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Dietary Variability in the Varna Chalcolithic Cemeteries European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Bisserka Gaydarska, Joe Roe, Vladimir Slavchev
This article presents the results of AMS radiocarbon dating, stable isotope analysis, and FRUITS dietary modelling to investigate dietary variability among sixty individuals buried at Varna in the mid-fifth millennium bc. The principal pattern was the isotopic clustering of some forty-three per cent of the population, which suggests a ‘Varna core diet’, with the remainder showing a wider variety of
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The Urban Dimensions of Mountain Society in Late-First Millennium bc Italy: Monte Vairano in Samnium European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-16 Rafael Scopacasa
The mountain communities of late-first millennium bc Italy have been regarded as non-urban societies that reverted to city life mainly owing to Roman intervention. A growing body of archaeological evidence is uncovering the diversity of settlement forms and dynamics in the region's pre-Roman past, which included sites encompassing a range of functions and social agents. This article presents an in-depth
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An Experiment Measuring Water Consumption in Roman Hydrophobic Mortar (opus signinum) European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Javier Martínez Jiménez, Juan Jesús Padilla Fernández, Elena H. Sánchez López
Opus signinum is a lime mortar mix that includes crushed pottery as an aggregate. Because it is water-resistant, it was used to line hydraulic structures like pools and aqueducts. While there have been numerous recreations of Roman ‘concretes’ in the past, hydrophobic linings have received little attention, and all preliminary studies in these recreations have paid more attention to the dry components
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Herding with the Hounds: The Game of Fifty-eight Holes in the Abşeron Peninsula European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Walter Crist, Rahman Abdullayev
The game of fifty-eight holes is one of the longest recognized games of antiquity, but also one of the least understood. New evidence from the Caspian littoral points to an early adoption of the game by Middle Bronze Age seasonally pastoral cattle herders in the late third millennium and early second millennium bc. Six boards bearing this game's distinct pattern were found at sites on the Abşeron Peninsula
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From Roman Table to Anglo-Saxon Grave: An Archaeological Biography of the Scremby Cup European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Hugh Willmott, Lenore Thompson, Jasmine Lundy, Courtenay-Elle Crichton-Turley
The presence of Roman material in early Anglo-Saxon graves in England is well documented, and recent excavations at Scremby in Lincolnshire have revealed a complete copper-alloy enamelled drinking cup in a sixth-century ad female burial. Not only is such a Roman vessel a very rare find, but also its inclusion in an early medieval grave makes it a unique example of the reuse of an antique object in
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Peggy Piggott and Post-war British Archaeology European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Rachel Pope, Mairi H. Davies
The later career of British prehistorian Peggy Piggott, latterly Guido, is evaluated in this article, in a bid to further develop our understanding of women's participation in twentieth-century British archaeology. After WWII, when her husband Stuart Piggott was appointed to the Abercromby Chair in Edinburgh, she worked to assist his role. By the early 1950s, she had co-directed and published eight
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Continuity Within Discontinuity: Cypriot Political Forms from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Nathan Meyer
Debate regarding the continuity of Cypriot political forms from the Late Bronze Age to the Cypro-Archaic is persistent, resulting in a scholarly divide with few signs of resolution. This article reviews the historiography of political forms proposed for Cyprus as the essential context for this debate. It considers several major themes that emerge from the debate: the use of anthropological models for
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Mounds Against the State? An Anarchist Approach to Mound Construction, Environmental Stress, and Centralization of Power in Viking and Merovingian Age Scandinavia European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Andreas Ropeid Sæbø
In this article, the author explores the cooperative aspects of mound construction in Late Iron Age Scandinavia. Arguing against the outdated but widely held view that only centralized rule could organize monument construction, he investigates how participation in mound construction affected the people of Sør-Fron in south-eastern Norway. He contends, first, that repeated participation in mound construction
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Organically Grown Archaeological Databases and their ‘Messiness’: Hobby Metal Detecting in Norway European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Irmelin Axelsen, Caroline Fredriksen
Hobby metal detecting in Norway has grown since 2014. In the Norwegian recording system, all finds are catalogued by professionals at five regional museums. The examination of the dataset thus created allows the authors to look at regional and national patterns and discuss the inherently messy and ‘human’ nature of a seemingly quantitative material. Their study suggests that both archaeologists and
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‘Unmaking’ the Deer in Medieval Europe: Historical and Archaeological Evidence European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Umberto Albarella, Veronica Aniceti
Deer hunting was heavily ritualized in medieval Europe, as indicated by historical and archaeological evidence; it also emphasized social differentiation. The butchery of a deer carcass (‘unmaking’) was integral to the ritual and led to different body parts being destined for individuals of differing status. Archaeologically, the practice is particularly visible in high-status sites in Britain, but
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Lynchet-Type Terraces, Loess, and Agricultural Resilience on Chalk Landscapes in the UK and Belgium European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Ben Pears, Andreas Lang, Dan Fallu, Mark Roberts, David Jacques, Lisa Snape, Chiara Bahl, Kristof Van Oost, Pengzhi Zhao, Paolo Tarolli, Sara Cucchiaro, Kevin Walsh, Antony Brown
Lynchets, often the defining component of historic agricultural landscapes in northern Europe, are generally associated with soft-limestone geologies and are particularly well developed on loess-mantled landscapes. To understand their formation and chronology, the authors present their geoarchaeological analyses of lynchet soils and loess deposits at Blick Mead and Charlton Forest in southern England
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Racial Discourses in Aegean Prehistory c. 1900: The Case of the Cupbearer Fresco at Knossos European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Anne Duray
This article traces characterizations of the Cupbearer fresco, named after the large vessel the figure holds and uncovered at the site of Knossos in 1900, in light of the research agendas about the ‘races’ of the prehistoric Aegean and traditions of racial science current in late Victorian Britain. The head of the Cupbearer was compared to Classical Greek art, modern Cretan populations, and cranial
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Iron Age Connectivity Revealed by an Assemblage of Egyptian Faience in Central Iberia European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Linda Chapon, Juan Jesús Padilla-Fernández, Alberto Dorado-Alejos, Antonio Blanco-González
Research concerning transactions in the early first millennium bc in the westernmost Mediterranean has tended to focus on colonial coastlands occupied by scattered Levantine outposts, whereas cross-cultural interactions in hinterland regions have remained ill-defined. This article presents an assemblage of Egyptian vitreous artefacts, namely beads, a Hathor amulet, and further items from the seventh-century
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Chalcolithic Tattooing: Historical and Experimental Evaluation of the Tyrolean Iceman's Body Markings European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Aaron Deter-Wolf, Benoît Robitaille, Danny Riday, Aurélien Burlot, Maya Sialuk Jacobsen
The Tyrolean ice mummy known as Ötzi presents some of the earliest direct evidence of tattooing in the human past. Despite decades of study, it remains unclear how the Iceman's tattoos were created and what tools and methods were used. Popular discussions of the Iceman describe his tattoos as having been made by incision, first cutting the skin and then rubbing in pigment from the surface. The authors
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Long-term Rural Settlement Continuity and Land Use during the Bronze and Iron Ages in the Northern Franconian Low Mountain Range European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Timo Seregély, Katja Kothieringer, Doris Jansen, Markus Fuchs, Thomas Kolb, Andreas Schäfer
In this article, the authors present the salient archaeological results of a diachronic, interdisciplinary research project on rural settlement and land use in a region of low mountains in southern Germany. Despite clear locational disadvantages, in particular great distances to drinking water sources, archaeological excavations and an extensive dating programme document an unexpectedly long continuity
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Tools of Different Trades? Merging Skill Sets in Metalworking at Viking Age Kaupang European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Jessica Leigh McGraw, Axel Mjærum
In Old Norse poetic literature, the smiðr was a master of the arts, able to control and shape multiple materials into various kinds of objects. While the mythological smiðr has been regarded as separate from the real-world blacksmiths and metalworkers of gold, silver, and copper alloys, the archaeological evidence recovered in towns and workshops of the Viking Age, as well as medieval written sources
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Who, Why, When, and Where From? The Peopling of the Canary Islands and the Challenges of Archaeometry European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Paloma Cuello del Pozo
Archaeologists in the Canary Islands have gathered substantial quantitative data from radiocarbon measurements and aDNA analyses. While undeniably helpful and necessary for apprehending past human activity, their interpretation, based on theories underpinning models developed for island chains, has lagged, leaving a gap in our understanding of processes of occupation and social network systems. The
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Early Chariots and Religion in South-East Europe and the Aegean During the Bronze Age: A Reappraisal of the Dupljaja Chariot in Context European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Barry Molloy, Silvia Amicone, Jugoslav Pendić, Dragan Jovanović, Jovan Mitrović
The iconic Dupljaja chariot model from the Carpathian Basin informs us on cosmologies and technologies of Bronze Age societies in Europe between 1600 and 1200 BC. It communicates key elements of religious imagery and ritual practice alongside technical features of working chariots. Through a detailed reappraisal employing use-wear, compositional, and iconographic analyses as well as 3D modelling of
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Connectivity Between Northern Iberia and Western France (2900–1100 cal bc): The Flux of Metalwork in the Bay of Biscay Modelled by Multivariate Clustering European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Juan Latorre-Ruiz
Connections between northern Iberia and western France around the Bay of Biscay during the Chalcolithic, Early Bronze Age, and Middle Bronze Age are addressed in this article through a multivariate cluster analysis of a dataset of 1273 metal finds, comprising 4554 metal artefacts grouped into five multiregional clusters with distinctive distributions, chronologies, content, and contexts. Changes in
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Transport Costs and Economic Change in Roman Britain European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Scott Ortman, Olivia Bulik, Rob Wiseman, José Lobo, Luis Bettencourt, Lisa Lodwick
Reductions in the cost of transporting manufactured goods have been an important element in economic development in the recent past, and previous research suggests that the Roman period in Britain also saw substantial reductions in such costs. The authors investigate how far it is possible to measure changes in transport costs by considering the spatial distributions of pottery from known Roman production
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Three Dogs from the Late Iron Age Boat Grave Cemetery at Gamla Uppsala Prästgården, Sweden European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Christopher Nichols
Excavations at the vicarage yard (prästgården) at the famous Late Iron Age magnate centre of Gamla Uppsala, Sweden, have yielded six Viking Age (c. ad 750–1100) boat burials, several containing the remains of domestic dogs. The present study is an osteological examination of the remains of three of these dogs, one each from three boat graves, with a primary goal of morphological reconstruction and
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Battlefield, Barracks, or Hospital? A Bioarchaeological Investigation of a Mass Grave at the Jičín Observatory, Czech Republic European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Leslie Quade, Laia Sevillano, Daniel Gaudio
In 2016, a rescue excavation at the Jičín Natural Sciences Centre and Observatory uncovered a mass grave containing multiple commingled individuals buried in several layers. Zinc buttons and clothing remnants possibly related to eighteenth–nineteenth-century military uniforms found in the grave suggest that these individuals were soldiers. During this period, the Jičín region experienced numerous battles
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Burgi in the Loess Plain of the Lower Rhine Region in Late Antiquity European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 James Dodd
Defensive infrastructure in the hinterland of the late Roman province of Germania Secunda hinged upon the widespread use of burgi. These defended settlements played a role in transforming villa estates, depopulated zones, and the expansion of the military footprint. They are common in the late third- and fourth-century landscape, spread throughout the loess belt of Belgium, Dutch Limburg, and the Rhineland
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From Tents to Pit Houses: A Quantitative Study of Dwelling Trends in Mesolithic Norway, 9500–4000 bc European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Silje E. Fretheim
A quantitative analysis of 150 Mesolithic dwellings in Norway, dated to between 9500 and 4000 cal bc, forms the core of a chronological and regional study based on fifteen variables, including floor size and shape, floor modifications and wall features, internal hearths, numbers and distribution of artefacts, traces of maintenance or reuse, and the number of dwellings per site. The study identifies
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Local Worker and Excavation Director Relationships in Anatolia in the Mid-Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Emma L. Baysal
In many areas of the world, archaeological research relies on workers without formal training in archaeology or apparent direct input into archaeological knowledge production. While these workers may appear to have little agency within the excavation process, and no direct participation in research outcomes, their role is more complex. Examples of local and international archaeological teams working
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Waste Nothing: The Impact of Glass and Metal Recycling in Imperial Roman Towns European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Guido Furlan, Chiara Andreatta
In this article, the authors investigate the effectiveness of glass and metal recycling in Roman towns. The comparison of sealed primary deposits (reflecting what was in use in Roman towns) with dumping sites shows a marked drop in glass and metal finds in the dumps. Although different replacement ratios and fragmentation indices affect the composition of the assemblages recovered in dumps, recycling
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The Feral Animal Question: Implications for Recognizing Europe's First Farmers European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Kurt J. Gron
The presence of domestic animals is a key feature of the Neolithic. Their earliest presence in archaeological contexts across the European continent is often interpreted as reflecting farming practices. However, domestic animals often escape, survive, and become feral. Using the comparative example of colonial North America, this article's aim is to illustrate what happens when livestock are introduced
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A Primate on a Fresco from the Mycenaean Acropolis of Tiryns European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Dionisios Youlatos, Bernardo Urbani, Julia Binnberg
The earliest Bronze Age Mediterranean primate representations on frescoes are found at the Aegean sites of Knossos (Crete) and Akrotiri (Thera). By contrast, monkeys have so far been missing from Mycenaean frescoes in mainland Greece. A fresco fragment of a cultic scene from Tiryns changes this; it depicts a bipedal partial lower body, with a hanging tail. This image, previously interpreted as a human
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Cultivating Villa Economies: Archaeobotanical and Isotopic Evidence for Iron Age to Roman Agricultural Practices on the Chalk Downlands of Southern Britain European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Lisa Lodwick
Agricultural practices are key for understanding socio-economic change, community organization, and relationships with landscape and the environment. Under the Roman Empire, cereals were vital for supplying urban and military populations, yet cereal husbandry practices within villa landscapes remain underexplored. In this article, the author applies new methods to analyse a large assemblage of charred
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Wealth in Religious and Secular Contexts: A Critical Analysis of Pottery Consumption in early modern Portugal European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Joel Santos, Inês Castro, Tânia Manuel Casimiro
Wealth differentials in archaeological sites are a frequently studied topic, but social differentiation approaches are rarely applied to different contexts within a wider territory, especially in Portugal. In this article, the authors discuss the differences in wealth and inequality through the consumption of tablewares from fifteen sites across Portugal dated from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries
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To Gender or not To Gender? Exploring Gender Variations through Time and Space European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Bisserka Gaydarska, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, Paz Ramírez Valiente, Jana Esther Fries, Daniela Hofmann, Anne Augereau, John Chapman, Maria Mina, Eleonore Pape, Nicola Ialongo, Daniela Nordholz, Penny Bickle, Mark Haughton, John Robb, Oliver Harris
This article is based on an EAA session in Kiel in 2021, in which thirteen contributors provide their response to Robb and Harris's (2018) overview of studies of gender in the European Neolithic and Bronze Age, with a reply by Robb and Harris. The central premise of their 2018 article was the opposition of ‘contextual Neolithic gender’ to ‘cross-contextual Bronze Age gender’, which created uneasiness
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How Marks Pave(d) the Way: Stonemasons’ Marks and Stone Carving Techniques in Roman Sagalassos (South-Western Asia Minor) European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Bas Louis August Beaujean, Frans Doperé
The study of stonemasons’ marks in ancient constructions, a subject that has been systematically investigated since the 1980s to the present, tends to focus on a few standard uses and consider other seemingly random patterns as issues of preservation, leaving the archaeological potential of such marks largely untapped. This article presents a methodological approach to explain these apparently arbitrary
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First Evidence of Trade in Galilean Salted Fish on the Carmel Coast in the Early Islamic Period European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Sierra Harding, Omri Lernau, Wim Wouters, Nimrod Marom, Deborah Cvikel
The production and maritime trade of salted-fish products are well documented in the western Mediterranean during the Classical and Roman periods. Ichthyological remains found within amphorae in shipwrecks and other archaeological contexts provide evidence for long-distance exchange based on the biogeographical distributions of fish species. The Ma‘agan Mikhael B shipwreck (mid-seventh to mid-eighth
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Maritime Archaeological Research, Sustainability, and Climate Resilience European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Katerina Velentza
Maritime archaeology has been identified as a significant field among the humanities that could contribute to the global sustainable development agenda. This article explores the relevance of maritime archaeological studies to initiatives of climate action. Βy reviewing the contributions of various state-of-the-art projects and by linking their aims and outcomes to specific targets of the UN Sustainable
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Beyond Technology: Pottery Reveals Translocal Social Relations at a Bell Beaker Monumental Site in Central Europe European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Adam Gašpar, Jan Petřík, Pavel Fojtík, Anna Tsoupra, Basira Mir-Makhamad, Ana Cardoso, Massimo Beltrame, José Mirão, Nick Schiavon, Jan Kolář
The Bell Beaker site near Brodek u Prostějova (Czechia) has yielded remains of a large timber construction accompanied by four symmetrical ritual deposits with numerous artefacts, including more than fifty ceramic vessels. Their decoration consists of incised patterns, in nineteen cases with preserved white inlaid incrustations. To investigate the social relations at this extraordinary site, a multi-analytical
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Anthropogenic Heathlands in Prehistoric Atlantic Europe: Review and Future Prospects European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Havananda Ombashi, Mette Løvschal
Heathlands are unique cultural landscapes that once existed across vast stretches of northern Europe. Their deep-time persistence has formed an intrinsic part of economic and cultural practices. Such a complex interaction requires interdisciplinary approaches, including archaeology, across multiple regions to fully grasp all its aspects. The authors of this article review how research has been conducted
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A Precarious Future: Reflections from a Survey of Early Career Researchers in Archaeology European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Maxime Brami, Stephanie Emra, Antoine Muller, Bianca Preda-Bălănică, Benjamin Irvine, Bogdana Milić, Aldo Malagó, Katie Meheux, Manuel Fernández-Götz
This article presents the results of a 2021 international online survey of 419 early career researchers in archaeology. Respondents were passionate about pursuing an academic career, but pessimistic about job and career prospects. Statistics highlight specific obstacles, especially for women, from unstable employment to inequitable practices, and a chronic lack of support. Over 180 open-ended comments
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Wreckage Installation: Towards an Archaeology of Southern Sweden's Heterotopias European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Leila Papoli-Yazdi, William Hogland
During a survey on the island of Öland in south-eastern Sweden, whose aim was to study the local waste-disposal practices, the authors recorded abandoned machinery and cars dating from the 1940s to today in locations close to residential areas and farms, and complemented the investigation by interviewing informants. This led them to conclude that dumping redundant objects in the surroundings of villages
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Developing Archaeology and Museology in the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, and Greece: Théodore Macridy, an Ottoman Greek ‘Liminal Scientist’ European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Ioannis N. Grigoriadis
This article concerns the development of archaeology and museology, in the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, and Greece, through the life and career of Théodore Macridy. Macridy participated in knowledge transfer in more than one discipline and more than one country. Through his links with Western academic circles in archaeology and museology, he made a significant contribution to their development in the Ottoman
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From Neolithic Boom-and-Bust to Iron Age Peak and Decline: Population and Settlement Dynamics in Southern Sweden Inferred from Summed Radiocarbon Dates European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Bo Friman, Per Lagerås
This article presents 6637 radiocarbon dates from archaeological sites in southernmost Sweden, from 9000 cal bc to the present. Based on summed probability distributions (SPDs) of the calibrated radiocarbon dates, the authors consider long-term trends in settlement and human population. Most dates are from the fertile and densely populated plains of south-western Scania, but coastal lowlands and forested
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Radiocarbon Dates for Las Chimeneas (Cantabria, Spain) Palaeolithic Cave Art: Quality of Radiocarbon and Relevance to Parietal Art European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-03 Marcos García-Diez, Álvaro Ibero, Blanca Ochoa, Paula López-Calle, Daniel Garrido
AMS radiocarbon dating has been widely applied in Palaeolithic art research and its value has been proven over the past three decades. Yet it still suffers from issues that need to be discussed and analysed to improve future sampling strategies and strengthen the interpretation of the results. This study presents new AMS dates for the parietal art in Cueva de Las Chimeneas in northern Spain, describes
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Reconstructing the Biography of Children's Stone Bracers in the Iberian Peninsula European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-10-03 Rosa Barroso Bermejo, Francisco Martínez-Sevilla, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Barbero, Oscar Cambra-Moo, Primitiva Bueno-Ramírez, Juan Manuel Rojas Rodríguez-Malo
Perforated stone plaques, known as bracers, are found across late prehistoric Europe and many of them have been recovered in Bell Beaker funerary contexts, usually associated with adult individuals. Experimental, technological, and use-wear studies have determined that the bracers were both utilitarian and symbolic objects. Very few are found in children's graves, but examples are known in the Iberian
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Beaker and Early Bronze Age Tin Exploitation in Cornwall: Cassiterite Processing Identified through Microwear and pXRF Analyses European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-30 Chris Carey, Christina Tsoraki, Andy M. Jones, Oliver J.T. Harris, Rachel J. Crellin, Peter Lyons
The appearance of Beaker pottery in Britain and Ireland during the twenty-fifth century bc marks a significant archaeological horizon, being synchronous with the first metal artefacts. The adoption of arsenical copper, mostly from Ireland, was followed by that of tin-bronze around 2200 bc. However, whilst the copper mine of Ross Island in Ireland is securely dated to the Early Bronze Age, and further
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Gender in Earlier Bronze Age Ireland and Scotland European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-15 Mark Haughton
Gender has long been recognized as an important structuring agent in Bronze Age communities across Europe. A strong impression of binary gender emerges from some Early Bronze Age cemeteries, and models of social organization developed from this evidence have greatly influenced understandings of gender across the continent. This article focuses on two regions with more equivocal evidence: Ireland and
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A Model of Salt Production and Consumption Patterns in Bronze Age Anatolia European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-15 Gonca Dardeniz
The procurement and use of salt in Anatolia has received limited scholarly attention despite its abundance in the region. This study synthesizes geological, archaeological, ethnoarchaeological, and textual data to assess the role of salt within the socioeconomic setting of the third and early second millennia bc (c. 3000–1730 bc) in Anatolia. The easy accessibility of rock salt and saltpans ranks salt
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‘Where the Wild Things Are’: Etruscan Hunting and Trophy Display at Poggio Civitate (Murlo), Italy European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-12 Sarah Whitcher Kansa, Anthony Tuck
An integrated study of the zooarchaeological, iconographic, and artefactual data from the Etruscan site of Poggio Civitate (Murlo, Italy), inhabited from the eighth to the sixth century bc, reveals intra-site differences in the distribution and disposal of animal body parts and species represented, including wild animals. Smaller mammals and birds that would be trapped are encountered more frequently
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Warriors as a Challenge: Violence, Rock Art, and the Preservation of Social Cohesion During the Nordic Bronze Age European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Christian Horn
In the Bronze Age, warriors are probably the best-known social class. Evidence for warfare and other violent encounters links them to aggression and bloodshed that could be translated into social status. This made warriors a potential two-fold threat to the social cohesion of their communities: not only did they risk threatening the integrity of communities as agents of death but also they could challenge
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Garnet Trade in Early Medieval Europe: The Italian Network European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Cristina Boschetti, Bernard Gratuze, Nadine Schibille
The reconstruction of the trade routes along which garnets reached Europe in the early Middle Ages demonstrates the persistence of long-distance trade after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Early medieval garnet jewellery from Italy and the presence of lapidary workshops are important evidence for understanding the dynamics of this commerce but are systematically overlooked. Chemical trace-element
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A Hierarchical Meta-Analytical Approach to Western European Dietary Transitions in the First Millennium AD European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Sam Leggett
During the first millennium ad, Europe saw much socio-environmental change, which is reflected in the archaeological and palaeoecological evidence. Using published and new isotope data from across western Europe, the author examines changing resource use from c.ad 350 to 1200. The geographical limits of millet and substantial marine consumption are identified and comparisons between childhood and adult
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Coastal Resource Integration and Reuse in Iron Age South-Eastern Iberia: The Lead Ingots Cast from Pinna nobilis Shells European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Linda R. Gosner
The Iron Age shipwrecks of Agde K (Brescou Island, France) and Cabrera B (Balearic Islands), discovered in the 1960s, together yielded seven lead ingots cast in the large shells of Pinna nobilis molluscs. Lead isotope analysis later traced the ingots to lead sources in south-eastern Iberia. These ingots are reassessed here as evidence for the integration of coastal production strategies in Iron Age
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The Power of Relics: The Curation of Human Bone in British Bronze Age Burials European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Joanna Brück, Thomas J. Booth
In this article, the authors examine radiocarbon, histo-taphonomic, and contextual evidence for the deliberate curation, manipulation, and redeposition of human bone in British Bronze Age mortuary contexts. New radiocarbon dates and histological analyses are combined with existing data to explore the processes and practices that resulted in the incorporation of ‘relic’ fragments of bone in later graves
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Current Research on Bronze Age ‘Cooking Stone Pits’ in Northern Germany and Southern Scandinavia European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Stefanie Schaefer-Di Maida
This article presents current research on cooking stone pits in northern Germany and southern Scandinavia and examines their function and interpretation. It focuses on recent findings at the site of Mang de Bargen in northern Germany, which contained pit arrangements in various configurations, including a new circular one. The latest 14C dates from Mang de Bargen suggest that the circular formations
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Reviewing the Classics - Colin Renfrew. The Emergence of Civilisation: The Cyclades and The Aegean in The Third Millennium bc. (Oxford: Oakville, CT: Oxbow Books; David Brown Book Co. 2011, Reprint of 1972 edition with foreword by John F. Cherry, 634 pp., 34 b/w illustr., maps, pbk, ISBN 0977409465) European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-08 Despina Catapoti
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Minna Silver and Pirjo Uino, eds. Tiedenainen peilissä : Arkeologian professori Ella Kivikosken elämä ja tutkimuskentät [A Researcher in a Mirror: The Life and Research Areas of the Finnish Professor Ella Kivikoski] (Helsinki: Sigillum, 2020, 147 illustr., hbk, ISBN: 978-952-7220-15-3) European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-08 Ulla Rajala
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Lindsey Büster, Eugène Warmenbol and Dimitrij Mlekuž, eds. Between Worlds: Understanding Ritual Cave Use in Later Prehistory. (Cham: Springer, 2019, 270pp., 17 b/w illustr., 85 colour illustr., hbk, ISBN 978-3-319-99021-7) European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-08 Stella Katsarou
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Chloé Ragazzoli, Ömür Harmanşah, Chiara Salvador and Elisabeth Frood, eds. Scribbling through History: Graffiti, Places, and People from Antiquity to Modernity (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, xiv and 250pp., 43 b/w illustr., hbk, ISBN 978-1-4742-8883-5) European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-08 Serena Zanetto
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Hasan Can Gemici and Çiğdem Atakuman. The World of Figurines in the Neolithic and Chalcolithic Aegean: the case of Uğurlu Höyük on Gökçeada (Imbros) (Oxford: BAR Publishing, BAR no. S3021, 2021, 188 pp., 12 tables, 107 b/w and colour illustr., pbk, ISBN 9781407357751) European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-08 Stratos Nanoglou
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Anna Kouremenos and Jody Michael Gordon, eds. Mediterranean Archaeologies of Insularity in an Age of Globalization. (Oxford & Philadelphia: Oxbow Books 2020, xv and 284pp., 60 figures, pbk, ISBN 978-1-78925-344-3) European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-08 Christy Constantakopoulou
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Whitney Battle-Baptiste. Black Feminist Archaeology (Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press, 2011, 200 pp., 13 b/w illustr., 2 tables, pbk, ISBN 978-1-59874-379-1) European Journal of Archaeology (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-04-08 Kathleen Sterling
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