scholarly journals Arqueología virtual aplicada al sitio Villavil, Catamarca, Argentina

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Julieta Lynch ◽  
Gustavo Corrado
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Northwestern Argentina ◽  
Total Station ◽  
Spanish Conquest ◽  
The North ◽  
Complete Dataset

In this paper we present the results of the planimetric survey in the archaeological site of Villavil. This site its on the north of Hualfín valley, Catamarca, Argentina. This region was habitated since remote times until the Inca and the Spanish conquest. From the registration of the site with total station and virtual reality programs it was provided a more complete dataset for the interpretation of the functionality intrasite, in pre and post times to Inca arrival in the Northwestern Argentina.

scholarly journals 41SM32 on Little Saline Creek in Smith County, Texas

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy K. Perttula ◽  
Mark Thaker
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Network Member ◽  
East Texas ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
The North ◽  
Post Oak ◽  
A Site ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Smith County

A review of early trinomial numbers for sites located in Smith County in East Texas indicated that between 1938 and 1943 Jack Hughes identified and collected from at least 37 sites listed on the Texas Historic Site Atlas. From 1938 to 1941 his site locations randomly occur throughout the County; interestingly there are no sites recorded in 1942. In 1943 he recorded about 14 sites along Black Fork Creek and its tributaries, this being mostly west of the City of Tyler. The primary purpose in reviewing the available archaeological information about these early recorded sites was to re-visit selected sites if necessary and to update information that was recorded beginning almost 80 years ago. An entry contained on a Texas Archeological Research Laboratory at The University of Texas (TARL) site card indicated that Hughes collected artifacts from a site (41SM32) located on Little Saline Creek, near the much better known Alligator Pond site (41SM442) that had been recorded in 2011 by Mark Walters. The Alligator Pond site is on property owned by Thacker, a Texas Archeological Stewardship Network member. 41SM32 is a prehistoric archaeological site that was found and recorded in September 1940 by Jack Hughes, who later went on to a career as a professional archaeologist in Texas. The site is on Little Saline Creek, a northward-flowing tributary to the Sabine River about 10 km to the north, in the Post Oak Savannah of East Texas.

Life, Death, and Burial of Children on the North Coast of Peru

2018 ◽  
pp. 126-170
Author(s):  
Haagen D. Klaus
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
North Coast ◽  
Hispanic Children ◽  
Contextual Data ◽  
Spanish Conquest ◽  
Cultural Perception ◽  
The North ◽  
Blood Sacrifice ◽  
Health Burdens ◽  
North Coast Of Peru

This chapter examines bioarchaeological data funerary patterns, and other contextual data derived from a sample of nearly 900 subadults who lived and died in the Lambayeque region of Peru's north coast from A.D. 900 to 1750. Paralleling various ethnohistoric perspectives, stark paleodemographic under-representation of the young in cemeteries and the preference for children as blood sacrifice victims points to the possibility that late pre-Hispanic Lambayeque childhoods involved meanings, symbolisms, and identities radically different from that of adults. Pre-Hispanic childhood may have been a liminal state, bridging supernatural and human realms. Following the Spanish conquest, indigenous experiences of childhood changed radically. Multiple skeletal indicators show that, when compared to pre-Hispanic children, many Colonial children bore much greater health burdens. Practices of childcare also changed, as millennia-old cradle boarding practices ceased rapidly in some areas. Alterations of childcare and inclusion of children into Colonial cemeteries indicates distinct changes in the cultural perception of childhood. However, the differential mortuary treatment of various children suggests that the young were still somehow distinct, as probably conceptualized in a hybrid Euro-Andean framework into the mid-18th century.

scholarly journals Geodetic work at the archaeological site Tell el-Retaba

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-80
Author(s):  
Eva Stopková
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Data ◽  
Statistical Modelling ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
The North ◽  
Digital Elevation ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Elevation Model ◽  
Modern Technologies

The paper summarizes the geodetic contribution for the Slovak team within the joint Polish-Slovak archaeological mission at Tell el-Retaba in Egypt. Surveying work at archaeological excavations is usually influenced by somewhat specific subject of study and extreme conditions, especially at the missions in the developing countries. The case study describes spatial data development according to the archaeological conventions in order to document spatial relationships between the objects in excavated trenches. The long-term sustainability of surveying work at the site has been ensured by detailed metadata recording. Except the trench mapping, Digital Elevation Model has been calculated for the study area and for the north-eastern part of the site, with promising preliminary results for further detection and modelling of archaeological structures. In general, topographic mapping together with modern technologies like Photogrammetry, Satellite Imagery, and Remote Sensing provide valuable data sources for spatial and statistical modelling of the sites; and the results offer a different perspective for the archaeological research.

Paleoecological implications of the first prehistoric record of water vole (Microtus richardsoni) from Washington state, USA

2019 ◽  
Vol 92 (2) ◽  
pp. 381-387
Author(s):  
R. Lee Lyman
Keyword(s):  
Late Holocene ◽  
Sampling Error ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Cascade Range ◽  
Western Montana ◽  
Water Vole ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
The North ◽  
Long Distance Transport ◽  
Distance Transport

AbstractRemains of the North American water vole (Microtus richardsoni) have previously been recovered from late Pleistocene and Holocene deposits in southwestern Alberta, western Montana, and north-central Wyoming. All are within the historically documented modern range of the metapopulation occupying the Rocky Mountains; no ancient remains of this large microtine have previously been reported from the metapopulation occupying the Cascade Range. Four lower first molar specimens from the late Holocene Stemilt Creek Village archaeological site in central Washington here identified as water vole are from the eastern slope of the Cascade Range and are extralimital to the metapopulation found in those mountains. There is no taphonomic evidence indicating long-distance transport of the teeth, and modern trapping records suggest the local absence of water voles from the site area today is not a function of sampling error. The precise age of the Stemilt Creek Village water voles is obscure but climate change producing well-documented late Holocene advances of nearby alpine glaciers could have created habitat conditions conducive to the apparent modest shift in the range of the species represented by the remains.

The Roman Military Occupation of North-West Spain

1976 ◽  
Vol 66 ◽  
pp. 45-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. F. J. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Military Force ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Main Text ◽  
Gold Mines ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

The north-west corner of Spain was long neglected by Roman archaeologists, who have tended to concentrate on the more spectacular remains to be found in the south and east. However, recently more attention has been directed there by workers of several nationalities, who have now produced a quite extensive literature on the gold mines, as well as on wider aspects, chiefly in connection with the activities of the legion VII Gemina. Yet there has been little attempt in all this to examine why a substantial military force was maintained in the region for so long. This paper aims to review that problem to about the end of the second century A.D. The evidence available is almost entirely epigraphic, chiefly consisting of epitaphs and religious dedications. Building inscriptions are scarce. For convenience all the epigraphic material from the north-west of Spain that is relevant to the disposition of the army is collected in the appendix, and in the main text reference will be made to the numbers given there. In addition a few historical passages are of importance, but the archaeological site evidence is very slight. The nature of the evidence is such that most attention must be devoted to the units attested in the region and their deployment, with little to be said about their actual bases. Previous work on the subject has been dominated by the late Antonio García y Bellido in several masterly papers. However it has tended to concentrate more on the history of the units themselves than on questions of topography and the reasons behind their presence.

A Ball Court Located on the San Pedro River in Southeastern Arizona

1951 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles C. Dipeso
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Site ◽  
River Channel ◽  
The West ◽  
San Pedro River ◽  
The North ◽  
San Pedro ◽  
Cochise County ◽  
Desert Flora ◽  
The Village ◽  
The City

The Amerind Foundation, Inc. spent the first three weeks of December, 1948, excavating a ball court at the archaeological site of Arizona:BB:15:3, which is located in Cochise County, Sec. 20, T15S, R20E. The actual village area is located on the west bank of the San Pedro River twenty-two miles north of the city of Benson at an approximate elevation of 3300 feet.The ball court was located in the north half of the village on a terrace some forty feet above the river channel. It appeared as a shallow but conspicuous oval depression which was overgrown with mesquite trees and other desert flora of the Sonoran plateau type. Fortunately the court had not been disturbed by any previous excavations nor by erosion (Fig. 86, a).

scholarly journals Revisiting the humid Roman hypothesis: novel analyses depict oscillating patterns

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 2355-2389 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. J. Dermody ◽  
H. J. de Boer ◽  
M. F. P. Bierkens ◽  
S. L. Weber ◽  
M. J. Wassen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North Atlantic ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Mediterranean Climate ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Patterns ◽  
The North

Abstract. Previous studies have proposed that potential vegetation in the Mediterranean maintained a wetter climate during the Roman Period until the initiation of large scale deforestation. The reduction in evapotranspirative fluxes associated with deforestation is suggested to have caused climatic aridification leading to the establishment of the present-day Mediterranean climate. There is also evidence to indicate that during the Roman Period Mediterranean climate was influenced by low frequency fluctuations in sea level pressure over the North Atlantic, termed here: the Centennial North Atlantic Oscillation (CNAO). In order to understand the importance of each of these mechanisms and disentangle their respective signals in the proxy record, we have employed an interdisciplinary approach that exploits a range of tools and data sources. An analysis of archaeological site distribution and historical texts demonstrate that climate did not increase in aridity since the Roman Period. Using an Earth system model of intermediate complexity prescribed with a reconstruction of ancient deforestation, we find that Mediterranean climate was insensitive to deforestation in the Late Holocene. A novel analysis of a composite of proxy indicators of climatic humidity depicts spatial and temporal patterns consistent with the CNAO. The link between the CNAO during the Roman Period and climatic humidity signals manifest in our composite analysis are demonstrated using a modelling approach. Finally, we present evidence indicating that fluctuations in the CNAO contributed to triggering a societal tipping point in the Eastern Mediterranean at the end of the Roman Period.

scholarly journals Commensal Rodents in 19th Century Australasia: Diversity, Invasion Routes and the China Connection

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew James Veale ◽  
Carolyn King ◽  
Wayne Johnson ◽  
Lara Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Diversity ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
House Mice ◽  
Mus Musculus Domesticus ◽  
The South ◽  
The North ◽  
Founding Population ◽  
Norway Rats

Abstract The present genetic diversity of commensal rodent populations is often used to inform the invasion histories of these species, and as a proxy for historical events relating to the movement of people and goods. These studies assume that modern genetic diversity generally reflects early colonising events. We investigate this idea by sequencing the mitochondrial DNA of rodent bones found in a 19th-century archaeological site in The Rocks area of Sydney, Australia, the location of the first historical European port. We identified 19th-century bones from two species, Rattus norvegicus and Mus musculus domesticus. We found six genetic haplotypes in the 39 Norway rats, showing either multiple early introductions or a diverse initial founding population. One of them was identical with Norhap01 common in the North Island of New Zealand, but none was like the haplotype Norhap02 found throughout the South Island. We found three haplotypes in seven house mice, all belonging to the dominant subspecies established in Australia, M.m. domesticus. There was no evidence for M. m. castaneus or M. m. musculus having established there. We had few modern R. norvegicus and M. musculus DNA sequences from Sydney, but those we had did tentatively support the hypotheses that (1) modern samples can represent at least a preliminary estimate of historical diversities and origins, and (2) Asian haplotypes of both Norway rats and of house mice reached the South Island of New Zealand early in colonial times direct from China rather than through Port Jackson.

scholarly journals The Rainbow Site, An Unusual Syrup Mill in Gregg County, Texas

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Alan Skinner
Keyword(s):  
Sugar Cane ◽  
Ground Level ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
The North ◽  
North End

The Rainbow site is a historic archaeological site that was recorded during a cultural resources survey of a proposed Wal-Mart SuperCenter site in Longview, Texas. It was first interpreted as the location of an illegal whiskey still, but testing revealed that the furnace had been part of a sugar cane syrup mill. The early 1900s furnace is unusual when compared to other reported furnaces in that the firebox had been constructed below the original ground level and the flue/pan area had walls that were barely 1.5 ft. above the surrounding ground, whereas most furnaces were constructed on level ground and had waist-high walls where workers could stand upright when processing syrup. In addition, a brick vault had been constructed over the north end of the firebox and no other examples of such a feature have been reported from syrup mill furnaces.

scholarly journals Обзор исследований археологического памятника Ноин-Ула (Северная Монголия)

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-34
Author(s):  
Y.I. Elikhina
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Burial Ground ◽  
The North ◽  
Complete Bibliography

In the article, the author examines and analyzes in detail the publications devoted to the study of the archaeological site Noin-Ula, located in the North of Mongolia. With the discovery of this burial ground began archaeology of the Xiongnu, one of the ancient peoples who roamed throughout Central Asia from late 3rd century BC to late 1st century AD. Fragments of ancient Chinese and Parthian fabrics, embroidery, lacquered, bronze, iron and other items have been preserved in the elite mounds of Noin-Ula. The article summarizes the results of almost a century of study of the archaeological site, provides the most complete bibliography. В статье автор подробно рассматривает и анализирует публикации, посвященные изучению археологического памятника Ноин-Ула, расположенного на севере Монголии. С открытия этого могильника началась археология хунну, одного из древних народов, кочевавших на территории Центральной Азии с конца III в. до н. э. и до конца I в. н. э. В элитных курганах Ноин-Улы сохранились фрагменты древних китайских и парфянских тканей, вышивок, лакированных, бронзовых, железных и других изделий. В статье подводятся итоги почти столетнего изучения археологического памятника, приведена наиболее полная библиография.

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