Weblinks

This chapter looks at archaeological sites. How do we define and understand them?

7.1 Reconstructing ancient landscapes

These examples show different approaches to recovering and presenting ancient landscapes:

Middle Palaeolithic Israel http://www.phytolith.net/Amud.html

Ice Age sequences http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/ahob/Chart.pdf

Palaeoclimates http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/ogu/palaeoclimate.htm

Good on reconstruction

http://ucdie.academia.edu/AidanOSullivan/Papers/

Doggerland

http://www.arch-ant.bham.ac.uk/research/vince/index.htm

7.2 Identifying human use of the landscape

The sites listed in Chapter 3 will be particularly useful here.

An example of a midden:

http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/arch/middens/resources/denmark

The use of the Yorkshire Dales by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers:

http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/archsci/ydhgrg/index.php?value=ydhgrp

An interactive map showing all the known Roman villas in the UK is at:

http://www.online-archaeology.co.uk/Connect/ArchaeologyMapsandGIS

Roman Silchester

www.silchester.rdg.ac.uk/

Nunamiut

http://www.nps.gov/gaar/historyculture/caribou-and-people.htm

http://spmm.nsb-ihlc.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12&Itemid=19

Head Smashed In

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UMh6HCKIWQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg0we0UCeps&feature=related

http://history.alberta.ca/headsmashedin/videogallery/videogallery.aspx

7.3 Identifying the function(s) of archaeological sites

There are many sites dealing with specific settlements. This brief list covers a number of periods.

Palaeolithic:

Dolni Vestonici http://donsmaps.com/dolni.html

Olduvai Gorge http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/archaeology/sites/africa/olduvai_gorge.html

Üçağızlı cave site in Turkey http://web.arizona.edu/~hatayup/

Mesolithic:

Tybrind Vig http://www.abc.se/~m10354/publ/tybrind.htm

Siebenlinden (Germany) http://www.landesdenkmalamt-bw.de/english/archaeol/siebenlinden/index.php

Lepenski Vir http://donsmaps.com/lepenski2.html

Howick http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/archaeology/excavations_techniques

Neolithic:

Catal Hoyuk http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/Catal_Hoyuk.html

Karanovo http://www.bulgaria.com/photos/web/culture.pdf

Tell Brak http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/projects/tellbrak.html and also http://www.learningsites.com/Brak/Tell-Brak_home.html

An essay on early towns  http://history-world.org/firsttowns.htm

Bronze Age:

Companion images of Knossos http://www.dilos.com/region/crete/minoan_pictures.html

Mashkan Shapir http://www.vizin.org/projects/mashkan/html/mashkansol.htm

Roman:

Silchester http://www.silchester.rdg.ac.uk/

Virtual Wroxeter http://www.arch-ant.bham.ac.uk/bufau/research/bt/

Pompeii http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/archsci/field_proj/anampomp/

Medieval:

Medieval settlement research group http://www.britarch.ac.uk/msrg/index.html

Wharram Percy (England) http://loki.stockton.edu/~ken/wharram/wharram.htm

Whittlewood (England) http://www.le.ac.uk/elh/whittlewood/index.htm

Wallingford http://www.le.ac.uk/archaeology/research/projects/wallingford/index.htm

Cahercommaun http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/archaeology/arch_burren

Cunliffe and the gates at Danebury

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-_SA8OcHZw

Star Carr

Recent excavations at Flixton School House Farm in the Vale of Pickering

7.4 The use of space on archaeological sites

This section will include sites on spatial analysis.

Cost surface analysis is explained at:

http://www.mapaspects.org/courses/anth197/week9

Model of anisotropic dispersion, space competition and the slowdown of the Neolithic transition

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqAK6Y57G2U

Satellite study of ancient trade routes in the Jebel Bishri

http://www.helsinki.fi/hum/arla/sygis/index.html

GIS for Archaeology

http://www.esri.com/industries/archaeology

blog site on spatial analysis

http://patriciamurrieta.wordpress.com/category/maps-and-spatial-analysis/

roman walled towns

http://www.roman-britain.org/romano-british-towns.htm

7.5 Understanding structures

This section is concerned with what can be learned from upstanding buildings and also the methods archaeologists use to ‘reconstruct’ ancient buildings.

A broch: Scatness (Shetland) http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/archsci/field_proj/scat/

Crannogs: Loch Tay (Scotland) http://www.crannog.co.uk/

Medieval and later buildings: Weald and Downland Museum (England) http://www.wealddown.co.uk/

Submerged structures http://www.abc.se/~m10354/uwa/submerge.htm

Palaeolithic structures

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