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The Alluvial Geoarchaeology of the Sanyangzhuang Site on the Yellow River Floodplain, Henan Province, China

submitted by orwol 1 day ago

The Sanyangzhuang site, Henan Province, China, has a 12-m-deep stratigraphic sequence with remains from the Tang (A.D. 618–907), late Western Han (ca. 140 B.C.–A.D. 23), Warring States (475–2...

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Raw Materials and Pottery Production at the Late Bronze and Iron Age Site of Puig de Sa Morisca, Mallorca, Spain

submitted by MariMalak 1 day ago

This paper presents an analytical study of LateBronze andIronAge ceramics and natural clay deposits from the archaeological site ofPuig deSa Morisca in southwestMallorca,Spain. In our study, we com...

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An archaeometallurgical study of 13th-century arrowheads and bolts from the crusader castle of arsuf/arsur

submitted by LucianoSam 1 day ago

Selected iron arrowheads and bolts retrieved from the destruction layer of the Crusader castle of Arsur/Arsuf, which was taken down by the Mamluk army (headed by Baybars) in late April 1265, were s...

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Canadian and American archaeologists in Montreal

submitted by bass7412 2 days ago

From May 16 to 20, 2012, more than 400 archeologists from across Canada and the United States are expected to be at Montreal’s Hôtel Gouverneur, where more than 300 conferences in English or Fren...

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Maritime Cultural Resource Investigation, Management, and Mitigation in Coastal Ghana

submitted by olshoredoh 2 days ago

Four field seasons of maritime archaeological research in coastal Ghana offer insights into submerged cultural heritage, but also highlight serious concerns for its preservation and protection. A d...

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A study of dimensional differences of tooth marks (pits and scores) on bones modified by small and large carnivores

submitted by rezod 2 days ago

The use of tooth mark sizes to infer carnivore types when analyzing the modification of faunal assemblages has been criticized on the base of intense overlap in tooth mark size among differently si...

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Elevated δ15N values in mammoths: a comparison with modern elephants

submitted by fersane 2 days ago

The extinct Pleistocene woolly mammoth bone collagen shows compared with collagen from other contemporaneous large herbivores remarkably high δ15N values. In order to investigate if the observed d...

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Mitochondrial DNA haplotypes of Devensian hyaenas from Creswell Crags, England

submitted by necak 2 days ago

Spotted hyaena (Crocuta crocuta) remains have been recovered from British Middle and Upper Pleistocene sites at intervals within the period 700–730 ka BP. Morphological studies have suggested tha...

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New light on enigmatic burial rituals in Cambodian mountains

submitted by mofotlolmkhir 9 days ago

Researchers from the University of Otago in New Zealand working in remote Cambodian mountains are shedding new light on the lost history of an unidentified people by studying their enigmatic burial...

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Mystery of the domestication of the horse solved

submitted by Linda 10 days ago

New research indicates that domestic horses originated in the steppes of modern-day Ukraine, southwest Russia and west Kazakhstan, mixing with local wild stocks as they spread throughout Europe and...

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Neutron activation analysis of inca and colonial ceramics from central highland ecuador

submitted by wizdanal 11 days ago

Fifty-three ceramic samples were collected in the area of the colonial city of Riobamba, Ecuador (today Sicalpa/Cajabamba). Neutron activation analysis was used to attempt to establish elemental co...

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The effects of corrosion and conservation treatments on non-destructive neutron diffraction analysis of archaeological copper alloys: preliminary results

submitted by vagg 11 days ago

Analysis of residual stress in archaeological copper alloy artefacts by neutron diffraction has considerable potential for the investigation of early fabrication processes. However, residual stress...

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New UF study shows early North Americans lived with extinct giant beasts

submitted by jomelqoder 15 days ago

A new University of Florida study that determined the age of skeletal remains provides evidence humans reached the Western Hemisphere during the last ice age and lived alongside giant extinct mamma...

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Archaeology expands beyond traditional scope into other sciences

submitted by motenhas 18 days ago

Archaeology is a social science that utilizes information from other disciplines to inform and enhance archaeological data and to provide input to other sciences. Arizona State University Anthropol...

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Genes shed light on spread of agriculture in Stone Age Europe

submitted by vekosnoekowode 21 days ago

One of the most debated developments in human history is the transition from hunter-gatherer to agricultural societies. This week's web edition of Science presents the genetic findings of a Swedish...

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