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This book covers the topic of discourse and argumentation in archaeology with an aim to serve the archaeology community. The book presents discourse and argument analysis approaches and techniques in an affordable manner and applied to archaeological situations. It focuses on techniques and approaches that can be applicable to multiple situations, periods and cultures. The book begins with an introduction to discourse and argumentation analysis as a general field and also as an auxiliary technique to archaeology. The work includes conceptual applications, ranging from causality, ontological connections, vagueness, social production of discourse and public debates. The work also devotes a section to computational approaches and describes the specifics of some well-known families of algorithms such as lexical processing, information extraction or sentiment analysis. The conclusion comments on the future and which reflects on the previous chapters and discusses how the presented techniques and approaches should be adapted or improved for easier and more powerful application to archaeology. Contributing authors bring perspectives from archaeology, linguistics, and computer science.

This book presents an interdisciplinary study of the El Mirador cave located on the Atapuerca karstic system, one of the longest Pleistocene and Holocene archaeopaleontological deposits in Iberia. This book presents the results including new unpublished and published data to discuss different aspects related to the prehistoric herders and farmers that occupied this territory. Divided into four parts, the book covers site presentation and the paleoenvironmental reconstruction covering a chronological span between 7060 ± 40-3040 ± 40 yrs. The history of the excavation and the excavation methodology is detailed in this part including new unpublished recording techniques using 3D scanning and photogrammetry and a very meticulous sampling strategy. The book presents formation processes of the deposit which are key to understanding the successive occupations of the caves regarding its use as sheepfold cave as well as human remains that are part ofdifferent funerary contexts in the cave. In the last section, the book covers material culture found in the cave including lithic tools and pottery. This interdisciplinary work is of interest to scholars in anthracology, zooarchaeology, paleoanthropology, lithic technology, and experimental archaeology.

Longtemps confinée aux marges de l'histoire et de la géologie, la géographie s'émancipe au cours du 20 e siècle et prend enfin la place qui lui revient. Mieux, elle devient le pivot autour duquel tournent diverses approches disciplinaires, ce qui permet de rendre compte de questions touchant l'espace et les territoires selon une étonnante cohésion. Dans cet ouvrage, les auteurs soulignent l'importance de la géographie comme discipline pour comprendre le monde qui nous entoure. Organisé, entre autres choses, autour de grands enjeux tels que l'empreinte environnementale des sociétés, la mondialisation, la géopolitique, l'autochtonie, les migrations, les systèmes de transport ou encore les frontières, chaque chapitre illustre les dynamiques sociospatiales qui animent nos espaces en partage. On voit alors les liens étroits qui unissent, par exemple, la mondialisation économique et les migrations et on comprend mieux le caractère indissociable des questions coloniales et celles de l'accès aux ressources et aux territoires pour les peuples ayant subi diverses formes de dépossession. À la fois général et détaillé, cet ouvrage brosse le portrait d'une discipline carrefour, dynamique, engagée et pertinente et offre des clefs d'analyse à tout lecteur intéressé à comprendre les transformations du monde dans lequel il vit.

Als sich der attraktive Klaus Graf von Leinhäuser und die entzückende Helen Wortmann auf der Geburtstagsfeier der Gräfin Schönfeld zufällig wiedersehen, können sie ihr Glück kaum fassen. Die beiden beschließen aber, ihre frühere Bekanntschaft vorerst für sich zu behalten. Und so treffen sie sich nur gelegentlich heimlich im Wald zu einem romantischen Stelldichein. Die Verliebten liegen im Moos, schauen dem Zug der Wolken nach, träumen von einer gemeinsamen Zukunft und tauschen zärtliche Küsse. Doch diese Treffen bleiben nicht unbemerkt. Und während Graf Klaus und Helen die kurzen Stunden ihres Glücks genießen, sind andere eifrig bemüht, ihr Glück zu zerstören...

This book focuses on innovative strategies to manage and build software systems for generating new knowledge from large archaeological data setsThe book also reports on two case studies carried out in real-world scenarios within the Cultural Heritage setting. The book presents an original conceptual framework for developing software solutions to assist the knowledge generation process in connection with large archaeological data sets and related cultural heritage information— a context in which the inputs are mainly textual sources written in freestyle, i.e. without a predetermined, standard structure.Following an in-depth exploration of recent works on the knowledge generation process in the above-mentioned context and IT-based options for facilitating it, the book proposes specific new techniques capable of capturing the structure and semantics implicit in such textual sources, and argues for using this information in the knowledge generation process. The main result is the development of a conceptual framework that can accommodate textual sources and integrate the information included in them into a software engineering framework. The said framework is meant to assist cultural heritage professionals in general, and archaeologists in particular, in both knowledge extraction and the subsequent decision-making process.

Tessa Flemming ist ein braves, aber unscheinbares und unbeholfenes Mädchen. Obwohl sie aufgrund ihres zurückhaltenden Wesens nicht die erste Wahl bei den Männern ist, hat ihr Vater doch die Hoffnung noch nicht aufgegeben, dass sich einer findet, der seine kleine Tessa heiratet. Doch die hat Angst davor, Bekanntschaften zu machen, sieht sie sich doch den prüfenden und abwertenden Männerblicken hilflos ausgesetzt. Gehorsam tritt Tessa dennoch an jenem schicksalhaften Abend aus ihrem Zimmer, um sich unter die Partygäste ihrer Eltern zu mischen. Und da läuft sie ihm direkt in die Arme: Helge Hansen, Alleinerbe der Hansen-Werke und Traum aller Frauen. Tatsächlich ist da zum ersten Mal ein Mann, der Tessa beachtet, sie zu verstehen scheint. Und er weckt etwas in ihr, von dem sie nicht einmal geahnt hatte, dass es in ihr schlummert. Auch ohne ihre Lippen zu berühren, hat Helge Hansen sie wachgeküsst...

Lulu Atlantis has a big problem: her new baby brother, Sam. With him in the picture, Mother certainly doesn't need her around. Luckily, she has her best friend, Harry, a top-hat-wearing daddy longlegs spider to turn to. Over the course of four enchanting chapters, the two friends rescue a skunk stuck in a yogurt pot, encounter gangster bakers, seek out the Secret Ingredient to make Sam's oatmeal edible, and contend with a monster (not to mention an evil cat named Princess Fancy).Through it all, Harry stands by Lulu Atlantis, his one and only True Blue Love, as she searches–quests!–for some True Blue Love of her own. With irresistible black-and-white chapter-opening art, plus an imaginative story with a classic feel, this is the perfect choice for young middle-grade readers.

Ideas - and the forms in which they are expressed - are the new currency. Yet many companies, the media, and even the general population mistakenly see America as an intellectual and cultural wasteland defined by reality television and fast food. RenGen is about the rise of the next'renaissance generation'- an emerging section of the American public who are enlightened, creative, and eager to challenge the status quo.RenGen draws a new picture of the American consumer as a thinking, expressive person and examines the factors that are giving rise to this renaissance, including:a new class of workers dedicated to creating innovationa growing desire to express new ideas and concepts aestheticallyand, a new respect for learning-fueled by the Internet, a medium that links ideas, information, and visuals and connects people aross communitiesBased on original research, RenGen gives leaders a lens through which to consider important business decisions.

Ce roman, superbement composé, subtile variation autour des thèmes éternels de l'amour et de la mort, entraîne le lecteur aux confins de la conscience de deux êtres meurtris, unis dans une même solitude, réfugiés au creux d'un journal intime qui épouse les méandres d'une blessure aussi secrète qu'indicible.