– Geophysical survey in Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral. Ground-Penetrating Radar and electrostatic for urban archaeology. archaeology a complex polluted environment.

The foundations of archaeology are both conceptual and methodological. Key concepts are associated with several “structures of inquiry” and with constructions used to define and organize archaeological data. The methodological foundations of archaeology are found in fieldwork and other ways of gathering archaeological data and in the approaches used to analyze and interpret archaeological data ...

*Received 7 February 2005; accepted 12 May 2005. †Corresponding author: Dr Salvatore Siano, Istituto di Fisica Applicata ‘Nello Carrara’—CNR, Sede: Elettronica Quantistica, Via Madonna del Piano snc, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy. Tel. +39-055-5225310; fax +39-055-5225305; email [email protected] © University of Oxford, 2006 Blackwell Publishing Ltd Oxford, UK ARCH rchaeometry 0003-813X © Uni...

since the ancient times, burial practices have displayed certain characteristics among different iranian ethnic groups and regions were influenced by the local religious orientations, traditions and environments, and are regarded as part of the spiritual culture of any given population. indeed, religious beliefs play the main role in this diversity. because of the empire’s long endurance and va...

Archaeologists wishing to interpret the meanings of artifacts, both symbolic and functional, have increasingly drawn from Saussureinspired linguistic models as a way to ‘read’ the archaeological record. Such models, however, may not be appropriate for a number of reasons, and should be discarded in favor of a discourse-centered approach, which investigates meaning through practice, currently ga...

The hegemonic-type empires of ancient Mesoamerica are difficult to study archaeologically because they left fewer material traces than more territorially organized empires such as the Inka or Roman cases. We present a material culture model for the identification of such empires using archaeological data. The model, based upon Michael Doyle’s analytical approach to imperialism, is developed fro...

Keith W. Kintigh, Jeffrey H. Altschul, Mary C. Beaudry, Robert D. Drennan, Ann P. Kinzig, Timothy A. Kohler, W. Fredrick Limp, Herbert D. G. Maschner, William K. Michener , Timothy R. Pauketat, Peter Peregrine, Jeremy A. Sabloff, Tony J. Wilkinson, Henry T. Wright, and Melinda A. Zeder School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287; Statistical Research, ...

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...

A vast range of archaeological studies could be construed as studies of consumption, so it is perhaps surprising that relatively few archaeologists have defined their scholarly focus as consumption. This review examines how archaeology can produce a distinctive picture of consumption that remains largely unaddressed in the rich interdisciplinary consumer scholarship. Archaeological research pro...

Magnetic methods have become important tools for the scientific investigation of archaeological sites, with magnetic prospection surveys and archaeomagnetic dating being the most prominent ones. The principles behind these techniques were initially applied to larger and older features, for example prospecting for ore deposits (see Magnetic anomalies for geology and resources) or paleomagnetic d...