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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"archaeological science"”.
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Collaborative Legacy of the First Ceramics Laboratories at the Penn Museum: The WPA and Beyond
… efforts first contributed to the integration of archaeological science into the wider discipline. One such series of research projects were those undertaken by the WPA ceramics laboratories, a joint effort between the Works Progress Administration and the University Museum of the University of …
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Approaching Neanderthal behavior through the geoarchaeological study of combustion structures: Investigations in soil micromorphology and lipid biomarkers.
… Neanderthal behavioral variation based on a geoarchaeological approach to analyzing Neanderthal combustion features at the Middle Paleolithic site of El Salt, Spain. This approach involves investigations of Neanderthal combustion features, emphasizing their synchronic and diachronic …
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Bayesian regional models of gold and copper alloys from pre-Hispanic Colombia
… compositional data (>2,300 object analyses) on archaeological alloys from within the region, dating to before c. 1600 AD. It addresses research questions relating to the role of technological, environmental, and cultural factors behind alloy selection, at two different scales of analysis. The …
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Strontium isotope tracing of prehistoric human mobility in France
… but it is complicated by the fact that the archaeological evidence becomes scarce as we go back in time. The application of stable isotopes in archaeological research has revolutionised palaeomobility studies by providing independent data, which can be used to evaluate models of migration, …
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Strontium isotope tracing of prehistoric human mobility in France
… but it is complicated by the fact that the archaeological evidence becomes scarce as we go back in time. The application of stable isotopes in archaeological research has revolutionised palaeomobility studies by providing independent data, which can be used to evaluate models of migration, …
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What does the analysis of copper-alloy brooches reveal about the social and economic landscapes of Early Anglo-Saxon Cambridgeshire and Suffolk?
This thesis examines the social and economic landscape of the Early Anglo-Saxon period by analysing copper-alloy brooches using X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy. Two clusters of cemeteries, one in Cambridgeshire and the other in Suffolk, were chosen to have their brooches analysed. The results of my …
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Fields and Forests: A Stable Isotope Perspective on the Subsistence Strategies of Past Amazonian Peoples
… extensively debated topic since the inception of archaeological research in the region. Despite a general disagreement regarding carrying capacity and human development in past Amazonia, the initial subsistence debate converged upon strategies based on manioc cultivation and fish protein and the …
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The proteomics of pottery and its residues: applications to ancient foodways
… yet one of the most difficult to detect in the archaeological record. Proteomic approaches to food have enormous potential in the detection of cuisine as, due to the genetically coded nature of protein sequences, they can provide evidence for specific ingredients and ingredient mixtures. …
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The Use of Coal for Ferrous Metallurgy in Roman Britain
The occurrence of coal on Romano-British archaeological sites has been recognized for many years, but the evidence for how coal was actually employed was mostly circumstantial. In this thesis, the use of coal for blacksmithing in Roman Britain is definitively proven based on the analysis of iron …
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An interface of mātauranga Māori and archaeology to generate a whakapapa of pā tawhito
… connections and be a source of potential archaeological information. Researchers have recorded over seven thousand pā across the country (on the New Zealand Archaeological Association’s ArchSite database) at a much higher density than similar fortifications elsewhere in Oceania. Despite …