Iranian traditional architecture is one of the world's architectures par excellence. It was one of the most important architectures in the medieval Islamic world. Iranian architecture has developed over millennia in response to its religion. Many traditional and vernacular buildings in Iran show that the architects had been so clever in harmonizing the Iranian religion and architecture in the p...

– Urban archaeology in Cherbourg (France). Ground-Penetrating Radar for urban archaeology. Comparison of GPR and trial trenching archaeological evaluation.

To assess genetic diversity and maternal origin of Turkish and Iranian native chicken breeds, we analyzed the mtDNA D-loop sequences of 222 chickens from 2 Turkish (Denizli and Gerze) and 7 Iranian (White Marandi, Black Marandi, Naked Neck, Common Breed, Lari, West Azarbaijan, and New Hampshire) native chicken breeds, together with the available reference sequences of G. gallus gallus in GenBan...

William F. Hutchinson1, Mark Culling1, David C. Orton2, Bernd Hänfling1, Lori Lawson Handley1, Sheila Hamilton-Dyer3, Tamsin C. O’Connell4, Michael P. Richards5,6 and James H. Barrett4 1Evolutionary Biology Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK 2BioArCh, Department of Archaeology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK 3SH-D ArchaeoZoology, 5 Suffolk Aven...

5.1 The Past and the Future: Archaeology and Computer Science . . . . . 52 5.2 From the Field to the Screen: 3D computer graphics and the Archaeological Heritage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 5.2.1 3D computer graphics and the Archaeological Fieldwork . . 53 5.2.2 Monitoring the Heritage . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

We document the history and progress of two international ocean data management projects. The “Global Oceanographic Data Archaeology and Rescue” project was initiated in 1993 under the auspices of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC). The project has the goal of locating (archaeology) and digitizing or copying to modern electronic media (rescuing) historical (pre-1992) oc...

Talensi materia medica is varied, encompassing plant, mineral, and animal substances. Healing, medicines, and medicinal practices and knowledge can be shrine-based and linked with ritual practices. This is explored utilising ethnographic data and from an archaeological perspective with reference to future possibilities for research both on Talensi medicine and, by implication, more generally th...

Session Abstract Many scholars, professionals, and students have begun to employ geospatial analysis in their research; however, the teaching of geospatial thinking is still in its formative stages. Archaeologists deal with information that is inherently spatial in nature; thus, archaeology provides an ideal setting to develop spatial thinking. This symposium focuses on geospatially related top...

This paper serves as an introduction to this special edition of the International Journal of Historical Archaeology on the theme of archaeology, memory and oral history. Recent approaches to oral history and memory destabilise existing grand narratives and confront some of the epistemological assumptions underpinning scientific archaeology. Here we discuss these approaches to memory and explore...

In 1966 the US Congress passed the National Historic Preservation Act. Its intent: to ensure that the values embedded in historic buildings, archaeological sites, and other important places of the past honored all Americans in ways that would inspire and motivate present and future generations. In the intervening 50 years, archaeologists have diligently discovered, documented, analyzed, and cur...