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I am very pleased to announce that a further two articles have just been
published in issue 10 of Internet Archaeology.
T.S. Dye and H.D. Tuggle
Land Snail Extinctions at Kalaeloa, O`ahu
http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue10/dye_index.html
Alessandra Lopez y Royo Iyer
Sculpture, Dance and Heritage: animating dance sequences from temple
reliefs using movement modelling software
http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue10/iyer_index.html
Dye and Tuggle examine the stratigraphic record of sub-fossil land snails
at Kalaeloa (O'ahu, Hawai'i). Since an influential article appeared in
the 1980s claiming that "the prehistoric Polynesian inhabitants of Hawai'i
seriously transformed and, in many instances, degraded their island
ecosystem" (and predicting future studies would confirm this), evidence
for change interpreted as this Polynesian transformation of the
environment has appeared in other environmental studies. Dye and Tuggle
however argue that Polynesians had little, if any, effect on land snail
populations. Offering up their data for analysis, they discuss that the
changes in the land snail population probably took place instead in the
post-Contact period when the regional environment was radically altered by
sugar cane cultivation.
Iyer discusses the computer animation modelling techniques that were used
to recreate a series of dance movement sequences depicted in the reliefs
around the balustrade of the main temple at the Prambanan temple complex
in Central Java, Indonesia, built in the 9th century CE. Some animations
and short video sequences of the reconstructed dance sequences are also
published alongside the text. The issues of heritage, its interpretation
and conservation are also discussed, particularly since the construction
of dance as heritage is widespread in Southeast Asia and is linked with
tourist consumption of archaeological sites.
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Happy reading,
Judith
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Judith Winters, Editor - Internet Archaeology http://intarch.ac.uk
Department of Archaeology, University of York,
King's Manor, YO1 7EP, UK
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