High Definition Archaeology: Threads Through the Past

High Definition Archaeology: Threads Through the Past

Author: John A. Gowlett

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-10-03

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1134669097

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The use of modern analyses of high definition data is used to trace relationships or decision paths which could not have been seen with the techniques available 30 years ago. Examples are drawn from a variety of areas and periods.


Urban Network Evolutions

Urban Network Evolutions

Author: Rubina Raja

Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag

Published: 2018-12-31

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 8771846387

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For millenia, urban networks have shaped the development of human societies. Today, new archaeological approaches are unveiling the evolution of these networks in unprecedented detail. Urban Networks Evolutions reviews the new approaches to urban evolution as archaeology endeavours to characterise both the scale and pace of historical events and processes. Issuing from the work of the Danish National Research Foundation's Centre of Excellence, the Centre for Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet), the book compares the archaeology of urbanism from medieval Northern Europe to the Ancient Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean World. The 40 contributors demonstrate how new techniques for refining archaeological dates, contexts, and the provenance ascribed to material culture, afford a new high-definition approach to the study of global and interregional dynamics. This opens up for far-reaching questions as to how and to what extent urban networks catalysed societal and environmental expansions and crises in the past.


Time in Archaeology

Time in Archaeology

Author: Simon Holdaway

Publisher: University of Utah Press

Published: 2008-09-26

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0874809290

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A tightly focused group of papers on the deconstruction and significance of the concept of time, with a historical background on the development of time perspectivism and a range of case studies and examples. After reading this you may never think about time in quite the same way.


High Resolution Archaeology and Neanderthal Behavior

High Resolution Archaeology and Neanderthal Behavior

Author: Eudald Carbonell i Roura

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-03-15

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 9400739214

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The aim of this book is to provide a new insight on Neanderthal behaviour using the data recovered in level J of Romaní rockshelter (north-eastern Spain). Due to the sedimentary dynamics that formed the Romaní deposit, the occupation layers are characterized by a high temporal resolution, which makes it easier to interprete the archaeological data in behavioural terms. In addition, the different analytical domains (geoarchaeology, lithic technology, zooarchaeology, taphonomy, anthracology, palaeontology) are addressed from a spatial perspective that is basic to understand human behaviour, but also to evaluate the behavioural inferences in the framework of the archaeological formation processes.​


Archaeology as History

Archaeology as History

Author: Catherine J. Frieman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-08-31

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1009059505

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This Element volume focuses on how archaeologists construct narratives of past people and environments from the complex and fragmented archaeological record. In keeping with its position in a series of historiography, it considers how we make meaning from things and places, with an emphasis on changing practices over time and the questions archaeologists have and can ask of the archaeological record. It aims to provide readers with a reflexive and comprehensive overview of what it is that archaeologists do with the archaeological record, how that translates into specific stories or narratives about the past, and the limitations or advantages of these when trying to understand past worlds. The goal is to shift the reader's perspective of archaeology away from seeing it as a primarily data gathering field, to a clearer understanding of how archaeologists make and use the data they uncover.


Good Practice in Archaeological Diagnostics

Good Practice in Archaeological Diagnostics

Author: Cristina Corsi

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-12-11

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 3319017845

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This volume represents the most important “deliverable” of the European-funded project Radio-Past (www.radiopast.eu). It is intended to disseminate the key results achieved in the form of methodological guidelines for the application of non-destructive approaches in order to understand, visualize and manage complex archaeological sites, in particular large multi-period settlements whose remains are still mostly buried. The authors were selected from among the project research “staff” but also from among leading international specialists who served as speakers at the two international events organized in the framework of the project (the Valle Giulia Colloquium of Rome – 2009 and the Colloquium of Ghent – 2013) and at the three Specialization Fora, the high formation training activities organized in 2010, 2011 and 2012. As such, the book offers contributions on diverse aspects of the research process (data capture, data management, data elaboration, data visualization and site management), presenting the state of the art and drafting guidelines for good practice in each field.


Short-Term Occupations in Paleolithic Archaeology

Short-Term Occupations in Paleolithic Archaeology

Author: João Cascalheira

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-12-02

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 3030274039

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This edited book aims to provide a new perspective on the identification and interpretation of short-term occupations in Paleolithic Archaeology. The volume includes contributions with a particular focus on the definition and identification of short-term occupations in Paleolithic contexts, aiming to improve our current knowledge on the topic, both methodologically and interpretatively. The set of chapters coming from a broad spectrum of geographies and chronologies will contribute to the debate on the definition of short-term occupations but also to a better understanding on how past hunter-gatherers communities adapted and moved in different environmental contexts across time. The in-depth examinations of short-term occupations in different chronologies and environments will shed light on an aspect of the behavioral trajectories of the human species in the management of the territory.