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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"archaeological interpretation"”.
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Preserving the Spirit of Windesheim: An Archaeological Interpretation of the Traces of Rector Arnoldus Beckers (1772-1810) in Books from the Convent of Soeterbeeck
Contains fulltext : 167075.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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An investigation as to the suitability and effectiveness of geophysical survey techniques as a tool to aid archaeological interpretation of upland sites within the area of south east Wales
Geophysical survey as a tool to aid archaeological interpretation has been shown to be of varied usefulness across the differing site morphology and underlying geology of Wales. Its uptake has also varied greatly between regions with bias often existing towards certain types of site or particular …
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Reconstructing and interpreting ancient crop management practices : ethnobotanical investigations into traditional dryland farming in northern Jordan.
… of ancient crop management practices from archaeological weed assemblages and to inform archaeological interpretation, i.e. to interpret what the identified ancient crop management practices may imply. This particular Investigation focuses on con temporary and recent 'traditional' farmers …
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Interpreting Iron Age settlement landscapes of Wigtownshire
This thesis explores the process of archaeological interpretation by considering how we can interpret the Iron Age settlement in Wigtownshire, SW Scotland. Traditional images of Iron Age warfaring hierarchical societies have persisted through the use of well-established classifications, such as …
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On discourse and materiality: personhood in the Neolithic of the Isle of Man
… such it joins with a number of current themes in archaeological interpretation, most notably; the role of phenomenology in inferring past experience; the use of ethnographic analogy in understanding past and present ideas and experiences of the person and body; the impact of modernity in forming …
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Truth and Archaeology: Justification in Archaeology
… 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 that archaeologists can …
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Archaeological Geophysics, Excavation, and Ethnographic Approaches Toward a Deeper Understanding of an Eighteenth Century Wichita Site
… exemplifies a multidirectional approach to an archaeological interpretation of an eighteenth century Wichita village and fortification located on the Red River bordering Oklahoma and Texas. A battle that is believed to have occurred at the Longest site (34JF1) in 1759 between Spanish colonials …
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The development of a spatial explicit agent-based modelling framework to explore past vegetation dynamics
… been an important consideration when it comes to archaeological interpretation. Unfortunately, the temporal resolution of data we do have rarely allows us insight into how environmental change would have been perceived at the human scale. The early and mid-Holocene saw dramatic changes …
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The Schlumberger Array in geophysical prospection for archaeology.
… resistance arrays to be used to detect buried archaeological features. The early work used fixed probes and widely spaced traverses. Recent simulation work, ýhowever, suggested that the array should give improved resolution and depth penetration over the Twin-Probe array. This thesis is an …
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Stories of the Land: Nature and Religion in Early British and Irish Literary Landscapes
… use of recent developments in historical and archaeological interpretation, as well as in areas of literary analysis and source study. At the same time, it borrows approaches from ecocritical, psychonalytic and phenomenological literary theory in order to examine the relationship between …
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Geoarchaeology of the Danilo Bitinj and Pokrovnik Sites, Dalmatia, Croatia
… Farming in Dalmatia Project, of which this geoarchaeological study is a part, is a case study in the adoption and environmental impact of agricultural technology. Dalmatia served to transmit agriculture from the domestication centers of the Middle East to mainland Europe. The record of …
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The Artisanal Perspective in Action : An Archaeology in Practice
… ceramic assemblages with the method ”artisanal interpretation”. The results of the artisanal interpretation show that new information and interpretations of ceramic skill in manufacturing vessels for grave contexts indicated that the ceramics in graves were made with less skill than those in …
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Pueblos, Planets, and Permian Puzzles: The Perils and Promise of Analogical Evidence in the Historical Sciences
How do scientists investigate the deep past when material traces are fragmentary and direct experimentation is impossible? This thesis explores the epistemic role of analogical reasoning in historical science, arguing that analogy is not merely interpretive but can function as a method of …