Browsing by Subject "Archaeology"
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(2020-08-03)This dissertation provides a preliminary report on the discovery of a Third Dynasty boat-burial from Abusir South (ca. 2544 BCE), and reevaluates a corpus of 70 Egyptian boats and boat-burials from the third millennium, ...
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(2012-07-16)In February of 2008, two 18-pounder carronades were discovered off the Oregon coast near Arch Cape in Clatsop County. In addition to the carronades, several associated artifacts were collected from the site, including ...
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(2016-04-29)This thesis reviews and expands established methodologies for recognizing fermentation in the archaeological record. Ethnographic correlates, organic residue / lipid analyses, ancient DNA, palynology, and starch analysis ...
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(2015-04-27)The Rio Grande do Sul coast, in southern Brazil, is an extensive and scarcely populated sandy shore, nearly 620km long, home of stranded ships representing various periods of navigation in the southwestern Atlantic. ...
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(Archaeological Institute of America, 2019)The Late Minoan IIIC settlement at Kavousi Vronda, located in the northern foothills of the Thriphti mountain range in eastern Crete, consisted of about twenty houses clustered in complexes around the slopes and summit of ...
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(2021-01-19)The Godavaya shipwreck, located off Sri Lanka’s southern coast at a depth of approximately 33 m (110 ft), is presently dated to between the second century B.C.E. and the second century C.E., making it the oldest known ...
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(2022-04-22)If modern shipbuilding calls for engineers, computer software for 3D models and calculations, it represents a recent take on what is needed for ship construction. Until the 19th-century, ship construction in Europe was ...
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(2021-05-05)The Mediterranean World is no stranger to naval conflict. In ancient Egypt, Pharaoh Rameses III fought the “Sea Peoples” as they attacked his kingdom and others in the Eastern Mediterranean ca. 1175 B.C.E. Galleys with ...
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Clovis Lithic Debitage from Excavation Area 8 at the Gault Site (41BL323), Texas: Form and Function (2010-07-14)This dissertation focuses on two portions of the Clovis lithic assemblage recovered from Excavation Area 8 at the Gault site (41BL323) located in central Texas. Gault is a quarry-camp visited by hunter-gatherer groups for ...
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Colloquium Overview Statement: What’s New at Gournia? The Gournia Excavation Project 2010–Present. (Archaeological Institute of America, 2017)Harriet Boyd Hawes conducted the first systematic excavations at Gournia in 1901 and 1903-1904, revealing a palace, a public plateia, some 64 houses, two extramural cemeteries, and a street-network. Hawes was primarily ...
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(Athens Institute for Education and Research, 2014)Ancient Greek domestic architecture has been a topic of interest from the perspectives of both ancient literary texts and modern archaeological fieldwork. Scholarship has advanced from a focus on house forms described by ...
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(2020-05-17)Our understanding of diet and culinary practices at the Late Minoan IIIC settlement sites of Kavousi Vronda and Karphi is based upon several different types of physical evidence that have been recovered through excavation. ...
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(2019-03-27)In 1675, the English government passed a law that established six “trade towns” on Antigua. The law required that all imports, exports, and intra-island trade be conducted in these towns to be assessed for taxes. Of the ...
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(2019-05-01)The Paisley Caves (35LK3400) are a system of rockshelters in the Summer Lake sub-basin of Oregon. Excavations of these caves resulted in the discovery of 14,300-year-old coprolites yielding ancient human DNA. Pollen analysis ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)For the purpose of cultural heritage preservation, the task of recording and reconstructing visually complicated architectural geometrical patterns is facing many practical challenges. Existing traditional technologies ...
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(2021-01-21)Virtual reality has created a vast number of solutions for exhibitions and the transfer of knowledge. Space limitations on museum displays and the extensive costs associated with raising and conserving waterlogged ...
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(Archaeological Institute of America, 2011)Accurate calculation of the storage capacity of ceramic assemblages offers insights relevant to many types of archaeological analyses, including function and design variability, craft specialization, the establishment of ...
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(2009-05-15)Ethnopalynology is a specialty within palynology that centers specifically on past and present palynological data related to humans. Palynological data may be a significant tool to archaeologists if the applications and ...
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(2011-08-08)In the area of the display of data and images from archaeological sites there is very little uniformity. Universities, museums, and institutions use a variety of techniques and software. Because of the lack of a common ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)Beads are one of the earliest forms of ornamentation created by humans; prized during the Bronze Age for both their aesthetic as well as amuletic value, beads also served to signify the social status of the wearer. Beads ...