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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Deer Hunting at the Gaston Site
Full text linkThe Gaston site is a multi-occupation Native American site in North Carolina. The occupations span a period over 7000 years. This thesis solely focused on the last three occupations during the Late Woodland Period (500CE - European contact). This zooarchaeological research was done to determine white tailed deer hunting practices of these Native occupants. More directly by examining the age, sex, and biometrics of individuals hunted, to reconstruct not only the individual preferences, but also the strategies in which hunting was carried out.Bachelor of Art
The Poetics of Ruin: Towards a Playful Archaeology
Full text linkThe primary question this thesis seeks to answer is how and why we interact with the worlds of ruins. I center my approach to the question of ruin through the lens of archaeology. Archaeology, as I define it, is the study of the material remains of the human past. In other words, archaeology necessitates the study of ruins. However, I argue that archaeology is not enough to grapple with ruins. Ruins need not be material, nor need they be of the past—the practice of urbex within a broader context of play gives us insight into the ruins of the everyday and thus the present. Urbex reveals places of urban abandon, presenting an ontological paradox of an occupied yet abandoned place and a ruin that should not be ruined. I suggest that urbex, play, and games can form a framework for a “playful archaeology” that allows us to confront the ruins of the present and future. I imagine “playful archaeology” to be rooted in exploration, but my goal is not to prescribe what “playful archaeology” should look like, but what it could look like.Bachelor of Art
Economic Driven Cultural Change through Faunal Analysis: Villa de Vilauba
Full text linkThis thesis examines the participation of the Villa de Vilauba, located in the Roman province of Hispania Citerior, in the Roman economic system as assessed through the analysis of faunal assemblages from the first to the fifth centuries CE. The faunal assemblages of the villa are contextualized within their regional economic context and compared to the faunal record from the region of Roman Tarraconensis, and more widely, the rest of the province of Hispania. This allows the author to gauge the effect of the Roman conquest on livestock production within the villa, and on the region more broadly. Focusing on the three main domestic livestock types of the ancient Mediterranean (ovicaprine, pigs, and cattle), it is concluded that villa owners actively determined what fauna they would incorporate into their estates and in doing so they choose to incorporate Roman foodways and husbandry with their own.Master of Art
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Analysis of Faunal Remains at the Wall Site in Hillsboro, NC
Full text linkThe goal of this thesis is to analyze a faunal assemblage in order to improve knowledge of precontact Native American subsistence practices at the Wall site. Through the analysis of data from this assemblage, we can gain a better understanding of not only their diet, but also possible hunting techniques for precontact in the area. This analysis provides new information on the Wall site, and Native American archaeology in North Carolina as a whole, and helps us to better understand the archaeology of the surrounding area.Bachelor of Art
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Analysis and Interpretation of Neolithic Near Eastern Mortuary Rituals from a Community-Based Perspective.
No full textEarly farming communities located in the ancient Near Eastparticipated in unique mortuary practices throughout the Neolithic period (9300-4700 B.C.). These practices include a "skull cult," which involved preserving and honoring human skulls apart from the rest of the skeletons. Interpretations of the meaning behind this "skull cult" have been a major focus of archaeology.In this thesis, I critique previous work interpreting the skull cult, particularly Kathleen Kenyon's theory of a venerated male ancestor skull cult, and explore Ian Kuijt's theory on the social role of these mortuary ritual practices, giving insight into the emergence and evolution of social complexity within these developing societies. Ethnographic accounts supporting Kuijt's theory of community-based mortuary practices and their significance in understanding the societal structure during the Neolithic period suggest that while people of the Neolithic Near East were preserving the skeletal remains of their ancestors, it may not have been for veneration purposes, but rather a mortuary rite allowing the deceased to transition to the afterlife, all while preserving and renewing the social relationships involved in the community
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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