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Steel Tracks and Copper Wire: 19th-Century Railway and Telegraphy Equipment from Minas Gerais (Brazil) (2013)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fernando Costa. Guy Hunt. Edward Koole.

In recent years, commercial archaeology (CRM) projects in various parts of the the State of Minas Gerais (Brazil) have revealed important evidence relating to stretches of the now abandoned railways and telegraph lines which crossed the interior of Brazil during the second half of the 19th Century. This paper illustrates the evidence from several key sites and examines how it may be used to address ideas of colonialism, globalisation and international trade. These remains are the traces of an...

Stinking foreshore to tree lined avenue: Investigating the riverine lives impacted by the construction of the Thames Embankments in Victorian London. (2013)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hanna Steyne.

Victorian London saw dramatic changes along the Thames, with the construction of the East End Docks and Thames Embankments, as the city struggled to cope with its ballooning population and prospering shipping industry. The Embankments reclaimed a stinking, effluent covered foreshore previously occupied by wharves, jetties, barge beds and slips, and contained a new sewer system and covered railways, finished with tree lined avenues and road access to central London. The Embankment has been hailed...

Stonehenge: a Late Neolithic megasite (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mike Parker Pearson.

Stonehenge is part of a larger complex of Late Neolithic (3000–2450 BC) sites and monuments on Salisbury Plain, including a major settlement complex with monumental timber circles at Durrington Walls. Evidence for occupation from this period covers over 8 square miles. In particular, the Durrington Walls settlement covered 42 acres, built in the same period as Stonehenge’s main stage of construction. This settlement was occupied only for decades, or even just a few years, by people with a...

A Strange and Continuing Journey: The Evolution of a Record of Antiquity to a Holistic Public Interpretation of the Historic Environment Facilitated by Technology (2013)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Martin C Newman.

English Heritage’s National Record of the Historic Environment (NHRE) has gone through many changes since its inception by the former Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME). It incorporated the National Archaeological Record (NAR), the National Buildings Record (NBR) and maritime sites. During this time it has also moved from paper-based records through various database,GISand web developments. This paper considers how much this is just change in technology? To what...

Strange Utensils (2013)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Grant McCaig.

The geologist Charles Lyell conceptualised, ‘The key to the past is in the present.’ Everyday we are surrounded by a geography of objects that are familiar and yet strange. Familiar in that they are part of our everyday vocabulary and strange in that their origins have become detached from their present forms. We use form as a way of establishing a reality, of marking where we are and our progress. Using these commonly held perceptions I would like to make a series of objects based around a...

Strategies and Tools for Managing Change. What Lithic Artefacts Tell about Neandertals and First Anatomically Modern Humans in Liguria (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fabio Negrino. Stefano Bertola. Julien Riel-Salvatore.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Advances in the Prehistory of Liguria and Neighboring Regions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Liguria is an arch of land overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, with mountain areas, very rare coastal planes and steeply sloping valleys. In spite of this peculiar orography this region represented an important passageway between France and central-northern Italy, allowing the diffusion of human groups, ideas, artefacts...

The Stray Finds Project - Recording Lost Artefacts from Plymouth Sound (2013)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Holt.

Divers have been removing objects from the sea since diving was first invented and the advent of SCUBA diving led to an increase in recoveries by private collectors. Through work on the SHIPS Project in Plymouth, England, sports divers were known to possess items recovered from the sea that had not been recorded, items that may provide more information about the maritime history of the region. The aim of the Stray Finds Project is to locate any significant objects in private hands, to record...

The Study of Castles throughout Europe: Limitations of Multi-Regional Studies (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Kirk.

For much of Europe, castles represent a point of cultural heritage and national pride. Yet, even though the study of castles has long been of interest to scholars, few researchers have moved beyond intraregional analyses to examine interregional trends in the manifestation of these monuments. Traditional archaeological investigations examining cross-cultural differences have been hampered primarily by language barriers and differences in how researchers approach questions pertaining to the...

Subsistence and Political Economy: Dairying and Change in Late Prehistoric Ireland (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erin Crowley.

Cattle played a critical role in the economic and socio-political structure of the Iron Age in Ireland, yet the nature of this relationship is not yet clear. The Irish Iron Age (~500 BC - AD 500) is characterized by scant settlement evidence yet with several large, complex, ceremonial centers. It has been difficult, therefore, to contextualize the nature of social change leading into the Early Medieval Period. The Early Medieval Period (~ AD 500-1100), emerged with a fully-developed dairying...

Subverting Forced Confinement? Methodological Approaches to Re-peopling Archaeological Studies of Institutions (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura McAtackney.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological studies of institutions have had varying degrees of success in moving beyond the intentions of their builders - and their often-imposed material culture - to understand how the inhabitants lived in and experienced them. Our overarching interest in analyzing, recording and interpreting material remains can sometimes prevent us from moving beyond...

Summary of the Spitalfields project (2011)

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Summary text giving a brief introduction and overview of the Spitalfields project.

Superior Quality' Appendix - ALB ALA88 Artefact Catalogue (PDF) (2008)