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Archeological and anthropological approaches to the ontology of the Dewil Valley landscapes (Palawan, Philippines)

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Kowalczyk Z.
Folia Praehistorica Posnaniensia
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2022
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vol. 27
87-101
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This paper is a discussion of the theoretical conceptualization of past landscapes and the limitations of archaeology in providing objectivistic interpretations. Analyzing a case study of the Dewil Valley landscape I will argue that the sciences about the past emerged based on the “Western” research paradigm. Therefore, local ontologies are often overlooked in archaeological narratives. In this article, I will present the ontologies of the indigenous Tagbanua people, contemporary beliefs related to the landscape, and theoretical approaches presented by researchers. I will argue that ontology can be complex and ambivalent, and that archaeological sources do not always indicate these dynamics.
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Kurgans of the Eastern Kugitang Piedmonts. Preliminary Report for Season 2018

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Havlík J., Havlíková H., Stančo L.
Studia Hercynia
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2018
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vol. 22
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issue 2
147-172
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Kurgans are characteristic monuments of the Central Asian cultural landscape. The eastern piedmonts of the Kugitang mountain range (Southern Uzbekistan) emerged to be a noteworthily rich area in the occurrence of these various structures made of stones or soil and become one of the main research areas of the Czech -Uzbekistani Archaeological Expedition. Following the previous research of the season 2017, in 2018 the main attention was paid to the mapping of kurgans in the vicinity of the villages of Loylagan and Gurjak. Almost one hundred varied stone structures have been detected in this area, the majority of them labelled as a kurgan. This report presents the preliminary results of the field survey, a description of the morphology and a basic spatial analysis of the kurgans and their distribution within both the physical and historical landscape.
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Habitat Models and Social Systems in Middle Bronze Age central north-western Transylvania. State of research

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Molnár Z., Nagy J.-G.
Acta Archaeologica Carpathica
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2013
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vol. XLVIII
5-86
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The existence of fortifications is attached to the emergence of formalized territorial units of a quasi-political nature. The current paper examines Middle Bronze Age settlement sites, metal finds and natural resources of Central north-western Transylvania. Our aim is to investigate the differences, transformations and the dynamics of settlement systems in the study area during the Middle Bronze Age using cartographic documents and data relating to the landscape around the sites (using satellite images, aerial photographs and geophysical measurements) stored in a geographic information system (GIS). The research also draws on macro-regional palaeoenvironmental data on Central north-western Romania. Modelling the territories of Transylvanian prehistoric communities provides information about the division of space and possible land use strategies. A uniformly general model cannot be applied in case of the Transylvanian Middle Bronze Age settlement system. The settlement founding culture’s different characteristics, the special topographical and ecological conditions of the distribution areas determined the quality of the established settlement network. There is evidence that Middle Bronze Age chiefdoms form peer polities controlling territories of different size along one or a larger number of river valleys. Our approach reflects the current stage of research of the subject; the future field research is expected to bring in new, more conclusive evidence in this matter.
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Dostrzec i zrozumieć. Porównanie wybranych metod wizualizacji danych ALS wykorzystywanych w archeologii

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Kiarszys G., Banaszek Ł.
Folia Praehistorica Posnaniensia
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2017
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vol. 22
233-270
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Application of airborne laser scanning (ALS) for archaeological purposes allows for identification of relief features. Unless the detection is automated, the recognition of archaeological objects in the observed dataset is bounded by the interaction between human mind, eye and visual phenomena that are displayed on the screen. To improve effectiveness of ALS interpretation several visualization techniques have been developed. However, due to their complexity the spatial information produced by these algorithms differs. The aim of the paper is to present the discrepancies between the most popular visualization techniques used for archaeological purposes. Unlike previous attempts, the presented comparison is based on the vector outputs of the interpretative mapping. Therefore, we demonstrate in detail the differences in the morphology as well as quantity of identified archaeological features due to the use of various visualization techniques.
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Kyzyl Gul – The Relicts of an Abandoned Village in Kugitang Piedmont (South Uzbekistan)

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Augustinová A., Cejnarová P., Mach P.
Studia Hercynia
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2018
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vol. 22
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issue 2
121-146
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The relicts of an abandoned village were discovered during an archaeological field survey in the autumn expedition of 2017. During the following season (2018) we focused on the detailed survey and documentation of the site. A systematic field survey was conducted there, which was based on the collection of finds that are visible on the surface. In the selected part of the site we recorded the visible relicts by total station, sorted and analysed them. We identified 22 linear features, 16 circular/square features and we marked 4 spots which show the area behind the features. Among the finds the Early Middle Age predominantly prevail, nevertheless, finds belonging to the Bronze Age, Late Kushan Period, High Middle Age, Late Middle Age, and Pre -Modern Period were also collected.
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The perspective of physical space in a study of hoards from the late Bronze Age and the early Iron Age

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Maciejewski M.
Sprawozdania Archeologiczne
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2015
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vol. 67
67-76
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Hoards make one of the most mysterious categories of archaeological finds known from the Bronze Age and the early Iron Age. Doubts about their function should encourage researchers to use as wide information range as possible to understand the phenomenon. However, there are still few studies concerning their relationships with the settlement network or cultural landscape. The paper focuses on regularities in the location of deposits of bronze or iron artefacts, drawing on the results of research into metal deposits from the late (Lusatian) Bronze Age and the early Iron Age in the South Baltic Coastland and Lake Districts
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Biografia krajobrazu zbiegu Noteci do Warty w perspektywie archeologicznej interpretacji danych teledetekcyjnych

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Kostyrko M., Zamelska-Monczak K.
Przegląd Archeologiczny
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2020
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vol. 68
137-162
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This paper presents a case study of a place that during one period in history played an important role in the structures of the Piast state, and then, as a result of subsequent historical events, lost much of its significance. In the 14th century, Santok was already on the margins of ‘grand history’ and fading into oblivion. This changed as a result of archaeological excavations carried out here for the first time in the 1930s. The narrative adopted in this article is based on a presentation of landscape biography and analysis of spatial sources – namely, historical aerial photographs and ones deriving from airborne laser scanning. This point of view has allowed the authors to pay special attention to previously neglected fragments of the history of the landscape under analysis.
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The harbor of early Roman “Imperial” Berenike: overview of excavations from 2009 to 2015

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Zych I.
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean
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2017
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vol. 26(2)
93-132
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Excavations by the American–Polish project in Berenike on the Red Sea, co-directed from 2008 by Steven E. Sidebotham (University of Delaware) and Iwona Zych (PCMA University of Warsaw), have aimed at uncovering and reconstructing the ancient landscape of the southwestern embayment, tentatively identified as the harbor of the Hellenistic and early Roman city, and its immediate vicinity. A review of the evidence from the excavation of several trenches in this area paints a picture of the bay—still incomplete—and contributes to a reconstruction of the cultural and economic landscape, the "lived experience" of the town's inhabitants and incoming merchants and sailors during the heyday of "Imperial" Berenike, that is, in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.
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Kurgans of the Eastern Kugitang Piedmonts: Preliminary Report for Season 2017

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Havlík J., Stančo L., Havlíková H.
Studia Hercynia
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2017
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vol. 21
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issue 2
160-182
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The valleys of the Kugitang piedmont (Sherabad District, Surkhandarya Province, Uzbekistan) have been investigated by the Czech‑Uzbekistani expedition since 2011. Over the last three years, hundreds of stone features have been detected and preliminarily interpreted as kurgans (i.e. burial mounds); the purpose of these features, however, still remains unclear. Consequently, the kurgans started to be systematically investigated in 2017. This report presents preliminary results of the field survey, a morphological description and a basic spatial analysis of the kurgans within clusters, and the clusters themselves within the surrounding landscape.
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Miejsce w krajobrazie oraz funkcje wczesnośredniowiecznych grodów w dorzeczach środkowej i górnej Obry, Baryczy oraz środkowej Prosny w IX i X w.

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Chrzan K.
Przegląd Archeologiczny
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2018
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vol. 66
261-282
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In the basins of the Middle and Upper Obra, Barycz and Middle Prosna Rivers, there are numerous fortified settlements which time of construction and activity fell within the so-called tribal period. In the literature on the subject, the view prevails, according to which they were seats of the tribal aristocracy. This paper presents a different approach, which focuses on the social and symbolic context of the presence of these structures in the early medieval landscape. The analysis of the form of the fortified settlements and their location in the settlement structure of the discussed area in the 9th and 10th centuries, was the starting point for the considerations. The considerations also take into account the potential functions of features discovered within the ramparts of the examined fortified settlements. They resulted in the recognition of the fortified settlements as multifunctional central places of tribal communities, and their potential functions were: a place of holding people’s assemblies and religious practices, a treasury, a point of military resistance, and perhaps also a market square and a residence of selected people. The collapse of these fortified settlements can be associated with the consolidation of the Polish state in the times of Bolesław I the Brave and the translocation of the population to the vicinity of large centres of ducal power.
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Archaeology of the Contemporary Past vs Retrotopia in the Context of the Application of Remote Sensing Methods

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Wałdoch F.
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Archaeologica
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2019
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issue 34
59-70
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Artykuł rozważa kwestię wpływu wykorzystania metod teledetekcyjnych w archeologii współczesności w odniesieniu do koncepcji retrotopii zaproponowanej przez Zygmunta Baumana. Praca opiera się na jednej z części składowych retrotopii, a mianowicie podejściu do dziedzictwa prezentowanego przez Lowenthal’a (1997). Przez jej pryzmat przeanalizowane są relikty XX-wiecznego niemieckiego osadnictwa na Pomorzu Wschodnim w Witkowskim Młynie. Do ich rozpoznania i zadokumentowania zostały wykorzystane dane z lotniczego skanowania laserowego, uzupełnione weryfikacyjnymi badaniami terenowymi. Ich efektem jest zadokumentowanie kompleksowych reliktów XX-wiecznego krajobrazu składającego się z reliktów gospodarstw, sadów czy cmentarza. Przedstawione badania pokazują, że metody teledetekcyjne nie zapobiegną retrotopii, ale są nowym narzędziem uzupełniającym luki w wiedzy o nieodległej przeszłości. Tym samym prowokując dialog, który jest zdaniem Z. Baumana najlepszą odpowiedzią na retrotopię.
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This paper considers the issue of the application of teledection methods in the archaeology of the contemporary past with reference to the concept of retrotopia proposed by Zygmunt Bauman. It is based on one of the components of retrotopia, namely the approach to heritage adopted by Lowenthal (1997). From this perspective, relics of the twentieth-century German settlement in Witkowski Młyn (Western Pomerania) are analysed. In order to identify and document them, ALS data was used and then supplemented with verification field research. As a result, extensive relics of the twentieth-century landscape were documented, including relics of homesteads, orchards and a cemetery. The research presented show that teledection methods cannot prevent retrotopia, but they are new tools for filling in the gaps in knowledge of the contemporary past. Thus, they can lead to a dialogue which, according to Z. Bauman, is the best response to retrotopia.
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