Archaeology ; Diachronic analysis ; Digital archive ; Documentation ; Environment ; Ethiopia ; Gully erosion ; Historical geography ; Land use ; Landscape ; Library ; Nineteenth Century ; Photography ; The 2000's ; Twentieth Century
Here the AA. demonstrate how historical photographs (1868, 1895, 1907, 1936) in Ethiopia are used in studies on landscape and land use changes, soil erosion and geomorphology, history and historical context, livelihood and archaeology. Further
Archaeology ; Archeological site ; Fauna ; Greenland ; Human occupation ; Northwestern Greenland ; Palaeobiogeography ; Polar region ; Taphonomy ; Way of life
Excavations were undertaken at the site of Cape Grinnell, Northwest Greenland, by the Inglefield Land Archaeology Project in 2008. A well-preserved Late Dorset semi-subterranean mid-passage dwelling and an early Thule semi-subterranean sod-block
Archaeology ; Canada ; Climatic change ; Eighteenth Century ; Hunting ; Inuit ; Labrador ; Little ice age ; Sea ice ; Seasonality ; Seventeenth Century ; Subsistence economy
This paper presents results of recent archaeological research at the site of Oakes Bay 1 (HeCg-08), on Dog Island, Labrador, dated from the late 17th to late 18th century. Analyses of faunal remains provide a means of reconstructing the site’s
The aim of this study is todemonstrate how a number of key plants were perceived in ancient cultures using some examples from the Mediterranean landscape and to use them to help to evaluate different dimensions of archaeological landscapes using
Archaeology ; Dating ; European part of Russia ; Geology ; Geomorphology ; Holocene ; Kola Peninsula ; Lateglacial ; Murmansk ; Palaeogeography ; Shoreline ; White Sea
The article deals with loess, aeolian sand, OSL, the Late Glacial and the Magdalenian site in Rhineland in Germany. The authors describe the study site and archaeological record, the methods, the pedological analysis, the optical dating
are in accord with an archaeologically estimated age for a drowned prehistoric construction at a depth of 1 m below current sea level in a cave from the same area. Speleothem δ13C and δ18O and chemical composition of cave pools provide supportive evidence