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COMPARATIVE ARCHAEOLOGY

University of Pittsburgh

Opening Doors to the Study of Long-Term Social Change

The Center for Comparative Archaeology at the University of Pittsburgh is dedicated to fostering the comparative study of ancient social change world-wide, strengthening connections among an international community of scholars, and supporting the long-term preservation of open-access archaeological data

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Comparative Archaeology 5
Comparative Archaeology 5
Rosario Valley dataset
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Rosario Valley Architectural Gini Coefficient and Neighborhood Dataset

Tables for the calculations of Gini coefficients carried out on the domestic structures of the Upper Grijalva Basin Dataset, alongside corresponsing Lorenz Curves, Univariate Plots, f' and f" Acceleration Charts.

by Kyle Shaw-Müller and John P. Walden

Gateways students 2024
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2023-24 “Gateways” Undergrad Research in Archaeology

Over the 2023-24 academic year, the CCA “Gateways” program sponsored five undergrads to digitize residental architecture at pre-Columbian Andean hillfort setlements, and digitize drawings of ancient African stone tools.

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