In the fall of 2022 we held a graduate seminar foregrounding the articulation of social science research with restorative justice and contemporary community struggles for self-determination, with a particular emphasis on community-accountable scholarship. This poster presents the results of projects committed to community authority, which represent...
The article attempts to point out two categories of medieval monuments that are associated with magical activities by archaeologists. This interpretation is possible in two cases. Firstly, these are things that were not necessary in everyday life, hence their role is difficult to determine. Objects considered as amulets or talismans, figurines, rat...
In the area of Kujawy in the villages of Janiszewo, commune Lubraniec, and Stawiec, commune Lubanie, archaeological excavations of manors were carried out of which no relic remains on the face of the earth. Most likely, in the 18th century, both fell into ruin and the places where they were located became arable land, cultivated to this day. Two ce...
Archaeology will always be a partially imagined account of the past based on fragmentary evidence. Since the beginnings of the discipline, archaeologists have used artistic visualisations to create and communicate hypothetical holistic views of the past – virtual reconstructions (VRs) are the latest technique to be developed. Since their creation i...
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Highlights: Some archaeological results obtained using SAR-X images received through the PAZ satellite and applied to a part of what was called Ager Cosanus are shown in this article. The study has been completed with the analysis of multispectral images TripleSAT and Sentinel-2A and the historical aerial photos from 1944 and 1954. The possibiliti...
In this article we seek to integrate theories of music origins and dance with hominin fossil anatomy and the paleoecological contexts of hominin evolution. Based on the association between rhythm in music, dance and locomotion, we propose that early bipedal hominins may have evolved neurobiological substrates different from other great apes due to ...
Published in Open Archaeology
This is an introduction to the Special Issue on Microhistory and Archaeology.
This communication analyses the dynamics surrounding the involvement of two San communities, the !Xun and the Khwe, in the management of the Wildebeest Kuil rock art site since 2001. Despite this initiative, the !Xun and the Khwe quickly lost interest in the site. With regard to heritage resource management issues, this paper draws on this specific...
‘An archaeology of the Pomeranian Crime of 1939’ is a multidisciplinary scientific project that focuses on collecting the material evidence of the Nazi German mass execution committed in the first months of the Second World War in the Gdańsk Pomerania region in Poland. Since 2023, it has excavated mass graves containing material evidence of crimes ...
