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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Hearths"”.
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The three hearths: Custom, church and state as colliding orders of time and space in Asmat, Indonesian Papua
… the Indonesian state, conceptualised as three ‘hearths’ around which people gather. In Asmat people’s heritage political order, people made their livelihoods from autonomous hunting, fishing, and sago processing in spatially dispersed kin groups. Inter-clan cooperation was highly prized but …
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An Archaeobotanical Contribution to Foodways, Wood Collecting Strategies, and Niche Construction at the Late and Terminal Archaic Site of Côte Rouge in Southern Québec
… Because hunter-gatherers tend to abandon their hearths frequently and favor mobility over trash relocation, the analysis focused on the hearths and their close periphery. The cooking techniques recognized include pit roasting, hot rock boiling and direct cooking on rock griddles. The wood …
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An analysis of the preclassic households beneath the main plaza at Colha, Belize
… such as kitchens or storerooms, activity areas, hearths, storage pits, refuse deposits, simple burials of both sexes and all age groups, as well as utilitarian lithic and ceramic artifacts. ... This study employs such criteria as mentioned above in interpreting the function of the five structures …
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Airport Rings: Stone Circle Archaeology In Yellowstone National Park
… circles or tipi rings. The crew uncovered three hearths and collected several hundred lithic artifacts, including stone tools, and faunal remains. The Airport Rings Site was the first stone circle site to be excavated inside Yellowstone National Park.
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Airport Rings: Stone Circle Archaeology In Yellowstone National Park
… circles or tipi rings. The crew uncovered three hearths and collected several hundred lithic artifacts, including stone tools, and faunal remains. The Airport Rings Site was the first stone circle site to be excavated inside Yellowstone National Park.
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Geophysical Surveys and Spatial Analysis: Late Prehistoric Period Site Patterning at the Junction Site (DkPi-2)
… several anomalies as archaeological, revealing hearths, roasting pits, piles of fire broken rock, and other features. Anomalies are assessed using spatial analysis methods to identify patterns and clustering, connecting anomaly groups to potential archaeological feature arrangements. In …
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Differential use of space: An analysis of the Aubrey Clovis site.
… camps with a range of lithic debitage, numerous hearths, and excellent faunal preservation. Couched in rules of classification, a series of artifact distributions are analyzed with qualitative and quantitative techniques, including maps produced in a geographic information system (GIS) and tests …
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In the human past, is the perennial consumption of starch a deep or shallow phenomenon?
… remains and mixed plant food ‘recipes’ from two hearths (85 kya and 81 kya) at Blombos Cave represent a consistent subsistence strategy through climatic change, one hearth dating to a warm interglacial cycle and the other to a very cold glacial cycle; thirdly, that cooking and processing roots …
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Late Quaternary fluvial stratigraphy of the St. Albans archeologic site (46KA27), West Virginia
… sediments indicates they are cultural fire hearths. When executed early, magnetic susceptibilities studies should help archeologists.;The waxing and waning of late Pleistocene glaciation caused aggradation and incision events in the Ohio River valley. The principal mechanism for the …
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Approaching Neanderthal behavior through the geoarchaeological study of combustion structures: Investigations in soil micromorphology and lipid biomarkers.
… flat combustion structures and complex, pit hearths. They also provide information on specific aspects of pyrotechnology, such as fuel acquisition, which was shown to have been done away from the site while the local trees surrounding the site were not used as fuel. Finally, touching on …
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Developing Archaeomagnetic Dating for Neolithic Scotland
… in fired archaeological features such as hearths, furnaces, or kilns, allows dating of their last use and provides crucial information about the behaviour of the geodynamo. This thesis plays a vital role in expanding and developing the application of archaeomagnetic dating in the British …
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Regions and resources
… pattern to the west. Other details concerning hearths, grinding stones and specialised flake tool manufacturing processes were found to vary along the great transect. Methods for measuring this regional variation are proposed in the form of Stone Technological Regions, Land Systems Divisions, …
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Regions and resources
… pattern to the west. Other details concerning hearths, grinding stones and specialised flake tool manufacturing processes were found to vary along the great transect. Methods for measuring this regional variation are proposed in the form of Stone Technological Regions, Land Systems Divisions, …
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Campfires in context hunter-gatherer fire technology and the archaeological record of the South High Plains, USA.
… facilities, commonly known as campfires and 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 …
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Of Pigments and Paint : quantifying ochre and rock art in the Cederberg (Western Cape, South Africa
… rather than grinding. Some experimental hearths were conducted to examine possible colour changes in buried ochres, and these samples were analysed by colorimetric means and by X-ray diffraction. Ultimately it has been demonstrated that the relationship between ochre and rock paintings …
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Feeling Images of the Sun on Earth
… that provide warm moments that act as urban hearths for people to collimate around in an otherwise cold empty park in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Leveraging recent advancements in computer graphics, a ray-tracing tool is developed to estimate solar collector energy output and visualize light …
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Forged in Fire: An anthracological investigation of woodland management and fuel selection for Iron Age metalworking at Culduthel, Invernesshire, UK
… workshops, nine smelting furnaces, and smithing hearths, which produced the largest later prehistoric metalworking assemblage in Scotland. Over the last two decades, research around this site has significantly altered many aspects of our understanding of Iron Age craft skills and manufacture. …
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Spatial patterns and behaviour at Dunefield Midden
… examined in detail include ash features (such as hearths, roasting pits and ash dumps) and dumps (in particular, a feature called the 'main dump'). Comparisons with ethnographic and ethnoarchaeological material are made to aid the process of interpretation. Other features common to ethnographic …
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Making the invisible, visible. Iron age and roman salt-production in Southern Britain.
… distinctive ‘working areas’ containing features (hearths and brine tanks) where the main stages of salt-production were carried out. New ‘Modes of Salt-Production’ have been created in order to compare different methods of organisation and ‘site management’ across time and space. These modes …
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Place as Occupational Histories: Towards an Understanding of Deflated Surface Artefact Distributions in the West Darling, New South Wales, Australia
… from the dating of charcoal from heat retainer hearths. It is argued that the Pine Point-Langwell assemblages represent multiple episodes of accumulation over the last 2,000 years. Therefore, the formation of the Pine Point-Langwell assemblages means they are ideal for the investigation of …
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