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Showing 1 to 20 of 196 for “"Archaeologists"”.
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Social consultation : a personal exploration of working relations and challenges faced by site developers, archaeologists and local communities : using Dzata site as a case study
Includes bibliographical references [leaves 91-101].
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That Belongs In A Museum: Archaeology and Audiences
… culture areas have featured archaeology or archaeologists at one time or another. However, archaeologists have fallen under criticism for not providing effective and captivating public communication. The goal of this project was to examine how to present archaeology to non-archaeologists in …
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Unearthing Collaboration: Community and Multivocal Archaeology in Highland Guatemala
… welcomed the archaeology project now forbade all archaeologists to enter the town for fear archaeologists with government support would steal their lands. When their livelihood, land and coffee, became threatened due to the archaeology site beneath their town the people defended their rights. This …
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Archaeology Database Management: A Case Study in the Solution of Incompatibility Issues between Different Archaeological Databases
Archaeologists tend to use computerized databases to record data recovered from excavations. These databases contain large collections of information that can aid archaeologists in making educated decisions, interpretations, and test hypotheses from the recovered data. As time passed, databases …
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Archaeology Database Management: A Case Study in the Solution of Incompatibility Issues between Different Archaeological Databases
Archaeologists tend to use computerized databases to record data recovered from excavations. These databases contain large collections of information that can aid archaeologists in making educated decisions, interpretations, and test hypotheses from the recovered data. As time passed, databases …
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Contested heritage: examining relations between contemporary Pagan groups and the archaeological and heritage professions in Britain
… interactions and relationships between the archaeologists and heritage managers who manage and interpret the material remains of Britain’s ancient past and contemporary Pagan groups to whom such remains are sacred. It provides a description of contestation of sites and human corporeal …
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The practice of community archaeology in the UK: a model for best practice based upon case studies from Dorset and Cambridgeshire.
… defined as a collaborative process, where non-archaeologists are considered equal partners in the research process. In the UK local archaeology societies have been interpreted as community archaeology. They developed in parallel to the profession and are traditionally managed by and for …
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Critical assessment of archaeological excavation and the development of processes required for successful investigation of mass graves.
… and professional archaeological practice. Archaeologists are now employed routinely in investigations that anticipate scrutiny by the discipline, authorities, funders, media and communities. Excavation methods are expected to pass criteria for admissibility of evidence in legal settings. …
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The Site Of Quirigua Through Time: The Use of Digital Reconstructions in the Context of a Comarative Photographic Project
… platforms and tools have been developed to help archaeologists visualize traditional data in new ways. The resulting products have ranged from realistic 3D models to virtual reality simulators to geographic information systems. In the field of digital archaeological visualization one of the main …
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An Economic Approach to Modeling Archaeological Settlement Patterns in Central Idaho
Archaeologists can gain a better understanding of subsistence strategies by analyzing the net advantage of exploiting certain resources over others across a large area with the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and application of economic. GIS modeling is a powerful tool used by …
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Archaeology, museology and education : a case-study at Vergelegen
… thesis focuses on the relationship between archaeologists, museologists and the broader community, in terms of educational programmes. It consists of a case-study comprising an educational project based on theoretical ideas of People's Archaeology as influenced by theories of Freirean …
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Metamorphosis
… that of a historian and enters into the arena of archaeologists, archivists and curators. Historians write, and re-write history privileging certain evidence while imposing specific agendas, to reshape history. Confronting history as a construction; I provoke viewers through a visual historical …
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Archaeology Education in Ontario: A Relational Inquiry of Indigenous Museums and Artifacts
… interpretation generated by colonially-trained archaeologists. Writers of this curriculum have traditionally not included Indigenous worldviews, ways of knowing, and relationships with artifacts in course content, even as professional archaeologists, historians, and curators are moving to more …
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Mediating the Past: BBC Radio Archaeology Broadcasting, 1922-1966.
… broadcasting were developing as professions, archaeologists were sought for their expert contribution to radio content, and radio increasingly acted as a catalyst for the promotion of the professional archaeological identity. From the earliest days of regular broadcasting, archaeologists were …
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Assessing "lithic sound" to predict a rock's ease of flaking
… of pitch, duration, and intensity, can inform archaeologists about a stone's candidacy for human use, and whether or not lithic material at a site has been heat treated. A hammer stone machine held and struck specimens under controlled conditions. To process acoustic information, A Kay Computer …
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Cellar Dwellers: Historic Feature Sampling Strategies in Ontario Commercial Archaeology
… sites. This standard stipulates that consultant archaeologists are only required to excavate a minimum of two opposing quadrants of the feature, or 50 percent of the contents. A best practice guideline, alternatively, gives the consultant the option to excavate the feature wholly. As a document …
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A GIS Approach to Understanding Mississippian Settlement Patterns in the Central Illinois River Valley
… have helped to further the research of archaeologists almost since the inception of the field. Archaeologists have long made observations rooted in what would become GIS, but it wasn’t until the early 21st century that science was able to back up these observations. From the seemingly …
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Tekison Cave: A Case Study in Archaeological Collection Rehabilitation and Accessibility
… site that was excavated by avocational archaeologists in the 1970s. Part of the collection (previously never cataloged or professionally analyzed), is housed at CWU on behalf of the landowners, Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW). Additionally, the avocational …
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Truth and Archaeology: Justification in Archaeology
… for the transition to agriculture but how can archaeologists debate rival interpretations of the record with a seat-of-your-pants theoretical methodology? Truth is a concept that has been the subject of considerable thought and analysis by philosophers for millennia and is a conceptual resource …
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Spatial patterns and behaviour at Dunefield Midden
… a new technology of great potential use to all archaeologists. The spatial autocorrelation test of randomness of distributions is also introduced and is compared to other statistical tests used by archaeologists previously. This test is applied to distributions of items from the site, produced …
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