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Concluding remarks on Environmental Archaeology - Theory and Practice: Looking Back, Moving Forwards

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Agendas for Archaeobotany in the 21st Century: data, dissemination and new directions

Lisa Lodwick (2019)

Archaeobotany, here taken as the study of archaeological plant macrofossil remains, is a mature and widely practised area of study within archaeology. However, plants are rarely seen as active participants in past societies. Recent critical evaluations of the field of archaeobotany have focused on methodological issues, chronological and regional overviews and biomolecular developments, rather than theoretical approaches or research practices. This article aims to reflect on future agendas in archaeobotany, which may improve the use and communication of archaeobotanical data, and invigorate discussion. First, the article briefly reviews the development of archaeobotany in Britain, before focusing discussion on the areas of data publication and archiving, and the application of archaeological theory to archaeobotanical remains. Opportunities provided by the 'plant turn' in social sciences and humanities are explored in relation to plant materiality. The use of the Internet in training and analysis is considered, before reflecting on how archaeobotany has been successfully communicated to broader audiences.

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Semantics of the Sea — Stories and Science along the Celtic Seaboard

Kirsten.E. Kavanagh, Martin Bates (2019)

The stories of Noah, Gilgamesh and Atlantis are internationally known, telling of lands submerged beneath the sea. Similar stories exist for the European seaboard, from Brittany through southern England, Wales, Ireland and parts of Scotland. Today we know that many areas now lost beneath the sea were dry land in the not so distant past; consequently, papers purporting to link the geological events associated with flooding these lands and such stories have been written. However, these papers have been written from the perspective of the scientist, with little regard for the perspective of the story or from that of the story-teller. In this article we attempt to redress this inferred normativity by drawing attention to the problematic nature of such an endeavour, developing a discussion about how else one might approach this balance from that opened by fields as diverse as folklore, ethnography and archaeo-astronomy.

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Archaeology has no Relevance

Suzi Richer, Daryl Stump, Robert Marchant (2019)

Archaeologists are under pressure to demonstrate that their work has impact beyond the discipline. This has prompted some archaeologists — and in particular environmental archaeologists and palaeoecologists — to argue that an understanding of past environmental changes is essential to model future outcomes in areas such as climate change, land cover change, soil health and food security. However, few archaeological studies have explored how to put research results into practice, and most archaeologists seem unaware of a substantial literature on research-led policy design produced primarily within the social sciences and development studies. We briefly summarise this literature, report on our attempts to engage directly with policy makers and NGOs working on sustainable agriculture, and ultimately recommend that future projects should be co-designed with potential end-users from the outset.

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Title: Internet Archaeology

Abbreviated Title: Internet Archaeol.

Publisher: Council for British Archaeology

ISSN (Electronic): 13635387

Publication date Created: June 19 2019

Publication date (Electronic): June 19 2019

Issue: 53

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DOI: 10.11141/ia.53.11

SO-VID: a48a9b44-aa24-4309-9225-b7d895b20629

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Agendas for Archaeobotany in the 21st Century: data, dissemination and new directions

Semantics of the Sea — Stories and Science along the Celtic Seaboard

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