pequeña exposición representativa de la colección prehistórica de este autor, dentro del programa Vitrina CERO. En ella mostramos materiales prehistóricos tanto peninsulares como canarios. El foco principal de nuestro trabajo con esta colección fue la revisi...
Próximos Contenidos septiembre-diciembre: http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/Arqueologia/ProximosContenidos
O presente capítulo visa apresentar um novo conjunto de
dados arqueológicos relacionados ao território baiano, sobre
sítios identificados e escavados correspondentes a ocupações
em aldeias. Tais sítios foram localizados nos trabalhos executados
em salvamentos arqueológicos em obras de construção de
estradas, oportunizadas através de um convênio de...
The paper presents a short history of archaeometry investigations in Serbia, from the first published work in 1932 until today. It then describes the most important laboratories and institutions that perform archaeometry investigations in Serbia today, their teams, equipment, projects, and cooperation: Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monum...
Today we tend to emphasise the technological dimension of immersive devices, insisting on the notions of interactivity, virtual reality or augmented perception— all of which promise to intensify museum experience or the film experience. But it must be recognised that the principle of immersion is older than the more or less recent definitions of im...
Early Modern choir stalls are spaces within spaces, they separate spheres such as public and restricted, profane and holy, as well as open and closed. Members of the convents perform their daily devotions here and are assigned to respective seats. They are installed, according to the name of the place “stalla”. The inlaid decoration on each seat re...
We have all read the headlines heralding, often hyperbolically, the latest advances in text- and image-based Artificial Intelligence (AI). What is perhaps most unique about these developments is that they now make relatively good AI accessible to the average Internet user. These new services respond to human prompts, written in natural language, wi...
Initially designed at the end of the 18th century to identify the exact location of a fire during the dark hours of the night, the toposcope became in the following decades a tourist attraction device. Thanks most of all to the work of Alpine and Touring Clubs, the presence of these instruments spread throughout Europe under many names (Toposkop, I...
Si la question du sexuel, à travers l'orientation (homosexuel, hétérosexuel, etc.) ou l'identité (genre, transgenre, etc.), a été abordée par la psychanalyse, celle des sex-toys semble être un point aveugle. Si pour la sexologie, dans ses différentes obédiences, le sujet a déjà été abordé (Döring et Pöschi, 2018), en revanche ce n'est pas le cas de...
As the venues for professional training and education, universities have always shaped the future of the archaeological discipline—for better but also, in important ways, for worse. Historically, university structures promoted practitioner homogeneity and social inequity and, at the largest research-intensive universities, even managed to turn “ser...
O texto está disposto em quatro momentos dialógicos: i) uma (re)introdução de um devir-América bibliográfico e contracultural, obliterado nas rasuras das escrituras coloniais, ii) uma arqueologia do conceito de livro a partir do advento no mundo grego antigo do anthropos como um doador de forma anímico-corporal aos grafismos alfabéticos do Ocidente...
Archaeological human skeletons provide direct evidence of the physical features, lifestyle, diseases, mortality, and health of our ancestors. Bioarchaeology explores population-based trends that vary according to subsistence, social stratification, urbanization, and industrial development. The first systematic bioarchaeological studies in Japan wer...
Archaeology of the post-medieval manor house in East Prussia
Описаны и проанализированы артефакты в составе «случайной находки» уникального клада железных изделий позднескифского времени. Находка сделана любителем металлопоиска. Клад выставлен 31/07/2018 на аукционе Виолити в качестве лота «Скіфські сокири і заготовки 21 шт». Общий вес клада 24 кг. В его составе 2 вида артефактов: (1) 8 одинаковых крупных то...
(ESPAÑOL ): En el año 2013, se llevó a cabo una campaña de prospección arqueológica superficial en el término municipal de El Cuervo (Sevilla). Esta intervención arqueológica tenía en origen una finalidad científica y académica. Su objetivo fue la revisión sobre el terreno de trabajos de campo anteriores, junto a la posible documentación de nuevos...
Los orígenes de la desinformación se remontan al inicio de la humanidad puesto que nuestra competencia narrativa innata y la necesidad de adaptar los medios del momento a nuestras necesidades comunicativas han conllevado la creación de relatos alternativos que permitan gestionar nuestra incapacidad de vivir en primera persona la mayoría de aconteci...
There are some archaeological sites with hard accessibility which remain unexplored and barely documented. The use of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) alleviates this challenge with aerial observations monitored with distant remote control. In addition to acquiring images in the visible wavelengths, other devices can be coupled on aerial platforms to...
The most widespread approach in dendrochronology (wood dating) and dendroclimatology (climate reconstruction) is based on measurement of the width of annual growth rings by analyzing optical images of wood cross sections. This approach is quite efficient and easy to implement but it has inherent drawbacks. Raw data for these techniques originate fr...
Los aportes Geo-arqueológicos y etnográficos en la comprensión del estilo de vida de las poblaciones cazadoras-recolectoras durante Pleistoceno tardío y el Holoceno temprano Ikram de Loera Torres 1 Resumen El estilo de vida nómada ha sido el más longevo de la humanidad, las primeras poblaciones llegaron al continente americano hace más de 27,000 añ...
Centurion: On a Bust in the Knole Collection Sculpted in Rome in the Third Century CE, American Journal of Archaeology 127, 2023, 563-571
Se presenta en este trabajo un resumen del análisis arqueológico de los accesos principales de la Alcazaba de Medina Shaltîsh, descubiertos durante las actuaciones de 2014. El acceso oriental o “Puerta de la Medina” y el acceso occidental o “Puerta de la Ría”, conjuntos arquitectónicos que definen ingresos en recodo en la que fue la fortificación a...
Il volume Archeo.Metalli (Ag, Pb, Cu) raccoglie trentuno contributi su problematiche di studio poste dalla ricerca storica, archeologica e numismatica riguardo a tre metalli: argento, piombo e rame. Il titolo scaturisce dalla valenza duplice del lemma, declinato come archeologia e come archeometria nel quadro settoriale dell’interesse scientifico s...
In 2021-22 the North Worcestershire Archaeology Group (NWAG) undertook test pit excavations at Hillgrove, Boreley Lane, Ombersley. This work aimed to identify and record potential archaeological features, deposits, and finds at the site, including those associated with the nearby Roman settlement at Holt Fleet Caravan Park and the documented histor...
El presente estudio tuvo como objetivo principal identificar el nivel de percepción del estado situacional de la gestión administrativa para efectivizar la defensa del patrimonio cultural arqueológico en la región Lambayeque, 2020. El tipo de diseño de investigación fue la no experimental y descriptivo propositivo. Para ello se planteó la implement...
Irma was a major hurricane that developed during the 2017 season. It was a category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane wind scale. This hurricane caused severe damage in the Caribbean area and the Florida Keys. The social, economic, and environmental impacts, mainly related to coastal flooding, were also significant in Cuba. The maximum limits of co...
This article reviews the article written by the author Prof. Abhijit Guha, contrasting the remarks made by the world-renowned social scientist Partha Chatterjee about the lack of practice of social-cultural anthropology in the Department of Anthropology during its inception at the University of Calcutta (CU). While doing so, the article also provid...
Imprint: Sidestone Press Layout & cover design: Sidestone Press Photograph cover: Front: Buckets and bags at the excavation house in Turkmenistan. Back: Excavation bus in the desert steppe in Turkmenistan (Photos: Julia Schönicke). ISBN 978-94-6426-188-2 (softcover) ISBN 978-94-6426-189-9 (hardcover) ISBN 978-94-6426-190-5 (PDF e-book)
This thesis aims to develop archaeological understandings of mining communities and sites in three (sub-)Arctic regions in Norway (Sør-Varanger), Canada (western Labrador), and Russia (Kola Peninsula), all of which underwent rapid industrial colonisation during the twentieth century. Today the regions continue as resource peripheries despite econom...
Bioarchaeology is an important field of interdisciplinary research based upon the contextual study of anthro-pological materials. In particular, bioarchaeology of childhood appears to be the most specialised area of re-search, addressing quality of life and social patterns of ancient groups. In this paper, we continue the study of the infant remain...
En la década de 1960 un equipo de investigadores de la Universidad Nacional de La
Plata (Buenos Aires, Argentina) trabajó intensamente en el sitio arqueológico de Santa
Rosa de Tastil, en la provincia de Salta. Allí
se encuentran las ruinas de una de las más
grandes ciudades prehispánicas que existieron en territorio argentino y la intervención
rea...
For decades, ethnographic museums treated the organic objects in their collections with pesticides, including DDT, pentachlorophenol, hexachloro-benzene, and paradichlorobenzene. However, by the late 20th century, the use of pesticides in museums was limited, as certain toxic substances were banned for environmental reasons and due to the risks pos...
In this paper, I focus on the impact of excavations on archaeological sites in the Anthropocene. First, different Anthropocene discourses are presented including those of the Capitalocene, Plantationocene, and Chthulucene to raise awareness about the sharpest markers and their onsets. Second, I highlight ruins as interaction spheres in which the di...
Archaeology is centrally concerned with the tension between material remains in the present and a reconstructed past. This tension is captured by the concept of a trace, namely a contemporary phenomenon that references the past through some sort of epistemic intervention. Traces are deceptively complex in terms of both their epistemology and their...
While archaeology is certainly a politically conscious discipline, with various members involved in political and activist movements, especially focusing on gender and race issues, little has been said, discussed, or done with regards to class and elitism. In fact, it seems that since the advent of postmodernity in the 1970s, class and elitism have...
Archäologie und Geschichte des ersten Jahrtausends in Südwestdeutschland (Archäologie und Geschichte - Freiburger Forschungen zum ersten Jahrtausend in Südwestdeutschland Bd. 1, hrsg. von Hans Ulrich Nuber, Karl Schmid, Heiko Steuer und Thomas Zotz). Sigmaringen: Thorbecke, 1990. - 486 S., 110 Abb.
Die Menschen erzählten und erzählen in „nahezu unendlichen Formen zu allen Zeiten, an allen Orten und in allen Gesellschaften“. So formulierte Roland Barthes Mitte der 1980er Jahre das, was heute zum Grundwissen der Narratologie gehört, und nichts könnte diese Behauptung wohl besser belegen als eine Literatur, die zeitlich und räumlich so weit entf...
The twenty-second Current Research in Egyptology conference was held at the Université Paul Valéry- Montpellier 3 on 26th–30th September 2022. From 250 attendees in person and online, young scholars in Egyptology from different institutions all over the world presented ninety-four papers and twenty-four posters. September 1822 witnessed a milestone...
The evolution of the pattern of authorship of articles in Proc Soc Antiq Scot between volumes 51 and 150 is examined. Various trends are charted across a series of approximately decadal time-segments, including increasing professionalization, the proportional rise of female authorship through time, variations in the geographical distribution of aut...
Two Viking-Age Norwegian coins discovered in Russia in 2019-2021 have confirmed the long-lasting relations between Norway and Smolensk (then a city in Kievan Rus on the banks of the river Dnieper). Thus, Smolensk has become the archeologically verified southernmost outlet of the international silver money market, where early Norwegian coins were us...
Royal Elamite inscriptions offer valuable insights into a range of themes related to ancient Iran. However, to date, no Elamite creation myth has been recovered. Nonetheless, there exist indirect references in the inscriptions and rock reliefs that can be used to reconstruct such an account. This study aims to partially reconstruct the Elamite gene...
The use of mineral pigments, in particular iron‑rich rocks, holds significant importance in understanding the emergence and evolution of human cultures. However, sites that have yielded a number of pieces large enough to precisely identify how the use of this material changed through time are rare. In this study, we examine one of the largest known...
Walking through a rock site could be a particular experience for the groups that produced and interacted with it, especially for what was evoked by both the place and the figures on the rock in terms of sensory experience, affections, and memories. The question that will guide this work will then be how to think about these experiences? When inquir...
Rationale: Control over accuracy and precision in isotope geochemical analysis is highly necessary for reliable results. Use of reference materials in Sr and Nd isotope geochemistry provides a means of validating optimal sample preparation and instrument configurations.
Methods: comprehensive data set of Sr and Nd isotope analyses of BHVO-2referen...
Abstract for the XIV edition of the Jornada de Jóvenes Investigadores en Arqueología (JIA)
Throughout this paper, two factors were discussed concerning the feasibility of gathering a few thousand people at the site of Qumran once a year for a period of one week to ten days from Judea, Galilea and possibly, from Transjordan: the existence of suitable roads connecting those regions with Qumran, and the necessary amounts of food and water t...
Das Europa der Spätantike und des Frühmittelalters wird seit Langem als ein sich stetig wandelnder Flickenteppich von Zentren und Peripherien betrachtet. Als Zentren gelten dabei sowohl die römisch-imperialen Hauptstädte als auch das spätere Kerngebiet des Frankenreichs, als Peripherien die randlichen Provinzen und die eroberten Gebiete der merowin...
El periodo cronológico en esta sesión abordó el Mundo Antiguo: ss. IX a.C. – VI d.C. Se analizaron todas las “etapas de transición”, entendidas historiográficamente como “momentos de crisis”, entre los diferentes periodos que lo “compartimentan”, quedando incluidos los materiales y estructuras que reflejen las fases del proceso comercial: contextos...
The study, in particular of the state of conservation, and the authentication of works of art are issues in full development and Raman microspectroscopy in conjunction with X-ray fluorescence are the reference techniques due to their perfectly non-invasive character, and the availability of mobile instruments. Although mobile instruments have been...
La batalla entre ingleses y españoles en Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) en 1741 configuró todo un teatro operacional defensivo encaminado a dilatar y desgastar la mayor cantidad de tiempo posible las tropas británicas para mantener el control hispánico de la plaza-fuerte. Investigaciones provenientes de distintas áreas del conocimiento han permitid...
Catálogo de la exposición temporal "Frente Norte. Arqueología de la guerra civil española en Cantabria", que tuvo lugar en el Museo de Prehistoria y Arqueología de Cantabria (MUPAC) entre julio de 2022 y enero de 2023.
For British Anglican tourists, archaeological tourism in Palestine marked an expansion of a broader British cultural and religious relationship to Palestine as a land made familiar by a childhood of bible stories and nativity scenes, and one which played a role in the biblification of Palestine and the appropriation of its past to validate and stre...
After several decades of technological, political, and legal buildup, the United States offshore oil and gas industry broke through shortly after the conclusion of World War II. Under the regulation and administration of the U.S. Department of the Interior, the industry quickly became a significant driver of the U.S. and world economies, and Gulf o...
The paper aims to establish the idea of Bosnian textology on the basis of the comparative-textological analysis of different editions of Mak Dizdar's Stone Sleeper and Old Bosnian Texts. Different fates and receptions of the two books have been analyzed from the perspective of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian culture and literature in the 20th century, wi...
The Babine Archaeology Project began in 2010 and since then, many stone artifacts have been recovered. In 2014 and 2015, the project focused on excavations on Smokehouse Island (GiSp-001), on the Babine River. The focus of this thesis is an analysis of a sample of debitage recovered from Unit 8 excavated in 2015. The goal is to determine if differe...
The Yellow River Plain (YRP), being regarded as the cradle of Chinese civilization, is traditionally thought to be the locale of the Great Flood, a hazardous flood (or floods) tamed by Yu who started China’s first “dynasty”, Xia, in ~ 2000 BC. However, by integrating published archaeological data, we propose that the Great Flood in fact impacted th...
Weaving provides an access point to teach students about the heritage and the dynamic cultural importance of weaving practices in Africa. Weaving education teaches patience and perseverance. It also teaches math from a practical and problem-solving stance, which values ethnomathematical knowledge and skills. Weaving teaches science through the unde...
En Chile, el giro hacia el pasado se asocia directamente a las formas que adquieren las diversas elaboraciones del pasado dictatorial, especialmente en relación con la conversión de los lugares donde aconteció el horror en sitios de memori