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New data from the Middle Palaeolithic Cotencher cave (Swiss Jura): site formation, environment, and chronology [PDF]

Eiszeitalter und Gegenwart, 2019
Cotencher cave is one of the oldest Palaeolithic sites of Switzerland and is known for its rich faunal and Mousterian artefacts, the latter suggesting one or several passages of Neanderthal hunter–gatherer tribes.
J. Deák, F. Preusser, M.-I. Cattin, J.-C. Castel, F.-X. Chauvière   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Macquenoise sandstone : a suitable Lochkovian raw material for ancient millstones : quarries, properties, manufacture and distribution (Belgium-France) [PDF]

, 2016
International audienceSince a few years a French-Belgian team of archeologists and geologists work on the characterization of ancient quern stones and millstones (mainly from the Antique period) linked with the identification of their stratigraphical and
Cnudde, Veerle, De Clercq, Wim, Dreesen, Roland, Fronteau, Gilles, Goemaere, Eric, Hartoch, Else, Picavet, Paul, Reniere, Sibrecht   +7 more
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The Manufacture of Rochia nilotica rings: The chaîne opératoire Identified for Lapita Sites in Vanuatu

Archaeology in Oceania, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 201-219, October 2025.
ABSTRACT Rings made on marine shell are a conspicuous artefact form found throughout cultural sequences for much of the Pacific over millennia. Despite their importance in both recent and ancient times, in‐depth consideration of the manufacturing processes involved in shell ring production are limited.
Michelle C. Langley, Iarawai Phillip, Stuart Bedford   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Théorie et pratique du fruitier. Quelques données franciliennes : fouille, ethnographie et archives

In Situ, 2014
Le fruit est le dessert par excellence à l’époque moderne. Le fruitier ou fruiterie, entendu comme lieu de mûrissement et de stockage des fruits, est peu connu en Île-de-France, région longtemps (et encore) productrice de fruits pour Paris et le plus ...
Jean-Yves Dufour, Thalie Courelis, Jean-Jacques Péru   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fire Histories and Rainforest Aboriginal Archaeology in the Wet Tropics Bioregion, North Queensland

Archaeology in Oceania, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 234-269, October 2025.
ABSTRACT Unlike the dominant Australian savanna‐sclerophyll vegetation, tropical rainforests do not burn easily. Any evidence of fire in Australian rainforests therefore invites explanations of its source. Analysis of 187 radiocarbon dates that include selected charcoal fragments from 23 soil pits and 7 archaeological sites from the Wet Tropics ...
Richard Cosgrove, Åsa Ferrier, Fleur King, Laurance May, Simon Haberle, Ernie Raymont, Corrine Barlow, Judith Field, Patrick Moss, Ron Stager   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

LITTÉRATURE ET NUMÉRIQUE : ARCHÉOLOGIE D’UN PARADOXE

Préambule, 2018
Dès les premières expérimentations, l’association entre littérature et ordinateur a suscité de l’enthousiasme, mais aussi des critiques. Plus récemment, un désenchantement s’est emparé de beaucoup d’auteurs et de lecteurs face à l’emprise qu’exercent les
A. Saemmer
semanticscholar   +1 more source

New Insights Into Early Islamic Hydro‐Agricultural Strategies in Northwest Arabia: A Geoarchaeological Study of al‐Bint Dam (Sadd al‐Bint)

Geoarchaeology, Volume 40, Issue 5, September/October 2025.
ABSTRACT The Sadd al‐Bint is one of the largest known ancient dams in Saudi Arabia, and yet, its construction date, function and collapse remained uncertain. This study presents the first numerical chronology for the dam, integrating radiocarbon dating, Bayesian modelling, geomorphological analysis and hydrological modelling to reconstruct its history.
Bruno Depreux, Munirah AlMushawh, Stephen McPhillips, Guillaume Chung‐To, Sylvain Colin, Elora Chambraud, Kévin Guadagnini, Saifi AlShilali, Mashael AlDughailbi, Fatimah AlRashidi, Khalid AlKhaldi, Charlotte Faiers, Rémy Crassard, Guillaume Charloux   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Du point à l'espace (rural) : localisation de mentions textuelles et mise à l'épreuve de normes socio-spatiales

Bulletin du Centre d’Études Médiévales d’Auxerre, 2015
Geolocation of ancient sources is a challenge to historians and archaeologists who aims to adopt a spatial approach to their object of study. Known biases affecting the corpus of sources that have survived can often be considered prohibitive to any ...
Nicolas Poirier
doaj   +1 more source

Survey on Van Gogh’s early painting technique through the non-invasive and multi analytical study of Head of peasant

Heritage Science, 2020
The strong lighting of the face against a dark background, the bold brushstroke and the model’s expressiveness that characterize Van Gogh’s Head of peasant, belonging to the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium collections, are typical features found in
Catherine Defeyt, Dominique Marechal, Francisca Vandepitte, David Strivay   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

L’invention de l’invention : archéologie ou idéologie ?

, 2018
Comment expliquer l’inflation, dans les ouvrages des sciences humaines contemporains, de titres commencant par le mot ambigu d’invention ? L’anthropologie qui pretend en avoir fini avec les modeles archeologiques exaltant les « inventeurs grecs » peut ...
Gabrièle Wersinger-Taylor
semanticscholar   +1 more source