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Showing 1 to 20 of 175 for “"Archaeological record"”.
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Households of the Cape, 1750 to 1850 : inventories and the archaeological record
… as a British colony after 1815. An historical archaeological approach was applied to material remains surviving from those years, such as excavated artefacts, documents and buildings, that assumed these sources of material culture reflected the larger cultural, or cognitive, contexts in which …
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Why is Chasmanthe spp. absent from the archaeological record of the south-western Cape?
In the archaeological record of the south-western Cape one finds corm residues in deposits mostly in the form of the netting which surrounds the corm. These plant residues seem to be a widespread feature in the archaeological record of Later Stone Age sites in Southern Africa. Corm residues nave …
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Detecting preference in the archaeological record: a study of glass trade beads among the Natchez Indians
A previously undocumented sample of over 13,800 glass trade beads from historic Natchez Indian sites in Adams County, Mississippi was classified and 52 separate varieties were identified. The data were then analyzed in order to examine variation between six Natchez settlement districts, or village …
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Campfires in context hunter-gatherer fire technology and the archaeological record of the South High Plains, USA.
… hearths, is an often observed and necessarily recorded phenomenon during archaeological research. Despite the apparent ubiquity of such features, only limited research has been devoted to understanding the anthropogenic activities that generated them. In response, a research programme is …
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Land Use Variation on Mid-Columbia Plateau Upland and Lowland Archaeology Sites
Investigators of the Mid-Plateau archaeological record have interpreted artifact deposits in their environmental settings as evidence of human land use labeled as site types. Land use models consisting of cultural and environmental variables were developed from those studies. Those variables were …
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Arkadia in transition: exploring late Bronze Age and early Iron Age human landscape
… the period, yet beset with a problematic archaeological record. This has been the result of a number of factors ranging from the nature of the landscape to the history of research. However, the ability to locate sites of the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age within the landscape, allows …
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An Investigation of Maize at Four Sites (LA 20241, LA 38597, LA 112766, and LA 131202) in Eddy County, New Mexico
… in the Southwest. This investigation adds to the archaeological record of when and to what extent maize was integrated into the subsistence of southeastern New Mexico prehistoric groups. Currently, the accepted date range for the introduction of maize in southeast New Mexico is 500–200 BC (Vierra …
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The palaeolithic of the Avon valley: a geoarchaeological approach to the hominin colonisation of Britain.
This thesis presents the results of a geoarchaeological investigation into the Palaeolithic occupation of the Avon valley, Hampshire. In this area, the Palaeolithic archaeological record is dominated by three large concentrations of lithic artefacts, found at Bemerton, Milford Hill and Woodgreen, …
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Zooarchaeological analysis of an urban refuse dump in Cape Town's waterside at the turn of the 19th century
… natural formation processes which impact on the archaeological record. An attempt is made to distinguish between butchery done at the central locus and that away from it. Furthermore, an attempt is made to get at the cuts of meat that were actually acquired, not the erroneous results provided by …
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Post-Lapita developments in the Reef-Santa Cruz Islands, southeast Solomon Islands
… to contribute to the debate by considering the archaeological evidence for a hypothesised migration during the post-Lapita period of people speaking non-Austronesian languages into the Main Reef and Santa Cruz Islands in the southeast Solomon Islands. It describes the theoretical and …
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A study of inscribed material from Roman Britain: An inquiry into some aspects of literacy in Romano-British society
… skills involved in producing the written record. There is also an appreciation of the style of production and the quality of the written Latin. Spelling tables are provided, at the end of each chapter, listing words in which the spelling deviates from normal Classical Latin forms and some …
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Medieval landscapes and lordship in South Uist
… The historical evidence is considered along with archaeological evidence to create a holistic understanding of medieval social developments in South Uist. The results have ramifications for interpreting contemporaneous society throughout Scotland and Ireland. The study focuses on rural settlement …
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A Functional Analysis of Recorded Pre-Contact Archaeological Sites on Lopez Island, Washington
Lopez Island, Washington has been the subject of archaeological study for over a century. Through an evolutionary archaeology framework, this thesis uses a functional analysis of recorded precontact sites on Lopez Island to determine how previous sampling and research strategies have influenced …
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Archaeological Methods for Assessing Prehistoric Fermentation
… for recognizing fermentation in the archaeological record. Ethnographic correlates, organic residue / lipid analyses, ancient DNA, palynology, and starch analysis have been used to detect evidence of brewing. Also presented are results of two experiments in fermentation microfossil …
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Las comunidades campesinas calcolíticas en el Valle Medio del Arlanzón (cal. 3000-1900 a.C.) : transformaciones y procesos históricos
… was unattractive and problematic because the archaeological record was poor and inexpressive until now. The great amount of information collected in the last 30 years in the Middle Valley Arlanzón has enabled to carry out an original research. In this sense, the thesis presents new theoretical …
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Post-Glacial Fire History of Horsetail Fen and Human-Environment Interactions in the Teanaway Area of the Eastern Cascades, Washington
… of 1220 meters (4,000 feet), and because the archaeological record contains evidence that people utilized mountain environments in the eastern Cascades like that around the site. In 2011, a nine-meter-long sediment core was extracted from Horsetail Fen using a modified Livingstone piston …
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Climatic reconstruction using wood charcoal from archaeological sites
… the feasibility of using wood charcoal from archaeological sites as a palaeoclimatic indicator. Three techniques are described: (i) charcoal identification from Xylem Anatomy. (ii) Ecologically Diagnostic Xylem Analysis and (iii) stable carbon isotope analysis on wood charcoal. The first is a …
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Clovis Technology and Settlement in the American Southeast
… these excavation results to the rest of the archaeological record at Topper to discuss the general nature of the Clovis occupation there. My third chapter focuses on the 174 bifaces from Topper to understand biface production. I present the process of manufacture then measure the variation in …
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