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Exploring the Baltinglass cursus complex: routes for the dead Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 James O'Driscoll
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Patrilocality at the Beginning of Farming? An Isotopic Approach from SE Moravia Journal of World Prehistory (IF 3.545) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Berta Morell-Rovira, Zdeněk Tvrdý, Marta Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, Penny Bickle, Peter Tóth, Michal Přichystal, Alžběta Bedáňová, Alba Masclans
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A pivot point in Maya history: fire-burning event at K'anwitznal (Ucanal) and the making of a new era of political rule Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Christina T. Halperin, Marta Lidia Perea Carrera, Katherine A. Miller Wolf, Jean-Baptiste LeMoine
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Resurrecting, reinterpreting and reusing stratigraphy: an afterlife for archaeological data Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 James Stuart Taylor, Keith May
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A Middle Palaeolithic incised bear bone from the Dziadowa Skała Cave, Poland: the oldest marked object north of the Carpathian Mountains Journal of Archaeological Science (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Tomasz Płonka, Andrzej Wiśniewski, Adrian Marciszak, Grzegorz Ziółkowski, Grzegorz Lipecki, Marcin Diakowski, Kamil Serwatka
A fragment of an ursid radius with seventeen incisions (one of them incomplete) was excavated in the 1950s in the Dziadowa Skała Cave in the Częstochowa Upland in southern Poland from a deposit with faunal remains from the Eemian (ca 130–115 kyr). This object has been cited as the earliest evidence of Neanderthal cognitive abilities in the region, but it has been never studied in detail. The artefact
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The role of environmental factors in the spatiotemporal distribution of millet in Late Neolithic to Bronze Ages sites in the Tibetan plateau and surrounding regions Journal of Archaeological Science (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Bingxin Shao, Francesca Monteith, Ziming You, Zhaorui Miao, Yu Gao, Xiujia Huan, Zhikun Ma
The Tibetan Plateau and surrounding regions played a pivotal role in the spread of foxtail millet () and broomcorn millet () since the late Neolithic period. However, previous research failed to analyze the spatiotemporal distribution and associated environmental factors. Herein, we collected foxtail and broomcorn millet data from 113 Late Neolithic and Bronze Age sites in the Tibetan Plateau region
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Did Homo erectus Have Language? The Seafaring Inference Cambridge Archaeological Journal Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Rudolf Botha
Various authors have claimed over the years that Homo erectus had language. Since there is no direct evidence about the matter, this claim represents the conclusion of a multi-step composite inference drawn from putative non-linguistic attributes of the species. Three maritime behaviours are central among these attributes: crossing open seas to get to insular islands such as Flores in the Indian ocean
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Object Biographies, Object Agency and a Local Community's Encounter with and Response to Foreign Commodities: The Pithoi from LB Tel Burna as a Case Study Cambridge Archaeological Journal Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Matthew Susnow, Chris McKinny, Itzhaq Shai
This study investigates the effects that an encounter with a foreign object can have on local traditions. Notions of object agency and object biographies will be utilized to address what happens when people become entangled with new things: the new context can have an impact on the newly introduced object, and those newly introduced objects can similarly impact locals and their traditions. The Late
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Monumental Walls, Sovereign Power and Value(s) in Pharaonic Egypt Cambridge Archaeological Journal Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Oren Siegel
Large walling projects are among the most visible features in the archaeological record. However, enclosure walls remain relatively under-theorized relative to other monumental buildings. In an attempt to move beyond simple explanations that analyse walls solely as defensive features or symbols, I link monumental walls to notions of sovereign power and action-oriented theories of value(s). Using examples
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Palaeolakes, caves and settlement during the Pleistocene and Holocene around Tsakhiurtyn Hundi, Mongolia Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Mirosław Masojć, Byambaa Gunchinsuren, Józef Szykulski, Grzegorz Michalec, Dashzeveg Bazargur, Rafał Sikora, Davaakhuu Odsuren, Przemysław Bobrowski, Maciej Jórdeczka, Antoni Wójcik, Andrzej Gałaś, Marcin Szmit, Odpurev Gankhuyag, Marta Osypińska, Enkhtaivan Namjilmaa, Éva David
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Assessing the Utility of Strontium Isotopes in Fossil Dental Calculus Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory (IF 3.073) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Anthony Dosseto, Florian Dux, Raphael Eisenhofer, Laura Weyrich
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Investigating Human Activities in Caves Through the Study of Broken Stalagmite Structures: The Case of the Saint-Marcel Cave (France) During the Early Holocene Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory (IF 3.073) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Jean-Jacques Delannoy, Jules Kemper, Stéphane Jaillet, Edwige Pons-Branchu, Ségolène Vandevelde, Arnaud Dapoigny, Delphine Dupuy
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Provisioning urbanism: a comparative urban-rural zooarchaeology of ancient Southwest Asia Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Jane S. Gaastra, Dan Lawrence, Valentina Tumolo
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Variation of millet grain size and cooking techniques across Asia between the late fourth and first millennia BC Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Yufeng Sun, Melissa Ritchey, Hua Zhong, Liya Tang, Elena Sergusheva, Tao Shi, Jixiang Song, Haiming Li, Guanghui Dong, Xinyi Liu
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Byzantine plate and Frankish mines: the provenance of silver in north-west European coinage during the Long Eighth Century (c. 660–820) Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Jane Kershaw, Stephen W. Merkel, Paolo D'Imporzano, Rory Naismith
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Dances with Zigzags in Toro Muerto, Peru: Geometric Petroglyphs as (Possible) Embodiments of Songs Cambridge Archaeological Journal Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Andrzej Rozwadowski, Janusz Z. Wołoszyn
Southern Peru is home to one of the richest sites with rock art in South America—Toro Muerto. A unique aspect of the iconography of the petroglyphs of the site is the figures of dancing humans, the so-called danzantes, which are additionally frequently associated with geometric motifs, mostly variants of zigzag lines. Drawing upon intriguing data recorded during Reichel-Dolmatoff's research in Colombia
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Evidence of Pleistocene hominin landscapes in Eyvanekey, Iran, and implications for the Northern Dispersal Corridor Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Seyyed Milad Hashemi, Asqar Nateqi, Aliyeh Abdollahi, Ahmad Zavvar Mousavi, Mehdi Alirezazadeh, Mona Oryat
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Early Beringian Traditions: Functioning and Economy of the Stone Toolkit from Swan Point CZ4b, Alaska American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Eugénie Gauvrit Roux, Yan Axel Gómez Coutouly, Charles E. Holmes, Yu Hirasawa
The pressure knapping technique develops circa 25,000 cal BP in Northeast Asia and excels at producing highly standardized microblades. Microblade pressure knapping spreads throughout most of Northeast Asia up to the Russian Arctic, and Alaska, in areas where the human presence was unknown. Swan Point CZ4b is the earliest uncontested evidence of human occupation of Alaska, at around 14,000 cal BP.
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Low-Density Urbanisation: Prestate Settlement Growth in a Pacific Society Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory (IF 3.073) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Phillip Parton, Geoffrey Clark
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Finger Fluting in Prehistoric Caves: A Critical Analysis of the Evidence for Children, Sexing and Tracing of Individuals Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory (IF 3.073) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Keryn Walshe, April Nowell, Bruce Floyd
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Fiber Artifacts from the Paisley Caves: 14,000 Years of Plant Selection in the Northern Great Basin American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Elizabeth Kallenbach
Paleoethnobotanical remains from basketry and cordage from the Paisley Caves offer an opportunity to explore how people engaged with plant communities over time. Fiber identification of textiles, together with radiocarbon dating, contributes new information about landscape use within the Summer Lake Basin. Expanded marshlands during the terminal Pleistocene / Early Holocene created suitable plant communities
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A Folsom Foreshaft from the Blackwater Draw Site American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Frederic Sellet, Justin Garnett
This article describes a bison rib bone foreshaft from the Blackwater Draw site, New Mexico. The object was recovered by James Hester in 1963, during the excavation of locality 4, and it was subsequently cataloged as a modified bone tool but not recognized as a hafting element. It is currently held in the Blackwater Draw Museum collections. This analysis provides a detailed description of the artifact's
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Starch Granule Yields from Open-Air Metates Unaffected by Environmental Contamination American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Stefania L. Wilks, Samantha A. Paredes, Lisbeth A. Louderback
The morphological characteristics of starch granules preserved on ancient ground stone tools can reveal which plant species were processed and consumed and even infer tool function. Bedrock metates are commonly associated with the processing of localized seasonal resources, providing potential evidence for past human lifeways, including foods collected and processed, social gatherings, settlement patterns
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Thematic Analysis of Indigenous Perspectives on Archaeology and Cultural Resource Management Industries American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Alec McLellan, Cora A. Woolsey
This article explores Indigenous perspectives on archaeology in Canada and the United States and the role of archaeologists in engaging with Indigenous communities. As part of our study, we interviewed Indigenous community members about their experiences in archaeology and their thoughts on the discipline. We analyzed each interview thematically to identify patterns of meaning across the dataset and
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Agricultural innovations in the Ancient Near East and beyond Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Gemma Warham
There is a rich and diverse body of research dedicated to understanding the cultural and biological processes that led to plant domestication and the development of agriculture in both the Old and New Worlds. Work continues to refine and challenge proposed models for the process of plant domestication, the likely centres of origin and subsequent spread of plant crops and agricultural innovations. This
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Kalba: research on trade networks of a prehistoric coastal community on the Gulf of Oman, United Arab Emirates Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Christoph Schwall, Michael Brandl, Mario Börner, Susanne Lindauer, Katleen Deckers, Hélène David-Cuny, Eisa Yousif, Sabah A. Jasim, Barbara Horejs
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Nutritional deficiency and ecological stress in the Middle to Final western Jōmon Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Melandri Vlok, Clare McFadden, Hirofumi Matsumura, Hallie R. Buckley
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Reconstructing Late Neolithic animal management practices at Kangjia, North China, using microfossil analysis of dental calculus Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Jiajing Wang, Li Liu, Xiaoli Qin
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The Mandate for Speculation: Responding to Uncertainty in Archaeological Thinking Cambridge Archaeological Journal Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Tim Flohr Sørensen, Marko M. Marila, Anna S. Beck
The aim of the article is to reframe speculation from being seen as synonymous with unacademic conjecture, or as a means for questioning consensus and established narratives, to becoming a productive practical engagement with the archaeological and responding to its intrinsic uncertainties. In the first part of the article, we offer a review of speculation in the history of archaeological reasoning
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Cultural coherence of architecture in Greater Khorasan from Bactria to South Khorasan in Iran during the Late Iron Age/Achaemenid period Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Mohsen Dana, Seyyed Reza Rafei, Aliasghar Mahmoudinasab, Marjan Mashkour
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Raw-material exploitation in the Earlier and Middle Stone Age in the Eastern Desert of Egypt: evidence from Wadi Abu Subeira Antiquity (IF 2.024) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Alice Leplongeon, Maxence Bailly, Gwenola Graff
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Angara Style Rock Art: The Evolution of a Regional Emblematic and Syncretic Style Cambridge Archaeological Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Lynda D. McNeil
Rebutting previous claims, the paper employs comparative stylistic analysis and palaeoenvironmental data to argue that Angara style rock art originated in the Mongolian Altai during the Upper Palaeolithic (13,000–10,300 bp) where it evolved in situ. Around 8200–7300 bp, drought forced the hunter-gatherers who created Angara style rock art to migrate to the Upper Yenisey and the Selenga and Angara basins
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Folk Magic and the Haunting of the Second World War in Finnish Lapland Cambridge Archaeological Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Vesa-Pekka Herva, Oula Seitsonen, Iain Banks, Gabriel Moshenska, Tina Paphitis
This article engages with certain peculiar finds and features that we have documented at former German WWII military camps in Finnish Lapland, with a particular emphasis on an excavated assemblage that has affinities to traditional ritual (sacrificial) practices. The relevant finds and features date from the post-war period, but they are meaningfully associated with WWII sites. We consider the possible
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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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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 : 2024-03-06 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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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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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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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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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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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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Skeletal manifestations of anemia in the sternum in a modern clinical sample: An initial investigation Journal of Archaeological Science (IF 2.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Brianne Morgan, Michelle Zeller, Isabelle Ribot, Megan B. Brickley
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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