Browsing by Subject "Archaeology"
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(Archaeological Institute of America, 2017)Recent excavations within the Gournia palace have revealed much new evidence for the occupation of the site prior to the construction of the Neopalatial complex and for the formation processes, ritual activities, and ...
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(2011-10-21)Lead is often relegated to a footnote or sidebar in the study of ancient metals. However, the hundreds of lead ingots discovered in underwater sites over the past half-century have attested to the widespread production and ...
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(2020-05-17)Vernacular architecture is closely linked to both time and place and reflects what most people in a community or region consistently build and use, working with local materials, and traditional techniques and forms. It is ...
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The Wondrous Ocean: Tales of the Headless, Dead, and the Deep From 16th and 17th Century Seafarers (2021-06-24)The age of seafaring exploration was an era of discovery and fantastical beings. During the 16th and 17th centuries, many Europeans believed in luck, ghosts, foreign monsters, creatures of the deep, and devils. This folklore ...
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(2012-07-16)This dissertation presents new data on early Paleoindian stone technologies in the Southern Plains periphery. Analyses of lithic artifact assemblages show that significant technological changes occurred between the transitions ...
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(Archaeology & Art Publications, 2014)The built environment of Late Minoan IIIC Crete (c. 1200–1050 BCE) offers a striking contrast to the formal and often monumental architecture that characterizes the palaces, villas, and settlements of the preceding Neopalatial ...
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(Athens Institute for Education and Research, 2013)Following the collapse of the Minoan Palatial system and the abandonment of most coastal settlements on Crete in the late 13th century BC, new self- sufficient villages were established at a number of upland sites in the ...
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(2018-08-07)Earth ovens are complex cooking features that have been important worldwide, throughout human history. Knowledge of what was cooked in an individual earth oven is only available if food was charred, so other lines of ...
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(2019-04-22)Throughout the ancient world, there have been numerous occurrences of human sacrifice performed by ancient cultures that have been proven in the archaeological record. The scope of this research will focus on the Moche ...
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(2019-05-30)Warwick was an English galleon that sank in 1619 off the coast of Bermuda while transporting colonists and goods. The wreck was excavated in 2010-2012 under the direction of Dr. Piotr Bojakowski and Dr. Katie Custer-Bojakowski, ...
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(2012-07-16)The Western Ledge Reef Wreck, discovered and later excavated in Bermuda between 1989 and 1991, is a prime example of Iberian shipbuilding within a broader Atlantic context. Operating during the late 16th-century, arguably ...