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Glass ingots from the Uluburun shipwreck: Addition of glass cullet during manufacture and evidence for the changing context of New Kingdom Egyptian glass production in the late 18th Dynasty Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-08-13 James W. Lankton, Cemal Pulak, Bernard Gratuze
Our recent LA-ICP-MS analyses of glass ingots from the Uluburun shipwreck along with additional samples from Egyptian sites, primarily Amarna, encourage us to question how and where the ingots were produced. Because almost all the approximately 200 glass ingots are either greenish blue, colored by copper, or purplish blue, colored by cobalt, we focus here on these colorants and their attendant trace
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La Cuevona de Avín (Avín, Asturias, North Spain): A new Late Pleistocene site in the lower valley of the River Güeña Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-08-12 Esteban Álvarez-Fernández, Sergio Martín-Jarque, Rodrigo Portero, Margarita Vadillo Conesa, Alberto Martínez-Villa, Mª Teresa Aparicio, Ildefonso Armenteros, Rosana Cerezo-Fernández, Rafael Domingo, Naroa García-Ibaibarriaga, F. Javier González, Laura Llorente, Anna Rufà, Antonio Tarriño, Paloma Uzquiano, Ana C. Pinto-Llona
The archaeological investigations carried out in the last twenty years in the Lower Valley of the River Güeña (Asturias, central part of northern Spain) have documented different prehistoric sites, particularly with Middle and Upper Palaeolithic occupations. This paper presents the first results of the archaeological excavation carried out in the cave of La Cuevona de Avín. From the systematic study
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Up the hill and under the canopy: Lidar applications for assessing issues of monumentality and socioeconomic status in Lomas Entierros, Costa Rica Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Yajaira Núñez-Cortés, Paulo Ruiz-Cubillo
Recent lidar, survey, and excavation have facilitated the mapping of the Lomas Entierros archaeological site in Central Pacific Costa Rica, with a main occupation and construction dating from 800–1200 CE. The data document the architectural pattern of the site, which differs from other monumental sites known in the region in terms of the distribution of architectural features. The proposed regional
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Written in soil and paper. Investigating environmental transformations of a monastic landscape by combining geoarchaeology and palynology with historical analysis at Samos (Spain) Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Noemí Silva-Sánchez, Kinnaird Tim, Marcos Fernández-Ferreiro, Estefanía López-Salas, Sam Turner, José-Carlos Sánchez-Pardo
Palaeoenvironmental and historical approaches have often been used separately to investigate past land-use change, but they are still rarely combined, especially in places where the most suitable archives are sediment sequences. Here we used a transdisciplinary approach combining a multiproxy palaeoenvironmental study of two pedosedimentological sequences around a medieval Benedictine abbey at Samos
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Digital Zooarchaeology: State of the art, challenges, prospects and synergies Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-08-08 A. Spyrou, G. Nobles, A. Hadjikoumis, A. Evin, A. Hulme-Beaman, C. Çakirlar, C. Ameen, N. Loucas, E. Nikita, P. Hanot, N.M. de Boer, A. Avgousti, I. Zohar, H. May, Th. Rehren
Digital technologies are an increasingly pervasive medium for zooarchaeological scholarship, providing a means to document and preserve fragile zooarchaeological specimens, share primary data, address methodological questions, and spread the information to the wider public. During the last decade, a broad array of digital technologies has been widely applied for the creation of three-dimensional images
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Pre-Hispanic dogs of the Semi-arid North of Chile: Chronology, morphology and mortuary context of the El Olivar site Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Lucio González Venanzi, Francisco Juan Prevosti, Paola González, Gabriel Cantarutti, Patricio López Mendoza, Luciano Prates
The article presents an analysis of four canid skeletons recovered at the El Olivar archaeological site (Semi-arid North of Chile). The aims of the study were to determine their taxonomy and chronology, characterise their morphotypes and investigate their social status and possible functions. Osteological and dental features allowed us to identify them as dogs (Canis lupus familiaris). Three radiocarbon
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Petrographic characterization of quartzite tools from the Palaeolithic site of San Teodoro cave (Sicily): Study on the provenance of lithic raw materials Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Gerlando Vita, Vincenza Forgia, Massimiliana Pinto Vraca, Nunziatina Calabrese, Daniela Divita, Luca Sineo
A petrographic characterization has been used here, for the first time, in the study of lithic raw materials exploited in prehistoric Sicily. Our research interests one of the oldest archaeological sites with evidence of the early human peopling of the island (∼15kyr ago): San Teodoro Cave, in northeastern Sicily. Two geological Formations, Numidian and Monte Soro Flysch gave origin to well-rounded
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Using Gaussian mixture model clustering to explore morphology and standardized production of ceramic vessels: A case study of pottery from Late Bronze Age Greece Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-08-07 Lynne A. Kvapil, Mark W. Kimpel, Rasitha R. Jayasekare, Kim Shelton
This paper examines vessel morphology and degrees of standardization of ceramic vessels using Gaussian mixture model cluster analysis (GMMC). GMMC is an unsupervised data mining technique that identifies natural groups in a dataset. This project first tests whether GMMC can classify certain shape categories correctly according to human assigned Furumark Shape (FS) pot types using basic vessel dimensions
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In search for an island – Non-invasive, geoarchaeological investigations in Bruszczewo microregion (Central-western Poland) Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-08-07 Jakub Niebieszczański, Cezary Bahyrycz, Danuta Żurkiewicz, Witold Szambelan
Middle part of the Samica Valley in Western Poland, also known as the Bruszczewo microregion, witnessed several occupational phases during the prehistoric times. The archive geoarchaeological research documented presence of the lake in the past which had demise around 250 BCE and it was overgrown by peat deposits. During the LIDAR elevation model analysis a ridge in the central part of the basin was
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Pottery traditions, consumers’ choices and exchange networks at Late Bronze Age Cobatillas la Vieja (southeast Iberia) Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Benjamín Cutillas-Victoria, Peter M. Day
Cobatillas la Vieja is one of the main settlements for understanding the beginning of the Late Bronze Age (14th-13th centuries cal. BC) in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula. After the macroscopic study of their ceramic assemblage, 30 representative samples were analysed by thin-section petrography, X‐ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and binocular microscopy to address
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Archaeological Science Classroom Activities: A free multi-lingual pedagogical resource in archaeological science Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-07-31 Efthymia Nikita, Laure Bonner, Thilo Rehren
The pedagogical potential of archaeology is widely acknowledged and has led to a multitude of formal and informal resources, either promoting or exploiting this role. Science subjects are an essential part of school curricula. Despite this, archaeological science has not received equal attention, even though it is among the most interdisciplinary fields of archaeology with immense educational potential
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Identification of avian remains contained within wrapped ancient Egyptian mummies: Part 1, A critical assessment of identification techniques Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-07-30 Lidija McKnight, Judith White, Amy Rosier, Joanne Cooper, Richard Bibb
Ancient Egyptian bird mummies manufactured in huge numbers present a unique and intriguing body of material with great archaeological and zooarchaeological significance. Research into this ancient practice is gaining momentum; however, one area that lacks clarity, but that is vital for the accurate interpretation of mummies as objects of ritual significance, is our ability to proffer accurate identifications
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First evidence in Italian mainland of Pantelleria obsidian: Highlights from WD-XRF and SEM-EDS characterization of Neolithic artefacts from Galliano necropolis (Taranto, Southern Italy) Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Italo M. Muntoni, Francesca Micheletti, Nicola Mongelli, Mauro Pallara, Pasquale Acquafredda
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An Early Presence of Modern Human or Convergent Evolution? A 247 ka Middle Palaeolithic Assemblage from Andhra Pradesh, India Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Devara Anil, Naveen Chauhan, P. Ajithprasad, Monika Devi, Vrushab Mahesh, Zakir Khan
The region of South Asia, located between the prepared core-based technologies in the west and simple core technologies in the east, is crucial in the modern human dispersal routes. The nature and chronology of initial modern human presence in the region and associated lithic technologies – microlithic vs the Middle Palaeolithic prepared core technology – are debated between the coastal and continental
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Archaeometric characterization of historical-contemporaneous marbles from Waldensian Valleys of Piedmont (Dora-Maira Massif, Cottian Alps, Italy) Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-07-29 G. Vola, M. Ardit, G. Frijia, A. Cavallo, C. Natali, C. Balma Mion, F. Lugli, P. Primavori
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Social context of Mesolithic rock engravings in the Fontainebleau sandstone region (Paris Basin, France): Contribution of the experimental study Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Alexandre Cantin, Boris Valentin, Médard Thiry, Colas Guéret
Anthropogenic engravings were made within more than 2000 small natural cavities found in the sandstone boulder fields of the central Paris Basin, in an area of 1800 km2 to west of the town of Fontainebleau. These engravings consist mainly of clustered rectilinear grooves arranged in vertical parallel series or organized in grids. These dominant classes of motifs form a unique type of rock art attributed
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Ecological niche modeling and diachronic change in Paleoindian land use in the northwestern Great Basin, USA Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Erica J. Bradley, Geoffrey M. Smith, Kenneth E. Nussear
The Great Basin underwent considerable environmental change during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition, such as lower precipitation, increased temperatures, and the diminishment of lakes and wetlands. Archaeologists have long hypothesized that people responded by altering their settlement-subsistence strategies. Models outlining these responses feature predictions that generally fall into two categories:
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A case of a large pedunculated-type osteochondroma from late medieval Ilok, eastern Croatia: Bioarchaeological, paleoradiological and histological study Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-07-26 Mislav Čavka, Igor Erjavec, Sven Seiwerth, Mario Carić, Ivor Janković, Siniša Krznar, Andrea Rimpf, Hrvoje Brkić, Ivana Savić Pavičin, Marin Vodanović, Mario Novak
Osteochondroma or osteocartilaginous exostosis is one of the most common benign tumors of the bone. Causes for the disease are yet unknown, but there are indications that they may be linked to abnormality in the growth plate and possibly mutation in EXT1, EXT2 and EXT3 genes. Cases of reported osteochondromas range from prehistoric to contemporary examples, are not limited geographically, and no evidence
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Testing the Bordes method on handaxes: A geometric morphometric approach Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Eduardo Méndez-Quintas
Bordes’ typology has been in use for many years and is widely applied in studies of Early and Middle Palaeolithic stone tools, especially in vocabulary and typological classification in shaping artefacts (mainly flake tools and handaxes). However, over the years, this method has received different critiques, especially regarding the arbitrariness and subjectivism in the definition and classification
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Unveiling the sign value of early potter’s wheels based on a 3-D morphometric analysis of Late Chalcolithic vessels from the southern Levant Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Valentine Roux, Ortal Harush
The sign value of the first potter's wheels used in the southern Levant (second half of the 5th mill. BC) is explored through the production modalities of V-shaped bowls, the main category of vessels shaped on the wheel at that time. To this end, a morphometric approach is applied to V-shaped bowls from four sites through numerical methods available in a Pottery 3-D software used to extract shape parameters
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The potential of computed tomography in odontometry: application to a Mesolithic dog Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Hugo Matos Pereira, João Filipe Requicha, Lara Alves, David Gonçalves, Joana Belo Correia, Graça Alexandre-Pires, Sandra de Jesus, Carlos Viegas, Miguel Ramalho, Catarina Ginja, Cleia Detry, Ana Elisabete Pires
A large odontometric reference database is essential for a clear and reliable differentiation between the teeth of dogs and wolves found in archaeological contexts. However, the data compilation of skeletal material is a slow process because access to dog remains may be difficult. The expansion of a dental database could benefit from computed tomography (CT) scans performed on live dogs during medical
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A river and its people: The example of Lower Palaeolithic occupations of the Têt fluvial terraces Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Justin Guibert
Current data on human groups from the Lower Palaeolithic periods in Western Europe show a variability in material production, represented by the disconcerting diversity of lithic technocomplexes. Since the birth of the prehistoric discipline, fluvial and alluvial environments have been considered the witnesses of prehistoric occupations during the long Quaternary period. In this article, therefore
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Food in a colonial setting: The faunal assemblage of a short-lived Seleucid-founded site in the Near East Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Miriam Pines, Henk Mienis, Oz Rittner, Achim Lichtenberger, Oren Tal
In this paper we present the analysis of faunal ecofacts retrieved from well-secured features during recent excavation work carried out in 2019 and 2020 by the German-Israeli Tell Iẓṭabba Excavation Project in the Seleucid-founded town of Nysa-Scythopolis. Founded under Antiochus IV Epiphanes (175–164 BCE) and destroyed by the Hasmonaeans in the later years of John Hyrcanus (in 107 BCE). The site offers
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Supplying the Roman army? Animal production and consumption in the countryside of north-eastern Iberia (Can Rubió, la Garrotxa) Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Lídia Colominas, Oriol Olesti, Jordi Guàrdia, Karin Harzbecher
In this paper we investigate the presence of the Roman army in the countryside of northeastern Iberia through the case study of Can Rubió, an archaeological site dated to the 1st c. BC-1st c. AD1. The contextualisation of the archaeozoological information obtained from the study of 1,495 faunal remains, together with the structures and other finds from the site (pottery, metal and bone objects), allows
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Identification of the source of dolerites used at the Waun Mawn stone circle in the Mynydd Preseli, west Wales and implications for the proposed link with Stonehenge Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Richard E. Bevins, Nick J.G. Pearce, Mike Parker Pearson, Rob A. Ixer
A Neolithic stone circle at Waun Mawn, in the Mynydd Preseli, west Wales, has been proposed as the original location of some dolerite megaliths at Stonehenge, including one known as Stone 62. To investigate this hypothesis, in-situ analyses, using a portable XRF, have been obtained for four extant non-spotted doleritic monoliths at Waun Mawn, along with two weathered doleritic fragments from a stonehole
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Frozen in time: Caprine pen from an early Islamic earthquake complex in Tel Beth Shemesh Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Linoy Namdar, Yuval Gadot, George Mavronanos, Boaz Gross, Lidar Sapir-Hen
Skeletons of ten articulated goats and additional numerous caprine remains were found in an architectural complex that was destroyed by an earthquake, dating to the 8th century CE in Tel Beth Shemesh, Israel. As this assemblage represents a unique event, of a living herd “frozen in time”, we studied it in comparison to the general “consumed assemblage” of caprinae from the rest of the site. Reconstructing
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Simulating the extent and depth of spring snow cover for medieval settlements in Iceland and Greenland Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Laura E.L. Comeau, Richard T. Streeter, Christian K. Madsen
Medieval settlements in Iceland and Greenland were vulnerable to changes in spring (April-June) snow cover duration and depth. These would have adversely affected the viability of their pastoral farming systems, but the impact would have been spatially variable. We use a physical-based model of snow distribution and melt to model spring snow cover and depth at a scale relevant to human activities across
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Chemical analysis of glass beads in Palau, western Micronesia reveals 19th century inter-island exchange systems in transition Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Matthew F. Napolitano, Elliot H. Blair, Laure Dussubieux, Scott M. Fitzpatrick
For centuries, glass money beads (udoud) have played a critical role in cultural and economic exchanges in the Palauan archipelago (western Micronesia) since their first appearance ca. AD 600–950 from East Java and mainland Southeast Asia. Later, as part of their stone money (rai) quarrying activities, visiting Yapese islanders negotiated access to quarry sites and purchased provisions using glass
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Neolithic track sites from Formby Point, England: New data and insights Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-07-15 Ashleigh L.A. Wiseman, Deborah Vicari, Matteo Belvedere, Isabelle De Groote
Formby Point, England is a well-documented exposure site in which marine erosion has regularly exposed Neolithic human trackways along the coastline since the 1980s. We report here the discovery of an additional 17 trackways and 61 isolated tracks (181 human footprints in total) discovered during four field seasons of natural site exposure at four localities in the Formby Point region, recorded in
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Spatio-temporal demographic dynamics of the human populations from Northwest Patagonia and central Chile during the Pleistocene-Holocene Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Virginia A. Cobos, María Bárbara Postillone, Valeria Bernal, S. Ivan Perez
Our goal is to study the spatio-temporal changes in human demographic density in Northwest Patagonia and central Chile throughout the Late Pleistocene-Holocene using geo-referenced absolute dates. Given the heterogeneous environmental and cultural characteristics of this region, differences in the demographic dynamics across geographic areas are expected. Using 1,284 absolute dates we explored different
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An approach to the metallic composition of the Carthage mint coins from the tetrarchic hoard of Tomares (CA. 312 CE) Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Simona Scrivano, Ruth Pliego, Blanca Gómez-Tubío, Javier Moreno-Soto, Enrique García Vargas, Miguel Ángel Respaldiza, Francisca Chaves Tristán
A group of 533 nummi from to the Tomares hoard, found in Seville in 2016, has been studied to characterize their metallic composition. The coins selected were struck in the mint of Carthage between AD 297 and 307. The statistical analysis of the non-destructive XRF data increase our understanding of a mint which has been paid less attention that others to date, in both material and historical terms
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From Toltecs to Franciscans: The history of El Cerrito pyramid (Middle Mesoamerica) revealed by the fire Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-07-08 Alejandra García Pimentel, Avto Goguitchaichvili, Daniel Valencia, Rubén Cejudo, Rafael García-Ruiz, Juan Morales, Vadim Kravchinsky, Miguel Cervantes
In order to obtain the first absolute chronology data, a detailed rock-magnetic, archaeomagnetic and radiocarbon investigation was performed on some in situ features of the El Cerrito pyramid. Archaeomagnetic sampling was carried out on two rectangular fire pits and one burned soil located at the piedmont of the pyramid. Marked irreversibility between heating and cooling cycles and consequently thermal
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New prehistoric rock art from the Caucasus? Results of the study of the Damirgaya rock shelter in Georgia Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-07-08 L. Losaberidze, G. Chilingarashvili, M. Eloshvili, G. Datunashvili, Z. Chilingarashvili, G. Kirkitadze, L. Abaishvili, T. Aghapishvili
This paper presents the results of the multidisciplinary study carried out at the Damirgaya rock art site located in Georgia, southern Caucasus. The research has aimed to conduct archaeological excavation and obtain contextual data based on multidisciplinary investigations including geology, photogrammetry, digital image enhancement, archaeological survey of the surrounding landscape, etc. Archaeological
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A burning question: What experimental heating of Australian fauna can tell us about cooking practices in Boodie Cave, Barrow Island, northwest Australia Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Kate Moody, Nikola Ristovski, Tiina Manne, Ingrid Ward, Peter Veth
Burning characteristics of bone are dependent on taxa, bone condition, and heating method. Until now, heating characteristics of Australia’s unique fauna were undocumented. Here we present heating experiments of Australian taxa using a laboratory kiln, hearth fires and earth ovens, and apply the results to faunal assemblages from Boodie Cave, northwest Australia. Results indicate comparable burning
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High altitude Middle Palaeolithic open-air locales of the Miankouh, Thrust Zagros Mountains, Iran Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Mohsen Bahraminia, Kamal Aldin Niknami, Alireza Khosrowzadeh, Andreas Nymark
This paper presents evidence for some of the highest-altitude Middle Palaeolithic land-use in southwest Asia identified through field surveys in the Miankouh region of the Bakhtiari highlands within the Zagros Mountains of Iran. Through identification of two vertically connected but distinct ecozones, patterned distribution of stone tool production and use suggests more complex seasonal mobility and
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An instance of Neanderthal mobility dynamics: a lithological approach to the flint assemblage from stratigraphic unit viii of El Salt rockshelter (Alcoi, eastern Iberia) Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Alejandro Mayor, Santiago Sossa-Ríos, F. Javier Molina, Leopoldo Pérez, Bertila Galván, Carolina Mallol, Cristo M. Hernández
The relationship between hunter-gatherer group mobility and lithic raw material procurement strategies is central to the study of Neanderthal productive behaviours. In this framework, determination of flint procurement sources through lithological analysis is key to infer Neanderthal group mobility patterns. El Salt rockshelter (Alcoi, Alacant, eastern Iberia) features different nearby flint sources
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Mote: An ancient recipe in Andean kitchens. Ethnoarchaeological and taphonomic analysis Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Maria Gabriela Musaubach, Agustina Scaro
Mote is a traditional Andean recipe that can be traced back to pre-Hispanic kitchens. This culinary practice consists of boiling maize grains that were previously dried and peeled with lime or plant ashes. This dish has been part of the dietary staple of people through time. This paper aims to identify vegetal macro and micro remains and the culinary equipment used during mote preparation, to generate
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Faunal remains from Ojakly, a Late Bronze Age mobile pastoralist campsite in the Murghab region, Turkmenistan Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-07-02 Lynne M. Rouse, Helina S. Woldekiros, Barbara Cerasetti
The publication of data relevant to prehistoric socio-economies in southern Central Asia is growing, and it intersects with long-standing questions about how mixed farming-herding subsistence economies were organized on local and regional scales. We present new faunal data from the campsite of Ojakly in south-central Turkmenistan, dated to the Late Bronze Age (1900–1500 BCE). We situate the zooarchaeological
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A triple isotope approach (Sr-O-C) to assess human mobility dynamics in the Lower Germanic limes borderscape (40–470 CE) Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Lisette M. Kootker, Henk M. van der Velde, Stijn Heeren
The intention of the Roman administration to develop the Lower Germanic limes region into a military zone must have been a catalyst for (long-distance) human and faunal mobility in the course of the 1st century CE. A triple isotope approach (Sr-O-C) has been used on a total of 21 cremations (bone and pars petrosa) and 21 inhumations (dental elements) from the Dutch Lower Germanic limes borderscape
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Provenance studies on Late Neolithic amber ornaments from North-East Poland Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Dariusz Manasterski, Ewa Wagner-Wysiecka, Katarzyna Kwiatkowska, Aleksandra Cetwińska
The area of North-East Poland was in prehistory, and still is today, an area with easy access to amber as a raw material, as is evidenced in part by numerous Late Neolithic (3rd millennium) amber workshops located in the Gulf of Gdańsk and Żuławy Wiślane (Vistula Fens). Given this fact, it is surprising that only a few finished amber products have been recovered from this area. Among them are unique
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Palynological analysis of an archaeological chinampa in Xochimilco (Basin of Mexico). Construction technology and agricultural production Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-06-28 Sara Rosales-Torres, Laura E. Beramendi-Orosco, Emily McClung de Tapia, Guillermo Acosta-Ochoa
In order to better understand the construction techniques used in archaeological chinampas excavated at San Gregorio Atlapulco, Xochimilco (located in the southern Basin of Mexico), modified standard techniques for the extraction of palynomorphs were applied. The palynological assemblage recovered from the archaeological chinampa and adjacent canal profiles suggests that the local and regional vegetation
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Sickles from the Sosnovaya Maza hoard of the Late Bronze Age from the Lower Volga region: Technological analyses, experiments and chronology Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-06-28 N.I. Shishlina, A.Yu. Loboda, S.V. Bogdanov, E.S. Vaschenkova, E.Yu. Tereschenko
The Sosnovaya Maza hoard was discovered by chance in the Saratov region in the Lower Volga in 1901 without any archaeological context. Based on the sickle form and the metal composition–copper with an elevated level of iron–so called Sosnovaya Maza type of sickles was singled out. The comparative analysis of the production technology and the alloying and lead isotope composition of the Sosnovaya Maza
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Crops on the edge of a cliff: Storage at Castro S. João das Arribas (Northwest Iberia) in the Late Antiquity Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-06-27 L. Seabra, P. Pereira, M. Salgado, M. Martín-Seijo, R. Almeida-da-Silva, J.P. Tereso
The site of Castro S. João das Arribas is placed on the edge of a cliff over the Douro river (Miranda do Douro, Northeast of Portugal). Archaeological interventions in its highest area uncovered a main occupation from Late Antiquity. On its western part a functional space was recorded, which included two small above-ground structures and abundant charred carpological remains. These were found inside
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Micromorphological investigations on the sediment-fill of an early Neolithic well in Northwestern-Saxony, Germany Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Frank Schell, Susann Heinrich, Saskia Kretschmer, Harald Stäuble, Christian Tinapp
Within Neolithic settlements in Central Europe most sediments have been preserved in pits and trenches. Wells as deep pits provide a large set of information about their construction, usage and backfill history. Seven wells were discovered close to a Linear Pottery Culture (german: Linienbandkeramik = LBK) settlement 15 km south of the city of Leipzig (Germany). For the excavation of a rather small
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The role of sheep husbandry during the Arab agricultural revolution in medieval Sicily (7th-14th c. AD) Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Veronica Aniceti, Umberto Albarella
Sheep, and to a lesser extent goat, pastoralism was a central component of the economy of medieval Sicily. Unlike the Byzantine period (6th- early 9th c. AD), when sheep/goat were mainly raised for their wool, husbandry strategies were much more generalised during the Arab occupation (9th-11th c. AD). In this latter period, caprines were equally exploited for meat, dairy products and wool. Biometrical
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Variability in hunting behaviour during the Middle Stone Age in the Eastern and Western Cape of South Africa Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-06-23 Shaw Badenhorst, Joel Ezeimo, Luyanda T. Lebatla, Karen L. van Niekerk, Christopher S. Henshilwood
Large mammal remains from Middle Stone Age sites in southern Africa, just like in many other parts of Africa, show variability in prey selection. While smaller game are often considered less profitable in terms of meat returns, their abundance and fast reproduction meant that they were often favoured over larger prey species. The Game Index measures the ratio between smaller and larger prey in faunal
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Using UV-Vis-NIR absorption spectroscopy as a tool for the detection of iron and cobalt in glass: A case-study on HLLA material from the Low Countries Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Mathilde Patin, Karin Nys, Helena Wouters, Hugo Thienpont, Wendy Meulebroeck
The early modern period is mainly characterised by High Lime-Low Alkali (HLLA) glass, a lime-rich glass made from plant or tree ashes, originating from 14th-century Germany and later used all over Europe. Attempts to link HLLA chemical subgroups to a particular point in time have failed so far. Driven by a request from the archaeological community, our research group has been exploring the feasibility
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Multispectral satellite imagery processing to recognize and analyze archaeological sites in the central area of Sicily (Italy) Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-06-20 D. Calderone, Michele Mangiameli, Giuseppe Mussumeci, O. Palio
This article aims to improve the study of archaeological sites in the territory of Milena, a town located in Sicily (Italy). Between the 80 s and 90 s different excavation campaigns had documented numerous prehistoric sites. However, most of the ancient settlements have yet to be discovered and studied. The search operations are made difficult by the large size of the territory and its geomophorological
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The terminal Pleistocene –ea rly Holocene cultural continuity in the north-central Caucasus: Evidence from Psytuaje rockshelter in the region context Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Ekaterina Doronicheva, Liubov Golovanova, Andrey Nedomolkin, Vladimir Doronichev, Galina Poplevko, Alexey Petrov, Tamara Tregub, Maksim Volkov, Yuriy Spasovskiy, Vladimir Kirillov, M. Steven Shackley, Vadim Ivanov, Ivan Shirobokov, Sergey Nesmeyanov, Olga Voeykova, Alexander Muriy
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More than just food from the sea: Exploitation of marine resources in Hellenistic Berenike on the Red Sea (Egypt) Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Alfredo Carannante, Marek Adam Woźniak, Iwona Zych
Hellenistic Berenike, a major harbour founded on the Red Sea coast of Egypt in the mid-3rd century BCE, was from the beginning dependent in part on the exploitation of its marine ecosystem to ensure a proper supply of food for the soldiers manning the fort as well as the population servicing the commercial harbour. The archaeomalacological assemblage from recent excavations (2009–2020) has provided
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Portable XRF investigation of Stonehenge Stone 62 and potential source dolerite outcrops in the Mynydd Preseli, west Wales Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Nick J.G. Pearce, Richard E. Bevins, Rob A. Ixer
The doleritic bluestone monoliths at Stonehenge have long been known to have been sourced from the Mynydd Preseli area in west Wales, some 225 km away. On geochemical grounds, based on a range of major and trace elements determined by laboratory-based X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, they have been divided into three groups (Groups 1–3). Subsequently, rare earth element data obtained by solution nebulization
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Obsidian acquisition networks in northern Ecuador from 1600 to 750 cal BCE Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-06-18 Eric Dyrdahl
Since a pair of seminal studies in the mid-1990́s, obsidian provenience research in Ecuador has shown limited advancement with regard to analysis of archaeological materials. Investigations of the relevant sources have been the primary focus. While these are important, especially given the complex nature of the major Ecuadorian sources, more investigation is required to analyze how prehispanic populations
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Comparison of two ancient Egyptian Middle Kingdom statuettes from the Museo Egizio of Torino through computed tomographic measurements Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Luisa Vigorelli, Alessandro Re, Paola Buscaglia, Nicole Manfredda, Marco Nervo, Tiziana Cavaleri, Paolo Del Vesco, Matilde Borla, Sabrina Grassini, Laura Guidorzi, Alessandro Lo Giudice
X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) has a significant role as investigation tool not only in medical and industrial applications, but also in cultural heritage studies. One of the main reasons for such broad adoption of this method is its non-destructive capability to investigate the inner structure of precious and unique artefacts that would instead be damaged by traditional sampling procedures. Ordinary
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Elemental analysis of fine-grained volcanic materials from the Little John site (KdVo6), Yukon Territory, Canada Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Jordan Danelle Handley, Norman Alexander Easton
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Social and chronological aspects of the Late Bronze age burial site of Kokcha 3 (Uzbekistan) Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Finn Schreiber
The Amu-Darya Delta (ancient Khwarazm, modern Uzbekistan) was a borderland between northern steppe-based Andronovo-Srubnaya groups and southern oasis cultures in the Late Bronze Age. The local sites are known as the Tazabag'yab culture, of which Kokcha 3 is the largest excavated burial site. As such, Kokcha 3 provides the largest representative record of the local burial customs for this era. Scholars
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Breastfeeding in low-income families of the turn of the 19th-century town of Rauma, Southwestern Finland, according to stable isotope analyses of archaeological teeth Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Tiina Väre, Alison J.T. Harris, Mikko Finnilä, Kerstin Lidén
We explore breastfeeding practices among low-income families in the late 18th to early 19th-century town of Rauma in Southwestern Finland. The breastfeeding practices in the area of the current nation of Finland (at the time belonging to first Sweden and then Russia) had been under debate. While in certain regions artificial infant feeding was common and was linked to high infant mortality, breastfeeding
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Diet and social status in the Lejasbitēni Iron Age population from Latvia Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-06-17 Elīna Pētersone-Gordina, Guntis Gerhards, Antonija Vilcāne, Andrew R. Millard, Joanna Moore, Jānis Ķimsis, Renāte Ranka
This study reports the first dietary stable isotope data from Iron Age in Latvia. Archaeological, osteological, genetic, and stable isotope data from the Lejasbitēni cemetery were used to study gendered differences in childhood diet expressed in stable isotope ratios with social status expressed in grave goods, in this population from the 7th – 10th centuries CE. Carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis
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Analysis of the changes in the morphology of Pre- and Post-Hispanic queros housed in Museum collections of Argentina Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-06-13 María Cecilia Páez, Guillermo Germán Joosten, Marina L. Sardi
Wooden vessels or queros (also keru) are ceremonial artifacts imbued with political and utilitarian value, since they were part of the decision-making spaces of the elites, and reflected concepts and logics of representation characteristic of the indigenous world, both for native societies of the 15th century and during the later Colonial Andean period. Celebrations were accompanied by toasts and meals
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Life histories at stone age Zvejnieki based on stable isotope profiles of tooth dentine Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2022-06-11 Rowena C. Henderson, Gunita Zariņa, Andrea Czermak, Rick J. Schulting, Peter A. Henderson, Dardega Legzdiņa, Ilga Zagorska, Julia Lee-Thorp
The timing of infant weaning in the past is important for its implications for birth-spacing and infant survival, and hence for population maintenance or growth under different socio-economic regimes. Prior to the adoption of agriculture, breastfeeding is believed to have been more prolonged amongst hunter-gatherers due, at least partly, to the lack of suitable weaning foods that are available to agriculturalists