Gun part assemblages from several Euroamerican and Native American contact period sites from the Plains are compared as a way of examining how firearms were incorporated into Native technology of the Plains region. These data are interpreted in terms of a 'tfault tree analysis," an operations research technique that identifies potential points of failure in technical systems in order to study p...

The methodology proposed in this paper in based on an integrated approach for creating a 3D digital reconstruction of an archaeological site, using extensively the 3D documentation of the site in its current state, followed by an iterative interaction between archaeologists and digital modelers, leading to a progressive refinement of the reconstructive hypotheses. The starting point of the meth...

To revive the Siddha system of medicine, a chronological probe including archaeological and historical sources ofthis discipline is necessary. Siddha system is based on th e atom and 96 101ft uvams of Saiva Siddhanda. Archaeological excavations at Harappa and Mohenjedaro, showing light on Siva-Sakti cult form a background for Siddha. There are views of links with the submerged Lumer ia continen...

At Chalcatzingo, Mexico, an early regional center, the common location for burials was under house floors, but some high-status burials occurred in more open spaces. These latter were also residential burials, interred within the landed domain of social units. Although both “inside” and “outside” burials drew on claims of ancestral continuity, it is important to explore the differences they ent...

T he origin of the state is one of the leading research problems in anthropology (1–4). Archaeologists have been especially concerned with the state; the earliest cases of state formation occurred long before detailed written records were kept and must be studied archaeologically. Although various theories of state origins have been proposed, researchers have increasingly turned their attention...

Archaeobotanical evidence for the exploitation of vegetatively propagated underground storage organs (USOs) in tropical regions Australia, Southeast Asia and Pacific is currently limited. Although there have been several key studies archaeological parenchyma published past two decades, systematic application identification methods crop species utilising charred, desiccated or waterlogged remain...

The arrival of Europeans in the New World effected the interaction of 2 temperate biogeographical eco-zones: the Palaearctic and Nearctic. Alfred Crosby has hypothesized that the success of the Europeans as imperialists was due, in part, to the ability of their introduced biota to bring about the collapse of the indigenous populations and local ecosystems, leading to the formation of Neo-Europe...

In a much-quoted viral Gawker article, writer Dan Brooks (2021) describes NFTs—short for nonfungible tokens and used primarily to denote digital pop-art that operates as cryptocurrency financial instruments—as combining “the nuanced social awareness of computer programmers with the soulful whimsy hedge fund managers. It is art people whose imaginations have been absolutely captured by new kind ...