https://hcommons.org/groups/archaeology/ Activity feed for the group, Archaeology. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:48:38 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 265a4bfcd5c9d6f2eaa77a6f6de0442c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896907/ Wed, 21 Aug 2024 03:00:25 -0400 Between January and March 2022, crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) performed the first archaeological fieldwork in space, the Sampling Quadrangle Assemblages Research Experiment (SQuARE). The experiment aimed to: (1) develop a new understanding of how humans adapt to life in an environmental context for which we are not…[Read more]

]]> 0 8c31a9b9c17044a418d2ab7f8c8a55a8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890210/ Wed, 26 Jun 2024 03:07:04 -0400 Memes related to archaeological materials abound on social media. In this chapter, we present a case study looking at memes collected from accounts on Instagram that evince an interested in human skeletal remains. We present a framework for understanding memes as ‘partial stories’ which in aggregate enables us to say something about the aud…[Read more]

]]> 0 d8b8a8dec2c53eff77f97ae3b56067b8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888407/ Wed, 05 Jun 2024 03:01:01 -0400 This chapter argues that women’s most prominent role in ancient Japanese manuscript cultures was not as authors of texts but as patrons. Women likely commissioned the transcription of tens of thousands of scrolls of Buddhist scripture. They also produced short inscriptions, in colophons and on clay and other materials, that documented their p…[Read more]

]]> 0 a0e0ab441f67307a8e9e6ecd77c1bd03 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887443/ Wed, 29 May 2024 03:00:04 -0400 Aimed at young (at heart) people, this comic-strip format book introduces the discovery, and associated challenges of interpretation, of a petroglyph found, disturbed, in the entrance passage way of Middle Iron Age hillfort, at Nesscliffe in Shropshire, UK.  The Nesscliffe petroglyph ('Nessglyph') is made using two types of engraving technologies…[Read more]

]]> 0 d977a3d6d07d2d3fcb8f69b05c1e8783 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1885231/ Sun, 05 May 2024 03:01:03 -0400 This dictionary presents the language used by the Neolithic farmers who migrated into Europe and around
the Mediterranean basin from the Middle East starting around 6500 BCE. This migration ended up forming
a new culture and new civilization which ended up being suppressed by the Roman and Hellenistic empires
and then by their descendant, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 565d48dda9e7026715837cb91c2a390b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882215/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 03:02:05 -0400 This blogpost compares the flood events from 2021 and 1342. The example of St. Magdalein's flood in 1342 challenges modern risk assessment and contributes to the environmental history of times of climate change. The blogpost presents a short review of the state of research especially in the landscapes along the river Main.

]]> 0 fc6595b136b6270c04ffb4d9e4f89535 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882211/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 03:01:29 -0400 This paper reviews Latène material found near Gingen where aerial photographs show a “Viereckschanze”. Obviously there has been a very extended settlement area surrounding the Viereckschanze. Finds mainly consist of coarse ware, but include also the fragment of a fibula. The site is integrated in a regional perspective presenting a map of Latè…[Read more]

]]> 0 5b988699ebe416332b05ea491920a0df https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882204/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 03:00:21 -0400 A Woman's Grave of late Hallstatt period at Bartenbach
Discovered in the 1930s the Bartenbach grave represents a woman's burial of Halstatt D1 period as indicated by bronze belt plate and an earring. According to current state of research the burial belongs to a concentration of Hallstatt finds southwest of mount Hohenstaufen, which was a hilltop…[Read more]

]]> 0 b4f0c3fff395824afaca4abe4bc4c74f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881298/ Fri, 29 Mar 2024 03:00:36 -0400 Mounted seals have frequently been uncovered in Middle Bronze Age archaeological contexts in the Levant and Egypt. However, direct evidence for the deployment of such seals to mark objects does not appear to have been systematically studied to date. This article presents an initial typology of impressions made using mounted seals found in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 cdae58fc8322b0b311e555dbb6298b06 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1877896/ Tue, 27 Feb 2024 03:00:33 -0500 References in ancient literary texts refer to the use of pierced teeth as amulets used for the prevention and reduction of teething pains in infants. In this paper, I explore some of the sensory aspects of this phenomenon by centralising pain as a sensory experience. I draw on a dataset of these objects from Roman Britain in order to contextualise…[Read more]

]]> 0 08088199a84674bf8c9777db58a1b84c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876938/ Sun, 18 Feb 2024 03:00:02 -0500 This course provides an introductory survey of the archaeology, art, and architecture of ancient Egypt. The course begins by considering the prehistoric cultures of the Nile Valley and continues to the period of the Roman empire. The course will consider Egypt both chronologically and thematically by examining famous features and sites, as well as…[Read more]

]]> 0 49635e0726e6630f5450242fa7de4af4 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1871177/ Tue, 16 Jan 2024 03:01:10 -0500 Reseña del cortometraje "Quma y las bestias", que contó con la asesoría multidisciplinaria de paleontólogos, arqueólogas, biólogos e ilustradores especialistas en paleoarte.

]]> 0 f6a26d9a67b893853523f28967e06ffc https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1871176/ Tue, 16 Jan 2024 03:00:49 -0500 En este trabajo se presenta el desarrollo del proceso de patrimonialización de un cañón de hierro fabricado en 1789, probablemente en una fundición sueca. La pieza de artillería fue recuperada a comienzos del siglo XX del solar en donde funcionó el antiguo Juzgado de Paz y la Comisaría de San Antonio de Areco. Dicha pieza, forma parte de un conjun…[Read more]

]]> 0 8ce4cea73743bfd432c95ab64416ab56 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1871175/ Tue, 16 Jan 2024 03:00:27 -0500 Este trabajo se constituye como un espacio interdisciplinario para reflexionar sobre el aporte de los métodos y técnicas digitales en la práctica de nuestra disciplina, tanto en la documentación, como en el análisis y reconstrucción virtual del material arqueológico, además de la gestión integral del patrimonio cultural. A tal efecto, se consider…[Read more]

]]> 0 ad2a052b2d137f348513775126aeb92f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1871174/ Tue, 16 Jan 2024 03:00:04 -0500 El desarrollo tecnológico de las últimas décadas ha proporcionado múltiples posibilidades de comunicación con diversos públicos. Nuevas herramientas y canales complementan y optimizan las preexistentes y exigen también la construcción de nuevos tipos de relato, junto a la conformación de equipos multidisciplinarios que combinen diferentes saberes.…[Read more]

]]> 0 f996ca316f6b3c642ca4cfa27a15d3d4 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1871043/ Mon, 15 Jan 2024 03:00:26 -0500 The International Space Station Archaeological Project (ISSAP), co-directed by Alice Gorman and me, is the first full-scale, systematic archaeological investigation of the material culture from a site of human activity in space. We started in late 2015, in response to a number of phenomena, including a growing desire to move the focus of space…[Read more]

]]> 0 8acf106589f795bceee57b5f4bb461bb https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868555/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:07:08 -0500 Book review

]]> 0 3513d44304251a45bd63cce8030395cf https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868554/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:06:45 -0500 Whether or not you’ve heard the phrase ‘the Sixties Scoop’ probably depends on where you live, your heritage, and whether you ever had the opportunity to learn about the history of Indigenous peoples. Many don’t. The word ‘scoop’ is mild, and therefore deceptive. It’s the name given to a component of Canada’s cultural genocide conducted again…[Read more]

]]> 0 2d6fe2a3a4bd726cda952fa574ac3e69 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868552/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:06:22 -0500 This published by the publication 'The Contingent' https://contingentmagazine.org

]]> 0 4318ebc6c83d43e74bbef3f65151d7dc https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868550/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:05:58 -0500 In this piece Alicia writes about archeology as adventure, in the context of a long history of colonial exploration and exploitation of Indigenous peoples in the Canadian 'wilderness'. https://adventureuncovered.com/stories/the-brown-bear-and-i-archeology-adventure-and-colonisation-in-the-canadian-wilderness/

]]> 0 87a73416235d01f3ccd00fdec515998c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868541/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:05:04 -0500 The article is published in the official Journal of The Institute of Science and Technology (ISSN 2040-1868)

]]> 0 b0e351d5ff942b71a52a865c183b3528 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868537/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:04:20 -0500 The act of classification has the widest implications for scholarship. Whatever the format, it involves the totality of our being. The use of our eyes indicates that decisions about whatever it is that we observe have already been made. Yet the interaction between the mechanical act of seeing and the mind or memory has rarely been registered. An…[Read more]

]]> 0 8b69705557f589c7980b1b1b06936bed https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868529/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:03:08 -0500 Review of the literature on pictograph sites in the Canadian Shield with specific reference to those found in the Lake of the Woods, in north-western Ontario, Canada.

]]> 0 ca45944ecc2e2c81501158be204c652d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868525/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:02:21 -0500 This article argues that the analysis of a threedimensional image demanded a three-dimensional approach. The authors realise that discussions of images and image processing inveterately conceptualise representation as being flat, static, and finite. The authors recognise the need for a fresh acuteness to three-dimensionality as a meaningful – a…[Read more]

]]> 0 b34b3fc673fb58726f2394b023354be8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868522/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:01:48 -0500 Essay on the NiCHE-Canada website: https://niche-canada.org/2023/10/30/what-is-a-heritage-river/

]]> 0 b86d062733dcda40529236673581c69b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868521/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:01:25 -0500 Book review

]]> 0 bfd1b7eecef02fd1256d021f0eba364d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868518/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:00:51 -0500 This article discusses four pictograph sites in the Lake of the Woods where the images were interpreted by several Indigenous peoples.

]]> 0 24878070f9205b9dc87ecbdd0b20dc83 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1862877/ Sat, 28 Oct 2023 03:01:08 -0400 This paper presents an analysis of data derived from thousands of publicly available photographs showing life on the International Space Station (ISS) between 2000 and 2020. Our analysis uses crew and locational information from the photographs’ metadata to identify the distribution of different population groups—by gender, nationality, and spa…[Read more]

]]> 0 aa553362cd59cf9533a697cae3af75e3 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1859979/ Thu, 28 Sep 2023 03:17:38 -0400 During the Neo-Assyrian period (approximately 934-612 BCE, based in modern Iraq) the annals and royal inscriptions of several kings mention women with a curious title: ‘Queen of the Arabs’. These women have been included in previous discussions regarding Assyrian interaction with the ‘Arabs’, but a full investigation into their roles as rulers…[Read more]

]]> 0 40a90df8dcde9280e51fb1133cda1a93 https://hcommons.org/groups/archaeology/forum/topic/cfp-gender-and-methodology-in-the-ancient-near-east-gemane-6-malta-3/ Sat, 23 Sep 2023 10:36:38 -0400 The Sixth Workshop on Gender, Methodology and the Ancient Near East (GeMANE 6) will take place as a hybrid event on the 8–11 April, 2024, hosted by University of Malta’s Department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures  and the International School for Foundation Studies. Previous GeMANE workshops were held in Helsinki (2014), Barcel…[Read more]

]]> 891ddfdbd60984807813c47146245795 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852086/ Tue, 18 Jul 2023 02:24:09 -0400 The Linear B administrative texts of Late Bronze Age Greece were written on clay tablets, whose production therefore formed the first stage in the process of document creation, though it generally remains unclear whether the tablets’ writers were also their makers. This study combines experimental archaeology with autopsy of the tablets from P…[Read more]

]]> 0 7752a42c94997d3d4bb9d7203d985436 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1848338/ Tue, 06 Jun 2023 02:23:43 -0400 The Akkadian of this lexicon was spoken by Neolithic farmers who migrated to Europe from the Middle East starting around 6500 BCE. This lexicon combined with the new genetic migration information demonstrates that Europe had its own ancient Pagan civilization just as important and innovative as any other ancient civilization. This lexicon begins…[Read more]

]]> 0 a603038daf610ee1e8d7bfe08309d2d1 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1847837/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 02:25:21 -0400 The early history of the study of Parthian art may be profitably divided into three overlapping phases. The first phase, ‘Ordering’, begins with Johann Joachim Winckelmann’s dismissive assessment of Parthian art, at this point known mainly from coins, as derivative and barbaric. The second phase, ‘Exploration’, begins in the mid-ninet…[Read more]

]]> 0 3b1ada82996347c3617b6e088f162b7a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1843877/ Mon, 08 May 2023 02:24:02 -0400 Tags made of mudstone are predominantly found in ancient Egyptian Predynastic cemetery contexts. This study examines the symbolism and significance of mudstone tags that are crescent-shaped and/or feature the recurved horns of hartebeests. The use of syncretic imagery on these tags provides evidence for the fluidity of artistic perceptions in…[Read more]

]]> 0 2d9cb071488b81bc05fb52ab9ce70f6d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1837808/ Sat, 18 Mar 2023 02:24:02 -0400 The Late Bronze Age was a period of heightened international diplomacy throughout the eastern Mediterranean littoral and the Near East. A direct result of this supra-regional interconnectivity is argued to have been the formation of an independent hybrid visual style, the ‘International Style’, an iconographic idiom which occurs sparingly on art…[Read more]

]]> 0 c036b5b6e9b1c96a00667726398ff481 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1830079/ Tue, 17 Jan 2023 02:35:27 -0500 Announcement for the opening of the exhibition "Eden and Everything After" at the University of Stavanger Archaelogical Museum and publication of attendant catalogue.

]]> 0 68eca372e932cd1d4d6b66bf954bf0dc https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1816953/ Sun, 09 Oct 2022 02:27:07 -0400 Britain’s second-longest early medieval monument – Wat’s Dyke – was a component of an early medieval hydraulic frontier zone rather than primarily serving as a symbol of power, a fixed territorial border or a military stop-line. Wat’s Dyke was not only created to monitor and control mobility over land, but specifically did so through its careful a…[Read more]

]]> 0 8f2ebaf12d552a48f0d744ba5d848b34 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1816951/ Sun, 09 Oct 2022 02:26:27 -0400 Often neglected and misunderstood, there are considerable challenges to digital and real-world public engagement with Britain’s third-longest linear monument, Wat’s Dyke (Williams 2020a). To foster public education and understanding regarding of Wat’s Dyke’s relationship to the broader story of Anglo-Welsh borderlands, but also to encoura…[Read more]

]]> 0 70384adaf6aaaf804a4bbca16e736d4c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1816949/ Sun, 09 Oct 2022 02:25:48 -0400 We hope this comic heritage trail for Wrexham helps introduce you to Britain's third-longest ancient monument

]]> 0 4e148856f692c0f21d9f53de7eb5d720 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1816947/ Sun, 09 Oct 2022 02:25:08 -0400 This article introduces the third volume of the Offa’s Dyke Journal (ODJ). As well as reviewing ODJ 3’s contents, I present reviews of the journal received to date, notable new publications on linear monuments, and the Collaboratory’s key activities during 2021. The context and significance of the research network’s ongoing endeavours are present…[Read more]

]]> 0 37baf96d2b36970980d13627d3e167bd https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1816946/ Sun, 09 Oct 2022 02:24:47 -0400 This chapter presents a survey and critique of the use of ‘treasure(s)’ to describe the burial assemblage from the Mound 1 ship-burial at Sutton Hoo since its discovery in 1939. I argue that referring to the contents of Mound 1 as ‘treasure(s)’ is not merely misrepresenting, commodifying and sensationalising its funerary context and wider signifi…[Read more]

]]> 0 a95bba2cbf68566100fc3bcde168cd03 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1816945/ Sun, 09 Oct 2022 02:24:26 -0400 Setting the stage for The Public Archaeology of Treasure, this chapter presents the complex intersections of ‘treasure’ in archaeological teaching and research and archaeology’s interactions with a range of different publics on local, regional, national and international scales. The chapter also identifies the global issues in heritage conse…[Read more]

]]> 0 14c276d33feb6185a3223d7c0ca98c94 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1816943/ Sun, 09 Oct 2022 02:23:39 -0400 Introduction to the collected essays of Professor Dai Morgan Evans

]]> 0 92d8a904c71fd80dfaabb21a23d45959 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1816643/ Thu, 06 Oct 2022 02:23:45 -0400 This note outlines several features common to the reception of ancient ruins by the Christian populations of three countries, each located on a different continent. Most of the sites were and are strongly associated with the realm of the dead. Fear of misadventure or calamity typically inspired a respectful avoidance of such pre-Christian sites…[Read more]

]]> 0 1dc42382d50e9a80b0906f39ccb6a06e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1791476/ Thu, 25 Aug 2022 02:25:30 -0400 We develop and apply a deep learning-based computer vision pipeline to automatically identify crew members in archival photographic imagery taken on-board the International Space Station. Our approach is able to quickly tag thousands of images from public and private photo repositories without human supervision with high degrees of accuracy,…[Read more]

]]> 0 3033e364f03e0f7291b16466f8f608c4 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1790752/ Wed, 17 Aug 2022 02:23:39 -0400 GERMAN: Waren die Götter Astronauten? Davon ist Erich von Däniken überzeugt. Der erfolgreiche Autor ist seit Jahrzehnten der einflussreichste Protagonist auf dem Gebiet der Paläo-SETI bzw. Prä-Astronautik, einer grenzwissenschaftlichen Laienforschung, die die Position vertritt, dass Außerirdische vor Urzeiten die Erde besucht und die Entwi…[Read more]

]]> 0 d57b2fa836de6424efe247b4f58d1237 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1777787/ Sat, 09 Apr 2022 02:24:55 -0400 This graduate seminar approaches the urban and rural landscapes of peninsular Italy from the Early Iron Age until the Gothic Wars, with the goal being to examine key points of intersection (and departure) between the spheres of ‘town’ and ‘country’. In adopting an holistic approach to these categories that are often juxtaposed, the seminar…[Read more]

]]> 0 1f3dbdfb367c20f120584cc97fb3f49b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1777785/ Sat, 09 Apr 2022 02:24:18 -0400 Troy has long captured the human imagination. The story of its fall and the tales of both its inhabitants and besiegers have caught the attention of artists and their audiences from antiquity to post-modernity. It seems we are drawn to the struggle that is Troy and the Trojan War, to the paragons of virtue, and the archetypes of other, less noble…[Read more]

]]> 0 caf943cc391876f918c82a80516477ce https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1775054/ Fri, 18 Mar 2022 02:23:45 -0400 One of the medical manuscripts recovered from Tomb No. 3 at Mawangdui (dated 186 B.C.E.) states that, “When a person is born there are two things that need not to be learned: the first is to breathe and the second is to eat.” Of course it is true that all healthy newborn human beings possess the reflexes to breathe and eat. Yet, the imp…[Read more]

]]> 0 85c7c2e28262b960e323af0cd70712dc https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1772058/ Wed, 16 Feb 2022 02:25:03 -0500 The Persian King Darius I (reigned 522-486 BCE) constructed a canal connecting the Nile to the Red Sea – an ancient precursor to the Suez Canal that made it possible to sail from Egypt to Persia, and to places in between.

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