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Studies of early Southeast Asia focus largely on its ‘classical states’, when rulers and their entourages from Sukhothai and Ayutthaya (Thailand), Angkor (Cambodia), Bagan (Myanmar), Champa and Dai Viet (Vietnam) clashed, conquered, and... more
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      HistoryArchaeologyArt HistorySoutheast Asian Studies
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      ArchaeologyNeolithic ArchaeologyCorsican archaeology
The largest Kuiseb River floods initiate at the basin's semi-arid headwater. Downstream, along the hyperarid Namib Desert, these floodwaters are feeding shallow alluvial aquifers, the only available water for human activity and for the... more
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      ArchaeologyGeologyQuaternary Science
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      ArchaeologyNautical ArchaeologySeasonalityNautical
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      ArchaeologyMedieval ScandinaviaIcelandic SagasViking Age
Publikace byla vydána v Praze roku 2006 / The publication was published in Prague in 2006.
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyBronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Bronze Age Archaeology
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      ArchaeologyArchaeological Heritage ManagementArchaeological Method and Theory
Recent investigations at the Maya centre of Nakum (located in northeastern Guatemala) included intensive excavations of Structure X (a.k.a. Structure 104)-one of the largest pyramidal temples at this site. This research showed that the... more
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      ReligionLatin American StudiesArchaeologyAnthropology
In 2008, during a rescue excavation in the Sa Osa area, near the town of Cabras (Sardinia, Italy), a Nuragic settlement was discovered. The excavation revealed numerous pits, wells and structures dug by the local communities between the... more
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      ArchaeologyGreek ArchaeologyAncient Greek HistoryGreek Vases
This report presents a critique of established cultural heritage practices in Western Australia, focusing on the control of the process by corporate proponents and its effects on rock art and stone arrangements. The moderating roles of... more
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyCultural HeritageHeritage Studies
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      ReligionAncient HistoryCultural HistoryCultural Studies
Magnetic survey data presented as filled contour maps with a non-linear scale reveals the characteristic dipolar signal from iron smelting furnaces. High resolution data, from 10cm spaced surveys, can be modelled mathematically to recover... more
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      ArchaeologyArchaeological Method & TheoryMedieval ArchaeologyIron Age Britain (Archaeology)
This study uses bioarchaeological methods and interpretive frameworks, in conjunction with archaeological and textual evidence, to document and interpret the record of Greek colonial interactions between Corinth and local populations at... more
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      ArchaeologyBioarchaeologySkeletal BiologyPaleopathology
The previously unpublished field diaries of the principal leaders involved in the first season of the Harvard Expedition to Samaria are held by the University's Semitic Museum. The narrative they contain sheds light on the organization... more
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      ArchaeologyOttoman HistoryArchaeology of Ancient IsraelFirst World War
New pedological, geological, archaeological, and geochronological data from the Miles Point site in eastern Maryland are compared with similar data from other nearby sites to develop a framework for interpreting the upland stratigraphy in... more
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      ArchaeologyEarth SciencesSedimentary geology and stratigraphyLate Pleistocene
ABSTRACT Thousands of Neolithic and Bronze Age open-air rock art panels exist across the countryside in northern England. However, desecration, pollution, and other factors are threatening the survival of these iconic stone monuments.... more
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      ArchaeologyClimate ChangeCultural HeritageRock Art (Archaeology)
Leprosy is strongly stigmatized in South Asia, being regarded as a manifestation of extreme levels of spiritual pollution going back through one or more incarnations of the self. Stigma has significant social consequences, including... more
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      ArchaeologyBioarchaeologyPaleopathologyStigma
Since all long-distance trade in the Roman world travelled by water, Roman harbour design and construction have special importance. Harbour excavation must be supplemented by analysis of the components of the hydraulic concrete,... more
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      ArchaeologyNautical ArchaeologyNauticalPozzolana
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      ArchaeologyUzbekistanSamarkand
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      HistoryCultural StudiesArchaeologyEgyptology
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      ArchaeologyAnthropologyBodySound
Offering a more precise epithet for that which has emerged under the label of the “Anthropocene”, this article trains its lens on some of the more-than-monstrous things that have revealed themselves in our calamitous times. It raises... more
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      ArchaeologyAnthropoceneThree Gorges DamEdward Burtynsky
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      Military HistoryArchaeology
Bioarcheology Biogeochemistry Carbon isotope analysis Ireland Nitrogen isotope analysis Oxygen isotope analysis Radiogenic strontium isotope analysis a b s t r a c t During the early medieval period in Ireland, Dublin was established as... more
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      ArchaeologyGeochemistryStable Isotope AnalysisArchaeological Science
In 1985 archaeological excavations at Stavanger Airport, Sola, south-western Norway, revealed evidence for five phases of human activity ranging in age from the Mesolithic to the Late Bronze Age. The two youngest phases, namely 4 and 5... more
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      ArchaeologyGeologyEcologyAnimal Husbandry
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      ArchaeologyIllicit Antiquities Trade
Architectural practices constitute an appropriate field for the application of combined technological and social perspectives into the study of human action. Domestic buildings, rather than being examined as spatial and organisational... more
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyAnthropologyArchitecture
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      ArchaeologyAncient Near Eastern HistoryHistory and Archaeology of the Ancient Near EastAncient Near Easter Law, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Semitic Languages
The large mammal and micromammal assemblages from Paleolithic cave sites in northwestern Croatia (Veternica, Velika peć ina, and Vindija) suggest the presence of relatively temperate environments without dramatic oscillations in faunal... more
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      ArchaeologyGeologyPalaeolithic ArchaeologyVertebrate Palaeontology
This paper examines alternatives to top-down approaches to heritage management and development. One of the key issues facing communities around the globe today is the Authorized Heritage Discourse (AHD)--the determination of heritage... more
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      African StudiesArchaeologyHistorical ArchaeologyCultural Heritage
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      HistoryAncient HistoryArchaeologyRoman History
Hutian Kiln, located in Jingdezhen City of Jiangxi Province of China, is well-known for the productions of bluish white glazed porcelain (Qingbai) from Song Dynasties (AD 960 e AD 1279) and egg-white glazed porcelain (Luanbai) of Yuan... more
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      ArchaeologyGeochemistryArtArchaeological Science
Peter J. Suter,
Helmut Schlichtherle:
Palafittes – Verein zur Unterstützung der UNESCO–Welterbe Kandidatur «Prähistorische Pfahlbauten rund um die Alpen»
| Bern/Biel 2009
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      ArchaeologyCanton Berne
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      ArchaeologyHistorical Studies
During the 20th century, many innovative binders have been rapidly introduced to the art world and soon became popular as artists' paints and pictorial media. However, despite the advantages that new synthetic materials presented, oil... more
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      ArchaeologyCultural HeritageHistorical Studies
The Middle Mississippian component at Aztalan was a mixed, Late Woodland / Mississippian occupation sited within a heavily fortified habitation and mound center that is located on a tributary of the Rock River in Wisconsin. It represents... more
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyAnthropologyEnvironmental Archaeology
Modern theories of the evolution of human cooperation focus mainly on altruism. In contrast, we propose that humans’ species-unique forms of cooperation—as well as their species-unique forms of cognition, communication, and social... more
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      AltruismHuman cooperation
This paper discusses the role of things in the framework of the materiality of Nazi camps. It analyzes different dimensions of thing affordances and argues that the assumption of objects being used in ways of a "canonical affordance"... more
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      ArchaeologyHermeneuticsNazi GermanyForced Labor
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      ArchaeologyMamluk StudiesMedieval ArchaeologyMamluk Archaeology
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      ArchaeologyAnthropologyEpistemologyMethodology
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      ArchaeologyRoman HistoryLate Antique and Byzantine StudiesEpigraphy (Archaeology)
Kniha byla vydána roku 1989 v Praze / The book was published in 1989 in Prague. Drazí kolegové, tato kniha je umístěna kvůli jejímu mimořádnému významu při porozumění archeologii Čech a její špatné dostupnosti zahraničním vědcům a... more
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      ArchaeologyMedieval HistoryMedieval StudiesEarly Medieval Archaeology
An archaeologically grounded history of six legendary places in Detroit. The city of Detroit has endured periods of unprecedented industrial growth, decline, and revitalization between the late nineteenth century and the present. In... more
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      HistoryArchaeologyMusic HistoryHistorical Archaeology
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      ArchaeologyClassical ArchaeologyAlbanian StudiesGreek Archaeology