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Hunterian GLAHM:B.1951.3478 3D Archaeological Use-wear Raw Measurements
<p>This dataset contains the 60 raw measurements/scans taken before the mesh creation step for object GLAHM:B.1951.3478 in the Hunterian's Archaeology collection in Glasgow, Scotland.</p> <p>GLAHM:B.1951.3478 is an Impasto Bruno chalice: <a href="http://collections.gla.ac.uk/#/details/ecatalogue/117074">http://collections.gla.ac.uk/#/details/ecatalogue/117074</a> This is a common type in Etruria and Lazio. Edited in CVA Glasgow, vol. 18, 48-49, pl. 59.6. Modica 2007, 171, III.5b (with previous bibliography).</p> <p>Data was captured using a Zeiss Comet L3D 2 5M at 100 FOV to enable the analysis of use-wear on archaeological objects. The model is scaled in millimetres.</p> <p>This dataset consists of 132,223,739 points - additional metadata included in associated spreadsheet.</p> <p>CVA Glasgow: E. Moginard 1997, <em>Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Great Britain, Fascicule 18, Glasgow</em>, Oxford 1997.</p> <p>Modica 2007: S. Modica, <em>Rituali e Lazio antico: deposizioni infantile e abitati</em>, Milan 2007.</p>
Hunterian GLAHM:D.150 3D Archaeological Use-wear Raw Measurements
<p>This dataset contains the 64 raw measurements/scans taken before the mesh creation step for object GLAHM:D.150 in the Hunterian's Archaeology collection in Glasgow, Scotland.</p> <p>GLAHM:D.150 is a black gloss bowl (phiale mesomphalos) of Campania or Etruria (?) production: <a href="http://collections.gla.ac.uk/#/details/ecatalogue/118100">http://collections.gla.ac.uk/#/details/ecatalogue/118100</a> </p> <p>Comparanda: Morel 1981, 144-145, Series 2173.</p> <p>Data was captured using a Zeiss Comet L3D 2 5M at 100 FOV to enable the analysis of use-wear on archaeological objects. The model is scaled in millimetres. </p> <p>This dataset consists of 107,051,945 points - additional metadata included in associated spreadsheet.</p> <p>Morel 1981: J.P. Morel, <em>Céramique campanienne: les formes</em>, Rome 1981.</p>
Project Panormos Archaeological Survey: Satellite Image (gis-copernicus)
<p>This forms part of the preliminary open data release for the Project Panormos archaeological survey.</p> <p>This "panormos/gis-copernicus" repository contains a raster used as a background for mapping the survey data. This image was derived from <a href="https://scihub.copernicus.eu">Copernicus Sentinel Data</a>, and is redistributed in compliance with the legal notice on the use of Copernicus Sentinel Data</p> <p> </p>
FIGURE 4. Pages 86 and 87 in The hazards of Nomenclatural Archaeology? The Diptera names of Theodorus van Swinderen in his 1822 Index Rerum Naturalium quae conservantur in Museo Academico Groningano
FIGURE 4. Pages 86 and 87 from Swinderen's Index Rerum Animalium (1822) listing the Diptera in the museum. Source: Biodiversity Heritage Library.
FIGURE 3. Pages 84 and 85 in The hazards of Nomenclatural Archaeology? The Diptera names of Theodorus van Swinderen in his 1822 Index Rerum Naturalium quae conservantur in Museo Academico Groningano
FIGURE 3. Pages 84 and 85 from Swinderen's Index Rerum Animalium (1822) listing the Diptera in the museum. Source: Biodiversity Heritage Library.
FIGURE 1–2. 1 in The hazards of Nomenclatural Archaeology? The Diptera names of Theodorus van Swinderen in his 1822 Index Rerum Naturalium quae conservantur in Museo Academico Groningano
FIGURE 1–2. 1. Portrait of Theodorus van Swinderen in 1843 (at 59 years of age). Source: Wikimedia. 2. Title page of Swinderen's Index Rerum Animalium (1822). Source: Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Data from: Tracing the trans-Pacific evolutionary history of a domesticated seaweed (Gracilaria chilensis) with archaeological and genetic data
The history of a domesticated marine macroalga is studied using archaeological, phylogeographic and population genetic tools. Phylogeographic and population genetic analyses demonstrated that the cultivated red alga Gracilaria chilensis colonised the Chilean coast from New Zealand. Combining archaeological observations with phylogeographic data provided evidence that exchanges between New Zealand and Chile have occurred at least before the Holocene, likely at the end of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and we suggest that migration probably occurred via rafting. Furthermore, the remarkably low microsatellite diversity found in the Chilean populations compared to those in New Zealand is consistent with a recent genetic bottleneck as a result of over-exploitation of natural populations and/or the process of domestication. Therefore, the aquaculture of this seaweed, based essentially on clonal propagation, is occurring from genetically depressed populations and may be driving the species to an extinction vortex in Chile.
Data from: Tropical ancient DNA from bulk archaeological fish bone reveals the subsistence practices of a historic coastal community in southwest Madagascar
Taxonomic identification of archaeological fish bones provides important insights into the subsistence practices of ancient coastal peoples. However, it can be difficult to execute robust morphological identification of fish bones from species-rich fossil assemblages, especially from post-cranial material with few distinguishing features. Fragmentation, weathering and burning further impede taxonomic identification, resulting in large numbers of unidentifiable bones from archaeological sites. This limitation can be somewhat mitigated by taking an ancient DNA (aDNA) bulk-bone metabarcoding (BBM) approach to faunal identification, where DNA from non-diagnostic bone fragments is extracted and sequenced in parallel. However, a large proportion of fishing communities (both past and present) live in tropical regions that have sub-optimal conditions for long-term aDNA preservation. To date, the BBM method has never been applied to fish bones before, or to fossils excavated from an exposed context within a tropical climate. Here, we demonstrate that morphologically indistinct bulk fish bone from the tropics can be identified by sequencing aDNA extracted from 100 to 300 ya archaeological midden material in southwest Madagascar. Despite the biases of the approach, we rapidly obtained family, genus, and species-level assemblage information, and used this to describe a subset of the ichthyofauna exploited by an 18th century fishing community. We identified 23 families of fish, including benthic, pelagic, and coral-dwelling fishes, suggesting a reliance on a variety of marine and brackish habitats. When possible, BBM should be used alongside osteological approaches to address the limitations of both; however, this study highlights how genetic methods can nevertheless be a valuable tool for helping resolve faunal assemblages when morphological identification is hindered by taphonomic processes, lack of adequate comparative collections, and time constraints, and can provide a temporal perspective on fish biodiversity in the context of accelerated exploitation of the marine environment.
UNCW Archaeology Lab Artifact of the Week #1
UNCW Archaeology Lab Artifact of the Week #1 2021 Source: Objaverse 1.0 / Sketchfab
Archaeology artifact 1
An archaeological lintel from an unknown place in Asia. Size about 1m. Made with Reality Capture (16 pictures). Source: Objaverse 1.0 / Sketchfab
FIGURE 8 in Rails (Rallidae: Gallirallus) from prehistoric archaeological sites in Western Oceania
FIGURE 8. Distal tibiotarsus in species of Gallirallus from Near Oceania in anterior (upper) and posterior (lower) aspects. A. †G. e r ns tm a y ri new species, sex unknown, UF 62977, New Ireland, Bismarck Archipelago. B. G. insignis female, AMNH 27136, New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago. C. G. philippensis male, UF 39855, Tutuila, American Samoa. D. G. rovianae male, AMNH 28014, New Georgia, Solomon Islands. E. G. w o od fo rd i female, UF 39409, Isabel, Solomon Islands. Scale = 20 mm.
FIGURE 7 in Rails (Rallidae: Gallirallus) from prehistoric archaeological sites in Western Oceania
FIGURE 7. Humerus in species of Gallirallus known from Near Oceania in anterior aspect (upper row) and posterior aspect (lower row). A. †G. ernstmayri new species, sex unknown, UF 62983, New Ireland, Bismarck Archipelago. B. G. insignis female, AMNH 27136, New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago. C. G. philippensis male, UF 39855, Tutuila, American Samoa. D. G. rovianae male, AMNH 28014, New Georgia, Solomon Islands. E. G. w o o d f o rd i female, UF 39409, Isabel, Solomon Islands. Scale = 40 mm.
FIGURE 6 in Rails (Rallidae: Gallirallus) from prehistoric archaeological sites in Western Oceania
FIGURE 6. Principal components analysis of 17 postcranial skeletal measurements (summarized in Table 4) in species of Gallirallus, plotting the first two principal components (PC1, PC2). Solid symbols are flightless species; hollow symbols are volant species. †Gallirallus pendiculentus appears to be near the threshold of flightlessness.
FIGURE 5 in Rails (Rallidae: Gallirallus) from prehistoric archaeological sites in Western Oceania
FIGURE 5. Size variation in the femur (top row) and tarsometatarsus (bottom row) of † Gallirallus pendiculentus (A, UF 60193, UF 63627 [field no. 1024C); B, UF 60115/60116, UF 63470; all sex unknown, Tinian, Mariana Islands), G. owstoni (C, female UF 39220; D, male UF 39221, both from Guam, Mariana Islands), and G. philippensis (E, female UF 43222, Efate, Vanuatu; F, male UF 39855, Tutuila, American Samoa). Scale = 40 mm.
FIGURE 4 in Rails (Rallidae: Gallirallus) from prehistoric archaeological sites in Western Oceania
FIGURE 4. Wing elements of Gallirallus, including posterior (upper row) and anterior (lower row) aspects of the humerus (A–C), and ventral (upper row) and dorsal (lower row) aspects of the ulna (D–F). Shown are †G. pendiculentus new species, Tinian (A,UF 63419; D, UF 63429), G. owstoni male, Guam (B, E, UF 39920), and G. philippensis male, Tutuila, American Samoa (C, F, UF 39855). Scale = 40 mm.
FIGURE 3 in Rails (Rallidae: Gallirallus) from prehistoric archaeological sites in Western Oceania
FIGURE 3. The sternum of Gallirallus in lateral (left) and ventral (right) aspects. A. G. pisonii new species, UF 62892/62893, Aguiguan. B. †G. pendiculentus new species, UF 60142, Tinian. C. G. owstoni male, UF 39920, Guam. D. G. philippensis female, UF 43222, Efate, Vanuatu. Scale = 40 mm.
FIGURE 2 in Rails (Rallidae: Gallirallus) from prehistoric archaeological sites in Western Oceania
FIGURE 2. The coracoids (upper row) and carpometacarpi (lower row) of Gallirallus rails from the Mariana Islands. A. †G. pisonii new species, UF 62934, UF 62917, Aguiguan. B. †G. temptatus new species, UF 63302, UF 63299, Rota. C. †G. pendiculentus new species, UF 60110, UF 63372, Tinian. D. G. owstoni male, UF 39921,Guam. E. G. philippensis male, UF 39855, Tutuila, American Samoa. Scale = 30 mm.
FIGURE 1 in Rails (Rallidae: Gallirallus) from prehistoric archaeological sites in Western Oceania
FIGURE 1. Western Oceania. Arrows indicate islands with archaeological sites containing Gallirallus fossils. The line indicates the division between Near Oceania and Remote Oceania.
Vidarbha archaeological site census, version 1.0
<p>Listing of archaeological sites in ancient Vidarbha.</p>
Documentation of a Pyu inscriptions (PYU017) and (PYU035) kept in the inscription shed outside the Archaeological Museum at Halin
<p>This data set includes photographs (.jpg), an RTI (.ptm), and related files documenting two Pyu inscriptions (inventory number PYU017 and PYU035) kept in the inscription shed outside the Archaeological Museum at Halin. The photographer was James Miles or Archeovision, working on behalf of the Pyu epigraphy sub-project (PI, Nathan W. Hill of SOAS University of London) of the ERC synergy grant "Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State" (Identifier: ASIA 609823) in collaboration with the project "From Vijayapuri to Sriksetra? The Beginnings of Buddhist Exchange across the Bay of Bengal as Witnessed by Inscriptions from Andhra Pradesh and Myanmar" (PI Arlo Giffiths of the EFEO) funded by The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation.</p> <p>N.B. This data set includes two inscriptions by mistake. Please refer to the separate documentation of these inscriptions, also in Zenodo.</p>
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