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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 299-322, May 2026.
In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
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Gleaning the Rocky Shore? 2500 Years of Coastal Resource Use at Red Bluff 1, GunaiKurnai Country, SE Australia

Archaeology in Oceania, Volume 61, Issue 1, Page 128-161, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Shell middens in Gippsland along the eastern half of Victoria's coastline have usually been characterised as small, short‐duration camp sites with relatively low shell densities and low taxonomic diversity. Here we present new excavation results from a dense, high‐diversity site at Red Bluff near the eastern end of GunaiKurnai Country, a ...
Patrick Faulkner, Bruno David, David M. Kennedy, Fiona Petchey, Joanna Fresløv, Ashleigh J. Rogers, Jillian Garvey, Rachel Kirby, Runjie Yuan, Russell Mullett, John Stanisic, Kyne Krusic‐Golub, V. Ruth Pullin, Matthew C. McDowell, Robert J. Skelly, Anthony Romano, Vanessa N. L. Wong, GunaiKurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation   +17 more
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Production of arsenical bronze using speiss on the Elephantine Island (Aswan, Egypt) during the Middle Kingdom (Middle Bronze Age) (c.2000–1650 BCE)

Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue S1, Page S38-S63, April 2026.
Abstract This paper presents the first direct evidence of the slags produced during the cementation alloying process of Cu with speiss inside ceramic crucibles, thus representing Cu alloying with As in Middle Kingdom Egypt. The settlement deposits from the Middle Bronze Age were excavated on Elephantine Island, within modern Aswan.
Jiří Kmošek, Martin Odler
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Shell‐Dense Island Off Culasawani, Vanua Levu Island, Fiji: Midden or Muddle?

Geoarchaeology, Volume 41, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
ABSTRACT Investigations of a 3000 m2 shell‐dense island surrounded by mangroves off the coast of Culasawani, a very lightly inhabited part of northern Vanua Levu Island in Fiji, suggest it is likely to be a ‘midden island’ rather than a (tsunami) wave deposit.
Patrick D. Nunn, Frank R. Thomas, Mereia Fong‐Lomavatu, Michelle McKeown, Mereoni Camailakeba, Elia Nakoro, Meli Nanuku, Niko Tokainavatu, Aaron Lomavatu, Roselyn Kumar   +9 more
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Strangers on the ladder of the party‐state: Women in teaching in Nationalist Taiwan, 1940s–1980s

Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 273-288, March 2026.
Abstract As the ruling party of a party‐state in China and Taiwan, the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang/Guomindang) built a close relationship with the teaching profession. Many teachers joined the party and there was a well‐trodden pathway from teaching into local representative politics and civil service.
Joseph Lawson
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Mills and society in early medieval northern Italy

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 3-33, February 2026.
Drawing on the extensive documentary record of northern Italy, available archaeological evidence, and comparative case studies from early medieval Europe, this study demonstrates that mill‐based landscapes in the Po and Friuli‐Venetian plains were shaped by society as a whole.
Marco Panato
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The Soil Erosion Paradox Re‐Examined: Alluviation and Land Use History in a Small British Lowland River Catchment in the Late Holocene

Geoarchaeology, Volume 41, Issue 1, January/February 2026.
ABSTRACT Modern studies show that soil erosion results in a loss of ecosystem function, particularly fertility, and is a cause of declining agricultural yields. However, despite the well‐attested high rates of soil erosion across Roman and medieval Europe there appears to have been little or no soil‐associated decline in agricultural production—the ...
Ben Pears, Emily Forster, Sam Hudson, Jayne Carroll, Richard Jones, Antony G. Brown   +5 more
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The local paleoenvironment of Kalavan‐2 based on small‐vertebrate remains and its implications for human‐environment‐dynamics between 60 and 35 ka in the Armenian Highlands

Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 153-177, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Kalavan‐2, a high‐altitude (∼1640 m a.s.l.) open‐air site in Armenia, preserves stratified Middle Paleolithic occupations with a rich small‐vertebrate record. Luminescence dating has placed site formation between ~60 and 45 ka, but without independent chronological control of the microvertebrate accumulation.
Dominik L. Rogall, Monika V. Knul, Hugues‐Alexandre Blain, Boris Gasparyan, Ariel Malinsky‐Buller   +4 more
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Cave Palaeolithic of the Ural Mountains – a review

Boreas, Volume 55, Issue 1, Page 4-28, January 2026.
The Ural Mountains are of fundamental importance for studying early human migrations along the geographical limits between Europe and Asia. Geological processes and past climates gave rise to numerous caves, mostly in Palaeozoic carbonate formations.
Jiri Chlachula
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Food globalization in southern Central Asia: archaeobotany at Bukhara between antiquity and the Middle Ages. [PDF]

Archaeol Anthropol Sci, 2023
Mir-Makhamad B, Stark S, Mirzaakhmedov S, Rahmonov H, Spengler RN.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source