Nouveaux apports sur l’archéologie du littoral de Guyane : de la préhistoire à la conquête by Martijn M. van den Bel

“…This study presents the condensed results of six recent compliance archaeological excavations. They permit us firstly to enrich the existing framework of this overseas French department by presenting new data concerning the Archaic and Early Ceramic Ages, hitherto undiscovered episodes, substantially enlarging this framework. …”
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Chingi-tura in the History of the Tyumen Khanate by Maslyuzhenko D.N., Ryabinina E.A.

“…Research materials: The work was carried out on the basis of an analysis of published sources (chronicles, embassy documents, letters, contracts, travelers’ notes, cartography data, and results of archaeological excavations). Results and scientific novelty. …”
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Metz/Divodurum, cité des Médiomatriques : apport de deux fouilles récentes (place de la République et rue Paille-Maille) à la question des origines by Gaël Brkojewitsch, Christian Dreier, Sandrine Marquié

“…In order to arrive at this, the literary sources and the results of urban archaeological excavations are used. The main research in the urban centre will be described, following a chronological and topographical rationale (Haut de Sainte-Croix hill, Citadelle hill, Outre-Seille area, Pontiffroy). …”
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El mascarón arquitectónico preclásico de la Estructura 3 de Chacté, Guatemala by Carlos Morales-Aguilar, Daniel Salazar Lama, Ivan Šprajc, Richard D. Hansen

“…The site was also linked to the great center of El Mirador by a 4 km-long causeway. Archaeological excavations in Chacté focused on Structure 3, the eastern building of an E-Group complex, where an important Preclassic sculpture mask was found. …”
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Le festin dahoméen. Femmes du palais, politiques internes et pratiques culinaires en Afrique de l’Ouest au XVIIIe-XIXe siècle by J. Cameron Monroe, Anneke Janzen

“…In the precolonial Kingdom of Dahomey, located in the Republic of Bénin, public feasts were a critical component of royal strategies to attract and bind political subjects over the course of the 17th through 19th centuries, a period of dramatic political transformation on the Bight of Benin. Archaeological excavations within the domestic quarters of a series of Dahomean royal palace sites have yielded diverse faunal and ceramic assemblages that represent clear examples of 1) ritualized food consumption and 2) everyday culinary practices. …”
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La consommation d’animaux sauvages dans la Corne de l’Afrique (4e millénaire avant J.-C.-début du XXe siècle) by Thomas Guindeuil, Joséphine Lesur

“…The adoption and development of agriculture and animal husbandry during the last five millennia radically transformed the relationships between humans and their environment, diminishing the role of wild resources in the diet. Archaeological excavations and historic research over the past fifteen years have contributed new data relevant to these questions. …”
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The Špica pile-dwelling site – analyses of archaeological wood by Elena Leghissa, Mojca Jančar, Maks Merela, Luka Krže, Benjamin Štular, Anton Velušček, Katarina Čufar

“… We present the investigation of wood discovered during the 2009/2010 archaeological excavations at the prehistoric pile-dwelling settlement of Špica in Ljubljansko barje, Slovenia. …”
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Paisley-shaped antler onlays with fantastic beasts from Veliky Novgorod: issues of functional and stylistic attribution by Tochilova Nadezhda N., Grinev Andrey M.

“…These artifacts were dated to the end of the XIII – first half of the XIV centuries and were found during the archaeological excavations in Novgorod. These finds were made with a high degree of artistic skill and have a number of similar stylistic features, which allow them to be considered in the context of common pictorial tradition. …”
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Archaeological exploration of fortresses and Cossack settlements of the Lower Don, Turkish Azak of the 17th - 18th centuries: a brief historiographical sketch by Klimova K.I.

“…This interest is accompanied by new findings of flintlocks details and numerous rifle flints in the cultural layers of fortresses and forts of the Lower Don of the 17th – 18th centuries, resulted of archaeological excavations. The authors of the article aim to consider the historiography of the issue, based on the results of archaeological expeditions conducted on the territory of the Lower Don. …”
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Entre destructions et reconstructions, le patrimoine sicilien pendant et après la Seconde Guerre mondiale by Giovanni Polizzi, Samuel Romeo

“…We will explore the attempts to protect the cultural heritage and the phases of restoration and consolidation that took place from the war up to the long archaeological excavations directed by Vincenzo Tusa, of which we can now see the fruits walking through the ruins of Solunto.…”
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Louve capitoline ou draco ? Politisation du passé antique et matérialisation de l’autochtonie dans la Roumanie du xxi e siècle by Mathieu Mokhtari

“…The first one deals with the archaeological excavations carried out on the main square of the city of Cluj-Napoca. …”
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Une figurine en terre cuite dorée d’époque romaine à Reims/Durocortorum by Loïc Androuin

“…Archaeological excavations carried out prior to the construction of the tramway in Reims in 2007-2008 led to the discovery of a group of Gallo-Roman terracotta figurines. …”
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Des moulins hydrauliques en périphérie d’Augustonemetum/Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme (iie-iiie s. ap. J.-C.) by Damien Martinez, Julien Ollivier

“…Two recent preventive archaeological excavations carried out in Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme) allowed to study the evolution of districts located in the outskirts of the antique city between the end of the first or the beginning of the second century and the Late Roman Empire. …”
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Carton Coon’s Riddle: Anthropologist, Archaeologist, or CIA Agent? (Critical Review of Carlton Stevens Coon’s Methodology and Publications in the Iranian Paleolithic Archaeology)... by Hamed Vahdati Nasab

“…Coon’s main concern was to find human remains (Neanderthals in particular) rather than conducting clean archaeology excavations. On the other hand, his horrifyingly racist publications, rumors about his employment as an intelligence operative by the CIA during the WW II and the Cold War, plus countless unanswered questions concerning the sites he chose to excavate in Iran, all support this hypothesis that Archaeology was not his first priority in Iran.…”
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Chronological Classification of Ancient Mortars Employing Spectroscopy and Spectrometry Techniques: Sagunto (Valencia, Spain) Case by M. Ramacciotti, S. Rubio, G. Gallello, M. Lezzerini, S. Columbu, E. Hernandez, A. Morales-Rubio, A. Pastor, M. de la Guardia

“…Forty-two mortar samples, from two archaeological excavations located in Sagunto (Valencian Community, Spain), were analysed by both portable energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (pED-XRF) and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) to determine major and minor elements and traces including rare earth elements (REEs). …”
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A Group of Bronze Lamps from Demre Museum by Ünal Demirer

“…No. 5) were found in mixed contexts during scientific archaeological excavations, while the other nine oil lamps entered the museum’s inventory through purchase or forced acquisition. …”
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La pile gallo-romaine de Cinq-Mars-la-Pile (Indre-et-Loire) : réexamen du dossier à la lumière des récentes découvertes by Emmanuel Marot

“…The archaeological excavations conducted in 2005 in the Gallo-Roman pillar's surroundings of Cinq-Mars-la-Pile took place before a project to develop the touristic value of this enigmatic pillar, 29,50 m in height, built in bricks on opus caementicium and presenting geometric and polychrome decoration panels on its south face. …”
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Les dynamiques agropastorales pendant le Haut-Empire sur les Hautes-Chaumes des Monts du Forez (Puy-de-Dôme, Loire, France). Architecture saisonnière, occupation du sol et gestion... by Antoine Scholtès, Jacqueline Argant, Hervé Cubizolle, Jacques Verrier, Priscille Chapuis

“…Field studies have provided valuable information on the Gallo-roman occupation and its architecture during the early roman period. Archaeological excavations were carried out on five sites from that period in order to highlight architectural processes and their evolution over time. …”
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The first steps of carpology in Kosova: the example of Ulpiana's Roman town by Florian Jedrusiak

“…This study is directly linked to the archaeological excavations of sectors 1300/1300, 1300/1500, and 1400/1400. …”
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About the Medieval Bulgar-Tatar Architectural Tradition (in the case of Golden Horde Mausoleums) by Valeeva-Suleimanova G.F.

“…The sources for this analysis were architecture and construction techniques, drawings of plans and sections of buildings, materials from archaeological excavations, and descriptions from scientific expeditions of the 19th century. …”
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