【Archaeology】An Annotated WWII Underwater Archaeology Bibliography
With four decades of WWII underwater archaeology publications, the time is nigh to create a comprehensive bibliography and conduct an analysis of tren... [more]
【Archaeology】Dirt in the Wounds: Confronting Hard Histories through Public Community Archaeology in Boston
The majority of Boston's residents are minorities. These minority residents confront the ongoing effects of racism, including the hard histories of e... [more]
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Biodeterioration dynamics of marine wreck-sites determine the need for their in-situ protection
The condition of a wooden shipwreck varies considerably according to the nature of the site environment. Each marine site exhibits a unique biodeteriogenic potential influenced by prevailing hydrographic factors. The potential rate of degradation of organ
The Bakau wreck: An early example of Chinese shipping in Southeast Asia
Very few early Chinese shipwrecks have been discovered in Southeast Asia, despite the enormous volume of trade with China. This article describes the surprising hull features of one such wreck, and its diverse ceramic cargo. The Bakau Wreck dates to the e
Painting and preserving the ship in the 17th and 18th centuries
Analysis of paint residues and paint equipment from North European shipwrecks together with archival research provides evidence of pigments and colours used. The limitations of pictorial sources and contemporary models is contrasted.
Multilevel selection and political evolution in the Valley of Oaxaca, 500-100 BC
Although Monte Alban I in the Valley of Oaxaca (500-100 B.C.) is widely recognized as a period of major political change, researchers have found it difficult to establish whether the key institutions of the Zapotec state emerged during this or the succeed
Long-distance transport of bulk goods in the pre-Hispanic American Southwest
The paper examines the limits of efficient foot transport of utilitarian goods and food in the pre-Hispanic American Southwest, basing this assessment on field studies of long-distance pottage, both domestic and commercial, in the roadless hills of modern
Archaeological skeletal part profiles and differential transport: An ethnoarchaeological example fro
Skeletal profiles of medium-sized prey (> 40 kg) are often used by archaeologists as one line of evidence to infer prehistoric body-part transport patterns. However, recent theoretical and ethnoarchaeological research is divided over the types of bone ass
Personhood, agency, and mortuary ritual: A case study from the ancient Maya
The archaeological identification of individuals has been an important component of both processual attempts to characterize social organization by the treatment of individuals in mortuary ritual and more recent agency theory applications to studies of po
Elite strategies and the spread of technological innovation: The spread of iron in the Bronze Age so
I look at the process and speed of innovation spread, examining the economic aspects from the perspective of those who adopt the innovation. Defining innovation adoption as art investment which requires initial cost and risks, I argue that at the time of
Blombos Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa: Preliminary report on the 1992-1999 excavations of the Mi
The Later- and Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave (BBC) were excavated over four field seasons between 1992 and 1999. Here we report on the results from the Middle Stone Age (MSA) levels. The taphonomy and depositional history of the MSA levels is co
A ninth-century AD Arab or Indian shipwreck in Indonesia: First evidence for direct trade with China
A well-preserved ninth-century AD shipwreck was excavated in 1998-9 off the Indonesian island of Belitung between Sumatra and Borneo. The principal features of the wreck include planks joined by stitching with wadding inside and outside the hull, a sharp
Seeing is deceiving: Rock art and the non-visual
The visual primacy of rock-art imagery can sometimes blind researchers to equally important but less obvious, non-visual aspects of rock art. Recent work from southern Africa indicates that certain San rock engravings were hammered, rubbed, cut and flaked
A Roma shipwreck of c.AD200 at Plemmirio, Sicily: Evidence for north African amphora production duri
A Roman shipwreck at Plemmirio, near Syracuse in south-east Sicily, held a cargo of cylindrical amphoras from Africa Proconsularis (modern Tunisia). The pottery indicates a wreck date at the time of the emperor Septimius Severus (AD 193-211), and suggests
The Lake Innes Estate: Privilege and servitude in nineteenth-century Australia
Transportation of over 160,000 convicts during the period 1788-1868 provided unfree labour for both government and private projects. Prisoners involved in the latter were known as 'assigned servants' and carried out a variety of work for their 'masters
Believing the ancients: Quantitative and qualitative dimensions of slavery and the slave trade in al
This paper briefly examines two types of slavery in the first millennium Aegean, Carpatho-Balkan and Pontic regions--branded silver-mine slaves and blinded milk-processing slaves. The first is examined primarily in quantitative terms, to attach economical
Faience goddesses and ivory bull-leapers: The aesthetics of sexual difference at Late Bronze Age Kno
In the figurative art of Late Bronze Age Knossos one recognizes a singular form to the human body which cuts across all other distinctions. Contrary to popular and academic interpretations, sexed differences ar not marked in a clearly binary fashion. Draw