This paper will present an intellectual history of Americanist historical archaeology as it developed from the 1960s onwards within the context of processual archaeology and the resulting marginalization of studies of the recent past within Americanist archaeology. The paper will explore the intellectual problems and miss-steps caused by the artificial prehistory/history dichotomy prevalent in ...

Although considerations and experiments on the ase of computers have a relatively long tradition in Danish archaeology, no comprehensive scientific project has yet been carried through. The use of computers in archaeological science is reduced to storing and retrieval purposes (besides text-processing) and, until now, leaving the analytical potentials as almost unexploited. The level of Danish ...

Community archaeology, understood as a distinctive set of practices within the wider discipline, is a relatively new development. Its most important distinguishing characteristic is the relinquishing of at least partial control of a project to the local community. This introduction takes a preliminary look at where this kind of archaeology is being carried out around the world and outlines what...

1. The Concept of Landscape: Past and Present 1.1 Perceptions of the Landscape and their Reflection in the Arts 1.2 Contemporary Views of the Landscape in Philosophy and the Natural Sciences 1.3 The Landscape Phenomenon in Contemporary Archaeology and Anthropology 2. Sites and Monuments in the Context of Landscape 2.1 The Birth of Interest: Founding Fathers 2.2 New Impulses: Crawford and his Di...

the purpose of this study is to examine the meaning transformation of despotism signifier from safavid era to the rising of iranian despotism discourse in qajar era. the method is archaeology and the study is focused on the relations of the meaning transformation with discourse practices. pre-modern texts were investigated for the significance of despotism. the results suggested that these sign...

1 Environment Department, York Institute for Tropical Ecosystems, University of York, York, United Kingdom, 2 Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, 3 Department of History, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 4 Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, United Kingdom, 5 School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental ...

1 Department of the Archaeology of Landscape and Archaeobiology, Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Prague, CZ, [email protected] 2 Department of Anthropology, National Museum, Prague. 3 Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Brno, CZ 4 Department of Anthropology and Human Genetic, Faculty of Science, Faculty of ...

In the field of human osteology, sex estimation is an important step in developing a biological profile. There are a number of methods that can be used to estimate the sex of human remains, varying from visual assessments to metric analysis of sexually dimorphic traits. Teeth are one of the most durable physical elements in the human body and thus can be very successfully used for this purpose....

The archaeology of slave settlements is a recent development within historical archaeology but has gained substantial headway during the last few years. Most of the excavations have been in coastal areas of the Southeastern United States, principally in Georgia and South Carolina. Substantive questions about housing, diet, and lifestyle have been examined. Some comparison between planters. over...