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δ18O variability in guanaco bone bioapatite in Southern Patagonia: Implications for paleoecological and paleoenvironmental studies Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Julia Merler Carbajo, Juan Dellepiane, Marcelo R. Morales, Rafael A. Goñi, Augusto Tessone
The guanaco () is the largest and the most widely distributed ungulate in South America since the Pleistocene and constituted the main prey for hunter-gatherers in Southern Patagonia (Argentina) in the past. An isomorphic relationship has been suggested between the mobility of these animals and that of human groups that inhabited the region, which presents altitudinal differences. On the one hand,
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Identification of soil selection and construction techniques of pre-Columbian architecture in the Casas Grandes region Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Yuko Kita, Miguel Domínguez Acosta, Aldo Izaguirre Pompa, Montserrat Hernández Ramírez, Patricia Girón García, Alberto Peña Rodríguez, Rafael Cruz Antillón, Eduardo Pío Gamboa Carrera
This study compares pre-Columbian earthen construction techniques in three archaeological sites of the Casas Grandes region: Paquimé, Arroyo Seco, and Cueva de la Olla. These sites are found in different geological and geomorphological setting, although they present similar architectural typology. Their construction techniques were examined by archaeometric characterization, such as particle-size analysis
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The Spondylus beads from El Molino (Puerta de Corral Quemado, Catamarca, Argentina): Analysis and implications for the study of local power in Inka times Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Federico Wynveldt, María Emilia Iucci, Martín Morosi, Juana Fuertes, Juan Manuel Sallés
The purpose of this paper is to present the analysis of a set of beads found in El Molino (Puerta de Corral Quemado, Dept. of Belén, province of Catamarca, Argentina) –3000 km south of Tumbes–, a local residential pre-Inka site, with evidence of Inka influence during the 15th century CE. Given that the presence of objects manufactured in in Chile and Argentina is nearly restricted to the −Inka burial
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The Early Upper paleolithic deposit of Mughr el-Hamamah (Jordan): Archaeobotanical taphonomy and site formation processes Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Mónica Alonso-Eguiluz, Michael B. Toffolo, Chantel E. White, Eleni Asouti, Elisabetta Boaretto, Liv Nilsson Stutz, Aaron Stutz, Rosa María Albert
With a rich, well-dated Early Upper Palaeolithic layer, the Mughr el-Hamamah cave site is key for understanding the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Levant. The archaeological deposit consists of two units. Layer A resulted from pastoral activities during the 20th century and Layer B dated between 44.5 and 40.0 ky BP. During Layer A’s formation, shepherds disturbed Layer B, redepositing
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Formation processes of archaeobotanical assemblages of an early Thule Iñupiaq dwelling at Cape Espenberg, northwest Alaska Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Camille Mayeux, Claire Alix, Owen Mason, Nancy Bigelow, Christophe Petit
Archaeobotany remains an underdeveloped discipline in the Arctic, with comparatively little known about the processes involved in the formation of plant assemblages in ancestral Inuit sites. Archaeobotanical records from seasonal forager sites at high latitudes present several peculiarities: 1) excellent preservation; 2) lack of domesticated species prior to contact with Europeans; 3) few, if any,
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Culturing the body in the context of the neolithisation of the southern Levant Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-03-10 April Nowell, Danielle Macdonald
The body is a site of lived experience as people engage their social, cultural, and physical worlds through their bodies. As a product of both nature and culture, it can be modified to fulfil, challenge, or rebel against ideals and expectations. While not all the ways in which humans modify their bodies leave traces in the archaeological record, the use of personal ornaments is well documented. In
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Objects of coalescence: Using LA-ICP-MS to study ceramics recovered from an eighteenth-century Choctaw village Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Kevin Pierce Wright, Elliot H. Blair, Ian Thompson, Laure Dussubieux
In 2012, Tennessee Valley Archaeological Research (TVAR) excavated two archaeological sites displaying evidence of a Historic Choctaw (1650–1830 CE) occupation in Kemper County, Mississippi. To learn more about the histories of the Choctaw communities who occupied these sites, TVAR formed a research partnership with the University of Alabama and Choctaw Nation Historic Preservation (CNHP) to examine
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Geoarchaeology of earthen Cypriot architecture: Integrated analyses of mudbricks from Middle Bronze Age Cyprus Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Marialucia Amadio
Mudbricks constitute an integral part of prehistoric architecture in Cyprus. As a key material of building construction, mudbricks possess more than just structural information and environmental data; they represent optimal indicators to identify the production choices as means for social representation and communication. Results obtained from the multi-proxy analysis of mudbrick materials recovered
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Micro-residues on quartz tools: The example of Bronze Age Thessaloniki Toumba Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Ourania Palli, Ioannis Nazlis, Stelios Andreou, Kostas Kotsakis, Sevasti Triantafyllou, Georgia Kourtessi-Philippakis
Lithic residue analysis as a specialized field of research has gained increasing scholarly interest over recent years, although it still faces methodological challenges concerning its research protocols and standard practices. This paper explores the possible contribution of the method through a large-scale residue analysis of a vein quartz assemblage excavated in the Bronze Age settlement of Thessaloniki
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The absolute chronology of the North Cemetery at Ayios Vasileios, Laconia Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Pınar Erdil, Michael W. Dee, Margot Kuitems, Ioanna Moutafi, Vasco Hachtmann, Efrossini Vika, Sofia Voutsaki
In mortuary archaeology, it can be particularly difficult to establish a spatiotemporal framework for specific contexts such as commingled or unfurnished burials. This is the case for the Ayios Vasileios North Cemetery, a 2 millennium BCE site in Greece. Here, the uneven stratigraphic information, the use of tombs for multiple burials, the manipulation of human remains, and the scarcity of ceramic
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Preserving earthen architecture: Lessons learned from two case studies Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Katharina Fuchs, Marija Milchin, Gabriela Krist
The Institute of Conservation at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (IoC) was involved in two projects related to the preservation of earthen architecture and its conservation. These projects were conducted in distinct geographic and climatic regions, each arising from unique building traditions.
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From experimental archaeology to laboratory: Mineralogical nature and elemental composition of medieval manufactured vitriols Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Clément Vuillard, Marie Radepont, Florian Téreygeol, Céline Remazeilles, Véronique Rouchon
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Production and consumption of Hellenistic and Early Roman cooking ware at Nea Paphos on Cyprus Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Edyta Marzec, Kamila Nocoń, Monika Miziołek, Noémi S. Müller, Evangelia Kiriatzi
The current paper provides insights into the production and consumption of Hellenistic and Early Roman cooking ware unearthed in Nea Paphos on Cyprus. Based on macroscopic examination of cooking ware from two distinct areas of Nea Paphos, the Agora and Maloutena, a total of 136 samples were analysed through thin section petrography, and a subset of 47 samples additionally by elemental analysis (wavelength
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Reconstructing deposits and recontextualising artefacts at Creag a' Chapuill Cave, Skye Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Callum Murray, Mike J. Smith
The 1932 excavation at Creag a' Chapuill cave by W. Lindsay Scott revealed significant archaeological evidence with the potential to inform archaeologists about settlement and trading contacts along the western seaboard of Scotland from the Mesolithic period through to the end of the Iron Age (c. 13,000 BCE – AD 900). This research seeks to re-assess the excavation results using 3D Computer Aided Design
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Axial skeletal bone grease rendering in guanacos: Implications for the zooarchaeological record of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego (Argentina) Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Daniela Verónica Alunni, Atilio Francisco J. Zangrando
The objective of this study is to evaluate bone grease yield in different anatomical units from the axial skeleton of a guanaco (). Levels of fragmentation resulted from bone grease rendering activities are also analysed. Elements from axial region have generally low representation in archaeological contexts of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, so new frames of reference to study this bias are provided
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Shaping the sacred along the Silk Roads: the millenary artistic tradition of making “monumental terracruda sculptures” Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Mònica López-Prat, Alessandra Pecci, Carla Lancelotti, Domenico Miriello
This paper presents a depth revision of the technological, material, and symbolic knowledge of what we advocate to be identified as “monumental sculpture” along the Silk Roads. Through a highly interdisciplinary approach, combining a) the latest results of archaeometric analysis carried out on Buddhist examples, b) the documentation of traditional knowledge in making sculptures in Buddhist and Hindu
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Mineral natron, plant-ash and high-alumina byzantine glass bracelets: Possible byzantine primary glass production in Asia Minor Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-03-04 P. Karalis, E. Dotsika, A. Godelitsas, A. Antonaras, S. Oikonomidis
In order to elucidate the supply and consumption of glass during the 4th and 10th century A.D, fragments of 28 glass bracelets and amulets, excavated at Thessaloniki (Greece) and its region, were analyzed. The compositional pattern of Thessaloniki’s glasses was based on an alkaline plant ash, as a flux, and quartz, as a silica source, and showed that these samples represent four different glass compositional
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War and commercial exchanges in the late medieval Aegean: Investigating the metal provenance of the Chalcis Hoard Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Emilie Bérard, Federico Carò, Philippe Dillmann
At the end of the Middle Ages the Aegean was an active trade area, connected to numerous exchange networks. Arms and armor were strategic products, exchanged over extra-regional distance through the Mediterranean trade. To shed light both on military goods manufacturing and Aegean trade networks, this paper focuses on the archaeometric examination of thirteen medieval pieces of armor found in Chalcis
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The analysis of floor mosaic mortar substrates of Ancient Messene, southern Peloponnese, Greece. First results of materials identification and technological characteristics research Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Elisavet Mantzana, Eleni Zimi, Anastasios Kazolias, Ioannis Iliopoulos
In the present study, mortar samples from the substrate of two mosaic floors from two Late Roman urban from Ancient Messene are examined. Mortar fragments with stone tesserae imprints are documented via photogrammetry, providing high-precision digital three-dimensional models. The preliminary observations of polished mortar matrices are focused on the morphological characteristics and determine the
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Earthen stories. Cross-craft strategies in raw material procurement and production at the tell site of Arslantepe (Türkiye) during the 4th millennium BCE Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Pamela Fragnoli, Susanna Cereda, Giovanna Liberotti
Arslantepe, located in south-eastern Turkey, is a multi-period settlement with a rich history of habitation dating back to at least the late 5th millennium BCE and spanning into the Medieval period. Over millennia, the site underwent drastic cultural, socio-economic and political transformations, resulting in its current form as a 30-m-high artificial mound. This mound predominantly consists of earth
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Slips, films, and material choice: Long-distance hydrothermal pigments on Middle Mississippian red ware Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Margaret E. Beck, Glen A. Freimuth, Brandi L. MacDonald
Using laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy (LA-ICP-MS) and Raman spectroscopy, we investigate red pigment applied to ceramic vessels as a slip or film (pigment + liquid + binder mixture) in the midcontinental United States. We find that during the CE 1000–1200 period, potters at Cahokia and nearby sites in the American Bottom region of the Middle Mississippi Valley used pigments
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Archaeometric study of Maya pottery from Comalcalco, Tabasco, Mexico Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Susana Chávez-Cruz, Miriam J. Gallegos-Gómora, Ricardo Armijo-Torres, Mario A. Guzmán-Cruz, Richart Falconi-Calderón, Manuel Acosta-Alejandro
In this paper, structural, morphological, and mineralogical characterizations of Maya archaeological pottery from Comalcalco, Tabasco, Mexico are presented. The fired clay ceramic samples were taken from Maya settlements, previously classified in traditional way, using the type-variety method from physical and cultural features. It is shown that the ceramics studied have some similarities and differences
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“Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue…” Ornaments in the Levantine Early Neolithic Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Anna Belfer-Cohen, Nigel Goring-Morris
With the onset of the Near Eastern Neolithic during the 12th millennium cal BP, and thereafter, one can observe growing sedentary tendencies, as well a significant increase in populations and community sizes, all reflected in the Neolithic demographic transition. At that time (and even somewhat earlier in certain areas) a notable tendency for within and between community differentiation was observed
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Fish and fishing in the medieval Wrocław (Poland): New insights based on archaeozoological data Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-22 O. Kovalchuk, K. Stefaniak, Z. Barkaszi, J. Kotusz, A. Pankiewicz, A. Wiśniewski, K. Zarzecka-Szubińska, T. Volynskyi, P. Socha
Wrocław (Wratislavia, Breslau) was established on the Oder River, at the intersection of important trade routes between the Baltic Sea, Kyivan Rus, and inland countries of Central Europe. The local population was hugely dependent on the resources the river provided, including a rich variety of fishes used for food. Here we analyse a sample of fish remains recovered from five archaeological sites in
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Social status and oral health in early medieval Switzerland: The case of the Baar-Früebergstrasse site (Canton Zug, Switzerland) Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-22 A. Pedergnana, R. Huber
Grave goods do not always reflect the socioeconomic status of the buried people when they were living, so the interpretation of these archeological items may be biased. This paper examines the oral pathologies of individuals (n = 36) from the early medieval cemetery at Baar-Früebergstrasse (Switzerland) and explores the relationship between these pathologies and grave status. The analysis focused on
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Inferring mode of acquisition from lithic conveyance: A pesky middle-range problem Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Khori Newlander, Laura Zacharias
Inferring mode of acquisition from lithic conveyance is a long-standing middle-range problem. Given archaeologists’ reliance on patterns of lithic conveyance to understand how prehistoric populations organized themselves in relation to their landscape, its resources, and each other, resolution of this problem would be significant. Drawing on research in the North American Great Basin and Middle Atlantic
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Study of impact marks in a series of monoliths found at the site of Wanar (Senegal) Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Matar Ndiaye, Luc Laporte, Jean-Paul Cros
The burial methods or funerary practices observed in the megalithic sites of Senegal are rather complex, with the existence of primary and secondary burials and sometimes accompanying deaths. The monoliths built in circles around these necropolises also reveal varied funerary rites. Until recently, researchers mainly focused on identifying, recording and illustrating the ruins of monuments and collecting
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Geoarchaeological analysis of the early mediaeval site of Vetricella (Southern Tuscany, Italy): Site formation processes and circular ditches Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Davide Susini, Pierluigi Pieruccini
Vetricella is a mediaeval archaeological site located within the coastal plain of the river Pecora (southern Tuscany, Italy). The settlement consists of a fortified mound with a raised central rectangular tower-like building surrounded by three concentric ditches. This paper presents the results about geoarchaeological stratigraphy and site formation processes and provides new important information
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Speculations on the sources of coal associated with thirteenth-century archaeological site, Lee County, southwestern Virginia Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-20 James C. Hower, Maureen Meyers, Rachel Hatch Nally, Jordan W. Drew, Michelle N. Johnston
Seventeen objects from a thirteenth-century archaeological site in southwestern Virginia were petrographically examined to determine whether they were cannel coal. Cannel coal was used by indigenous groups in parts of North America to craft pendants and other items and may have been a valued trade commodity during the late precontact period in the Southeast. Potential coal samples were subjected to
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Discerning invention/innovation processes in artifact design change: Is it time to rethink drifting attributes? Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-20 David K. Thulman
Understanding artifact design evolution is a challenge that requires parsing intentionally implemented design changes by the makers from those that arose stochastically (i.e., drift). Only intentional design changes can provide insight into the makers’ motivations to invent something new. Presently, methods to distinguish drifting attributes rely on their results, such as their frequency or accumulated
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Ancient glass from the island of Malta: A preliminary study of Phoenician-Punic, Roman and post-Roman finds Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Matthew Grima, Maxine Anastasi, David Cardona, Timmy Gambin, Bernardette Mercieca-Spiteri, Nicholas C. Vella, Simone Cagno, Daniel Vella
Save from their archaeological context, little is known about ancient glass found in Malta which spans the Phoenician, Punic, Roman and Byzantine periods of domination. By means of general trends, this preliminary archaeometric study was formulated to obtain an understanding of glass types, degradation state and other manufacturing and decorative information. 76 items and fragments were selected from
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Report on new tree-ring-radiocarbon dates from Snaketown, Gila River Indian Community Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Nicholas V. Kessler, Henry D. Wallace
Ceramic chronologies are crucial for archaeological dating, but in many areas very few tree-ring dates are available for the high-precision refinement of ceramic phases. This paper takes a step toward the objective evaluation of Hohokam ceramic chronologies with high-precision tree-ring-radiocarbon dates. Tree-ring sequences from pit structures spanning ca. 500 years at the site of Snaketown (Hohokam
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Food storage, mobility, and the density-dependence of hunter-gatherer movement ecology Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Marcus J. Hamilton, B. Buchanan, J. Lobo, R.S. Walker
Mobility, food storage, and population density are central to the movement ecology of hunter-gatherer populations and understanding how these lifestyle traits covary over time and space has long been of interest to archaeologists and anthropologists. An important question that remains unresolved is the conditions under which hunter-gatherer populations reduce the cost of mobility by increasing sedentism
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A comparative compositional study of Egyptian glass from Amarna with regard to cobalt sources and other colourants Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Anna K. Hodgkinson, Quentin Lemasson, Michael Mäder, Frans Munnik, Laurent Pichon, Stefan Röhrs, Ina Reiche
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Isotopic and historical evidence of regional stockfish trade in the Skagerrak during the 16th century Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Emma Maltin, Leif Jonsson, Benjamin T. Fuller, Jesper Olsen, Marcello A. Mannino
Preserved fish was one of the main traded commodities in medieval and early modern times, and herring and cod were the socioeconomically most important species. This paper brings together stable isotope ratio analysis of archaeological cod bones and documentary data from customs records originating from the early modern Swedish town of Nya Lödöse (1473–1624 CE), shedding new light on the import of
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Advancing sex estimation from amelogenin: Applications to archaeological, deciduous, and fragmentary dental enamel Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Julia A. Gamble, Victor Spicer, Mercedes Hunter, Ying Lao, Robert D. Hoppa, Dorthe Dangvard Pedersen, John A. Wilkins, René P. Zahedi
A significant limitation of bioarchaeological and forensic research is inaccuracy of sex estimation techniques for skeletal remains of pre-pubertal individuals. This means that while age estimation is relatively accurate for individuals during growth and development, the inability to estimate sex widens the error ranges of age estimates and has limited the questions that can be asked about cultural
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Macroscopic identification of Minoan lamps’ fuels. An experimental use-alteration and ultraviolet analysis Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Bastien Rueff
The identification of fuels used in ancient lamps primarily relies on organic residue analysis, which have proven to be efficient in detecting a wide range of fatty substances. However, these analyses are often expensive and destructive, limiting their application to a small number of samples. Consequently, these samples may not adequately represent the diverse range of fuels used in a specific site
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Non-ingested vertebrate prey remains accumulated by the Chaco eagle (Buteogallus coronatus): neo-taphonomy to evaluate open-air faunal records in central western Argentina Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Nicolás M. Guardia, Julián Mignino, Agustín Zarco, Horacio Chiavazza, Camila Maccio, José Manuel López
The Chaco eagle () is a large, endangered, and little-known bird of prey distributed throughout southern South America. This bird of prey accumulates large amounts of prey remains around its nests in open landscapes. To present a reliable pattern to distinguish the action of the Chaco Eagle as a potential accumulator of faunal remains in open-air archaeological contexts, we conducted a neo-taphonomic
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A palatal prosthesis from archaeological research in the St Francis of Assisi church in Cracow (Poland) Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Anna E. Spinek, Marta Kurek, Krzysztof Demidziuk, Marcin Nowak, Magdalena Śliwka-Kaszyńska, Anna Drążkowska
The hard palate is a septum that not only prevents food from entering between the oral and nasal cavity, but also plays an important role during breathing or speech. The presence of cavities within it negatively affects the comfort of life of people with this type of impairment. Hence, in the literature one can find examples of the use of hard palate prostheses to restore the separation between the
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“I ate fish at Kalhât such as I have never tasted”: Fishing practices in the medieval harbour of Qalhât of the Sultanate of Oman Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Anaïs Marrast
Few studies have been carried out on bioarchaeological assemblages from medieval sites in Eastern Arabia, particularly for zooarchaeological remains, and limited data exists on the fishing practices employed at that time and in that region. This article aims to fill this gap by studying ichthyoarchaeological fish bones from a building (B94) in the medieval harbour of Qalhât (13th century – 16th century
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Puma (Puma concolor) modifications on medium-sized mammals: Can its taphonomic signature be differentiated from other South American carnivores? Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-12 María Clara Álvarez, Agustina Massigoge, Mariela E. González, Cristian A. Kaufmann, Nahuel A. Scheifler, María A. Gutiérrez
The aim of this article is to characterize the taphonomic signature of puma () on non-ingested bone assemblages of medium-sized mammals. We conducted an experiment in a biopark where two captive pumas were fed ten European rabbits (). The analysis of the remains showed a highly fragmented assemblage of skeletal remains, mainly dominated by skull fragments and complete distal bones of the limbs. The
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Shell adornments of the 6th-5th millennia BC in the Romanian Lower Danube area Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Monica Mărgărit
Shells were collected and transformed into ornaments by the first Homo sapiens and accompanied their evolution over the millennia. They were more than mere elements that decorated the human body and held multiple social and cultural meanings. That is why shell adornments have remarkable importance for reconstructing aspects related to exchange networks, social hierarchies or geographical boundaries
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The comparison of land cover change and erosion-deposition patterns during the Early Bronze Age-I (ca. 5100-4700 cal. BP) in Eastern and Southwestern Anatolia Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Bülent Arıkan, Gonca Dardeniz
Land use in archaeological societies has important consequences for ecosystemic changes in the long-term, which directly affect the sustainability of the economy and socio-political organization. In the Near East; socio-political organization, mode of production, and land use patterns diversified spatio-temporally during the Early Bronze Age-I (ca. 5100–4700 cal. BP) when socially complex entities
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Ancient cattle DNA from Bhirrana: A Hakra culture/preharappan settlement of the Indus valley civilization, India Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Ashwin Atkulwar, Arati Deshpande-Mukherjee, Mumtaz Baig
Bhirrana a settlement of the Indus valley civilization in northern India is important for revealing a cultural deposit dating from the preharappan (8–9 ka Before Present (BP)) to the mature Harappan period and also inferred to be the oldest (>9 ka BP) in the Indian subcontinent. Among the numerous animal remains excavated from Bhirrana noteworthy is the large-scale presence of bovids besides caprines
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Autopsy or anatomical dissection? Comparative analysis of an osteoarchaeological sample from an 18-19th century hypogeal cemetery (northern Italy) Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Arianna Vanni, Roberta Fusco, Chiara Tesi, Marta Licata
Skeletal evidence of post-mortem procedures is not uncommon in paleopathological studies. This aspect is often overshadowed by the description of the pathology found due to the difficulty in differentiating the stigmata left on the bones from technically similar practices such as autopsy and dissection. The discovery of five crania of adult individuals exhibiting post-mortem lesions during the bioarchaeological
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Renaissance Venetian filigree glass: A successful invention investigated through the analyses of archaeological samples Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Marco Verità, Patrice Lehuédé, Sandro Zecchin, Mario Bandiera
Filigrana (filigree glass) is a sophisticated decorative technique, which makes use of colourless canes with thin, white, or sometimes coloured, opaque glass threads twisted in different ways, encased in transparent (colourless or coloured) glass and incorporated into blown objects.
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Provenance groups in a Roman jet jewelry collection at Aquincum (Budapest, Hungary) and comparison with jet and jet-like gemstones Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Attila Demény, Mária Bondár, Máté Karlik, István Hegyi, István Gábor Hatvani, Annamária R. Facsády, Katalin Csontos, Ariana Gugora, Reyhan Kara-Gülbay, Jose Carlos García-Ramos, Sarah Caldwell Steele
Jet and jet-like gemstones are found in graves from the Neolithic, but they became particularly popular during the Bronze Age and the Roman period. To discover their provenance, several techniques were used to determine distinctions between organic materials and occurrences. The present study utilized a combination of Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopic (FTIR) and stable isotope ratio analyses
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Animal carcass processing, cooking and commensality at the Late Neolithic lakeside settlement of Dispilio, Northern Greece Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Eleni K. Samartzidou, Georgios H. Hourmouziadis
Dispilio is the only lakeside settlement in Greece systematically excavated and dated to almost all sub periods of the Neolithic. The present paper focuses on the large faunal assemblage of the last two cultural phases, dated in Late and Final Neolithic. This research presents the results of the conducted analysis concerning the exploitation of animal carcasses of the domesticates on the basis of butchery
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Isotopic perspectives on pastoral practices in the Eastern European forest-steppe during the Middle Bronze Age Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Claudia Gerling, Jana Eger, Evgenii Gak, Elke Kaiser
This study investigates the modes of subsistence practices of a Middle Don Catacomb Culture community for which archaeological evidence suggests a reliance on seasonal mobility of humans and their herds. A sequential multi-isotope approach [stable carbon (δC), stable oxygen (δO), and strontium (Sr/Sr)] on tooth enamel of mainly domestic animals (cattle and sheep/goat) from the Middle Bronze Age settlement
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Of mudbrick and stone: A geoarchaeological view on innovations in building practices at Hellenistic Tell Iẓṭabba Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-04 Marta Lorenzon, Benjamín Cutillas-Victoria, Achim Lichtenberger, Oren Tal
The recent excavations at Tell Iẓṭabba undertaken by the German-Israeli Tell Iẓṭabba Excavation Project have revealed an important sequence of architectural structures, indicating the settlement’s strategic position on the perimeter of the Jordan Valley. The earthen architecture present at the site has been little explored to date as a key source of evidence to provide social information on past societies
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Analytical characterisation of 1st- and 2nd-century Roman mortars at the Utica archaeological site (Tunisia): Construction phases and provenance of the raw materials Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-03 R. Fort, MJ. Varas-Muriel, K. Zoghlami, D. Ergenç, A. Zaddem
The aim of this paper is to characterise the mortars from at the Roman site in Utica, Tunisia. In-depth knowledge of the composition of these Roman mortars is necessary to ensure the proper restoration and preservation of these ancient monuments. Despite the significance of this archaeological site, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1993, the Roman construction materials used there, particularly
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The Mark of the Beast: a bone assemblage assessment from the North of the Iberian Peninsula (MIS 3) Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Víctor Jerjotoma-Ortín, Gloria Cuenca-Bescós, Carlos Mazo
The cave of Abauntz (Navarra, Spain) has had a consistent record of human presence since 50,000 years ago. In this paper, we present the results of the taphonomy and taxonomy analyses made on an assemblage composed of over 3,000 bones found in the unit h of the cave of Abauntz, the earliest level in the cave's stratigraphy with human presence and dated in the MIS 3. Taxonomy assessment described 14
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Firing temperature of ceramics and post-depositional alterations of alkali element composition: INAA and pXRF analyses of early historical ceramics from central-western Korea Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Hyunwoo Kim, Junkyu Kim, Jung-Woo Park, Yongje Oh, Matthew Conte, Jiyoung Park, Seungyeon Hong, Jangsuk Kim
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Clayey materials for traditional bricks production in North-Eastern Italy through a combined compositional study: From firing dynamics to provenance Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Elena Mercedes Pérez-Monserrat, Laura Crespo-López, Giuseppe Cultrone, Paolo Mozzi, Lara Maritan
The compositional study of two main types of clayey materials outcropping nearby Padua (Veneto region, north-eastern Italy) and bricks used in historical constructions of the city is here addressed. Mineralogically, the clayey materials are illitic-chloritc clays, both non-carbonatic and carbonatic/highly-carbonatic clays, that chemically correspond to clays with important contents of silica and/or
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Exploring the potential of stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of perennial plants from archaeological sites: A case study of olive pits and grape pips from Early Bronze Age Qedesh in the Galilee Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Karolina Joka, Sean Hixon, Mary Lucas, Ido Wachtel, Uri Davidovich, Luis Gonzaga Santesteban, Patrick Roberts
The emergence of perennial fruit cultivation represents a potentially important change in land use in the past, being associated with long-term investments in land and the transformation and commodification of particular crop products. Indeed, it has even been argued to have been closely linked to urbanization and social stratification in parts of Eurasia. Olives () and grapes () were among the first
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Ceramic production and trade in Eivissa (Balearic Islands, Spain) during Vandal rule: An integrated analytical study Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Miguel Ángel Cau-Ontiveros, Leandro Fantuzzi, Evanthia Tsantini, Joan Ramon Torres
An assemblage of ceramics discovered at the Es Castell site in the island of Eivissa, Spain, represents a significant archaeological context dating back to the period when the Balearic Islands were under the rule of the Vandal Kingdom of Carthage. Through archaeometric analysis, new evidence has emerged regarding the production and trade of ceramics on the island during this era. The pottery selection
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Variability and temporality of lithic production in Epipaleolithic to Early Neolithic occupations at Cova del Vidre (Catalonia, Spain) Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Ivan Gironès-Rofes, Josep Bosch-Argilagós, Anna Bach-Gómez, Miquel Molist, Salvador Pardo-Gordó
Cova del Vidre (Roquetes, Tarragona, Spain), strategically located in El Port massif, a high-altitude mountain range contrasting with the lower course of the Ebro River, has an interrupted sequence of occupations from the beginning of the Holocene until the establishment of the first Neolithic groups (c. 10,800–5000 cal. BC). It is currently the site with the most complete sequence detected in the
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Geometric morphometric analysis for the study of the design and function of the archaeological lithic projectile points of Uruguay Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Carola Castiñeira Latorre, Andrés Gascue, Guillermo H. Cassini, Juan Carlos Fernicola
In Uruguay, Geometric morphometrics (GM) studies in archeology have been exclusively applied to “Fishtail” projectile points. The variability observed in this morphotype is attributed to the modifications due to diverse events such as resharpening or reworked during the history life. In this work, we aim to expand the recognition of the morphological variability of the archaeological lithic projectile
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The paleoclimate of the Gediz Graben (Western Türkiye) and archaeological settlement patterns during the Holocene Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Mesut Kolbüken, Bülent Arıkan
The Gediz Graben is one of the highly sensitive areas in the Anatolian Peninsula to climatic changes as the climatic patterns in the region have been controlled by both polar and tropical circulation systems. We used readily available results from the CHELSA paleoclimate model and ran the MCM to obtain the paleo-precipitation and paleo-temperature patterns for the research area. This research aims