cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5284/1000168
title: London Archaeologist

description: For anyone interested in the history, heritage or archaeology of the capital, London Archaeologist is essential reading. Published by the London Archaeologist Association since 1968, it is the periodical of record for the London area, covering every major archaeological discovery, period, event and issue. Content includes excavation reports, historical articles, artefact and finds studies, environmental archaeology reports, exhibition reports, book reviews, news and commentary. It has recently been redesigned and expanded to cover interviews, profiles of local societies and museums, previews of forthcoming monographs and other features.
DOI: 10.5284/1000170
title: Nene Valley: Archaeological and Environmental Synthesis

description: The Nene Valley Project has collated archaeological, hydological and palaeoenvironmental data from published and archive sources. The material was inputted into a specially created database and formed the basis for geographical analysis using Mapinfo and ArcGIS. The results along with palynological modelling from a group of key sites formed the basis of a synthetic, period by period survey which provided a comprehensive record of knowledge to date, along with demonstrating gaps which could be targeted by future work.

This project was designed by Northamptonshire Archaeology and Exeter University to present the evidence of the character of the relationship between the environmental and archaeological record and variations in the water table for the Nene Valley from its source in Northamptonshire to Peterborough.
The project was funded by English Heritage from the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF). The project funding allowed for work to be carried out in Northamptonshire Archaeology and Exeter University both collecting and collating data. Work was carried out by Dr Phil Allen and Professor A G Brown at Exeter and Ian Meadows and Karen Deighton at Northampton.
DOI: 10.5284/1000171
title: Refining Areas of Maritime Archaeological Potential (AMAPs) for Shipwrecks

description: In May 2007, English Heritage commissioned Bournemouth University to undertake a project entitled Refining Areas of Maritime Archaeological Potential for Shipwrecks - AMAP1 funded by the Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF). The aim of the project is to undertake quantitative spatial analysis of shipwreck data using GIS to compare typologised wreck scatters to environmental, historical and hydrographic datasets in order to identify biases in the data and refine areas identified as AMAPs during the  Navigational Hazards project.

Areas of Maritime Archaeological Potential (AMAP) are areas were it is considered that the navigational (i.e. reefs or sandbanks) or environmental conditions (i.e. tidal races or overfalls) present in the area are likely to have caused shipping loss in the past and where the seabed conditions are such that preservation of archaeological material is thought to be likely.
DOI: 10.5284/1000172
title: Water Supply and Management in the Near East 63BC-AD636: PhD Thesis, University of Oxford (2006)

description: PhD thesis submitred to the University of Oxford to assess the ancient systems of water supply and management in the Near East from 63 BC to AD 636, from both a technological and sociological perspective.
DOI: 10.5284/1000174
title: Predictive Modelling of Multi-Period Geoarchaeological Resources at a River Confluence

description: Predictive Modelling of Multi-Period Geoarchaeological Resources at a River confluence is an Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund backed project led by principal investigators Professor Tony Brown, Dr Andy J Howard and Mr Keith Challis. The project takes as its study area the confluence of the Trent and Soar rivers in the East Midlands of the United Kingdom.

The overall purpose of the project is to: (a) to establish a rigorous research model for the future development of predetermination designs for site evaluation, (b) to assess the effectiveness of various airborne and ground based remote sensing methods in alluvial environments, and (c) to derive relationships between pre-extraction site survey data and likely chronostratigraphic and environmental data as part of archaeological assessment. This research will assist regulatory bodies (i.e. County Councils) in demanding and specifying rapid evaluations of geoarchaeological potential as part of the implementation of PPG16.
DOI: 10.5284/1000182
title: The South Lanes, Carlisle: Specialist Fascicules

description: From 1978 to 1982, Carlisle Archaeological Unit (CAU) carried out a programme of archaeological excavation and standing building recording, funded in part by the then Department of the Environment, prior to the redevelopment of the Lanes, a densely built-up area of approximately 2.8ha (6.9 acres) situated within the north-east angle of Carlisle's medieval city defences (NY 4015 5606). In total, some 26 excavation trenches were opened over the site as a whole, and a further 20 areas were subjected to watching brief.
DOI: 10.5284/1000185
title: Virtual Walkabouts

description: The Virtual Walkabout resource aims to provide not only a tool for expressing the spatial relationships of archaeological landscapes, buildings and artefacts but also a resource for learning and teaching through a simple fieldwork project. The Virtual Walkabout archives contain a series of still, 2-dimensional photographic images that collectively try to express the experience of walking around an archaeological site or monument. The images are presented in their Virtual order from a given point of departure, and are connected by a series of moves, forwards, backwards, pan left, pan right, step left or step right. The Virtual Walkabout archives derive from an original idea of Prof Clive Ruggles who provided the initial set of images from the sites of Beaghmore and Avebury. In addition, the Virtual Walkabout includes a generator tool which can be used to generate walkabouts from any archaeological site, provided the images are arranged, processed and indexed as appropriate. The Walkabout Generator is supported by a short tutorial which is intended to encourage students to undertake their own simple fieldwork project and presents many of the common problems that fieldworkers face but which students often overlook. Lecturers and tutors are invited to use the walkabout to prepare students for fieldwork. Students and those using the walkabout are encouraged to submit their own virtual walkabouts for possible archiving with the ADS.    The site is easily navigable through the standard ADS interface and users are required to accept the ADS terms and conditions prior to accessing the resource. The site requires a JavaScript enabled browser to view the archived walkabouts and a digital camera or standard camera and scanner together with image processing software are required to create a virtual walkabout.
DOI: 10.5284/1000187
title: Three dimensional modeling of Scottish Early Medieval Sculpted Stones: PhD Thesis, University of Glasgow (2003)

description: A Ph.D thesis submitted to the University of Glasgow which evaluates the available technologies allowing digital three dimensional records of archaeological material to be generated and considers how to best utilise the new opportunities for interactive exploration, reconstruction and recontextualisation of Early Medieval sculpted stones.  These new technological approaches are examined in the context of existing recording techniques as well as being examined with specific reference to the practical difficulties likely to arise given the varied nature of the source material in terms of size, location and access.
DOI: 10.5284/1000188
title: Excavations at the Viking Barrow Cemetery at Heath Wood, Ingleby, Derbyshire, 1998-2000

description: The cemetery at Heath Wood, Ingleby, Derbyshire is the only known Scandinavian cremation cemetery in the British Isles. It comprises 59 barrows, of which about one-third have been excavated on previous occasions, although earlier excavators concluded that some were empty cenotaph mounds. From 1998-2000 three barrows were examined. These investigations suggested that each of the barrows contained a burial, although not all contained evidence of a pyre.  This digital archive consists of a small number of digital data sets, primarily specialist reports and databases.
DOI: 10.5284/1000189
title: Clifford's Tower

description: Clifford's Tower is one of the last visible remaining structures of the medieval castle of York. The motte was first raised as part of a complex double motte and bailey system spanning the River Ouse in response to the Northern Revolt of 1068. However, Archaeological investigations around Clifford's Tower have shown that the site has been in use since the Roman period.  In 2002-2003 InterCulture began to build a website www.cliffordstower.org.uk to explain the site both structurally and socially, exploring its role within the City of York through the people, events and objects related to it.  The process of research and development for www.cliffordstower.org.uk generated a substantial database of material describing the site. These references include modern and historical texts, archaeological excavations, objects, websites, film and music. They are held by a number of institutions and organisations in and around York. The digital signpost has been designed to enable access to these references and facilitate further research.
DOI: 10.5284/1000190
title: Trent Valley 2002: Trent Valley GeoArchaeology bibliographic database

description: The Trent Valley has been subject to considerable archaeological, geomorphological and palaeoenvironmental investigation.  The results of most of this work are only accessible through 'grey' literature held in SMR archives in the various Counties and Unitary Authorities through which the River Trent flows.  The Trent Valley GeoArchaeology bibliographic database provides a searchable reference database that brings together both published and 'grey' literature within a single data resource providing enhanced access to information on the nature and extent of archaeological works.
DOI: 10.5284/1000191
title: Roman brooches in Britain: a technological and typological study based on the Richborough collection

description: In the 1970s a study was carried out of 445 extant brooches from Richborough, both by the traditional typological method and by scientific methods which had not so far been applied systematically to material of this type. The early work indicated that there were significant correlations between typology, alloy composition and techniques of decoration. The decision was taken to extend the survey to brooches from other sites with the result that some 3500 brooches have been analysed and examined. Roman brooches in Britain is a supplement to Report number 68 of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London, 'Roman Brooches in Britain: A Technological and Typological Study based on the Richborough Collection'. The raw data for the brooches is available to download as a comma delimited data file alongside analytical data tables in rich text format and a bibliography used to compile the data.
DOI: 10.5284/1000194
title: Rapid Archaeological Site Surveying and Evaluation in the Marine Environment

description: The RASSE project was undertaken by the University of St Andrews with partners as part of the three year research project funded by Round 2 of the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF) administered by English Heritage (EH). The principal aim of the project was to test and develop rapid, quantitative, remote (geophysical) sensing techniques for the enhanced investigation of maritime archaeological sites in sensitive aggregate extraction areas. Furthermore, the project attempted to improve temporal and environmental assessment methods for sites and areas of key archaeological significance.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.95vt1/2
title: ReMLGD_20100630_UNC

description: SAS Analysis. Note that you will have to add an import statement to import AllDataFixed.txt to run the script.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.95vt1/3
title: AllDataFixed

description: Data file. Note that "Table" is a replicated Block.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.95vt1/4
title: ReMLGD_Output

description: Output from the ReMLGD_UNC file, run in SAS
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.95vt1/5
title: BlowsBootGD_NULL

description: R code for the null bootstrap test
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.pg46f/1
title: Code and data

description: R code and data as MS Excel worksheets that were used for the analyses.
DOI: 10.5284/1000196
title: Trent Valley: Making Archaeology Matter

description: This booklet aims to provide a brief introduction to the archaeological issues associated with gravel quarrying. Its geographical focus is the Trent Valley, one of the major sources of sand and gravel in the UK. The continuing demand for sand and gravel, combined with an increasing awareness of the rich archaeology of the river terraces and floodplain, encouraged the establishment in 2001 of Trent Valley GeoArchaeology. The organisation is a co-operative of stakeholders, including researchers, heritage managers and industrial representatives. The online archive consists of the Trent Valley Making Archaeology Matter booklet.
DOI: 10.5284/1000198
title: Chewton Mendip, Somerset: Historic Turnpike Wall Restoration Project

description: The Chewton Mendip Turnpike Wall Restoration Project was undertaken to improve the condition and safety of walls on the section of the A39 between Chewton Mendip and Bathway. The project was a Somerset County Council (SCC) initiaitive with backing from the Countryside Agency, Mendip Hills AONB, Somerset Highways, Waldegrave Estates and English Heritage via the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (ALSF). The digital archive consists of the final summary report detailing the aims and outcomes of the restoration work.
DOI: 10.5284/1000199
title: Settlement and Community: Their Location, Limits, and Movement through the Landscape of Historical Cyprus: PhD Thesis, University of Glasgow (2005)

description: Phd, Settlements in Cyprus
DOI: 10.5284/1000202
title: Construction and Re-use of Bargrennan chambered cairns, South-West Scotland

description: Construction and Re-use of Bargrennan chambered cairns, South-West Scotland documents the initial construction and use of 'Bargrennan' style chambered cairns in Dumfries and Galloway.  Excavations were conducted at Cairnderry from 2002-2004 and interim reports have been published as UCLan Studies in Archaeology.  These reports have been remodelled to separate the excavation reports from the specialist reports and saved as PDF files which may be downloaded from AHDS Archaeology.  A collection of photographs of the excavations and finds and some of the site drawings are also available.
DOI: 10.5284/1000206
title: Contextual analysis of the use of space at two Near Eastern Bronze Age sites

description: The Tell Brak / Kilise Tepe archive is the result of excavations at two near eastern sites. The archive contains a general introduction and a set of specialist reports.
DOI: 10.5284/1000207
title: Spatial and Chronological Patterns in the Neolithisation of Europe

description: The Spatial and Chronological Patterns in the Neolithisation of Europe project is a spatial database of radiocarbon dates for the later Mesolithic and early Neolithic of Europe. There is also information concerning the contexts of the dates, the material dated and economic and cultural associations. This database may be searched on-line at the Archaeology Data Service.
DOI: 10.5284/1000209
title: Earthwork Castles of Gwent and Ergyng AD 1050-1250: PhD Thesis, University of Sheffield (2005)

description: PhD Thesis about Earthwork Castles in Gwent and Ergyng, Wales AD 1050-1250.
DOI: 10.5284/1000211
title: Inclusive Accessible Archaeology

description: Inclusive, Accessible, Archaeology was a HEFCE FDTL5 project being run in collaboration between Archaeology at the Universities at Reading and Bournemouth and the Research Group for Inclusive Environment at Reading. The project worked closely with a number of stakeholders including the Institute of Field Archaeologists, the Council for British Archaeology, Oxford Archaeology and English Heritage, as well as with the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology.This project addresses the dual issues of disability and transferable skills in the teaching of archaeological fieldwork. It aims to effect a change of emphasis from 'disability' to ability: rather than excluding or categorising individuals, students will be engaged actively in assessing their own skills.
DOI: 10.5284/1000212
title: Advanced computer modelling of hominin dispersal from Africa: integrating archaeological and palaeoclimatic simulations

description: The project aim was to develop process-based computer simulations of the dispersal of Homo erectus out of Africa.  This involved developing realistic constraints on the patterns of vegetation and the effects of changes in global sea level.  It was assumed that this migration out of Africa could be investigated through the paradigm of a single migration event, starting around 2 millions of years ago and arriving in Dmanisi around 1.8 millions of years ago. The data archived here consists of the vegetation patterns used in constructing the simulations and the patterns of climate variability used to constrain the variations in sea level and vegetation change.  From these data it is possible to reproduce the simulation results.  Simulation results are available from J.K. Hughes, A. Haywood, S.J. Mithen, B.W. Sellwood, P.J. Valdes
 (In Press) Investigating Early Hominin Dispersal Patterns
: developing a framework for climate data integration. Journal Of Human Evolution.
DOI: 10.5284/1000213
title: The Laconia Survey Project

description: Between 1983 and 1989 a joint team from the British School at Athens and the Universities of Amsterdam and Nottingham carried out an intensive survey of a 70 sq. km. area of Laconia across the Eurotas river to the east of the ancient site of Sparta. In the course of the survey new and previously-known inscriptions were recorded. This archive, along with the  project website, is intended to serve as a complement to G. Shipley's catalogue of epigraphical finds in the survey publication by offering digitised images of squeezes and published photographs of the inscriptions.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.ng09t/1
title: HPcorrsummary
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.ng09t/2
title: 01corrsummary
DOI: 10.5284/1000215
title: Celtic Inscribed Stones Project (CISP)

description: The Celtic Inscribed Stones Project database includes every non-Runic inscription raised on a stone monument within Celtic-speaking areas in the early middle ages. The database includes over 1,200 inscriptions, many are illustrated. The database is currently hosted at University College London.
DOI: 10.5284/1000216
title: Visual Repertoire, Focusing Activity and the 'Value of Heritage': Using the 'mental library of views' to evoke local place-identity, Britain and Europe: PhD Thesis, Lancaster University (2002)

description: Visual Repertoire, Focusing Activity and the 'Value of Heritage' investigates people's understanding of 'heritage' buildings and structures in the landscape and the part these structures play in defining a sense of identity.  It is suggested that 'heritage' has multiple meaning and multiple natures and can remain constant as a nationalist flag in the landscape, or remain unnoticed and banal for years but become contested and politicised at the slightest change in social context.  This resource is an electronic version of a Ph.D. thesis submitted to the University of Lancaster.
DOI: 10.5284/1000217
title: Roman Villas in the North of England

description: 'Roman Villas in the North of England' was the product of an undergraduate dissertation submitted to the University of Manchester in August 2001 entitled 'Villas of the Brigantes and Parisi: Criteria for Site Location' by Martin Burroughs.  The project aimed to record all villa sites in the North of England and to search for patterns within sites to account for their distribution.  The text of the thesis and the gazeteer are available for download from AHDS Archaeology.
DOI: 10.5284/1000218
title: First Farmers Project

description: The First Farmers Project investigated Neolithic settlement in east-central Scotland. Excavations were caried out at six locations in east-central Scotland: Ballendrick, Claish Farm, Duncrub, Mountstewart, Nethermuir and Upper Gothens.  These spots were chosen because of the presence of lithic scatters to determine whether these were indications of early human activity rather than simply isolated artefacts.  There are a series of reports resulting from these investigations and further reports, database files and images are available for downloading.
DOI: 10.5284/1000222
title: Purbeck Papers

description: The Purbeck Papers pages accompany the book, edited by David Hinton, making available photos and data from the excavations and providing access to the publication's extensive appendices.  Purbeck Papers covers a variety of topics regarding the archaeology of the Isle of Purbeck. The publication contains several papers, examining recent excavations and other archaeological considerations such as economy and the impact of the Black Death.  There are photographs of excavations, details of the objects and environmental data found and the full appendices for the monograph about the medieval economy and society of Purbeck.
DOI: 10.5284/1000223
title: A Re-examination of Sheep Bone Density and its Role in Assessing Taphonomic Histories of Zooarchaeological Assemblages: PhD Thesis, University College London (2002)

description: A PhD Thesis submitted to University College London.  Destructive taphonomic processes can preferentially remove certain bones from the archaeological record thereby introducing bias into element frequencies.  Bone density is the major factor in destructive taphonomic processes hence a knowledge of a bone's density can therefore be used to assess the likelihood that it will survive.  Using photodensitometry the author has produced density data for 95 well-provenanced modern sheep skeletons and shows that bone density is extremely variable between very similar individuals.  The data produced by this project were used to assess the taphonomic histories of the assemblage from ??atalh??y??k, Turkey.  Density data were not able to explain fully the observed element frequencies, other factors must contribute significantly to the ability for a bone to survive taphonomic destruction.
DOI: 10.5284/1000226
title: The Roman Cemetery at Brougham, Cumbria: Excavations 1966-67

description: The Ministry of Public Buildings and Works carried out excavations at the Roman cemetery east of the fort and vicus of Brougham, Cumbria in 1966 and 1967 in advance of road building work.  A third century cremation burial cemetery was uncovered which reamins the largest area of a cemetery ever to have been dug in the Roman North and yielded a range of finds considered to be a resource of national importance.  During 2000 to 2002 English Heritage funded Barbican Research Associates to analyse the archive.  The database resulting from this analysis may be downloaded from AHDS Archaeology.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.gg610/1
title: T_pinivora