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Chard Junction Quarry, Dorset: Palaeolithic Archaeological Resource
No full textThe Axe Valley has long been known for its Palaeolithic finds particularly from the site at Broom. Whilst research has continued at Broom , other sites have also been investigated in the valley as part of the English Heritage managed ALSF funded project Palaeolithic Rivers of South West Britain (PRoSWeB). This project was completed in March 2007. Between March 2007 and March 2009, research focussing on the Quaternary geology and Palaeolithic archaeology of south west region has been continued at selected locations by Prof Tony Brown (University of Southampton), Dr Laura Basell (University of Oxford) and Dr Phil Toms (University of Gloucestershire), with assistance from Dr Ramues Gallois and Dr Richard Scrivener (formerly British Geological Survey). As a result of funding from the University of Southampton, and the kind permission of Bardon Aggregates, an Aggregate Industries Business, Chard Junction quarry is one of the key sites at which work continued during this period. This research included monitoring the changing sedimentology as aggregate extraction progressed. On 10th July 2008, Tony Brown found two bifaces whilst working in the pit with Laura Basell and Phil Toms. The importance of these finds lies in their stratigraphic location, comparison with previous finds, potential for dating and confirmation of a Lower Palaeolithic hominin presence in the Axe Valley South West England. From March 2009, work at Chard Junction has been supported by English Heritage. This has allowed the dating of deposits from which the bifaces came, the contextualisation of the bifaces, continued monitoring of extraction and some preliminary developments of new methodologies for sites of this kind
Digital Dust: Tales of the Unexpected
No full text"Digital dust: Tales of the Unexpected" is a video ‘story’ in which I showcase waste from my (virtual) cutting room floor to reveal hidden narratives of archaeological practice. This is a creative response from a year of significant laser scan data processing. As I worked, I reflected on the large amounts of digital data we generate but never use, and rapidly changing software and formats. I paired the scan data visuals with Jean Michel Jarre’s laser harp music from the album Equinoxe to evoke the sense of magic I felt analysing the data and the transcendence of time and space. I was also keen to acknowledge importance of harps in storytelling. My images are simply screen grabs of things I found interesting as I worked, and the captions are snippets of thought, memory, and amusement sparked during the process. Together, I hope they form a playful reflection of light, time, beauty, and the complexity of archaeology in the digital age. This video was produced for the "Narrate Create" session of the "Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference 2024" (TAG 2024) held in Bournemouth University. Laser scan data were collected using a variety of Leica laser scanners, and analysed using Leica and Microsoft software under licence to the University of Leicester. The video forms one of a group of alternative archaeological stories and associated popular articles from TAG 2024 session participants ("Narrate Create" and "Stories as Old as Time") published in British Archaeology 2026 (April onwards). The overview article for the first group of stories is entitled "Narrate-create: stories as old as time" by Laura Basell, Kirsty Lilley, Fiona Coward, Lusia Zaleskaya, and Neil Redfern. The popular article which accompanies and explains this video by Laura Basell is entitled "Digital Dust? Finding unexpected stories in laser scans".Acknowledgements: Basell gratefully acknowledges the support of the British Academy through a mid-career fellowship (Reference: MFSS24\240089), which provided the time and space to reflect on the role of storytelling and narrative in archaeological contexts. TAG 2024 organising committee and the participants in our sessions for contributing to an engaging and thought-provoking conference.Fieldwork Collabortors Abdallah Khamis, Zanzibar Heritage Foundation and Dr Lee Bray, Dartmoor National Park Authority</p
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
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
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
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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