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- Ilves, Kristin, et al.
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Some Critical and Methodological Aspects of Shoreline Determination: Examples from the Baltic Sea Region
- 2011
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Ingår i: Journal of archaeological method and theory. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1072-5369 .- 1573-7764. ; 18, s. 147-165
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Coastal shorelines worldwide are generally unstable and changing. The study of the precise relation between any archaeological site and the shoreline at the time when the site was used is therefore complicated, but still often not met with appropriate methodological approaches. In this article, we test models based on phosphate analysis and discuss how they can be used to detect ancient shorelines. We propose, that a model of increased and oscillating phosphate values at the former water level is considered reliable and useful in areas with advancing shoreline.
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- Naum, Magdalena
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Re-emerging Frontiers: Postcolonial Theory and Historical Archaeology of the Borderlands
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1573-7764 .- 1072-5369. ; 17:2, s. 101-131
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article considers the importance of frontier studies in historical archaeology and discusses applicability of some of the concepts deriving from postcolonial theories for a better understanding of human relationships in the frontier zones. The conditions of frontiers and borderlands are compared with the characteristics of the “Third Space” described by Homi Bhabha as a realm of negotiation, translation and remaking. It is argued that concepts developed in postcolonial theories, such as “Third Space,” “in-betweeness” or hybridity, are useful not only to address cultural and social processes in borderlands that were created by colonial empires. They are also an apt way to conceptualize relationships in frontiers that lacked colonial stigma. To illustrate this point, two different historical examples of borderlands are scrutinized in this paper: the medieval frontier region that emerged between Denmark and the Northwestern Slavic area and the creation of the colonial frontier in Northeastern America through the establishment of the Praying Indian Towns.
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- Normark, Johan, 1969-
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Involutions of materiality : Operationalizing a neo-materialist perspective through the causeways of Ichmul and Yo’okop, Mexico
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of archaeological method and theory. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1072-5369 .- 1573-7764. ; 17:2, s. 132-173
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The neo-materialist ontology outlined by the philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Manuel DeLanda has several implications for archeology. This text primarily discusses their replacement of the general and the specific with universal and individual singularities which creates emergent properties. This is both a process of evolution and involution where materialities create multi-scalar assemblages. Causeway assemblages from two sites, Ichmul and Yo’okop in the northern Maya lowlands in southern Mexico, are used to operationalize this perspective. Rather than focusing on a human-centered perspective, the text sees the causeways as parts of technologies that can help us to reach an anorganic perspective where we can become-materiality.
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