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XRONOS: An Open Data Infrastructure for Archaeological Chronology

Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology
XRONOS (https://xronos.ch) is an open data infrastructure for the backbone of the archaeological record – chronology. It provides open access to published radiocarbon dates and other chronometric data from any period, anywhere in the world.
Joe Roe, Clemens Schmid, Setareh Ebrahimiabareghi, Caroline Heitz, Martin Hinz   +4 more
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Alloy ratio and raw material sourcing of Warring States Period bronze bracelets in Huili County, Southwest China by pXRF and MC-ICP-MS

Heritage Science, 2020
Up to now, there have been few monographic analyses of metal ornaments in China. This study presents a case study of the metallurgical archaeology on bracelets from Huili (会理), which may shed light on the issue as production status, technical level, use ...
Dian Chen, Yingdong Yang, Jing Du, Xiang Tang, Wugan Luo   +4 more
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Deeply divergent archaic mitochondrial genome provides lower time boundary for African gene flow into Neanderthals

Nature Communications, 2017
Ancient DNA keeps expanding our understanding of complex genetic relationships between Pleistocene hominins. Here, Posth and colleagues analyse the mitochondrial genome of an archaic human that diverged from other Neanderthals ∼270,000 years ago ...
Cosimo Posth, Christoph Wißing, Keiko Kitagawa, Luca Pagani, Laura van Holstein, Fernando Racimo, Kurt Wehrberger, Nicholas J. Conard, Claus Joachim Kind, Hervé Bocherens, Johannes Krause   +10 more
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Assessing the applicability of protein residues in combination with lipid residues to reconstruct Indus foodways from Gujarat

Quaternary Environments and Humans
When extracted and analysed in tandem, proteomics and lipid residue analysis can provide high resolution identification of ancient foodstuff. Here, we apply lipid residue and shotgun proteomic analyses to 11 ceramic vessel sherds from the Gujarat, India ...
Kalyan Sekhar Chakraborty, Lindsey Paskulin, Prabodh Shirvalkar, Yadubirsingh Rawat, Heather M.-L. Miller, Greg Slater, Camilla Speller   +6 more
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Home is where my villa is: a machine learning-based predictive suitability map for Roman features in Northern Noricum (ca. 50–500 CE/Lower Austria/AUT)

Journal of Maps
This study presents the first suitability map for identifying Roman-era archaeological features in Northern Noricum (modern Lower Austria/AUT) from ca. 50 – 500 CE.
Dominik Hagmann
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‘Lexicon of Katyn Archaeology (1990–2015)’. An Attempt at Consilience, a Model of Integrative Perspective

Fasciculi Archaeologiae Historicae
This article discusses the main assumptions and methodological procedures used in the ‘Lexicon of Katyn Archaeology (1990–2015)’ project. The authors highlight the research and social significance of archaeological research into the Katyn Massacre. They
Aleksandra Krupa-Ławrynowicz, Olgierd Ławrynowicz   +1 more
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Editorial

Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 2001
The Smithsonian Institution has long been one of the most important arenas for archaeological re­search in the United States and around the world.
Douglas R. Givens
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New questions for an old problem: technological choices as indexes to the study of social boundaries and identities in the archaeological record [PDF]

Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, 2007
The relation between artefactual variability and social identities in the archaeological record is one of the main issues of the archaeological research, regardless of the theoretical approach. In Brazilian archaeology, this question has being approached
Adriana Schmidt Dias
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Addressing Split Collections in NAGPRA Compliance

Advances in Archaeological Practice
Legacy collections frequently originate from Indigenous archaeological sites with extensive histories of investigation and removal by numerous institutions and individuals.
Jennifer R. Haas, Kevin Garstki, Adrienne Frie   +2 more
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Curanderas a la sombra de la Huaca de la Luna

Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2004
This paper presents archaeological information about female healers or curanderas that are represented on Moche ceramics discovered in the archaeological complex of the Huaca del Sol and the Huaca de la Luna.
Bonnie Glass-Coffin, Douglas Sharon, Santiago Uceda   +2 more
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