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Artifact Biography

Artifact Biography is a scholarly methodology within papyrological provenance studies that traces the chronological and contextual history of a papyrus artifact from its creation through discovery, ownership, and preservation, distinguishing itself by integrating material, textual, and archival evidence to reconstruct its complete life cycle.

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Authors

13

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2017–2026

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Publications

6

Reinvigorating object biography: reproducing the drama of object lives

Jody Joy · World Archaeology · 2009 · 266 citations

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Beyond Consumption: Functionality, Artifact Biography, and Early Modernity in a European Periphery

Vesa‐Pekka Herva, Risto Nurmi · International Journal of Historical Archaeology · 2009 · 40 citations

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Object Biography, Re-use and Recycling in the Late to Post-Roman Transition Period and Beyond: Rings made from Romano-British Bracelets

Ellen Swift · Britannia · 2012 · 33 citations · Full text

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AI-Native Intellectual Biography: A New Genre of AI-Mediated Reception — Provenance, Heteronymy, and the Archive That Outpaced Its Author

Lee Sharks · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026 · 15 citations · Full text

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Archaeological science and object biography: a Roman bronze lamp from Kavastu bog (Estonia)

Ester Oras, Thomas Higham, Lucy Cramp et al. · Antiquity · 2017 · 13 citations · Full text

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Authors

19

  1. JJ
    Jody Joy

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 266 citations

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  2. JC
    Jacques Connan

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    1 publications · 11 citations

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  3. FC
    Francesca Casadio

    Art Institute of Chicago, United States

    1 publications · 12 citations

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  4. MF
    Michael Flecker

    Université de Strasbourg, France

    1 publications · 11 citations

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  5. TH
    Thomas Higham

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 13 citations

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Institutions

13

  1. QuesTek (United States)

    Evanston, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

  2. University of Tartu

    Tartu, Estonia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    13 citations

  3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    44 citations

  4. Art Institute of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

  5. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    13 citations

  6. Getty Conservation Institute

    Los Angeles, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

  7. Oxford Archaeology

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    13 citations

  8. University of Kent

    Canterbury, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    33 citations

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Venues

  1. World Archaeology

    1 publications · 266 citations

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  3. Antiquity

    1 publications · 13 citations

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  4. Britannia

    1 publications · 33 citations

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