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Jones, Timothy William. "Archaeology as archaeology." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187222.

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The objective of this dissertation is to investigate the difference between behavior as it is reported and actual behavior as determined through material behavioral remains (garbage). The goal was to then use this knowledge to provide insight into what archaeologists were viewing in their data in relation to meaning, perception and behavior. Four studies were conducted. The first study looked at caries prevalence in relation to numerous variables (fluoride, milk consumption, sugar consumption, brushing rates, antibiotic use, school fluoride programs, and school lunch programs) most of which were measured through materials means in order to determine if different conclusions would be reached in comparison to traditional findings based on reported behavior. The second and third studies looked at reported versus actual use in relation to a number of sociometric and lifestyle/attitude variables. The fourth study compared different kinds of reported behavior to actual behavior in conjunction with aspects of the meaning system (values and attitudes). The findings of these studies generally indicate that (1) everyday mundane behavior is guided by a realm that is not accessible and (2) behaviors that are cognized are guided by a realm that is accessible and is the reality we perceive. The implications for archaeology include (1) meaning is not well reflected in everyday mundane behavior (the bulk of behavior archaeologists study) and (2) behaviors where meaning guides actual behavior are those behaviors that culture stresses as important to cognize.

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Boddington, Monique Ingrid. "Truth and archaeology : justification in archaeology." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/287999.

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Many causes have been proposed for the transition to agriculture but how can archaeologists debate rival interpretations of the record with a seat-of-your-pants theoretical methodology? Truth is a concept that has been the subject of considerable thought and analysis by philosophers for millennia and is a conceptual resource that archaeologists can draw on. The aim of this thesis is twofold. Firstly, the aim is to study the epistemological criteria used in the formulation and assessment of archaeological knowledge: bringing new understanding of knowledge formation in archaeology and how to deal with competing interpretations of the past (specifically with political and ethical ramifications). The second aim is to assess these epistemological criteria and position them in light of the literature on philosophical theories of truth. The focus of this thesis is on the justification project which attempts to identify a characteristic which is possessed by most true propositions and not possessed by most false propositions. In other words, what it is that makes certain statements about the past 'true' or 'not true'. The aim is to understand how archaeological claims about the past come to be made and against what grounds these claims are justified. Three angles are used to answer the aims of this thesis. Firstly, looking at archaeological interpretation in the field, the case study of Çatalhöyük in Turkey is used to track interpretation from excavation through to publication. Secondly, looking at justification in larger syntheses of the past, different explanations for the emergence of agriculture in Britain are explored to understand how justification works at this level of archaeological interpretation, especially when dealing with multiple explanations. Finally, the ethical and political consequences of archaeological justification are discussed. Given the acceptance that there are different interpretations of the past beyond solely the archaeologists, how does justification work in archaeology when we include other interpretations of the past and when concerns shift away from reaching the most justified account of the past, to the practical ramifications of that knowledge? This thesis original and novel contribution is in answering these aims. In the next chapters it will be argued that archaeological justification works within a specific model of justification based on correspondence and coherence. Justification shifts as interpretation moves away from the archaeological record; there is a heavier reliance on abductive reasoning. Multiple interpretations are a product of abductive reasoning and due to the adoption of different theoretical stances. Archaeology fits within a pragmatist theory of truth showing that ethical and political issues are part of the process of justification.

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Gauthier, Erin. "Architecture/Archaeology." This title; PDF viewer required Home page for entire collection, 2008. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.

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Thesis (M.Arch.)--University of Detroit Mercy, 2008.
"28 April, 2008". P. 17-185 contain a reprint of three appendices from: Tales of Five Points : working-class life in nineteenth-century New York / edited by Rebecca Yamin. Includes bibliographical references (p. 218).

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Starr, Talcott Copeland. "Rescue Archaeology." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1217341314.

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Brughmans, Tom. "Evaluating network science in archaeology : a Roman archaeology perspective." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2014. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/371700/.

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Nackerdien, Rushdi. "Archaeology and education in South Africa : towards a People's Archaeology." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21815.

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Bibliography: pages 167-177.
Accompanied by: Faizal's journey : discovering the past through objects.
The topic of this dissertation developed out of the 1980s era of resistance to Apartheid. At that time, mass-campaigns produced the concept of People's Education, which challenged established State-structures. People's Education was based on participatory democracy and drew on communities' knowledge rather than state-sanctioned knowledge. The concept of People's Archaeology is a product of that time-period. It focuses on involving communities in the practice of archaeology, beyond the stage of consultation. Within the forthcoming election process, Black communities are to be empowered politically and this empowerment has, in other countries seen an accompanying growth in concerns about identity, cultural property and ownership. I argue that identity politics will be crucial in the future South African society and that archaeology will play an important role in this debate. The discipline faces transformation in the coming decade and education will be critical in this change. In this dissertation I contend that past attempts at popular education in archaeology have had very limited success. Archaeology still remains a discipline unknown to the majority of South Africans. This dissertation explores the reasons for the limited success of these attempts by critically examining the structure of the discipline in South Africa, and the perception that it creates to the public. It also goes further by exploring an alternative to these efforts at popular education through the use of principles and methods developed in People's Education. This project takes the debate about People's Archaeology beyond theory and attempts to implement some of the ideas through two projects, one dealing with an excavation, the other focusing on the production of a popular resource. I explore the pitfalls and benefits of these projects and make recommendations concerning the future of the discipline.

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Miller, Jeffrey Allen. "Archaeology and place." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.602681.

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While landscape has long been an active field of study within archaeology, little attention has been given to place. However, as conceptions of landscapes become increasingly nuanced and complex, it becomes increasingly appropriate to shift the focus of analysis to place in order to better engage with the experiential, sensory, and emotive aspects of lived spaces and worlds. Furthermore, place encourages a broader perspective and holistic approach in which the past and present are intertwined and therefore equally significant to interpretations. This thesis investigates the relationship between archaeology and senses of place in order to examine the ways in which the remains of the past are relevant to the present. Two Irish islands - Valentia Island and Achill Island - are explored through engagement with their archaeological landscapes, historical research, and ethnography. The study shows that conceptions of the islands as places are characterised by perceptions and relationships with their pasts. Furthermore, both places are largely identified by their more recent histories, particularly the 19th century, demonstrating the importance of historical and contemporary archaeology. In short, this study shows that archaeology and senses of place are linked, and that each influences the other. Thus it is suggested that in order to fully understand the archaeology of a particular place some engagement with such aspects of place are necessary. Furthermore, in order to best serve the communities and societies which inhabit these spaces and landscapes, archaeology should take into account contemporary perspectives and experiences, and this means engaging with place as a conceptual framework

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Firth, Antony Julian. "Marine archaeology underwater." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.243139.

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Buck, Caitlin E. "Towards Bayesian archaeology." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.385208.

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Sweeden, R. Renee. "Personal Archaeology: Poems." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1992. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500646/.

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A collection of poems focused primarily on rural America and the South, the creative writing thesis also includes material concerned with the history of Mexico, particularly Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest. The introduction combines a personal essay with critical material discussing and defining the idea of the Southern writer.

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Karlsson, Håkan. "Re-thinking archaeology /." Göteborg : Department of archaeology, University of Göteborg, 1998. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37219627r.

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Roberts, Julia. "Towards a cultural history of archaeology : British archaeology between the Wars." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2005. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/studentthesis/towards-a-cultural-history-of-archaeology(689403e4-b24e-4158-ba82-0e1d5f06a114).html.

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Bartoy, Kevin M. ""Who is Archaeology's Public?": A Critical Analysis of Public Images and Expectations of Archaeology." W&M ScholarWorks, 1999. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626207.

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Sofaer, Derevenski Joanna Rachel. "Gender archaeology as contextual archaeology : a critical examination of the tensions between method and theory in the archaeology of gender." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251663.

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Schuster, Paul David. "Archaeology Goes to School: A Cooperative Approach to Teaching History Through Archaeology." W&M ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626036.

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Kenneson, Kimberly Kay. "Archaeology and the patriarchs." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.

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Beck, William P. "The Bible and archaeology." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.

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Almutairi, Majed. "The archaeology of Kuwait." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2012. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/41961/.

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This thesis addresses the archaeology of Kuwait from 13000BC to the 18th century AD, to further understand its significances within the Arabian Gulf and wider world. Kuwait has witness many diverse cultures By comparing for the first time the archaeology, geography, and historical sources, I illustrate that this region has been continual inhabited and used as an important hub of social networks since its beginnings. By introducing the Ubaid civilization and their relations with other regions, we witness the first exchange and trade strategies in Kuwait. By looking at the burial mound phenomenon in Kuwait we witness a hiatus of permanent settlements and a time when people were more nomadic. The impact of these mounds resonated into later periods. Petroleum based substances play a key role in modern Kuwait; the Ubaid and the Dilmun first developed the usage of bitumen, and here we see how that created links with others in the world. Ideas move as well as people, and I demonstrate the proto-Hellenistic and Hellenistic periods in Kuwait to illustrate influences from the Mediterranean. Modern Kuwait is Islamic, and here we will investigate how and why and the speeds at which Christianity gave way to Islam, and the impacts of a different religion on the region. In highlighting Kuwait’s past, I show how the state became one of the most democratic and diverse places in the Arabian Gulf.

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Ota, Toyotaka. "The archaeology of despair." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.426271.

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Opitz, Rachel Shira. "Lidar analysis for archaeology." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.611795.

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Denning, Kathryn Eleanor Lillian. "On archaeology and alterity." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1999. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10220/.

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Responding effectively to aItemative ideas about humanity's past is a growing concern for many archaeologists, as popular television programs, the Internet, and best-selling books increasing.ly promote theories which dramatically oppose accepted academic archaeological interpretations. However, this problem has traditionally been undertheOlised, or considercd primarily within scientistic fonnulations which simplistically contrast good, logical. '0l1hodox' archaeology with bad, illogicaL 'lunatic fringe' archaeology. As an analysis of some CUlTent ideas about the archaeological past demonstrates, this can be a false dichotomy that impedes constructive thinking. Neither dowsing nor psychic archaeolob'Y, for example, are clearly illogical or marginalised practices~ designating them as such, however, reveals much about a priori convictions. Earth Mystelies in the U.K. has features in common with Blitish academic archaeology. Apocalyptic threads running through some alternative archaeology books are ancient in their structure, not strange and new, and can also emerge in academic archaeological writings. This does not mean that there are no grounds for disting.uishing between different accounts of the past, but it does mean that some standard intolerances within archaeology, based upon notions of demarcation which do not \\ork, must be questioned. Outside the discipline but exerting their influence within it the Skeptics' mO\'cment and the 'anti-anti-Science' contingent of the Science Wars are increasing polarisation around issues of rationality, and responding to divergent ideas inside and outside academia with open hostility. However, there are well-established philosophies that pennit the avoidance of such divisive and all-encompassing conflict. A henneneutic rather than foundationalist approach to the dilemmas of alterity provides more robust and responsible possibilities.

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Phann, Sambath. "Archaeology of (missing) knowledge." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10241595.

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In this study, I re-tell the life stories of two Khmer high school “dropouts,” Thom and Kevin. Through the collection and reflection of their life stories, I specifically discovered what led Thom and Kevin to “drop out” and uncover whether either had planned on pursuing or dreamt of a four-year postsecondary education in high school. Through interviewing, surveying, and participant-produced visual art, I offered glimpses into their everyday experiences and hopes and dreams for their futures. Based on the stories of Thom and Kevin and Khmer stories in the literature, I provided “Khmer-up,” culturally responsive, and proactive actions to see educational justice for Khmer lives. Issues of invisibility, loneliness, lack of a sense of belonging, personal hardships, challenges in school and community, and their desires for better lives for themselves ricocheted from their stories.

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Cilliers, Ryna. "An archaeology of self." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11723.

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The title of this dissertation is An Archaeology of Self. The first two chapters explore the historical and theoretical basis that has informed my creative work. It is predominantly concerned with artists who engage with the everyday in their art-making. The three main ideas elaborated upon in the body of the text are; the notion of mark making and trace as able to invoke the corporeal presence of the artists; the inclusion of quotidian objects and routines as subject matter within art that recontextualises them as worthy of attention; and the extent to which the representation or use of material objects, traces and leavings can retain significant meaning. The latter is explored in reference to artists who use an archaeological methodology in their work. An underlying theme in both practical and theoretical research is the concept of indexical trace that invokes the presence of its referent while paradoxically signalling its absence. The concluding chapters deal with my methodology and the processes of collection used in arriving at the works presented for examination.

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Vandorpe, Dries. "The Archaeology of Liveness." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1430786242.

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Sontberg, Frauke. "Ubuntu Archaeology : A comparison of four different public archaeology projects in South Africa." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-46646.

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This thesis examines four different public archaeology projects in South Africa, and poses questions related to how archaeology is defined and mediated by educational centres and museums in South Africa. The museums have a rather traditional way of mediating archaeological knowledge to a broader public, but they do include exhibitions that invite visitors to interpret human history themselves. The educational centres, on the other hand, are considered to be a category below the traditional museum, where the content is developed in collaboration with indigenous people, and the knowledge about former peoples is mediated by the indigenous people themselves, as part of an objective to develop employment opportunities for marginalised community groups. While educational centres have developed out of this collaboration with indigenous communities, mueseums were established during the colonial period of South Africa. The educational centres are a collaboration between experts and non-experts, and have an inclusive approach. Museums, in contrast, develop their content based on the experts´knowledge, for the visitor and not with the visitor. However, it is evident that visitors are intended to have a dialogue with the exhibition. An inclusive approach is preferble, where experts and non-experts are on the same level, show mutual respect for each other, and are open to learning from each other. A significant issue that public archaeologists face is that each public project is unique. This means that new methods and ideas are needed for each project. Four different projects have been visited and examined, and it was found that all four projects were unique in terms of the issues that they faced and in terms of how the professionals solve those problems in specific ways adapted to each unigue project. On the one hand, the question of what a successful public project is or can be remains, but on the other hand, it is clear that a well-established collaboration and an understanding for each other is needed to develop a successful public work. In South African terms a succssesful public work could be termed "Ubuntu archaeology", where the word "Ubuntu" is interpretes as Desmond Tutu put it in 1994, where both parties experience each other as equal.

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Daehnke, Jon Darin. "Public outreach and the "hows" of archaeology : archaeology as a model for education." PDXScholar, 2002. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3607.

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There is growing awareness of the importance of public outreach in archaeology. Many professional archaeologists argue that in order to ensure continued funding we must communicate the relevance of our discipline to the public in a more effective manner. Furthermore, it is often argued that public outreach and education provides perhaps the only reliable defense against looting and rampant psuedoarchaeology. Current outreach activities, however, tend to focus on what archaeologists have discovered about the past. While this type of outreach is important, a more effective model for public outreach would focus on the methods of archaeology, rather than the results. Archaeology, with its focus on multiple lines of evidence, intertwining of the sciences and humanities, and multi-cultural perspective provides a unique model for addressing and answering questions, a model which could serve as a base for education. Promoting the methods of archaeology as an educational model, or at the very least, remembering the methods in our outreach activities, may be, in the long run, the most effective method for establishing the relevance of our discipline.

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Sakellariadi, A. "Archaeology for the people? : Greek archaeology and its public : an analysis of the socio-political and economic role of archaeology in Greece." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2011. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1318136/.

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During the last thirty years, archaeology has become increasingly aware of the socio-‐‑political context within which it is practiced. Theoretical advances of the discipline as well as pressure from the world of cultural resource management have contributed to this development. Greek archaeology, since its beginning, based on academic elitism of foreign scholars and schools of archaeology and on the newly-‐‑founded state’s (1830) need to build a national identity, has barely followed this path of self-‐‑awareness and social reciprocity and has become less relevant to both the state and the people of Greece. This thesis investigates the relationship between Greek archaeology and the people of Greece and its development since the foundation of the Greek state. More particularly, the social, political and economic role of archaeology in local communities, its public values and the actual aims and objectives of the State Archaeological Service are revealed through the examination of three case studies: the archaeological sites of Philippi in Kavala, Dispilio in Kastoria, in northern Greece, and the archaeological site of Delphi in central Greece. Factors traditionally considered irrelevant to the archaeological agenda are considered. Public perceptions on archaeology and its relevance today, locals’ relation to the neighbouring sites and the level of engagement with them and stakeholders’ interaction with local archaeology are discussed. Documentary evidence and other archival material enlighten the history of archaeology in general and in connection to these sites. The relationship between Greek archaeology and local communities is revealed to constitute an arena where a variety of agendas are projected and compete. The supreme ideal of the nation as served by archaeology for the moment seems to make the every day battle between conservation and other interests unscathed. However the public good of archaeology, as the legislator envisaged it, is still looked for.

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Røyrvik, Ellen C. "The peoples of Britain: population genetics, archaeology and linguistics : population genetics, archaeology and linguistics." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669909.

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The history of peoples has always evoked a great deal of both academic and popular interest, and the peoples of Britain, with its island position and semi-mythic serial invasions, have evoked as much as any. As most of the period during which Britain has been inhabited by modern humans lies in prehistory, archaeology has long been the best method for elucidating the past. In recent years, however, genetics has come to complement the reconstruction of peoples' pasts, with its ability to trace lineal human biology instead of transferable human culture. The purpose of this thesis is to assess population genetics systems of Britain against the backdrop of archaeologically determined history, informed for later periods by linguistics, and attempt to ascertain any marked congruities or incongruities between this history and modern genetic data. The genetic datasets included in this work are the People of the British Isles Project collection, and some ancillary cohorts from surrounding countries. The genetic systems assessed include mitochondrial DNA, classical marker genes, lactase, pigmentation genes and some phenotypes, and finally a suite of candidate genes for determining normal facial variation. In a self-contained section, the principle of relating population genetic data to population histories is illustrated by a study focusing on Central Asia (a larger area), but using fewer genetic markers. The chosen markers systems overall reveal modest amounts of genetic differentiation among different groups in Britain, but consistently highlight Wales and Orkney especially as relatively distanced from the rest of Britain. This is in keeping with the historically quite isolated state of the former, and the comparatively recent heavy influx of Norse Vikings in the latter. Further details are observable from subsets of this study: all are discussed in the context of archaeological and linguistic evidence. These findings provide support and foundation for a forthcoming study from the People of the British Isles Project, using a genome-wide SNP approach rather than selected markers, which will likely increase the nuance of this initial picture and contribute further to answering specific questions regarding Britain's past.

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Pinsky, Valerie Ann. "Anthropology and the new archaeology : a critical study of disciplinary change in American archaeology." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1992. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272789.

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Jones, Kimberley S. "The archaeology of Doulo, Cameroon." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ65035.pdf.

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Beausang, Elisabeth. "Childbirth and mothering in archaeology /." Gothenburg : Department of Archaeology, Univ. of Gothenburg, 2005. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0703/2006483161.html.

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Mossman, Susan. "Mycenaean Lead: Archaeology and Technology." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.508338.

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Gregory, Katherine Mary. "An archaeology of group dynamics." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.267578.

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Yates, Gillian. "Environmental magnetism applied to archaeology." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.329625.

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Quinlan, Angus Robert. "Towards an archaeology of religion." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.239349.

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Isaksen, Leif. "Archaeology and the Semantic Web." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2011. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/206421/.

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This thesis explores the application of Semantic Web technologies to the discipline of Archaeology. Part One (Chapters 1-3) offers a discussion of historical developments in this field. It begins with a general comparison of the supposed benefits of semantic technologies and notes that they partially align with the needs of archaeologists. This is followed by a literature review which identifies two different perspectives on the Semantic Web: Mixed-Source Knowledge Representation (MSKR), which focuses on data interoperability between closed systems, and Linked Open Data (LOD), which connects decentralized, open resources. Part One concludes with a survey of 40 Cultural Heritage projects that have used semantic technologies and finds that they are indeed divided between these two visions. Part Two (Chapters 4-7) uses a case study, Roman Port Networks, to explore ways of facilitating MSKR. Chapter 4 describes a simple ontology and vocabulary framework, by means of which independently produced digital datasets pertaining to amphora finds at Roman harbour sites can be combined. The following chapters describe two entirely different approaches to converting legacy data to an ontology-compliant semantic format. The first, TRANSLATION, uses a 'Wizard'-style toolkit. The second, 'Introducing Semantics', is a wiki-based cookbook. Both methods are evaluated and found to be technically capable but socially impractical. The final chapter argues that the reason for this impracticality is the small-to-medium scale typical of MSKR projects. This does not allow for sufficient analytical return on the high level of investment required of project partners to convert and work with data in a new and unfamiliar format. It further argues that the scale at which such investment pays off is only likely to arise in an open and decentralized data landscape. Thus, for Archaeology to benefit from semantic technologies would require a severe sociological shift from current practice towards openness and decentralization. Whether such a shift is either desirable or feasible is raised as a topic for future work.

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Reese, David Stephen. "Marine invertebrates and Mediterranean archaeology." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1988. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272352.

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O'Roark, Douglas Alan. "Archaeology and Oligarchy at Isthmia." The Ohio State University, 1989. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392650062.

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Elzein, Intisar Soghayroun. "Islamic archaeology in the Sudan /." Oxford : Hadrian Books, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39296614m.

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Kolltveit, Gjermund. "Jew's harps in European archaeology /." Oxford : Archaeopress, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40179534z.

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Hides, Shaun. "An archaeology of cultural identity." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/30818.

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This thesis addresses the problematic issues of the relationship between artefacts and collective identity in the study of the past. It examines how one current strand of contemporary archaeological theory attempts to recover the truth of the identities of peoples in the past, by utilising a form of interpretation derived from semiotics and idealism, to 'read' their artefactual traces. The conception of cultural identity utilised by contextualism (post-processualism) is re-examined in three ways.;Firstly, the central concepts of these approaches are critically examined in terms of their dependence on, and constitution in, contemporary theoretical discourse, utilising an approach influenced by the strategies of the post-structuralist authors which post-processualism has itself enlisted in support of its interpretative approaches.;Secondly, the practices and concepts which support current archaeological conceptions of cultural identity are re-examined in an historical account of their emergence and transformation since the Renaissance derived from the archaeological and genealogical strategies of Michel Foucault. This demonstrates the extent to which conceptions of the identities of the peoples of the past, from those of Antiquarians to contemporary archaeological theorists, have consistently been projections, or reconstruction, of contemporary views of identity. This seeks to show that such conceptions are historically determined and specific whilst claiming to transcend and recover history.;Thirdly, current archaeological conceptions of cultural identity are juxtaposed against an account of the forms of cultural identification in the contemporary Indian communities of Leicester. This is undertaken in order to demonstrate the cultural specificity of archaeological notions of cultural identity. The implication of this critique is the acknowledgement that descriptions of past cultures are constructions incorporating artefacts within a theorised framework which includes conceptions of identity. These conceptions and accounts of past cultures are artefacts produced in the present, not recoveries of a 'real' past.

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Robblee, Patrick Paul. "Battlefield Archaeology: A Case Study." W&M ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625946.

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Kulik, Karol. "Mediating archaeology : the relationship between archaeology, the media and the public in Britain (1996-2002)." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.417978.

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Shepherd, Nick. "Archaeology and post-colonialism in South Africa : the theory, practice and politics of archaeology after apartheid." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11702.

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I take my lead from a paper by Bruce Trigger (1984) in which he divides the disciplinary field into three modes or forms of archaeology: a colonialist archaeology, a nationalist archaeology and an imperialist archaeology. He goes on to suggest (1990) that South African archaeology is the most colonialist archaeology of all. Trigger was writing at a point before the current political transformation in South Africa had emerged over the horizon of visibility. Writing somewhat later, and from the point of view of a Third World archaeologist, I ask: What would a post-colonial archaeology look like? In particular, what would it look like from the point of view of South Africa in the late 1990s?

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Hughes-Skallos, Jessica M. "Displaying Archaeology: A Look into the Representation of Archaeology in United States Natural History/History Museums." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1384850209.

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Needham, Rosemary. "Archaeology archetype and symbol : a Jungian psychological perspective on the Neolithic archaeology of the British Isles." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/archaeology-archetype-and-symbol-a-jungian-psychological-perspective-on-the-neolithic-archaeology-of-the-british-isles(09f4d0eb-6d08-48d0-b097-76bb063f285f).html.

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While the advent of modern technologies has increased our understanding of the physicality of prehistoric artefacts for instance their place and method of manufacture and has helped to establish more precise chronologies, the actual meanings tend to elude us. It is in this connection that the insights derived from the work of C. G, Jung could help to shed light on the significance of some of these objects and the practices with which they are associated. One worthwhile line of enquiry entails a more personal approach based on some psychological perspectives from the work of C.G. Jung. It was Jung who emphasised that the scientific rationalist perspective of modernity is just another paradigm and by no means the only way of understanding the world. Another of his important insights was to search for meaning in all human behaviour no matter how bizarre or senseless it might appear. As well as being a modern discipline, Jung’s work can I believe be extrapolated back to the past as he himself stated that some of his insights could be usefully applied to past objects and situations (Jung 1986:5).The problems involved in attempting an analysis of meaning from a period from which no literary evidence survives was one rejected as impossible, (Renfrew & Zubrow 2000) but this problem can be redressed by the application of Jung’s collective unconscious a concept concerned with recurrent patterns in human behaviour. In his view, studies based on an isolated individual are inadequate. Moreover, with regard to the Neolithic period where no written records are extant, it is virtually impossible to reconstruct such detailed information at this level. The following quotation underlines the importance Jung attached to this interpretation:-“Therapy stands or falls with the question. “What sort of world does our patient come from and to what sort of world does he have to adapt? The world is a supra-personal fact, which only deals with the personal element in man. Man is also a part of the world, inextricably involved, he carried the world in himself, something at the same time, impersonal and supra-personal (Jung 1946:30).

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Conrad, Joan Andrée. "Archaeology; or, the school of resentment." FIU Digital Commons, 2002. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2426.

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ARCHAEOLOGY; OR, THE SCHOOL OF RESENTMENT is a novel in verse and other genres that, on the one hand, follows the progress of Nancy Drew as a new votary of Dionysos who has too long been on a detour in the Apollinian realm, and, on the other, records the excavation of psychological sites by Nancy’s Africanist alter ego, Sarah Fumeaux, archaeologist and historian of humanity. The trajectories of the two female protagonists are chronicled in the tradition of the feminist long poem. The work explores postlapsarian ways in which race and gender disturb life. Nancy’s quest as Dionysiac votary drags the archaeologist into peril in a process that finally decolonizes the archaeologist’s soul and restores balance to Nancy’s sidetracked self. As plot, the work reconsiders the Modernist and apparently politically incorrect feminism of Virginia Woolf as expressed in Three Guineas. As aesthetic object, the poem weaves through a collage of shadows of imperial dismantling cast by the work of Anna Akhmatova, Anne Carson, Nick Carbo, Colette, H.D., Denise Duhamel, Sergei Eisenstein, Robert Hass, Audre Lorde, Campbell McGrath, Frank O’Hara, Sylvia Plath, Gertrude Stein, Stephanie Strickland, Eleanor Wilner, and others. Laying bare the detritus of patriarchal convention that began with the Ur- metaphor of Aristotle, ARCHAEOLOGY; OR, THE SCHOOL OF RESENTMENT represents one poet’s exploration of the relationship of excavation to literature, of landscape and silence to history, of text to body, of metaphor to news.

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Stout, Mackenzie Diane. "Archaeology of northwestern Oklahoma: an overview." Thesis, Wichita State University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10057/3333.

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This work will compile recent archaeological information about prehistoric inhabitants of northwest Oklahoma, the environments they occupied, and the archaeological studies that have informed us about them. The purpose is to construct an overview of the region that has been developed since the 1980s. Recommendations are offered about possible research objectives that might help tie this area in with larger studies of landscape archaeology, prehistoric adaptations to the area, and settlement systems. The primary contribution of the present study is to compile and make available in a single source some of the important information recently developed for Alfalfa, Blaine, Dewey, Ellis, Garfield, Grant, Harper, Kingfisher, Major, Woods, and Woodward counties. Studies in this area have added substantial information in the areas of pre-Clovis first Americans, the Clovis and other Paleoindian cultures, Archaic, and more recent inhabitants of the region.
Thesis (M.A.)--Wichita State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Anthropology

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White, Katie E. "The archaeology of intersex and gender." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.522655.

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Omoush, Ma'en Mohammed Salem. "Archaeology of medieval castles of Jordan." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.505830.

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