【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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Changing fish use on Mangaia, Southern Cook Islands: Resource depression and the prey choice model
This study applies the prey choice model from foraging theory to explain changing human use of fish during the 700-year occupation of Tangatatau Rockshelter, Mangaia, southern Cook Islands. The prey choice model suggests that predators will focus initiall
Land snails from an ancient shipwreck: The need to detect wreck-independent finds in excavation anal
Land snails recovered from shipwreck excavations can potentially provide information regarding human-based dispersal of the involved species and also contribute to hypotheses regarding a ship's route and geographical origins of some of its cargo. Such fa
The chemical environment in a burial mound shortly after construction - An archaeological-pedologica
A number of burial mounds from the South Scandinavian Early Bronze Age have contained iron pan encapsulated, wet mound cores, in which organic material has been extraordinarily well preserved. Chemical analysis of iron pan formations in recently excavated
In situ preservation as a dynamic process:: The example of Sutton Common, UK
In situ preservation is a complex and dynamic process, which requires an understanding of the nature and scale of the material to be preserved, an understanding of the context of the site in terms of managerial needs and a programme of scientific monitori
Ancient mitochondrial DNA evidence for prehistoric population movement: The Numic expansion
The mitochondrial DNA of modern Native Americans has been shown to fall into one of at least five haplogroups (A, B, C, D, or X) whose frequencies differ among tribal groups. The frequencies of these five haplogroups in a collection of ancient individuals
Name that rat: Molecular and morphological identification of Pacific rodent remains
Generally, species identification of rodent remains from archaeological sites in the Pacific is made based on the overall size and robusticity of those bones most commonly recovered - mandibles and femora. Molecular identifications of Pacific rat remains
Remembering things seen: Experimental approaches to the process of information transmittal
The persistent problem of determining the factors that lead to continuity or variation when information is transmitted in different kinds of cultural situations is addressed here experimentally in a series of reproduction tasks. Art students were given va
Voyage to Polynesia's land's end
Evidence that the earliest settlers on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) may have come from Mangareva and its outlying islands in Central East Polynesia is supported by the journey of the experimental voyaging canoe Hokulea from Mangareva to Rapa Nui.
Organic purity and the role of anthropology in Cambodia and Rwanda
Straus investigates the ideology of two genocidal regimes in the developing world: the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and Hutu Power in Rwanda. Although the regimes were quite different-one Communist, the other nationalist-he argues that their ideals converged a
Analysis of DNA from ethnoarchaeological stone scrapers
Analysis of DNA residues on stone tools provides a direct method of determining what the tools were used on. However, little is known about the taphonomy of DNA on tools. The discovery of present-day, stone-tool using hide workers in Ethiopia therefore pr
El Nino floods and culture change: A late Holocene flood history for the Rio Moquegua, southern Peru
The 1997-1998 Fl Nino generated large floods throughout southern Peru, especially in inland locations along Rio Moquegua. Using remote sensing, hydraulic modeling, field surveying, and stratigraphic analyses, we estimate the magnitude and frequency of thi
Isotopic comparison of hair, nail and bone: Modern analyses
This paper presents a comparison of the isotopic values of eight pairings of hair keratin and bone collagen and 12 pairings of hair keratin and nail keratin taken from living humans resident in the UK, with the aim of examining whether modern human isotop
Isolation and isotopic analysis of individual amino acids from archaeological bone collagen: A new m
This paper presents a new method for the isolation and isotopic analysis of some individual amino acids from proteins. The technique and its constituent steps are discussed; then isotopic analyses of amino acids from several samples of bone collagen from
Building past landscape perception with GIS: Understanding topographic prominence
This papers tries to illustrate the exploratory use of GIS within the context of landscape research in archaeology. Current landscape approaches incorporate important theoretical advancements which have made archaeologists sensitive to the subtleties of h
The Sadan Island shipwreck: An eighteenth-century AD merchantman off the Red Sea coast of Egypt
In 1995-8 the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA), in cooperation with the Supreme Council of Antiquities for Egypt (SCA), excavated an Ottoman period wreck at Sadana Island on the Red Sea coast of Egypt. The 50m long hull represents a form of wooden