‘A Frame to Hang Clouds on’
in The Oxford Handbook of Public Archaeology
January 2012; published online September 2012.
Article. Subjects: archaeology; contemporary and public archaeology. 10611 words.
In the archaeological context, a sense of the evolving landscape becomes especially important where there is considerable time depth or cultural sequencing inherent in a single site. The prehistoric...
A. Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers
Overview page. Subjects: archaeology.
(1827–1900) [Bi]
British soldier, anthropologist, and archaeologist often regarded as the ‘father of scientific archaeology’. He was born on 14 April 1827 at Hope Hall near Bramham Park, North...
“A Most Cantankerous River”: Taming the Missouri
in The Steamboat Montana and the Opening of the West
August 2008; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: history and theory of archaeology. 9852 words.
Study of the Missouri River as a maritime highway opens a valuable window onto nineteenth-century views of business and technology. The steamboat Montana's builders and owners exhibited this tempered...
AAA
in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology
January 2008; published online January 2009.
Reference Entry. Subjects: archaeology. 6 words.
[Ab] See Australian Archaeological Association.
AAS
in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology
January 2008; published online January 2009.
Reference Entry. Subjects: archaeology. 6 words.
[Ab] See atomic absorption spectrometry.
abacus
in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology
January 2008; published online January 2009.
Reference Entry. Subjects: archaeology. 37 words.
[Ar]
The uppermost member of a capital, set atop a pillar, and, on classical buildings, in contact with the bottom
Abandoned Watercraft in History and Archaeology
in Ships' Graveyards
August 2008; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: underwater archaeology. 8054 words.
This chapter provides a literature review of international examples that concern the study of abandoned vessels spanning many thousands of years. The international case studies presented illustrate...
The Abandonment Process and Archaeological Theory
in Ships' Graveyards
August 2008; published online September 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: underwater archaeology. 8092 words.
This chapter outlines the theories about abandonment that are used in this study. It also extends an argument that endorses the benefits of comparative approaches to the remains of watercraft, with...
῾Abbasid Caliphate
in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East
January 1997; published online January 2011.
Reference Entry. Subjects: archaeology of the Near East. 2828 words.
As the result of a revolution that culminated In 750ce in the defeat of the last Umayyad caliph, Marwan
Abbasids
in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology
January 2008; published online January 2009.
Reference Entry. Subjects: archaeology. 18 words.
[CP]
An Arab dynasty descended from Abbas, uncle of Muhammad, who supplanted the Umayyads in ad 750.