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Figurative Representations in the North European Neolithic—Are They There? Cambridge Archaeological Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Rune Iversen, Valeska Becker, Rebecca Bristow
This article offers a comprehensive survey of figurative finds from Neolithic northern Europe. The survey shows that the immediate absence of figurative representation in the region is real and that the almost complete lack of figuration stands out from the previous Mesolithic and the contemporary northern and northeastern European Neolithic hunter-gatherer groups. Furthermore, the absence of figurative
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The Future of Periodization. Dissecting the Legacy of Culture History Cambridge Archaeological Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Gavin Lucas, Orri Vésteinsson
This paper discusses the future role of periodization in the wake of recent critiques of culture-historical chronologies concurrent with the rise of high-definition radiocarbon dating. It is argued that periodization has two distinct facets, a narrative function and a dating function, which should be separated. Archaeology may eventually be able to abandon the latter, but not the former. However, the
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Bridlington Boulevard Revisited: New Insights into Pit and Post-hole Cremations in Neolithic Britain Cambridge Archaeological Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Jake T. Rowland, Jess E. Thompson
The majority of excavated human remains from Neolithic Britain emanate from monumental sites. However, it is increasingly recognized that multiple funerary practices are often attested within these monuments, and that diverse treatment of the dead is evident contemporaneously at non-monumental sites. In this paper, we highlight such variation in non-monumental funerary practices in Neolithic Britain
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The Archaeology of Awe: Monumental Architecture, Communal Ritual, and Community Formation at Poverty Point, USA Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory (IF 3.073) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Matthew C. Sanger
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The Knossian Kamares Style as Transgenerational Memory Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory (IF 3.073) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Emanuele Prezioso
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Wounded Animals and Where to Find Them. The Symbolism of Hunting in Palaeolithic Art Cambridge Archaeological Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Olivia Rivero, Miguel García-Bustos, Georges Sauvet
Representations of wounded animals and humans in European Upper Palaeolithic art have traditionally been conceived as figures related to the hunting activities of hunter-gatherer societies. In this paper, we propose an analysis of Franco-Cantabrian figurative representations showing signs of violence between 35,000 and 13,000 cal. bp to qualify the interpretations of hunting and death in Palaeolithic
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Collapse Studies in Archaeology from 2012 to 2023 Journal of Archaeological Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2024-03-09
Abstract The study of collapse in archaeology and history has continued to grow and develop in the last decade and is a respectable target of investigation in and beyond these fields. Environmental determinism and apocalyptic narratives have become less acceptable and collapsology has matured into a more nuanced, self-critical, and sophisticated field. This review explores recent work on collapse in
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Bodily boundaries transgressed: corporal alteration through ornamentation in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic at Boncuklu Tarla, Türkiye Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Ergül Kodaş, Emma L Baysal, Kazım Özkan
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An Anarchist Archaeology of Equality: Pasts and Futures Against Hierarchy Cambridge Archaeological Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Aris Politopoulos, Catherine J. Frieman, James L. Flexner, Lewis Borck
Scholars of the past frame the ‘origins’ or evolution of inequality, usually using archaeological or anthropological evidence as a basis for their arguments, as an intentional, inevitable, important step towards the development of states, implicitly framed as the pinnacle of human political and economic achievement. Anarchist archaeologies reject the idea of hierarchy as a positive or inevitable evolutionary
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Texts, Politics and Identities: New Challenges on Iron Age Ethnicity. A Case from Northwest Iberia Cambridge Archaeological Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Samuel Nión-Álvarez
This paper presents an approach to the study of European Iron Age ethnicity, a core topic for several decades which has begun to lose interest in the last years. A review of some of the uncertainties involved in the archaeology of ethnicity, focused on several key issues, is proposed. Moreover, some relevant topics that are usually undermined are suggested in order to address new challenges in the
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After the fall of the Egyptian Empire: review of the Third Intermediate Period settlement at Tell el-Retaba Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Łukasz Jarmużek, Agnieszka Ryś-Jarmużek, Anna Wodzińska, Anna Gręzak, Claire Malleson, Sławomir Rzepka
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Tracking Mississippian Migrations from the Central Mississippi Valley to the Ridge and Valley with a Unified Absolute Chronology American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Lynne P. Sullivan, Kevin E. Smith, Scott C. Meeks, Shawn M. Patch
As regional chronologies become better defined, we are better able to track large-scale population movements and related cultural change. A dataset of 156 radiocarbon dates from the Middle Cumberland Region (MCR), evaluated with 199 more dates from the Ridge and Valley portions of northern Georgia and East Tennessee, enable modeling of population movements from the Central Mississippi Valley into the
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Complicating the debate: Evaluating the potential of gas-chromatography-mass spectrometry for differentiating prehistoric aceramic tar production techniques Journal of Archaeological Science (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Rivka Chasan, Liliana Iwona Baron, Paul R.B. Kozowyk, Geeske H.J. Langejans
Birch bark tar was used extensively throughout human history. While later ceramic-based production technologies are known, prehistoric aceramic techniques leave little to no archaeological evidence. Experimental tar production attempts to fill this gap and suggest potential techniques. However, their archaeological relevance is unclear. Through an in-depth biomolecular analysis using Gas Chromatography-Mass
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Trade, recycling and mixing in local metal management strategies of the later Bronze Age south Carpathian Basin: Lead isotope and chemical analyses of hoarded metalwork Journal of Archaeological Science (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Caroline Bruyère, J. Stephen Daly, David van Acken, Dragan Jovanović, Vana Orfanou, Filip Franković, Miloš Spasić, Jovan Koledin, Barry Molloy
Lead Isotope Analysis (LIA) has been applied most often as a means of provenancing copper at the macro scale. Here we use LIA at the regional scale to expose the relationship between long-distance communication and local metal management strategies. We conducted lead isotope and chemical analysis on 82 objects and ingots from Late Bronze Age hoards of the south Carpathian Basin, a node in long distance
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Plastic pollution: archaeological perspective on an Anthropocene climate emergency World Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Estelle Praet
Plastic pollution is a global phenomenon offering a vivid illustration of the scale of anthropic impacts on the environment, a key characteristic in defining the Anthropocene. Plastic pollution not...
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Big enough to matter: on the frequency and chronology of giant handaxes in the British Lower Palaeolithic Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Luke Dale, Aaron Rawlinson, Pete Knowles, Frederick Foulds, Nick Ashton, David Bridgland, Mark White
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Continuity and climate change: the Neolithic coastal settlement of Habonim North, Israel Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Roey Nickelsberg, Thomas E. Levy, Ruth Shahack-Gross, Anthony Tamberino, Scott McAvoy, Gal Bermatov-Paz, Nimrod Marom, Ehud Arkin Shalev, Ehud Weiss, Suembikya Frumin, Assaf Yasur-Landau
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Residue analysis suggests ritual use of tobacco at the ancient Mesoamerican city of Cotzumalhuapa, Guatemala Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Adam Negrin, Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos, Cameron L. McNeil, W. Jeffrey Hurst, Edward J. Kennelly
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Revised pre-Younger Dryas chronocultural sequence at the Pilauco site, north-western Patagonia (40°–44°S) Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Antonio Pérez-Balarezo, Mario Pino, Ximena Navarro-Harris, Ana M. Abarzúa, Daniel Fritte, Francisco Tello, Ignacio Aguilera
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An Argaric Tomb for a Carpathian ‘Princess’? Cambridge Archaeological Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Juan A. López Padilla, Francisco Javier Jover Maestre, Ricardo E. Basso Rial, María Pastor Quiles
Around 120 years ago, a burial was discovered in the Argaric settlement of San Antón, 60 km southeast of Alicante (Spain). Although it was similar to many others recorded during more than a century of research, some gold objects found made this burial exceptional in the Iberian Bronze Age funerary record. Based on the most recent archaeological data, this article reviews both the context and the whole
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The Climate Heritage Paradox – how rethinking archaeological heritage can address global challenges of climate change World Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Cornelius Holtorf
For archaeology to address adequately the global challenges of climate change, it needs to resolve the Climate Heritage Paradox which consists of two contradictions. Firstly, in contemporary societ...
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A geometric morphometric approach to distinguish ferret from polecat and its application to an archaeological specimen from Mechelen (Belgium) Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Ben Gruwier
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Out of the Shadows: Reestablishing the Eastern Fertile Crescent as a Center of Agricultural Origins: Part 1 Journal of Archaeological Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Melinda A. Zeder
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Mediterranean Early Iron Age chronology: assessing radiocarbon dates from a stratified Geometric period deposit at Zagora (Andros), Greece Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Rudolph Alagich, Lorena Becerra-Valdivia, Margaret C. Miller, Katerina Trantalidou, Colin Smith
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Personalised monuments and monumental personalities in the past and present of Bronze Age Cyprus Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Pertev Basri
Nestled at the eastern corner of the Mediterranean, the island of Cyprus is a popular locale for archaeological research by resident and foreigner alike despite its modest size. The roots of this popularity run deep; Cyprus can boast for capturing people's attention with its antiquities since the start of the nineteenth century (Clarke 1813, pp.165–97). Authored by veterans of Cypriot archaeology,
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Trypillia mega-sites: a social levelling concept? Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Robert Hofmann, Nils Müller-Scheeßel, Johannes Müller
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French historical and contemporary archaeology: a critical assessment Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Elias Michaut
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A Vasconic inscription on a bronze hand: writing and rituality in the Iron Age Irulegi settlement in the Ebro Valley Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Mattin Aiestaran, Javier Velaza, Joaquín Gorrochategui, Carmen Usúa, Pablo Pujol, Euken Alonso, Eneko Iriarte, Josu Narbarte, Dani Ruiz-González, Oihane Mendizabal-Sandonís, Jesús Sesma, Jose Antonio Mujika-Alustiza, Jesús García Gazólaz, Berta Balduz, Juantxo Agirre-Mauleon
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Early architecture in Tonga: implications for the development of Polynesian chiefdoms Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Geoffrey Clark, Phillip Parton, Christian Reepmeyer
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Contemporary archaeological perspectives on intersectional inequality in a welfare state in twentieth-century Finland Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Oula Seitsonen, Tuuli Matila, Marika Hyttinen, Aleksi Kelloniemi
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Commentary Cambridge Archaeological Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Kathleen Sterling
Greer offers an excellent primer on some Black Studies scholars’ critiques of humanism, for which he uses the label ‘counter-humanism’ after Erasmus (2020), distinguishing these approaches from ‘posthumanism.’ He identifies two primary strains of posthumanism relevant to archaeological interpretation, symmetrical archaeology and posthuman feminism, though examples of the latter are drawn from a broader
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Comments Cambridge Archaeological Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Susan Pollock
Matthew Greer offers us a powerful, refreshing and thought-provoking critique of posthumanist approaches in archaeology as he sees them through the lens of Black Studies. He asks us to leave aside—temporarily—concerns with anthropocentrism to concentrate instead on the human side of the equation, while nonetheless positioning himself in line with posthumanist efforts to dismantle the human–non-human
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On Striving as Readers: A Response to Greer Cambridge Archaeological Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Christopher Witmore
The capacity of northern European gentlemen scholars educated in the love of wisdom, human dignity, friendship and rationality to treat their fellow human beings with irreconcilable prejudice and hold to ghastly beliefs of racial superiority, which legitimated violence, exploitation and extermination elsewhere, is one of the great tragedies of humanism. That the images of the human cultivated in texts
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Commentary Cambridge Archaeological Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Craig N. Cipolla
Does non-anthropocentrism necessitate a turn away from marginalized people? This is a crucial question, asked lately by a growing number of archaeologists. Some see a turn toward things as a turn away from people, while others take a more nuanced view. Greer falls into the latter group, exploring this question by highlighting important contributions and corrections from Black Studies. Although the
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Reflections on a Counter-Humanist Archaeology: A Commentary on Greer 2023 Cambridge Archaeological Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Lindsay M. Montgomery
In ‘Humanist Missteps’, Matthew Greer makes the pointed observation that non-anthropocentric frameworks, including symmetrical, object-oriented and posthuman feminist archaeologies, have primarily focused on deconstructing the human–non-human binary while failing to problematize humanist assumptions about who counts as Human. At the core of Greer's argument is the matter of citational practice: which
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Humanist Missteps, A Black Studies Critique of Posthumanist Archaeologies Cambridge Archaeological Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Matthew C. Greer
Posthumanist archaeologies have attempted to move beyond humanist conceptions of the human for over a decade. But they have done so by primarily focusing on the ontological split between humans and non-human things. This only addresses one part of humanism, as Black studies scholars have long argued that it also equates humanity writ large with white, economically privileged, cis-gendered, heterosexual
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Reply: Citational Politics and the Future of Posthumanist Archaeologies Cambridge Archaeological Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Matthew C. Greer
I want to begin by thanking Craig Cipolla, Lindsay Montgomery, Susan Pollock, Kathleen Sterling and Christopher Witmore for their responses. I am honoured to be in conversation with such thoughtful and insightful scholars. In my reading, two main themes emerged from their comments—citational politics and what the future of posthumanist archaeologies might look like. To conclude our discussion of archaeology
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Waterfowl Eggshell Refines Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction and Supports Multi-species Niche Construction at the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in the Levant Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory (IF 3.073) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Lisa Yeomans, Maria C. Codlin, Camilla Mazzucato, Federica Dal Bello, Beatrice Demarchi
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Archaeology in a fragile environment: archaeology of the lower Yangtze Shanghai region World Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Edward Allen, Michael Storozum, Pengfei Sheng
The Shanghai region is home to millennia of archaeological cultures and a massive modern metropolois. Until recently, this regional history has remained within the overarching framework of a north-...
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Diet of Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens from macrowear analysis of mandibular molars Journal of Archaeological Science (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 María Hernaiz-García, Gregorio Oxilia, Stefano Benazzi, Rachel Sarig, Jing Fu, Ottmar Kullmer, Luca Fiorenza
Neanderthal diet has been on the spotlight of paleoanthropological research for many years. The majority of studies that tried to reconstruct the diet of Neanderthals were based on the analysis of zooarchaeological remains, stable isotopes, dental calculus and dental microwear patterns. In the past few years, there have been a few studies that linked dental macrowear patterns of Neanderthals and modern
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Long-Term Urban and Population Trends in the Southern Mesopotamian Floodplains Journal of Archaeological Research (IF 5.333) Pub Date : 2024-02-14
Abstract The processes of long-term urbanization in southern Mesopotamia are still insufficiently investigated, even though recent studies using large datasets and focusing on neighboring regions have paved the way to understanding the critical role of multiple variables in the shaping of settlement strategies by ancient human societies, among which climate change played an important role. In this
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Ancient Koguryŏ’s heritage around Ji’an: past and current interpretations World Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Rainer Feldbacher
The Kingdom of Koguryŏ was one of the so-called Three Kingdoms of Korea in the 1st millennium AD. According to the Samguk Sagi (Historical Records of the Three States), it was founded on what is no...
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Chronology of hominin activity at Vindija Cave, Croatia: new dates recorded via standard and ultrafiltration AMS Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Ivor Karavanić, Ines Krajcar Bronić, Andreja Sironić, Siniša Radović, Marko Banda, Fred H. Smith
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New Approaches to the Bipolar Flaking Technique: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Kinematic Perspectives Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory (IF 3.073) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Görkem Cenk Yeşilova, Adrián Arroyo, Josep Maria Vergès, Andreu Ollé
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Aggrandisers and the first copper-base metallurgy in Southeast Asia Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Charles Higham
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Evidence of the intentional use of black henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) in the Roman Netherlands Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Maaike Groot, Martijn van Haasteren, Laura I. Kooistra
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Intentional damage to metal artefacts in burials and hoards in the south Caucasus, 2000–550 BC Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Giorgi Bedianashvili, Abby Robinson
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Women of the Conversion Period: a biomolecular investigation of mobility in early medieval England Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Helena Hamerow, Sam Leggett, Christel Tinguely, Petrus Le Roux
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Multiscale pollen-based reconstructions of anthropogenic land-cover change in Karula Upland, south Estonia Journal of Archaeological Science (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Vivika Väli, Jüri Vassiljev, Tiiu Alliksaar, Ansis Blaus, Pikne Kama, Kersti Kihno, Maret Põldmaa, Leili Saarse, Pille Tomson, Anneli Poska
Pollen-based quantitative vegetation reconstructions using multiple sedimentary basins from the same area, along with their quantified relevant pollen source areas, are a powerful means to study how long-term human impact has affected vegetation and shaped the currently protected heritage landscapes at different spatial scales. Our study presents the outcome of a palynological investigation in Karula
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When the Foreign Becomes Familiar: The Glass Bead Assemblage from Madjedbebe, Northern Australia Cambridge Archaeological Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Mirani Litster, Lynley A. Wallis, Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation
By investigating the materiality of colonial encounters, specifically the consumption of introduced commodities by Indigenous peoples, archaeologists can explore questions concerning value, agency, consumer choice and localization. This has the significant capacity to broaden understandings of intercultural encounters and challenge colonial narratives. Glass beads represent one of the earliest foreign
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Yeghegis-1 rockshelter site: new investigations into the late Chalcolithic of Armenia Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Mariya Antonosyan, Mariam Saribekyan, Satenik Mkrtchyan, Anahit Hovhannisyan, Ellery Frahm, Patrick Roberts, Arsen Bobokhyan, Karen Azatyan, Levon Yepiskoposyan, Noel Amano
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Homo sapiens and Neanderthal Use of Space at Riparo Bombrini (Liguria, Italy) Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory (IF 3.073) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Amélie Vallerand, Fabio Negrino, Julien Riel-Salvatore
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Beyond the bluestones: links between distant monuments in Late Neolithic Britain and Ireland Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Richard Bradley
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Unlocking archaeological data online via the PEPAdb (Prehistoric Europe's Personal Adornment Database) initiative for Open Science Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Galo Romero-García, Daniel Sánchez-Gómez, José Á. Garrido-Cordero, José M. Martínez-Blanes, Ana C. Sousa, Carlos P. Odriozola
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Middle Ohio Valley Maize Histories: New Dates from the Crossroads of the Midcontinent American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Aaron R. Comstock, Robert A. Cook
The transition to maize agriculture frames important cultural shifts in the Eastern Woodlands. However, the tempo and mode of this transition are unclear, particularly when analytical techniques are not standard across the region. In this article, we present evidence of directly dated maize macrobotanical fragments from the Turpin site in southwest Ohio that date between cal AD 552–649 and 684–994
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Mapping the Iron Age in Southern Africa: Magnetometry at two Iron Age villages in Western Zambia Journal of Archaeological Science (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Zachary McKeeby
In recent years the use of near-surface geophysical survey – especially magnetometry – has been on the rise across sub-Saharan Africa, illustrating its utility at both large and/or built-up sites with stone architecture, as well as smaller and more ephemeral village sites in equatorial and sub-tropical regions of the continent. This article describes geophysical surveys and excavations at Nanga and
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Bronze Age Stone Anchors as Material Metaphors: Applying Conceptual Blending Theory to Investigate Their Symbolic Value Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory (IF 3.073) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Mari Yamasaki
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The Sacred Lake Project: preliminary findings from the Lusatian site of Papowo Biskupie, Poland Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Jacek Gackowski, Łukasz Kowalski, Wiesław Lorkiewicz, Agnieszka M. Noryśkiewicz, Michał Jankowski, Dariusz Kamiński, Paweł Molewski, Tomasz Purowski, Barbara Wagner, Aldona Garbacz-Klempka, Grzegorz Osipowicz, Magdalena Przymorska-Sztuczka, Andrzej P. Kowalski, Mateusz Sosnowski, Andrzej Podgórski, Grażyna Szczepańska