Pub Date : 2022-12-30DOI: 10.14324/111.444.ai.2022.11
R. Stevens, H. Reade, D. Read, S. Bottrell, D. Frémondeau, Sarah Wexler
Iso-Wetlands is a new, NERC-funded collaborative research project involving researchers at UCL Institute of Archaeology, the University of Leeds and the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. The project is developing sulfur isotope analysis of archaeological plants and animals as a new tool for exploring hydrological conditions under which agricultural production was taking place. This development has the potential to improve understanding of water management strategies in the past, particularly in relation to seasonal floodwater agriculture and wetland agriculture (for example, rice paddy systems). The project will open wider possibilities for the use of sulfur isotopes in archaeology and ecology to examine wetland habitat use by both people and animals.
Iso Wetlands是一个由NERC资助的新的合作研究项目，涉及伦敦大学学院考古研究所、利兹大学和英国生态与水文中心的研究人员。该项目正在开发考古动植物的硫同位素分析，作为探索农业生产所处水文条件的新工具。这一发展有可能提高对过去水资源管理战略的理解，特别是与季节性洪水农业和湿地农业（例如稻田系统）有关的理解。该项目将为硫同位素在考古和生态学中的应用开辟更广泛的可能性，以研究人类和动物对湿地栖息地的使用。
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Pub Date : 2022-12-30DOI: 10.14324/111.444.ai.2022.08
E. Fentress, Corisande Fenwick, Hassan Limane
This article presents a research update from the INSAP-UCL excavations at the UNESCO site of medieval Walīla (Roman Volubilis), Morocco. Though the site is best known as the Roman city of Volubilis, in the Middle Ages, and by then called Walīla, it took on a new importance as a Berber centre, the probable locale of an Umayyad or Abbasid garrison and the capital of Idrīs I, the founder of one of the earliest Islamic states in Morocco. It is the only site in Morocco – and in North Africa more generally – where excavations have uncovered substantial evidence of eighth-century urbanism. As such, Walīla provides an exceptional opportunity to investigate the nature of a Berber town and its transformation into, for a short time, the centre of one of the earliest Islamic states in North Africa. This article presents a summary of our results from the four seasons of fieldwork that have taken place so far, between 2018 and 2022.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-30DOI: 10.14324/111.444.ai.2022.02
Alice Stevenson
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Pub Date : 2022-12-30DOI: 10.14324/111.444.ai.2022.10
Katie Meheux
The Annual Report of the Institute of Archaeology (1937–58) is now available as an open-access journal through a UCL digitisation initiative. This article aims to draw attention to the history of the Report and its potential for research into both the history of the Institute of Archaeology and the wider discipline. Research examines the Report within the context of the professionalisation of archaeology in the mid-twentieth century and explores how contemporary journals recorded, reflected and promoted contemporary changes, notably debates surrounding the role of ‘amateurs’ and post-war intellectual internationalism. Vere Gordon Childe’s creative control of the Annual Reports is used to investigate the complex entanglements between institutions and individuals and the roles played by archaeological literature in these interactions.
《考古研究所年度报告》(1937 - 1958)现在可以通过伦敦大学学院的数字化计划作为一份开放获取的期刊获得。本文旨在引起人们对该报告历史的关注，以及它对考古研究所历史和更广泛学科研究的潜力。研究在20世纪中期考古学专业化的背景下检查了报告，并探讨了当代期刊如何记录，反映和促进当代变化，特别是围绕“业余爱好者”和战后知识分子国际主义的角色的辩论。Vere Gordon Childe对年度报告的创造性控制被用来调查机构和个人之间复杂的纠缠，以及考古文献在这些相互作用中所扮演的角色。
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Pub Date : 2022-12-30DOI: 10.14324/111.444.ai.2022.09
Amanda Ford Spora
The Teens, Manga and Digitally Produced Replicas Project, which brings together archaeologically charged replicas, members of the ‘youth generation community’ and manga cartoons, forms part of PhD research at the Institute of Archaeology. The research broadly aims to address a need for increased access and investment in understandings of heritage for teens with the use of 3D print replicas through archaeologically driven and active engagement with object-based learning, underpinned by a constructivist learning approach. This research update focuses on one part of the research, which investigates the narratives told through manga cartoons as a demonstration of the access that teen participants developed through engagement with replicas to real ancient objects and the entangled object biographies of both. Manga narratives offer an innovative way for teens to communicate about the Nile Valley funerary figurines from the Kushite kingdom of ancient Sudan which are the subject of the study.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-30DOI: 10.14324/111.444.ai.2022.06
Panos Kratimenos
Maps and mapping are indispensable tools within archaeological practice. However, they are also tools that have historically been employed relatively uncritically by archaeologists. Maps are used functionally, with little attention paid to the subtler impact of certain decisions in relation to form and appearance. This article serves as a companion to ‘A global perspective on the past: the Institute of Archaeology around the world’ piece earlier in this volume, briefly explaining the theoretical principles underpinning decisions taken in that piece. In particular, the relevance of developments in the field of critical cartography and their application to large-scale archaeological mapping are considered. Map projections, their history, relevant uses and the impact of the choice of projection are discussed, as well as the significance of map orientation. In particular, it is demonstrated that the normalised ‘north up’ visualisation of our planet is a very specific and surprisingly recent development with an important history and subconscious implications. The way in which space is visualised has a subtle impact on the way we understand and, therefore, behave in the world around us. As such, it is contended that a self-conscious and reflexive attitude to the way we visualise space is a crucial consideration in our understanding of both the present and the archaeological past.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-30DOI: 10.14324/111.444.ai.2022.05
Panos Kratimenos
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Pub Date : 2022-12-30DOI: 10.14324/111.444.ai.2022.07
Charli Mansfield
The earliest industrial monuments in Britain are the Neolithic flint mines, dating to around 4000 bce. These mining shafts, which tunnel deep into chalk geologies, evidence the extremes that ancient Britons were willing to resort to in order to obtain valuable raw materials. Numerous scholars, marvelling at the excavation processes and hand tools used to aid the extraction of flint, have studied the flint-mining industry. Recognition of a toolset including antler picks, scapula shovels and possibly woven baskets has led to multiple experiments into artefact replication and testing, with the least emphasis on the scapula shovel. This article explores the results of an experiment designed to bridge the gaps in the understanding of the scapula shovel, as well as active and future research aims, in an attempt to bring this neglected artefact type out of its current obscurity.
{"title":"Neolithic bone shovels of Britain: replication and reflection of a neglected artefact type","authors":"Charli Mansfield","doi":"10.14324/111.444.ai.2022.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ai.2022.07","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The earliest industrial monuments in Britain are the Neolithic flint mines, dating to around 4000 bce. These mining shafts, which tunnel deep into chalk geologies, evidence the extremes that ancient Britons were willing to resort to in order to obtain valuable raw materials. Numerous scholars, marvelling at the excavation processes and hand tools used to aid the extraction of flint, have studied the flint-mining industry. Recognition of a toolset including antler picks, scapula shovels and possibly woven baskets has led to multiple experiments into artefact replication and testing, with the least emphasis on the scapula shovel. This article explores the results of an experiment designed to bridge the gaps in the understanding of the scapula shovel, as well as active and future research aims, in an attempt to bring this neglected artefact type out of its current obscurity.","PeriodicalId":51946,"journal":{"name":"Archaeology International","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43691335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-30DOI: 10.14324/111.444.ai.2022.04
Panos Kratimenos
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