【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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Sea, land and fish: spatial relationships and the archaeology of South Island Maori fishing
Customary Maori uses of the sea recognized ritual restrictions enforced by supernatural penalties and jurisdictions. In contrast, archaeological interpretations of Maori fishing behaviour emphasize extractive opportunism and, more recently, foraging theor
Structural characterization of lipid constituents from natural substances preserved in archaeologica
The development of a research field at the border between analytical chemistry and archaeology, namely biomolecular archaeology, provides new methods for the study of organic remains highly sensitive to natural decay. Using infrared spectroscopy, gas chro
Prehistory and its perception in a melanesian archipelago:: the New Caledonia example
What were the social structures of prehistoric Melanesia really like-and how did they evolve? This study of the archaeology of New Caledonia shows how the west has had a double impact on its prehistory. First, explorers altered the social structure by the
Studies of ancient glass and their application to nuclear-waste management
During several hundred years of burial in the soil, glass objects, especially those with the high potassium content of medieval compositions, develop heavily corroded surfaces, showing phenomena such as local pitting, laminated layers, and browning effect
Mud box-filled with stone:: The wreck of the scow schooner Dan Hayes
Scow Schooners are an important yet largely unstudied vessel type that operated on the North American Great Lakes. At their zenith in the later 19th century scow schooners worked between the many small harbours and the larger nexus ports such as Chicago,
A meaningful disturbance of the earth (Kashaya,California, archaeology)
In this article, we provide an example of what we consider to be a productive archaeological collaboration between a State Agency and a Native American tribe that we believe has both theoretical and methodological implications. our work implements and ext
Bone chemistry and bioarchaeology
Isotopic analysis of bones and teeth is now routinely used for dating skeletons and archaeological sites, and for diet, climate, and habitat reconstruction. Techniques of radiocarbon dating of bones and teeth developed by Harold Krueger and others during
Approaches to environmental restoration of a polluted harbour with submerged archaeology: the Alexan
Many invaluable underwater buildings of archaeological interest in Alexandria were discovered in 1996 at different sites in the Eastern Harbour of Alexandria. There is a belief that the best way to protect these invaluable heritages is to transfer them to
Integrated signal enhancements in magnetic investigation in archaeology
The magnetic method can be efficiently applied to archaeological investigation especially when the S/N ratio is enhanced appropriately. This study presents a model experiment and field examples of magnetic exploration in archaeology. By using appropriate
Place, memory and identity among estuarine fishing communities: interpreting the archaeology of earl
Recent coastal archaeological surveys in Britain and Ireland have produced an array of evidence for the construction and use of wooden and stone fish weirs throughout the Middle Ages. These fish weirs, with their wooden fences, basket traps and other feat
Application of photo-detection to art and archaeology at the C2RMF
The Centre for research and restoration of the museums of France (C2RMF), located in the Louvre palace in Paris routinely uses photodetector-based techniques for the study of objects of cultural heritage. Among these methods, the ion beam analysis techniq
Bridging the gap between archaeology and the physical sciences
The collaboration between archaeologists and representatives of the physical sciences is often rendered difficult by differing training and expectations, poor mutual understanding, inconsistent terminologies, and a lack of time and willingness to bridge t
Baffling archaeology:: The strange gravity of Gordon!Matta-Clark's experience-optics
This article examines some aspects of Gordon Matta-Clark's late filmic works. it notes there the convergence of a variety of concerns from his broader oeuvre (in particular, his criticism of the systematizing tendencies of disciplines such as Architectur
Archaeology, luxury and the exotic: The examples of Islamic Gao (Mali) and Bahrain
Luxury would appear to be both difficult to define and difficult to identify archaeologically. Evidence form two different Islamic communities to Gao (Mali) and of the exotic rather than the luxurious is easier to achieve. The notion of luxury within thes
Surface analysis in archaeology using the miniaturized Mossbauer spectrometer MIMOS II
A miniaturized Mossbauer spectrometer (MIMOS II) which was designed and constructed for extraterrestrial applications, such as iron-containing rock and soil analysis on the planet Mars, has been employed to investigate the iron-containing constituents in