For two of them, only biological data are available (burial grounds from Late Antiquity comprehensively excavated and covered by thorough historical, archaeological and anthropological studies). The last two are sites with extensive written documentation that provide information on the demographic behaviour...
内容提示: Chapter 11Examples of Archaeological ApplicationsThe new “tools” proposed in this handbook make it possible to re-examine thedemographic approach to buried populations and to address some of the recurrentquestions of palaeodemography, such as the problem of estimating the proportionof under...
aDrawing upon extensive examples from archaeological and contemporary sites worldwide, the author illustrates profound recent shifts in the structure of everyday environment. One effect of these transformations, Habraken argues, has been the loss of implicit common understanding that previously enabled arc...
although historians had difficulty determining how much of this description was true and how much was the invention of later occupants of the throne trying to demonize the monarch. His tomb was lost during the Reformation, and more than five centuries passed before an archaeological dig in Leiceste...
In Japan, there is a great deal of residential and road development projects, large amounts of construction, rearrangement of paddy field layout, etc. Before these construction projects are undertaken, archaeological investigations are conducted. Because of the sheer number of ...
DETERMINATION OF ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF THE GROUND AT SHALLOW DEPTH WITH AN ELECTROSTATIC QUADRUPOLE: FIELD TRIALS ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES1 1993, Determination of electrical properties of the ground at shallow depth with an electrostatic quadrupole: Field trials on archae- ological sites: Geophys......
The analysis of faunal remains from archaeological sites is interesting from different points of view. First, the exploitation of the fauna by the aborigines as an economic resource. Second, the interpretation of palaeoenvironments based on the modifications in the corology of different species since...
Doing it right: A virtual reality theme is what makes theArchaeological Research Institute’snew VR tours come to life. By adding VR to their tours of archaeological sites, they can help people literally see the information right in front of them and imagine the lives of people living there ...
Sphinx, mythological creature with a lion’s body and a human head, an important image in Egyptian and Greek art and legend. The earliest and most famous example in art is the colossal recumbent Great Sphinx at Giza, Egypt, dating from the reign of King
Culture, behaviour peculiar to Homo sapiens, together with material objects used as an integral part of this behaviour. Thus, culture includes language, ideas, beliefs, customs, codes, institutions, tools, techniques, works of art, rituals, and ceremonie