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A Review of Methods to Analyze Archaeological Lime Production: Investigating Raw Materials Selection and Firing Conditions
AbstractLime-based materials are found in archaeological contexts across many world regions. The earliest evidence of lime production was discovered...
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Characterising the stone artefact raw materials at Liang Bua, Indonesia
At Liang Bua, the type site of Homo floresiensis on the Indonesian island of Flores, the stone artefact assemblages are dominated by two raw...
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Use-Wear Analysis of Bone Artifacts from the Bronze Age Settlement of Tyubyak (Based on the Materials from the 1987 Excavation)
This paper is devoted to the results of use-wear research and technical and technological study of a collection of bone artifacts of the Late Bronze...
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The Ratio of Strontium Isotopes in Biological Remains (Based on the Materials of the Bronze Age Sites from the Southern Trans-Urals)
This paper presents a statistical assessment of 87Sr/86Sr isotope variations for 69 individuals and 32 animals. All materials belong to the Bronze...
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Critical Raw Materials
This chapter goes deeper into the concept of critical raw materials (CRMs), how they are defined, and how they are classified. The ethical and...
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Discourse Analysis
This chapter is an introduction to discourse analysis. Discourse analysis is both a methodology and an approach to the analysis of discourse. It is a...
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Attribute Analysis
Attribute analysis is a methodological approach that divides an assemblage or a sample of stone tools into individual lithic artefacts and lithic...
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Education as “Mental Vaccine:” Designing Educational Materials About COVID-19
This brief chapter is about a statewide project to create educational materials that now have two complementary goals: to help teachers deliver...
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Quantifying Edge Sharpness on Stone Flakes: Comparing Mechanical and Micro-Geometric Definitions Across Multiple Raw Materials from Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)
In line with engineering research focusing on metal tools, techniques to record the attribute of ‘edge sharpness’ on stone tools can include both...
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Analysis of Focus Group Data
This chapter explains the analysis of data from focus group discussions and piggyback focus groups. Types of data, frameworks for data collection and...
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Sustainability Assessment in Mining: A CSR-Based Analysis Model for Social and Environmental Impact
A simple approach is proposed to study the main factors related to the mining activity’s impact on society, through a corporate social responsibility...
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Application of Parametric Sub-Bottom Profilers for Responsible in Situ Management of Underwater Shallow-Buried Archaeological Materials
The application potential of parametric sub-bottom profilers (SBPs) to in situ management of underwater archaeological sites at risk from...
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A Smartphone-Based Solution to Manage Hazardous Materials Transportation: A Review
Management solutions of hazardous materials transportation use in-vehicle embedded devices. Smartphones have had powerful edge computational...
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Use-Wear Analysis of Obsidian and Other Volcanic Rocks: An Experimental Approach to Working Plant Resources
This experimental study aims to contribute to functional analysis research on tools which specifically served to work wood and non-woody plants. They...
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Shell Tools and Use-Wear Analysis: a Reference Collection for Prehistoric Arabia
Prehistoric and Archaeological research has pointed out the role of marine resources in modern humans’ cognitive and cultural developments. Maritime...
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Framework of Analysis
Chapter 3 offers the methodological approach to the research question of how influential non-state actors and cities were in the process leading to...
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Analysis
Drawing on sociological Grounded Theory and ethnographic semantics, this chapter argues that analysis is a genuinely creative practice. Analysis...
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Science Production in Africa: Analysis of Scientific Publications
This chapter presents an analysis of empirical data on the state of science in Africa. Relevant aspects of science are chosen to provide a...
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Ceramic Analysis and Foodways
Ceramics – one of the most ubiquitous artifact types recovered from archaeological sites – are important for building and refining chronologies and...
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Through Time: Reconstructing Palaeolithic Occupations Through Use-Wear Analysis in the Middle Palaeolithic Site of Ciota Ciara (Borgosesia, Italy)
Lithic use-wear analysis, through defining site function and allowing reconstructing of patterns of human occupation, can contribute to our...
