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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Site formation processes"”.
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Interpreting site formation processes affecting re-emergent cultural sites within reservoirs: A case study of St. Thomas, Nevada
… affecting thousands of historic and prehistoric sites. Recent warming trends, in combination with increasing water usage from growing populations and urban expansion has initiated dramatic pool-level shallowing in many reservoirs, especially in the American Southwest, resulting in the …
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Of His Bones are Coral Made: Submerged Cultural Resources, Site Formation Processes, and Multiple Scales of Interpretation in Coastal Ghana
… theoretical and methodological approaches to formation processes across a range of scales from micro-artifact to region and from historical to environmental processes, this work explores the archaeology of the event related to submerged archaeological sites within the Elmina seascape of …
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SITE FORMATION AND CORROSION PROCESSES: A Comparative Analysis of Condor and Stormy Petrel Wreck Sites
… of each other provide an opportunity to review site formation processes through a multi-disciplinary lens. The incorporation of historical, electrochemical, meteorological, geographic information science, and structured query language methods provides a more comprehensive understanding of the …
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Using Refuse Disposal Patterning Methods to Discern Site Structure on an Antebellum Backwoods Plantation’s Big House Site in Mississippi’s Pine Hills
… investigating historic backwoods sites of ephemeral log construction in Mississippi, from farmsteads to plantations, face unique challenges when confronting issues of site structure. Scant documentary evidence, lack of structural foundations, and the removal of structural elements …
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Geoarchaeology in semi-arid landscapes
… Research has focused on cave and rock shelter sites with fine stratigraphy and good preservation, often overlooking the potential of open-air sites in the semi-arid interior. Research at open-air sites poses analytical difficulties, such as poor preservation of organic materials, which has led …
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Festivales De Muerte: Pampa Chica Y Los Origenes De La Civilizacion en Los Andes Centrales
… as well as a description of the Pampa Chica site. Chapter 5 describes the excavations carried out at the site, its stratigraphic history, and the site formation processes. Chapter 6 describes and analyzes Pampa Chica's architecture. Chapter 7 describes and analyzes the activity areas at Pampa …
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North Bend: Archaeological Site Formation and the Hough Type at Mallows Bay-Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary
This thesis examines the archaeological site formation processes which created North Bend, a historically significant vessel abandoned within Mallows Bay-Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary. The research centers around understanding the disintegration process for North Bend and identifies …
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Carnivore Modification in North America: Perspectives on Neotaphonomy, Carnivore Use of Carrion, and Great Plains Bison Bonbeds
… meaning of carnivore modifications focuses on site formation processes in faunal assemblages created by humans, such as mass-kills of bison. The research presented here has three objectives intended to broaden the goals of New World taphonomy. The first objective is to present a comparative …
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Desarrollo y aplicación metodológica para el análisis espacial de yacimientos paleolíticos al aire libre y en cueva
En esta Tesis Doctoral se propone un protocolo metodológico que permita la comprensión de las dinámicas de formación de un yacimiento, a partir de la combinación de técnicas espaciales ya empleadas en arqueología con otras aplicadas en otras disciplinas como la geología o la ecología. Para ello, se …
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Late Quaternary palaeoenvironments and Middle-Late Stone Age habitat preferences in the Nakuru-Naivasha Basin, Kenya: phytolith-based evidence from the site of Prospect Farm
… Quaternary period. Such putative refugia are posited to have been centered around highland lake basins that could have buffered human populations, plant, and faunal communities from the most severe deteriorations of climate during the last glacial period. On a sub-regional scale, East Africa’s …