Individual Abstracts, I through L
... Archaeological examination of the remains of the early tropical states in Central America and Asia have demonstrated that, although they exhibit a unique type of settlement pattern, they do represent large, sophisticated, and undoubtedly “urban” state formations. The unique urban footprint of these ...
... Archaeological examination of the remains of the early tropical states in Central America and Asia have demonstrated that, although they exhibit a unique type of settlement pattern, they do represent large, sophisticated, and undoubtedly “urban” state formations. The unique urban footprint of these ...
Ethnicity: Theoretical Approaches, Methodological
... role in the definition of races, but language, psychology, and cultural and intellectual ability were also seen as important. Racial determinism was widespread and, to greater or lesser degrees, racial theories posited a direct relationship between biological and cultural capabilities (Stepan 1982). ...
... role in the definition of races, but language, psychology, and cultural and intellectual ability were also seen as important. Racial determinism was widespread and, to greater or lesser degrees, racial theories posited a direct relationship between biological and cultural capabilities (Stepan 1982). ...
2016 asor annual meeting – paper abstracts
... Recent research on prehistory at the center of the Anatolian Aegean coast around modern Izmir provides important new data on Neolithic sites. For the first time, it is possible to deal not only with single sites, but with a group of excavated settlements that all have horizons dating to the 7th mill ...
... Recent research on prehistory at the center of the Anatolian Aegean coast around modern Izmir provides important new data on Neolithic sites. For the first time, it is possible to deal not only with single sites, but with a group of excavated settlements that all have horizons dating to the 7th mill ...
Approaching material culture
... an artefact and the object of investigation for archaeology. The world people live in must be included in archaeological analysis because otherwise one would not grasp the relevant variables for an understanding of how material culture actively constitutes cultures and human perceptions. ...
... an artefact and the object of investigation for archaeology. The world people live in must be included in archaeological analysis because otherwise one would not grasp the relevant variables for an understanding of how material culture actively constitutes cultures and human perceptions. ...
GPR Mapping to test Anthropological Hypotheses
... The GPR method allows efficient and accurate threedimensional mapping of buried archaeological sites, which can be used to categorize and age date ancient architectural features. A site at Comb Wash, Utah was used to test the nature of buried remains within large surface depressions with GPR. Amplit ...
... The GPR method allows efficient and accurate threedimensional mapping of buried archaeological sites, which can be used to categorize and age date ancient architectural features. A site at Comb Wash, Utah was used to test the nature of buried remains within large surface depressions with GPR. Amplit ...
O verview Methods and Ethics in Physical - McGraw
... • Cultural resource management (CRM), or contract archaeology, is concerned with excavating sites that are threatened by modern development. • Most other sites are selected for excavation because they are well suited to address a series of specific research questions. ...
... • Cultural resource management (CRM), or contract archaeology, is concerned with excavating sites that are threatened by modern development. • Most other sites are selected for excavation because they are well suited to address a series of specific research questions. ...
Nicola Di Cosmo, “The Origins of the Great Wall,” The Silk Road 4/1
... persuasive piece, though if one accepted the conclusion, it would be easy to understand how the shan-yu never fully was in control of the other elite groups in his “empire.” Yu Ying-shih, "The Hsiung-nu," in Denis Sinor, ed., Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Pre ...
... persuasive piece, though if one accepted the conclusion, it would be easy to understand how the shan-yu never fully was in control of the other elite groups in his “empire.” Yu Ying-shih, "The Hsiung-nu," in Denis Sinor, ed., Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Pre ...
Why the history of archaeology is essential to theoretical archaeology
... the history of archaeological theory or ‘thought’ as the late Bruce Trigger (1987, 2006) would have it, the discourse of theoretical archaeology has a far less natural, and less productive, relationship with the history of archaeology. My case in this paper is that theoretical archaeology needs to b ...
... the history of archaeological theory or ‘thought’ as the late Bruce Trigger (1987, 2006) would have it, the discourse of theoretical archaeology has a far less natural, and less productive, relationship with the history of archaeology. My case in this paper is that theoretical archaeology needs to b ...
CONTEXTUALIZING ARCHAEOLOGY
... Archaeology as History: Archaeology does seek to understand the “history” of the human experience, but it does so largely without the benefit of a documentary record. 99% of the human experience has taken place before the development of writing and, therefore, “history” in its usual sense. Earliest ...
... Archaeology as History: Archaeology does seek to understand the “history” of the human experience, but it does so largely without the benefit of a documentary record. 99% of the human experience has taken place before the development of writing and, therefore, “history” in its usual sense. Earliest ...
Word document - CLAS Users
... (USE THIS ARTICLE FOR REFERENCE ONLY -- do not get lost in details) Nash, Stephen E. 2002 Archaeological Tree Ring Dating at the Millennium. Journal of Archaeological Research 10(3):243-275. Harris, Edward C. 1979 The Laws of Archaeological Stratigraphy. World Archaeology 11(1):111-117. ...
... (USE THIS ARTICLE FOR REFERENCE ONLY -- do not get lost in details) Nash, Stephen E. 2002 Archaeological Tree Ring Dating at the Millennium. Journal of Archaeological Research 10(3):243-275. Harris, Edward C. 1979 The Laws of Archaeological Stratigraphy. World Archaeology 11(1):111-117. ...
PHOENICIAN EXPLANATION: EXAMINATION OF PUBLIC
... was recovered by the salvagers. After they were collected and studied, it was determined that the artefacts may have come from three separate ancient shipwrecks (Roldán 1995: 966; Polzer and Reyes 2007:58). The Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) began its investigation of the site in 2007 unde ...
... was recovered by the salvagers. After they were collected and studied, it was determined that the artefacts may have come from three separate ancient shipwrecks (Roldán 1995: 966; Polzer and Reyes 2007:58). The Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) began its investigation of the site in 2007 unde ...
Anth 551: Strategies in Archaeology
... Some of the major topics we will be examining are processual archaeology (which characterizes much of North American archaeology) and Marxist, feminist, postprocessual, postcolonial, and collaborative approaches. In addition to addressing the concepts that these various perspectives bring to bear on ...
... Some of the major topics we will be examining are processual archaeology (which characterizes much of North American archaeology) and Marxist, feminist, postprocessual, postcolonial, and collaborative approaches. In addition to addressing the concepts that these various perspectives bring to bear on ...
- KoreaMed Synapse
... the human remains from ancient Harappan burials, considering that anthropological investigation into human remains of ancient civilization provide a great amount of invaluable data about the society itself. ...
... the human remains from ancient Harappan burials, considering that anthropological investigation into human remains of ancient civilization provide a great amount of invaluable data about the society itself. ...
Chapter 2 - Durham Research Online
... In the UK, by contrast, the functionalism of anthropologists such as Radcliffe-Brown and Malinowski led to the increasing institutionalization of disciplinary difference in ways that mitigated against collaboration. In the wake of Radcliffe-Brown’s rejection of ‘conjectural history’, Gordon Childe ...
... In the UK, by contrast, the functionalism of anthropologists such as Radcliffe-Brown and Malinowski led to the increasing institutionalization of disciplinary difference in ways that mitigated against collaboration. In the wake of Radcliffe-Brown’s rejection of ‘conjectural history’, Gordon Childe ...
Cross-Cultural Research
... it is also quite different from the theoretically based attempts to predict associations between behavior and material culture that have been used in archaeological interpretation. These theoretically based arguments were developed to avoid the presumed problem that the ethnographic record lacks inf ...
... it is also quite different from the theoretically based attempts to predict associations between behavior and material culture that have been used in archaeological interpretation. These theoretically based arguments were developed to avoid the presumed problem that the ethnographic record lacks inf ...
Ethnoarchaeology (Winter 2010)
... overview of major approaches to the use of ethnographic analogies and historical information in archaeology. The discussion should provide a series of reflections about the advantages (or the limitations) in using those fields together, or if ethnohistory and ethnoarchaeology are better suited for v ...
... overview of major approaches to the use of ethnographic analogies and historical information in archaeology. The discussion should provide a series of reflections about the advantages (or the limitations) in using those fields together, or if ethnohistory and ethnoarchaeology are better suited for v ...
Memorial to James Allan Bennyhoff
... launched into a proof of his position, leaning over and putting the biggest leather briefcase I had ever seen—one literally stuffed with manila folders filled with yellow and white-lined paper—onto the table. He reached into it and pulled out several folders, then opened one with page after page of ...
... launched into a proof of his position, leaning over and putting the biggest leather briefcase I had ever seen—one literally stuffed with manila folders filled with yellow and white-lined paper—onto the table. He reached into it and pulled out several folders, then opened one with page after page of ...
Principles of Archaeology
... subject, outside of those in a small department. But you may have archaeological colleagues whose subject you should understand out of collegial interest and because they may contribute to your research. To use archaeological evidence at all compels an understanding of its circumstances of recovery. ...
... subject, outside of those in a small department. But you may have archaeological colleagues whose subject you should understand out of collegial interest and because they may contribute to your research. To use archaeological evidence at all compels an understanding of its circumstances of recovery. ...
The Archaeologist 56 - Spring 2005 Prehistoric Britain
... ‘Working in Historic Towns’. The key note paper by Martin Biddle included a challenge to archaeologists (especially curators) working in a developer-funded world to match the research objectives of earlier work. The speech by Tessa Jowell also created interest, though perhaps not as much controversy ...
... ‘Working in Historic Towns’. The key note paper by Martin Biddle included a challenge to archaeologists (especially curators) working in a developer-funded world to match the research objectives of earlier work. The speech by Tessa Jowell also created interest, though perhaps not as much controversy ...
Experiments in Context and Contexting
... opening the field of STS to different traditions and angles (Asdal, Brenna, & Moser 2007). One of these critical reworkings took as its point of departure the lack of reflexivity when it comes to what is made visible and invisible, as well as whose versions or whose worlds one chose to start from an ...
... opening the field of STS to different traditions and angles (Asdal, Brenna, & Moser 2007). One of these critical reworkings took as its point of departure the lack of reflexivity when it comes to what is made visible and invisible, as well as whose versions or whose worlds one chose to start from an ...
Department of Anthropology. Graduate Student Comprehensive
... Marks, Jonathan. 2003. What it means to be 98% Chimpanzee: Apes, People, and Their Genes. University of California Press. Segerdehal, Par. Et Al. 2006. Kanzi’s Primal Language. Palgrave McMillan. And (with skepticism) Wrangham and Peterson Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violoence. ...
... Marks, Jonathan. 2003. What it means to be 98% Chimpanzee: Apes, People, and Their Genes. University of California Press. Segerdehal, Par. Et Al. 2006. Kanzi’s Primal Language. Palgrave McMillan. And (with skepticism) Wrangham and Peterson Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violoence. ...
What is Archaeology? - Georgia Council of Professional
... There is much more to be learned from an arrowhead or potsherd when archaeologists know its context. They can learn who used these things, how and when they were used, and for what purposes. Similarly, an archaeological site is more informative placed within its context. It is then that archaeologis ...
... There is much more to be learned from an arrowhead or potsherd when archaeologists know its context. They can learn who used these things, how and when they were used, and for what purposes. Similarly, an archaeological site is more informative placed within its context. It is then that archaeologis ...
Introduction - Durham Research Online
... is it, on the other hand, that professional archaeologists have ended up as the only ones that are qualified to speak of a past that is supposed to be pictured ever more truthfully as the accumulation of historical/scientific data continues? In short, a central aim of this volume is to question the ...
... is it, on the other hand, that professional archaeologists have ended up as the only ones that are qualified to speak of a past that is supposed to be pictured ever more truthfully as the accumulation of historical/scientific data continues? In short, a central aim of this volume is to question the ...
What is Archaeology?
... discard span are of equal duration, whereas this object's temporary archaeology. This is not entirely so. Despite the fall from grace of the epistemological total use span is, or can be, longer: in other words, you can framework of the New Archaeology (logical positivism1 go on using a tool after th ...
... discard span are of equal duration, whereas this object's temporary archaeology. This is not entirely so. Despite the fall from grace of the epistemological total use span is, or can be, longer: in other words, you can framework of the New Archaeology (logical positivism1 go on using a tool after th ...
Excavation (archaeology)
In archaeology, excavation is the exposure, processing and recording of archaeological remains. An excavation site or ""dig"" is a site being studied. Such a site excavation concerns itself with a specific archaeological site or a connected series of sites, and may be conducted over as little as several weeks to over a number of years.