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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"CC Archaeoleg"”.
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The Local Landscape Research Framework
Archaeological research in landscapes should produce outputs and outcomes of value to the unique context that defines them. This includes the bespoke perceptions of intangible space as well as the physical place formed from a complex interconnected, multi-vocal and social narrative. However, many …
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An Aerial Investigation and Mapping Project in Southern Holderness: An Evolving Wetland Landscape
In 2025, over 100 new archaeological sites were identified through targeted aerial reconnaissance in Holderness, East Yorkshire. The aerial reconnaissance flights were conducted by the author of this project, who works in the Aerial Survey team at Historic England. The new archaeological sites were …
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The agency of the every day: a comparative study of the Ubaid ceramic pottery and figurines from Ur and Arpachiyah
This thesis is a selective study of Ubaid period pottery and figurines from two Neolithic sites in modern day Iraq. Both Ur and Arpachiyah are well known Neolithic sites, but both are more notorious for time periods outside of the Ubaid. By focusing on the lesser-known history of these sites, new …
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Creative Practice: How Communities were ‘made’ at Çatalhöyük
What role did creative practice play in social life at the Neolithic tell Çatalhöyük, and what evidence is there to suggest that making informed the maintenance of the ‘social bond’? Socio-creativity is an undeveloped but important area of research for archaeological approaches to the Neolithic, …
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Three-Dimensional Digital Recording and Modelling Methodologies for Documentation and Reconstruction of the Newport Medieval Ship
… in Newport, Wales, United Kingdom. The use of accurate and efficient three-dimensional digital recording methodologies has allowed for the development of innovative approaches to organising, analysing, modelling and disseminating data about the individual timbers and the overall original hull …
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Does the archaeoastronomic record of the Cotswold-Severn region reflect evidence of a transition from lunar to solar alignment?
This dissertation explores evidence for the practice of astronomy in central southern England during the Mesolithic and early Neolithic. It argues that those who built the prehistoric structures known as Cotswold-Severn earthen tombs embedded archaeoastronomic intent within their monuments’ …
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Contested heritage: examining relations between contemporary Pagan groups and the archaeological and heritage professions in Britain
This thesis uses ethnographic field research and literature analysis to examine the sometimes fraught 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 …
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The gaming stones of Arediou-Vouppes : exploring the past and creating identity through material remains
This dissertation forms a study on material culture from the background of social archaeology, which will focus on the Cypriot site of Arediou-Vouppes, a Late Bronze Age production settlement at the foothills of the Troodos Massif. Primary attention will be given to the gaming stones discovered on …
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To What Extent are Nornour's Roman Votive Finds Indicative of Roman Religious Activity on the Isles of Scilly?
… the conclusion of the site being of Roman occupation at that time not Romano-British or Romano-Scillonian. Possible meanings of a Roman altar on Scilly will also be explored, in particular evaluating that its carvings resemble iconography used in the Roman cult of Mithras and rejecting its …
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The Efficacy of International Cultural Heritage Law: A Critical Examination of its Application to the Terrorist-led Destruction of Cultural Heritage in the Middle East.
This thesis will be examining the efficacy of international cultural heritage law and its application to the terrorist-led destruction of cultural heritage. Over the past two decades, there has been a sharp increase in the terrorist-led destructions of cultural heritage, specifically in the Middle …
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Monastic development and dissolution in Wales : Continuity or change for Uchelwyr? A case study of Strata Florida's Blaenaeron Grange.
… grange. Through this case study the thesis accomplishes two things: it identifies elements of continuity in land use and occupancy despite the change from monastic to secular lordship, and at the same time, determines the impact of that newly-acquired land on the social and political lives of …
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The World That Was : An investigation of lost cities, hidden empires, and their role in online pseudoarchaeological communities.
… individuals and online communities. While many successful attempts have been made to define pseudoscience, an umbrella term under which pseudoarchaeology can be seen to fall, no one definition has found a consensus among scholars investigating fraudulent archaeology.2 The intention of this …
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Collecting the past : aspects of historiography and lithic artefact analysis for the creation of narratives for the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology of Wales.
This submission for a PhD BY published work examines archaeological historiography and lithic artefact studies concerning aspects of the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology of Wales. The critical analysis connects the published works through the theoretical approach of biography. It draws out …
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The Celts: an ancient exonym for a modern mind-set?
A deep rift in opinion exists concerning the evolution, if at all, of the Κελτοί/Celtae of prehistoric continental Western Europe into the Celts associated with the modern inhabitants of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany. On the one hand, the peoples labelled as Κελτοί/Celtae by the …
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A Journey to the Late Bronze Age Minoan Underworld: The Reflection of Sunlight on the Sea as an Axis Mundi
Around the times of sunrise and sunset, the sun’s reflection on a large body of water, such as a sea, appears as an elongated gold band, also called a ‘glitter path’. For the first time, this research explores this intangible manifestation of light from an archaeological perspective, focusing on …
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Is there evidence of intentionality of sky involvement in the prehistoric megalithic sites of Mnajdra in Malta?
This dissertation addresses the question of whether the prehistoric Mnajdra Temples in Malta were intentionally constructed to face astronomical events in the sky. Using a combination of archeoastronomical fieldwork measurements, photography, phenomenology and experimental archaeoastronomy, the …
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The language of urban poverty : institutional action, perception, and lived experience within Batu and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
… in policy and State, the individual urban poor occupy an uncomfortable but central position within the minds of the Ethiopian non-poor.
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Exploring the Social Lives of Cylinder Seals in Late Cypriot Society
… To explore this, cylinder seals are studied according to funerary, sanctuary and settlement types of findspot. Different patterns of social engagement are then examined according to the context of their use and deposition. They are analysed through a theoretical lens, specifically focusing on …
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You Didn’t Have To Be There: Evidence of Humour in the Creation and Use of Material Objects From the Near East, Eastern Europe and Mediterranean, From the Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age
When Malinowski said, “Anthropology is the science of the sense of humour” in 1966, the theories of the study of humour itself were still being developed, and yet he so clearly summarises why it is important to find our shared funny bones. Through humour we gain sympathetic understandings with each …