- Feb 2021
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www.nybooks.com www.nybooks.com
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Foucault probably offers the most helpful theoretical approach. His “archaeology of knowledge” suggests a way to study texts as sites that bear the marks of epistemological activity, and it has the advantage of doing justice to the social dimension of thought.
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- Jan 2021
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Strongly influenced by Darwin’s ideas about evolution, the British anthropologist Edward Tylor (1832–1917), and his American counterpart Lewis Henry Morgan (1818–1881), both published important works in the 1870s arguing that human societies had evolved from a state of savagery (primitive hunting) through barbarism (simple farming) to civilization (the highest form of society). Morgan’s book, Ancient Society (1877), was partly based on his great knowledge of living Native Americans.
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It was a French customs inspector, Jacques Boucher de Perthes (1788–1868), working in the gravel quarries of the Somme river, who in 1841 pub-lished convincing evidence for the association there of human artifacts (of chipped stone, what we would today call “hand-axes” or “bifaces”) and the bones of extinct animals
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In the same period, around 1675, the first archaeological excavation of the New World – a tunnel dug into Teotihuacan’s Pyramid of the Moon – was carried out by Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora.
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The main thing to remember is that every view of the past is a product of its own time: ideas and theories are constantly evolving, and so are methods.
This is also an important thing to remember when reading and evaluating older texts and discoveries.
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- Dec 2020
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It could be argued that the whole philosophy of archaeology is implied in the questions we ask and the form in which we frame them.
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Chairman Mao coined the slogan “Let the past serve the present,” but that was sometimes used as an excuse for the deliberate destruction of ancient things.
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surviving fragments of the Berlin Wall which once divided East from West Germany but which was opened and torn down in 1989.
As a thought experiment, what sorts of evidence of a physical barrier like this would still exist for future scholars to study to surmise its existence a thousand years hence even if all physical remains of the wall were torn down and no written records exist?
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- Oct 2020
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joyofmuseums.com joyofmuseums.com
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Plotting the find sites on a map shows that these petrospheres were often located in the vicinity of Neolithic recumbent stone circles.
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www.1843magazine.com www.1843magazine.com
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This painting was discovered in the Bulu Sipong cave on Sulawesi in 2016 and recent analysis has shown that it is the “oldest pictorial record of storytelling” and the “earliest figurative artwork in the world”, and is at least 43,900 years old. (The oldest known drawing in the world, a 73,000-year-old abstract scribble, was found in South Africa in 2018.)
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- Feb 2020
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osf.io osf.io
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Reverse engineering a bronze cannon from theLaBelleshipwreck
The benefit to archaeology, museum curation, and other areas presented by computer modeling and 3D printing cannot be overstated. These technologies allow us to explore artifacts, sites, and more, in ways that we never could before.
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- Feb 2019
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canmore.org.uk canmore.org.uk
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slighted to clear access to the drove way
Might mean slighting in the sense of straightforward demolition
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- Aug 2018
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intarch.ac.uk intarch.ac.uk
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Internet Archaeology is trialling a new feature by Hypothes.is which enables everyone to make annotations on journal content. To get started, just select any text in any article and add your annotation for everyone to see (Annotations are public by default but highlights are private, visible only to you when you’re logged in to your Hypothes.is account). You can even share your annotations on social media,
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- Jan 2018
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cosmosmagazine.com cosmosmagazine.com
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The crayon, or perhaps more accurately “crayon-like object”, is 22-milimetres long and seven-millimetres wide, an elongated structure comprised primarily of haematitite, although with some small hard pieces of other minerals embedded.
Haltman says "material objects begin in a world of objects but takes place in a world of words." Finding this crayon is congruent to this belief because this object opens a door to a new "world of words." Although primitive in language this crayon would begin a new "nuanced vocabulary" for early man.
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- Nov 2017
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smgprojects.github.io smgprojects.github.io
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ethics of video games in archaeology
Reminds me of this historian’s talk at Pint of Science Montreal 2015. (Sadly, not finding online traces of the event apart from my own section.)
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- May 2016
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archeologiamedievale.unisi.it archeologiamedievale.unisi.it
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This website is a very comprehensive resource about medieval pottery in Italy. It is rather difficult to navigate properly since part of the original navigation was implemented with some scripting method that is now obsolete, but all pages should be reachable by means of normal
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links. It was updated until circa 2004.
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- Nov 2015
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www.telesurtv.net www.telesurtv.net
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The 74 pieces, acquired legally at the time by the former Spanish ambassador to Ecuador, were given to the Museo de América for restoration on the condition that they be returned when asked.
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www.peruthisweek.com www.peruthisweek.com
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Peru seeks repatriation of 400 cultural artifacts from New York
Repatriation of artifacts currently residing in the Met. A common concern across countries currently seeking repatriation of cultural objects is their ability to display and care for the objects.
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hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com
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A Historic Manuscript on Aztec Life Is “Virtually Repatriated
Interesting ideas of repatriation through technology. Does this count as true repatriation? Does it achieve the same goals?
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- Oct 2015
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www.peruthisweek.com www.peruthisweek.com
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Cusco strike: Archaeology-concession decree repealed
Ownership of archaeological sites in Peru - repealed.
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Discovery of a colonial era church due to a drought.
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www.wacotrib.com www.wacotrib.com
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Community archaeology! Excavation of a fountain from a Mexican-American neighborhood settled in the late 19th century.
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- Sep 2015
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www.scientificamerican.com www.scientificamerican.com
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9,000-Year-Old Decapitated Skull Found under Amputated Hands
Possibly the oldest known beheading in the America's has been found in Brazil.
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www.telegraph.co.uk www.telegraph.co.uk
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Ancient tunnels discovered underneath Mexican city of Puebla
Construction often uncovers archaeological features in cities. Commercial archaeologists are often called into construction sites in order to excavate the material.
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www.slate.com www.slate.com
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How Peru is using drones to protect its archaeological treasures
Interesting read on the usage of drones in mapping archaeological sites. The composite image is made by taking overlapping aerial photographs. From this, 3D models of the sites can be made. This article discusses not only the archaeological benefits of drone use, but also how drones can help to keep tabs on any destruction occurring on the site.
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- Oct 2013
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opencontext.org opencontext.org
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step trench
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