Cette thèse est le résultat de trois années d’études sur le site archéologique de Sangtarashan situé à l’ouest de l’Iran au cœur de la chaîne montagneuse du Zagros, dans la province du Luristan. Le site, découvert en 2002 et fouillé pendant six campagnes de 2005 à 2011 a révélé une situation très particulière aux archéologues. Au sein d’une structure architecturale circulaire, en pierre, chevauchée par plusieurs autres structures, plus de deux milles objets et notamment plusieurs centaines d’objets métalliques connus sous le nom de Bronzes du Luristan ont été mis au jour. Certains étaient en lot et d’autres étaient isolés parmi les blocs de pierres des constructions ou éparpillés sur toute la surface du site. L’enjeu de cette étude était en premier lieu de proposer une fonction et une datation pour ce site et de là, le contextualiser dans son milieu géographique et historique. L’étude architecturale et l’étude spatiale des objets nous ont conduit à suggérer que Sangtarashan ait été un lieu cultuel où le dépôt d’objets métalliques constituait une coutume réalisée par des fidèles, potentiellement des voyageurs ou des nomades. L’étude typo-chronologique de plus d’un millier d’objets, en grande partie métalliques, nous a permis de situer l’occupation du site à l’âge du Fer avec deux phases consécutives différentes : l’âge du Fer I-II pour la première phase et l’âge du Fer II-III (même IV ?) pour la seconde phase. Il semble que la coutume du don de la première phase prenant la forme de dépôts en lots d’armes et de vases se soit transformée, à la seconde phase, en un don d’objets isolés, de taille plus petite et de nature plus variée. L’hypothèse d’une fonction non cultuelle (domestique) pendant la seconde phase n’est pas totalement écartée au regard de la prolongation des structures architecturales vers l’ouest. De futures fouilles archéologiques pourront confirmer ou infirmer cette hypothèse. La richesse du mobilier de Sangtarashan fait de ce site une base de référence pour les prochaines études des Bronzes du Luristan. Elle nous a permis également de proposer des datations pour certains types d’objets jusqu’à présent uniquement attestés parmi les objets de collections. Le fin mot de l’histoire, Sangtarashan semble être, en parallèle à Sorkhdom-é Lori, le deuxième sanctuaire de l’âge du Fer de la région du Zagros central où les fidèles avaient une prédilection pour le don d’objets métalliques. Même si cette étude a permis d’éclaircir plusieurs points concernant la région du Luristan à l’âge du Fer et ses Bronzes énigmatiques, de nouvelles questions ont parallèlement été soulevées méritant d’être étudiées par de nouvelles recherches. / This dissertation is focused on the archaeological site of Sangtarashan located on the western Iran, in Luristan. Discovered in 2002 and excavated during six campaigns from 2005 to 2011, the site had revealed, more than two thousand objects particularly several hundreds of "Bronzes of Luristan", in a circular architectural structure, in stone, overlapped by several other structures. Some of them were deposit as packages and others were isolated between stone blocks of walls or scattered over the entire surface of the site. The aim of this study was to propose a function and a dating for the site and then, to contextualize it in its geographical and historical environment. The architectural study and the analysis of spatial organization of objects led us to suggest that Sangtarashan was a ritual place where the act of deposition of metal objects was a custom by prayers, potentially travelers or nomads. The typo-chronological study of the objects allowed us to date the occupation of the site to the Iron Age with two consecutive phases: the Iron age 1-Il for the first phase and the Iron age Il-III (even IV?) for the second phase. lt seems that the form of dedication change from the first phase to the second one. In the first phase objects are dedicated as deposits in packages of arms and vessels. While in the second phase, they take the form of deposit of isolated objects of smaller size and of a more varied nature. The richness of the Sangtarashan's finds makes this site as a reference base for the next studies on the Bronzes of Luristan. It also allowed us to propose some dating for several types of objects till todays only attested among the objects provide from the illegal diggings.

Archaeological sites in the boreal forest are facing threats due to urban development, resource exploitation, vandalism, and infrastructure development, among others. In the context of archaeological site preservation as a public issue, I examine the perspectives of various publics towards the preservation and stewardship of archaeological sites in the boreal forest. Through a series of interviews, I examine the opinions of three publics involved in the archaeological process in Ontario: developers, First Nations, and archaeologists. I outline the participants??? opinions on the meaning and goals of preservation, the preservation of non-physical aspects of sites, such as oral history and site spirituality, preservation methods, site ownership and access, land use and development, involvement in the archaeological process, and funding. I also identify common themes which presented themselves throughout the interview process, such as the importance of education; the necessity for communication, collaboration, and cooperation; the problem of artifact curation; the perceived lack of genuine government involvement; and the publication of cultural resource management (CRM) archaeology???s ???grey literature???. Finally, I present suggestions on the preservation of archaeological sites which take into account the participants??? perspectives uncovered during the interview process. I conclude that preserving archaeological sites can be done using three techniques: education; communication, collaboration, and compromise; and using one of three general methods to preserve sites and artifacts. Education can be used to create public issues, teach people about the importance of archaeology and archaeological sites, and teach the involved publics about the goals and methods of CRM archaeology in Ontario. Encouraging communication, collaboration, and compromise between the interested publics includes the perspectives of formerly neglected parties, builds relationships between publics, and creates newly vested interests in site preservation. Three methods to preserve archaeological sites include site stabilization and monitoring, allowing sites to decay naturally, and excavating sites and curating the artifacts and oral histories for the long-term.

St. Vincent Island is one of the barrier islands in the Florida panhandle between Apalachicola Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. The St. Vincent National Wildlife Refuge encompasses all 5000 hectares of the island. Archaeological fieldwork in the summer of 2009 included a survey of the entire island and a test unit at one of the island's richest sites. In spring of 2010 a second test unit was excavated at another archaeologically rich site. A total of 16 known sites were investigated and two newly discovered sites recorded. This research combines all these data with information obtained from existing artifact collections and archives, as well as results of a widespread geological survey of the island, in order to characterize the prehistoric archaeological record on the island, which stretches back at least 4000 years or more, to the time of the island's first formation. Subsistence, settlement patterns, site use, and change through time in the human adaptation on St. Vincent are described in relation to the preexisting cultural chronology of the region, especially that of other barrier islands. Settlement from all time periods is concentrated on the north and east shorelines, with not much human use of the island interior until recent historic time. Geological indication of sea level fluctuations on the islands oldest shoreline section, on the northeast tip, is combined with archaeological evidence to suggest responses to rising sea levels.

This thesis is an historical archaeological project involving the classification and analysis of the ceramics found at Camp Floyd, a 19th century military site 40 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah. United States military troops were dispatched to the Utah Territory to establish a Pony Express Station and an Overland Stage Trail, to assert federal authority in the Territories, and to end the ongoing conflict between the federal government and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The primary research question concerned the ceramic usage patterns at Camp Floyd as compared to other military sites and non-residential sites of the 19th century. The ceramic assemblage recovered from Camp Floyd was classified using Berge's classification system of historical ceramics. A sample from this collection was analyzed in order to assess social and economic differences between officers' and enlisted men.

No / In May 2011, a team of archaeologists from the Department of Prehistory and Historical Archaeology of the University of Vienna, assisted by colleagues from the Czech Republic and Norway, carried out a research excavation at the Law Ting Holm in Tingwall on Shetland's Mainland. The site is believed to be the place of the main assembly of Shetland, which was in use most likely from the Norse period to the second half of the 16th century.

¹⁴C wiggle-matching was applied to two wood samples closely related to geological and archaeological events with associated dendrochronological dates, to demonstrate the accuracy of ¹⁴C dating with accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS). Wiggle-matching on charred wood with bark, excavated from a pyroclastic mud-flow deposited by the huge 10th Century eruption of the Baitoushan Volcano, revealed the eruption age as cal A.D. 935 +8/-5 with 95% confidence. This date is consistent with the eruption age of A.D. 912 to A.D. 972 estimated by dendrochronology on two wooden boards that had clear stratigraphical connections to the B-Tm tephra deposit in Japan, an ash fall layer formed by the eruption of the Baitoushan Volcano. The date is also consistent with an A.D. 937–938 date estimated by the analysis of varved sediments from Lake Ogawarako in Aomori prefecture. The other wooden board collected from the Mawaki archaeological site in Ishikawa prefecture was wiggle-matched as 783 +13/-11 cal B.C. with 95% confidence, which is consistent with the dates of 830 cal B.C. to 759 cal B.C. obtained for seven wooden poles from the same wooden structures as the wooden board. These results are highly encouraging for obtaining accurate dates on wood when dendrochronology cannot be used.

Submitted by Mariana Dornelles Vargas (marianadv) on 2015-05-12T11:51:57Z No. of bitstreams: 1 discutindo_tradicao.pdf: 4329616 bytes, checksum: be762c9d1ae4487e355bae46cecfd97b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-12T11:51:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 discutindo_tradicao.pdf: 4329616 bytes, checksum: be762c9d1ae4487e355bae46cecfd97b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Milton Valente / A presente dissertação objetiva retomar discussões a respeito da tradição ceramista Aratu, buscando avançar na compreensão dos modelos de origem e dispersão, contribuir para o entendimento do ambiente de implantação dos sítios, bem como trazer um estudo de caso inédito através da análise e publicação dos dados do sítio GO-RV-06. O projeto foi dividido em três momentos distintos: o primeiro, onde através de uma intensa revisão bibliográfica e cruzamento de dados foi possível inferir sobre o papel da possível zona central e das zonas periféricas de dispersão da tradição; o segundo que buscou verificar a hipótese da implantação dos sítios Aratu em áreas de ecótono e entender o ambiente no centro e periferia e o terceiro, onde foi realizada a análise do sítio GO-RV-06, abordado na década de 70 durante o Programa Arqueológico de Goiás e até então não publicado integralmente. Os três eixos-temáticos dialogam entre si fornecendo um quadro geral que deve auxiliar no entendimento desta tradição ceramista. / The present dissertation intends to resume the discussions about the Aratu Ceramist Tradition, seeking to advance the understanding of the origin and dispersion models, to contribute to the understanding of the deployment environment of the sites, as well as bring an unprecedented case study by analysing and publishing the data GO-RV-06 site. The project was divided into three distinct periods: the first, where through an intense literature review and crossing data was possible to infer about the role of the possible central and peripheral dispersion zones of tradition. The second aimed to verify the hypothesis of deployment of Aratu sites in ecotone areas and understand the environment in the center and periphery and the third one, where an analysis in the GO-RV-06 site was carried out, discussed in the 70?s during the Programa Arqueológico de Goiás and not published in full until the present moment. The three thematic axes dialogue with each other providing a general framework that should help in understanding this ceramist tradition.

O objetivo do presente trabalho é o estudo da tecnologia de produção artefatual lítica lascada e suas cadeias operatórias em sítios líticos a céu aberto localizados no nordeste do Estado de São Paulo. Inicialmente foi levantada a bibliografia amadora e especializada dentro da área de estudo, dedicando atenção às tecnologias líticas produtivas e procurando nelas tópicos como preferências locacionais dos sítios líticos e os tipos de matérias-primas e seus suportes; em outras palavras, as economias de matéria-prima levadas a cabo pelos artesãos. Todo o aporte teórico-metodológico do conceito de cadeia operatória foi empregado, inclusive buscando-se o gestual dos artesãos - análise diacrítica, tentando reconstruir por meio do processo operatório e seu gestual o projeto mental do artesão, que se encontra sob uma matriz técnica, a tradição cultural. Por fim apresentamos os resultados das análises alcançados, sintetizando as cadeias operatórias praticadas e ilustrando os artefatos líticos por meio de croquis. Embora tenham sido estudados diretamente os artefatos líticos, com atenção a seus atributos técnicos, é fato que representam mais do que um contexto particular, e propiciam, mesmo que indiretamente, a possibilidade de que todo um sistema de sítios venha a ser pensado. / The main objective of this research is the study of the production technology of chipped stone artifacts and their operational sequence on lithic archaeological sites located in Northeastern São Paulo State. A bibliographic research was made based, firstly, on the amateur and specialized archaeological literature related to this specific subject, paying attention to the lithic production technology and looking for different topics such as locational preferences of the archaeological sites and the types of raw materials and their supports, in other words, the raw materials economy chose by the artisans. All methodological and theoretical operational sequence (\"chaîne opératoire\") was used, including the search for the artisans\' gestures - a diacritical analysis, intending to reconstruct through the operational processes and the gesture sequence the artisans\' mental project, related to a technical matrix - their technical tradition. Finally, the analytical results are presented, summarizing the operational sequences and illustrating lithic artifacts with drawings. Although lithic artifacts had been studied directly, focusing attention on its technical attributes, it is known that they represent more than a particular context, they may provide, even indirectly, interpretations about a whole system of sites.

Thesis (M.A.I.S.)--Oregon State University, 2011. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 137-149). Also available on the World Wide Web.

O objetivo do presente trabalho é o estudo da tecnologia de produção artefatual lítica lascada e suas cadeias operatórias em sítios líticos a céu aberto localizados no nordeste do Estado de São Paulo. Inicialmente foi levantada a bibliografia amadora e especializada dentro da área de estudo, dedicando atenção às tecnologias líticas produtivas e procurando nelas tópicos como preferências locacionais dos sítios líticos e os tipos de matérias-primas e seus suportes; em outras palavras, as economias de matéria-prima levadas a cabo pelos artesãos. Todo o aporte teórico-metodológico do conceito de cadeia operatória foi empregado, inclusive buscando-se o gestual dos artesãos - análise diacrítica, tentando reconstruir por meio do processo operatório e seu gestual o projeto mental do artesão, que se encontra sob uma matriz técnica, a tradição cultural. Por fim apresentamos os resultados das análises alcançados, sintetizando as cadeias operatórias praticadas e ilustrando os artefatos líticos por meio de croquis. Embora tenham sido estudados diretamente os artefatos líticos, com atenção a seus atributos técnicos, é fato que representam mais do que um contexto particular, e propiciam, mesmo que indiretamente, a possibilidade de que todo um sistema de sítios venha a ser pensado. / The main objective of this research is the study of the production technology of chipped stone artifacts and their operational sequence on lithic archaeological sites located in Northeastern São Paulo State. A bibliographic research was made based, firstly, on the amateur and specialized archaeological literature related to this specific subject, paying attention to the lithic production technology and looking for different topics such as locational preferences of the archaeological sites and the types of raw materials and their supports, in other words, the raw materials economy chose by the artisans. All methodological and theoretical operational sequence (\"chaîne opératoire\") was used, including the search for the artisans\' gestures - a diacritical analysis, intending to reconstruct through the operational processes and the gesture sequence the artisans\' mental project, related to a technical matrix - their technical tradition. Finally, the analytical results are presented, summarizing the operational sequences and illustrating lithic artifacts with drawings. Although lithic artifacts had been studied directly, focusing attention on its technical attributes, it is known that they represent more than a particular context, they may provide, even indirectly, interpretations about a whole system of sites.