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Showing 1 to 20 of 1690 for “"Archaeology"”.
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Truth and Archaeology: Justification in Archaeology
… new understanding of knowledge formation in archaeology and how to deal with competing interpretations of the past (specifically with political and ethical ramifications). The second aim is to assess these epistemological criteria and position them in light of the literature on philosophical …
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Archaeology and education in South Africa : towards a People's Archaeology
… knowledge. The concept of People's Archaeology is a product of that time-period. It focuses on involving communities in the practice of archaeology, beyond the stage of consultation. Within the forthcoming election process, Black communities are to be empowered politically and this …
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Towards A Cultural History of Archaeology: British Archaeology Between the Wars
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An Archaeology of Pain
<p>Pain is a discursive construct of science and medicine. Through the discourses of biopower and technoscience pain is used to construct and maintain the social body. Biopower and technoscience are discursive practices that are enveloped within the disciplines of Western society. Specifically, the …
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Archaeology of Void Spaces
… but void of material remains. A synthesis for an archaeology of void spaces requires the construction of new ways of testing anthrosols, and identifying elemental patterns that can be used to connect people with their places and objects. This research begins with an exploration of rich middens in …
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Galactic Archaeology with Gaia
… can open a new era for the study of Galactic Archaeology as it provides quality data for ~ 1.3 billion stars across the Milky Way which had remained uncharted so far. In Chapter 1, I describe a history of study on the Milky Way halo so far, and present algorithms that are developed to …
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An archaeology of self
The title of this dissertation is An Archaeology of Self. The first two chapters explore the historical and theoretical basis that has informed my creative work. It is predominantly concerned with artists who engage with the everyday in their art-making. The three main ideas elaborated upon in the …
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Archaeology and the Semantic Web
… Semantic Web technologies to the discipline of Archaeology. Part One (Chapters 1-3) offers a discussion of historical developments in this field. It begins with a general comparison of the supposed benefits of semantic technologies and notes that they partially align with the needs of …
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The archaeology of Roman Durham
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Mansiones: a New Look at Mansio Archaeology in Light of San Miceli and Household Archaeology
… the underlying method and theory of household archaeology. One of the useful advances in household archaeology has the identification of the functional characteristics of households: production, distribution, transmission, and reproduction. In order to identify the common functional …
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Archaeology and post-colonialism in South Africa : the theory, practice and politics of archaeology after apartheid
… disciplinary field into three modes or forms of archaeology: a colonialist archaeology, a nationalist archaeology and an imperialist archaeology. He goes on to suggest (1990) that South African archaeology is the most colonialist archaeology of all. Trigger was writing at a point before the …
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Industrial archaeology of Fife 1790-1914
… national needs and looks at the organisation and archaeology of statute labour and turnpike roads, including a report on excavations conducted on a stretch of eighteenth century road. In the context of rail transport two attempts to break the North British monopoly in Fife are studied in detail. …
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Understanding Strawberry Plains Through Landscape Archaeology
… to other postbellum sites. By using landscape archaeology and employing methods that consisted of archival research, the locating of additional structures, and conducting an architectural survey on the sharecropper houses, an inclusive understanding of the sharecroppers of Strawberry Plains was …
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The Maritime archaeology of a modern conflict: comparing the archaeology of German submarine wrecks to the historical text.
Over the last 30 years UK Hydrographic Office marine surveys in the English Channel (the thesis Study Area) have helped uncover the wrecks of 63 German submarines (U-boats) sunk in both world wars. The author began to systematically dive on and record the wrecks in 1997, when it became clear that …
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THE OBSCENE DEVICE. ARCHAEOLOGY OF IMMERSIVE PORNOGRAPHIES
… the focal point of this exploration into erotic archaeology. The initial segment of this study elucidated conceptual frameworks and interpretive paradigms essential for understanding the processes of immersion in the image. Posture and inclination were thus examined both as symbolic forms that …
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Archaeology and politics in post-independence Malta
The political nature of archaeology has been part of the theoretical discourse of the discipline since the early 1970s. This post-processual direction in archaeological theory has led to many historiographies on the development of archaeology being written. The study of Malta’s archaeological …
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