The "cultural filter," human transport of mussel shell, and the applied potential of zooarchaeological data

by Steve Wolverton

Peacock, Randklev, Wolverton, Palmer, Zaleski forthcoming in Ecological Applications

Large assemblages of animal bones and/or shells from archaeological sites can provide data valuable for modern... more

Zooarchaeological Analysis of the Indigenous Fishery at the Huu7ii Big House and Back Terrace, Huu-ay-aht Territory, Southwestern Vancouver Island

by Iain McKechnie

(2012) Zooarchaeological Analysis of the Indigenous Fishery at the Huu7ii Big House and Back Terrace, Huu-ay-aht Territory, Southwestern Vancouver Island. In Huu7ii: Household Archaeology at a Nuu-chah-nulth Village Site in Barkley Sound, by Alan D. McMillan and Denis E. St. Claire. Archaeology Press, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC.

This paper describes how fish overwhelmingly dominates the animal bone assemblage from the examined column sample... more

A GIS Comparative Analysis of Bronze Age Settlement Patterns and the Contemporary Physical Landscape in the Jazira Region of Syria

by Tony Mathys

Most of the datasets presented in this thesis are available for free in ArcGIS shapefile format on the ShareGeo Open data repository at http://www.sharegeo.ac.uk/.

These datasets are available for everyone to use as it is important to encourage data sharing in support of research activities.

There are also some CORONA satellite images available on ShareGeo for the Syrian Jazira region. The plan is to eventually provide complete CORONA coverage for this region, though geo-referencing will not be precise as it's intended to be more for user orientation.

Acknowledgement should go to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), which makes CORONA imagery available via its EarthExplorer online data service at http://edcsns17.cr.usgs.gov/NewEarthExplorer/
Many CORONA images are available to download for free from this service, though require processing and geo-referencing for use in a GIS or a software package for processing remotely sensed imagery.

Relevant to this, and the thesis, is the following paper presented which first introduced how CORONA satellite imagery could be applied to archaeological work in the Near East. Martin Fowler also wrote about the potential of CORONA in the Aerial Archaeology Research Group (AARG) news.

Mathys, Tony. “The Use of Declassified Intelligence Satellite Photographs in a GIS (IDRISI) to Map Archaeological Sites and the Surrounding Landscape in the Northeastern Region of the Syrian Jazirah. The University of Chicago Oriental Institute, NASA and St. Cloud State University Remote Sensing Applications in Archaeology Conference. St. Cloud, Minnesota, May 29-31, 1997.

Unfortunately, papers presented at this conference were not published.

My gratitude and thanks to Dr Sarah Parcak for citing this unpublished conference paper in her book (Satellite Remote Sensing in Archaeology), and to Dr Aled Rowlands and Dr Apostolos Sarris for citing it in their Journal of Archaeological Science article 34 (2007).

Plantas y Fenomenología de la Muerte durante el Bronce Medio y Final en Menorca

by David Javaloyas Molina

Co-authored with: Llorenç Picornell, Gabriel Servera Vives

ABSTRACT

The present work studies the relationship between the vegetable kingdom and the Minorcan Late... more

Tagungsbericht "Ein wundervoller Anblick und von überreichem Nutzen? Der Byzantiner und seine Umwelt" Mainz, 17./18.11.2012

by Henriette Kroll

Tagungsbericht Ein wundervoller Anblick und von überreichem Nutzen? Der Byzantiner und seine Umwelt. 17.11.2011-18.11.2011, Mainz, in:
H-Soz-u-Kult, 10.05.2012, <http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/tagungsberichte/id=4236&gt;.

Hajdúnánás-Tedej – Lyukas-halom: egy alföldi kurgán régészeti értékelése és természettudományos vizsgálata - Hajdúnánás-Tedej – Lyukas-halom: archaeological assessment and scientifi c examination of a typical kurgan from the Great Hungarian Plain

by Ákos Pető

Barczi, A. – Horváth, T. – Pető, Á. – Dani, J., 2012. Hajdúnánás-Tedej – Lyukas-halom: egy alföldi kurgán régészeti értékelése és természettudományos vizsgálata - Hajdúnánás-Tedej – Lyukas-halom: archaeological assessment and scientifi c examination of a typical kurgan from the Great Hungarian Plain. In: Kreiter, A. – Pető, Á. – Tugya, B. (Szerk./Eds.) Környezet – Ember – Kultúra: Az alkalmazott természettudományok és a régészet párbeszéde - Environment – Human – Culture. Dialogue between applied sciences and archaeology. Budapest: Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum, 25-45. (in Hungarian with English abstract)

R. Schreg, Die Krisen des späten Mittelalters: Perspektiven, Potentiale und Probleme archäologischer Krisenforschung. In: F. Daim/D. Gronenborn/R. Schreg (Hrsg.), Strategien zum Überleben. RGZM-Tagungen 11 (Mainz 2011) 197-214

by Rainer Schreg

Zusammenfassung
Die Krisenstimmung der letzten Jahre lenkt den Blick zunehmend auch auf Krisen der Vergangenheit.... more

Rainer Schreg: Hülen und Tuff – Der Mensch und das Wasser auf der Schwäbischen Alb. Heidenheimer Jahrb. 13, 2009/10, 28-44.

by Rainer Schreg

in German

Eine umwelthistorische Betrachtung der Wasserversorgung auf der Schwäbischen Alb zeigt, wie problematisch die... more

Fragmented Barley Grains from the Late Bronze Age Turnov-Maškovy Zahrady Site in North Bohemia

by Jaromír Beneš

Co-authored with Alex Bernardová and others

numerous fragments of predominately naked, six–row barley (Hordeum vulgare var. hexastichon) were found during... more

STUDYING ANCIENT CROP PROVENANCE: IMPLICATIONS FROM δ13C AND δ15N OF CHARRED BARLEY IN A MIDDLE BRONZE AGE SILO AT EBLA (NW SYRIA)

by Valentina Caracuta

Published in Rapid Communications in Mass Spectromentry 6, 327.
Co-authored with Girolamo Fiorentino, Grazia Casiello, Francesco Longobardi, Antonio Sacco,

The discovery of a storeroom full of barley and other cereals (L.9512) in the proto-historic site of Ebla has provided... more

A Conference Announcement. Atlantiar: Human Traces on the Atlantic Façade of Europe

by Roslyn Frank

In the .pdf you will find the announcement in English for an international conference to be held May 18, 2012, in... more

Erosion and accumulation processes in the late holocene of Bohemia, in relation to prehistoric and mediaeval landscape occupation

by Jaromír Beneš

(1995) M.Kuna - N.Venclová (eds.): Wither archaeology ? Papers in honour Evžen Neustupný, Praha., 133-144

Paper from 1995 outlines several examples of the past soil accumulation and erosion evidence in western part of Czech... more

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