At Uan Afuda, and other Early Holocene sites of the Acacus mountains, in the Libyan Sahara, dung layers and plant accumulation are a major, but repeatedly neglected, feature of hunter-gatherer communities. To understand the formation and meaning of such features, a multidimensional analysis has been undertaken, combining micromorphological, palynological, botanical, archaeozoological, and archa...

0278 © 2002 All rig Archaeological tests of hypotheses drawn from foraging theory face a unique set of challenges. Simple foraging models, such as the diet breadth model, rely on assumptions that are clearly violated in the human case. Testing is complicated by the indirect nature of the observations used to reconstruct environment and behavior and by the cumulative nature of the archaeological...

There is a long tradition of recording archaeological contexts. Early accounts are typically a bald statement of the kind: 'a Roman floor was found.' Later, longer textual descriptions appear. The correctness and truth of the observation or interpretation was confirmed by the personal standing of the reporter (cf. Hodder 1989). The more cautious added weight to their view by including another e...

Archaeology is an interdisciplinary science par excellence. In its quest to reconstruct human behavior in the natural and cultural environment of the past, archaeology uses knowledge and techniques from many different academic disciplines. Indeed, there are very few sciences that have no relevance to archaeology. The concept of “holistic archaeology” was specifically defined as an inclusive app...

0278© 2002 All righ Archaeologists often stress the importance of sedentism, large population sizes, and the economy of scale in the development of ceramic technologies worldwide. Yet pottery making is known among many mobile and small-scale societies that make only small numbers of pots. Unfortunately, we know very little about how this technology was organized in such societies. Using Instrum...

archaeological excavations have revealed diverse medical materials of the bronze, neolithic, hellenistic ages, the roman empire and late ancient culture period in the territory of georgia. these materials are rich repositories of national, spiritual and material culture kept in different museums of georgia. to show the origin and development of medicine in georgia, it is, primarily, crucial to ...

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– Urban archaeology in Cherbourg (France). Ground-Penetrating Radar for urban archaeology. Comparison of GPR and trial trenching archaeological evaluation.

William F. Hutchinson1, Mark Culling1, David C. Orton2, Bernd Hänfling1, Lori Lawson Handley1, Sheila Hamilton-Dyer3, Tamsin C. O’Connell4, Michael P. Richards5,6 and James H. Barrett4 1Evolutionary Biology Group, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK 2BioArCh, Department of Archaeology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK 3SH-D ArchaeoZoology, 5 Suffolk Aven...

5.1 The Past and the Future: Archaeology and Computer Science . . . . . 52 5.2 From the Field to the Screen: 3D computer graphics and the Archaeological Heritage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 5.2.1 3D computer graphics and the Archaeological Fieldwork . . 53 5.2.2 Monitoring the Heritage . . . . . . . . . . . . ....