The Dumbarton Oaks Tlazolteotl: looking beneath the surface by Jane MacLaren Walsh

“…Some of the earliest and most revered pre-Columbian artifacts in the world’s major museum and private collections were collected prior to the advent of systematic, scientific archaeological excavation, and have little or no reliable provenience data. …”
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“ La Limougère ” : un établissement rural de la fin de La Tène à Fondettes (Indre-et-Loire) by Matthieu Gaultier

“…The archeological survey realised before the construction of the Tours ring road (north-west section) have revealed the “Limougère” archaeological site. Excavated in 2006, it is located in Fondettes (Indre-et-Loire). …”
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De l’interprétation des liens entre vivants et morts dans l’espace habité maya Classique by Hemmamuthé Goudiaby

“…Ancient Mayan funerary practices were closely associated with the habitats in which the dead were buried and they obeyed a spatial codification that still echoes among their descendants to this day. By associating archaeological observations and ethnographical data, it becomes possible to partially restore the place of the dead in a funerary hierarchy of greater subtlety than the sometimes omnipresent figure of the "ancestor" tends to suggest.…”
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Intercultural Dialogues About Ancestral Territories in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina by Mirta Fabiana Millán, María Gabriela Chaparro, Mercedes Mariano

“…For this purpose, we chose three archaeological sites that have been systematically analyzed and studied by researchers, to rethink them as ancient territories, which from the kimun (knowledge) of the Mapuche people, make other logics about space and time possible. …”
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Un exemple de genre fluide dans la nécropole du Céramique ? by Isabelle Algrain

“…The question of identifying a third gender or gender fluidity in archaeological contexts has already been explored for many geographical areas and time periods. …”
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Una statua in terracotta «selinuntina» ad Agrigento by Dario Giuliano

“…Since 2018, the Université Bordeaux-Montaigne has been engaged in research activities at the Chthonian sanctuary in Agrigento. In 2021, archaeological excavations were carried out in the “tempietto” to the east of Gate V and in the so-called “torrione” to the west of the aforementioned gate. …”
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Techniques hydrauliques et gestion des espaces irrigués dans les huertas de murciennes (ixe-xiiie siècles) by André Bazzana

“…If the hydraulic techniques of Muslim period began to be known through the Arabic texts and recent archaeological researches, it is not always easy to replace it, through their actual situation, in the country where they are developed. …”
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Productions, commerces et consommation du fer dans le Sud de la Gaule de la Protohistoire à la domination romaine by Gaspard Pagès

“…Here, we’ll discuss the role the Gallic heritage and the Roman colonization played in the first developments of ironwork industry in mediterranean Gaul by a critical assessment based on the available archaeological documentation. Our reasoning goes from the appearance of the first iron objects in the 8th-7th c. …”
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Conquête d’un milieu, adaptation à une multitude de réalités : l’exemple de la conquête romaine des espaces oasiens égyptiens by Evelyne Ferron

“…Even if the Western desert of Egypt is considered one of the most hyper-arid in the world, five oases are nonetheless inhabitable, even though they are situated far from the Nile Valley. The archaeological diggings started late in this area, but because of the quantity of artefacts and documents available for the Roman period, it allows now historians specialised in Roman history to study the oases during Roman occupation. …”
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Une pale de roue à eau à deux jantes d’époque romaine découverte à Sorigny (Indre-et-Loire) by Florian Sarreste

“…The archaeological rescue excavation carried out at “la Pièce des Viviers” (Sorigny, Indre-et-Loire) has revealed a succession of rural settlements from the second Iron Age and Roman Antiquity. …”
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A cozinha e a mesa em Loulé medieval nos seus utensílios de uso comum: o testemunho dos Inventários de Órfãos by Iria Gonçalves

“…Not forgetting the nature and limits of the written records, but combining their reports with archaeological and ethnographical data, a fairly coherent picture was obtained, with observations on the social significance of the shortage of equipments in certain households, or on the distinction denounced by the quality and rarity of some other kitchenware.…”
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Les maisons du Haut-Empire de la rue de l’Oratoire à Augustonemetum / Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme) by Julien Ollivier, Sabine Groetembril, Julie Massendari, Laëtitia Pédoussaut, Julie Viriot

“…An archaeological excavation allowed to recognize in 2010 several states of a residential tenement portion near the monumental center of Augustonemetum/Clermont-Ferrand. …”
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Découverte d’un rempart antérieur à la tour maîtresse du château de Loches (Indre-et-Loire) : la question du système défensif originel by Pierre Papin

“…In 2015, as part of an archaeological diagnosis on the ground floor of the donjon of the castle of Loches (Indre-et-Loire), two surveys were carried out inside the famous monument. …”
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Early Buddhism and the Greeks by Richard Stoneman

“…Some scholars have argued that key elements of Buddhism, including the Four Noble Truths, and the doctrine of no self, only arose much later; but archaeological evidence, such as the sculptures of Sanchi, indicate that key doctrines, as enshrined in the jatakas, were circulating in the Indo-Greek period in India. …”
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Los límites de la humanidad. El mito de los ch’ullpa en Marcapata (Quispicanchi), Perú by Pablo F. Sendón

“…This paper presents and discusses the myth of the ch’ullpa – beings of the pre-solar time – such as it is narrated by the members of the ayllu Collana from the district of Marcapata (province of Quispicanchi, Cusco) in relation to three kind of sources: a) the archaeological information about the geographical and spatial localization of the mortuary monuments which received that name in the Central Andes; b) the ethnological information about other versions of the myth registered among other indigenous-peasant populations from Southern Peru and the Bolivian altiplano; c) the ethnohistorical information which, in relation with the myth, has been registered by several scholars. …”
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Gien, un château royal entre rupture et continuité avec l’œuvre de Louis XI by Mélinda Bizri, Sylvie Marchant, Christophe Perrault

“…The authors of the article highlight the singular character of this building of the late fifteenth century whose constructive choices, studied from an archaeological and dendrochronological point of view are put in perspective in the productions of the same period. …”
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Far Eastern Cultural Tourism as a Factor of Influence on Undergraduate Museum Studies by A. V. Alepko

“…A brief description of the archaeological collection of one of the most attractive Museums for tourists – the Khabarovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore is given. …”
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Un petit ensemble funéraire du haut Moyen Âge à Neuillé-Pont-Pierre (Indre-et-Loire) : nouveau regard sur le statut de ces lieux d’inhumation by Pierre Papin

“…It was during the archaeological diagnosis of the Polaxis urban development zone, in the municipality of Neuillé-Pont-Pierre (Indre-et-Loire), that a discovery of a group of five burials presenting particular characteristics was made. …”
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HISTORICAL - CULTURAL VALUE OF STONE - CRAFTING WORKSHOPS FROM THE LATE NEOLITHIC PERIOD IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS by Lê Xuân Hưng

“…From the above research results, this article evaluates the outstanding value of the workshops, contributes to a new cultural assessment of the archaeological relics, and provides a scientific basis for administrators to devise solutions to protect and promote this important heritage.…”
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L’occupation préhistorique du plateau de Gergovie (Puy-de-Dôme). Caractérisation des industries lithiques néolithiques by Jean-François Pasty

“…The lithic finds come from casual collection points or from the excavations concentrated on more recent archaeological periods. The different techno-typological components identified document two periods from the Neolithic: the Chasseen recent and the Late Neolithic. …”
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