This outstanding collection of papers documents the quality and quantity of historical archaeology research conducted on the island of Jamaica over the past thirty years. Jamaica offers a significant location for the investigation of the colonial enterprise in the Americas. Beginning with Spanish explorations and conquest in the sixteenth century, followed by British accession in 1655, the isla...

A Guide to Internet Resources in Anthropology (Plattsburgh State University of New York). A large and well-organized site with links to numerous cultural anthropology sites, physical anthropology and linguistics resources on the web, archaeological sites/digs and web resources, e-journals, organizations, museums, and email discussion listservs. http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/richard.robbins/leg...

Archaeological excavations are often irreversibly destructive, so it is important to accompany them with detailed documentation reflecting the accumulated knowledge of the excavation site. This documentation is usually iconographic and textual. Graphical representations of archaeological sites such as drawings, sketches, watercolors, photographs, topography, and photogrammetry are indispensable...

At Uan Afuda, and other Early Holocene sites of the Acacus mountains, in the Libyan Sahara, dung layers and plant accumulation are a major, but repeatedly neglected, feature of hunter-gatherer communities. To understand the formation and meaning of such features, a multidimensional analysis has been undertaken, combining micromorphological, palynological, botanical, archaeozoological, and archa...

0278 © 2002 All rig Archaeological tests of hypotheses drawn from foraging theory face a unique set of challenges. Simple foraging models, such as the diet breadth model, rely on assumptions that are clearly violated in the human case. Testing is complicated by the indirect nature of the observations used to reconstruct environment and behavior and by the cumulative nature of the archaeological...

There is a long tradition of recording archaeological contexts. Early accounts are typically a bald statement of the kind: 'a Roman floor was found.' Later, longer textual descriptions appear. The correctness and truth of the observation or interpretation was confirmed by the personal standing of the reporter (cf. Hodder 1989). The more cautious added weight to their view by including another e...

Archaeology is an interdisciplinary science par excellence. In its quest to reconstruct human behavior in the natural and cultural environment of the past, archaeology uses knowledge and techniques from many different academic disciplines. Indeed, there are very few sciences that have no relevance to archaeology. The concept of “holistic archaeology” was specifically defined as an inclusive app...

0278© 2002 All righ Archaeologists often stress the importance of sedentism, large population sizes, and the economy of scale in the development of ceramic technologies worldwide. Yet pottery making is known among many mobile and small-scale societies that make only small numbers of pots. Unfortunately, we know very little about how this technology was organized in such societies. Using Instrum...

archaeological excavations have revealed diverse medical materials of the bronze, neolithic, hellenistic ages, the roman empire and late ancient culture period in the territory of georgia. these materials are rich repositories of national, spiritual and material culture kept in different museums of georgia. to show the origin and development of medicine in georgia, it is, primarily, crucial to ...

Copyright © 2014, Iranian Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ISRAPM); Published by Kowsar Corp. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. There are many references in ancient Iranian literature on...