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Talc‐Tempered Pottery From Bala Hissar, Kabul: An Analytical Study

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Potsherds of cooking ware excavated at Bala Hissar archaeological site in Kabul were studied using X‐ray fluorescence (XRF), scanning electron microscope‐energy dispersive X‐ray spectrometry (SEM‐EDS), Raman spectroscopy, X‐ray powder diffraction (XRPD), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and optical microscopy.
Parviz Holakooei, Babak Rafiei‐Alavi, Hafizullah Hazim, Hasti Pezeshkanjalili, Lara Maritan   +4 more
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Faunal Deposits in Pre-Beaker Funerary Contexts at Humanejos (Parla, Madrid, Spain). [PDF]

Animals (Basel)
Estaca-Gómez V, Aguilar-Molina L, Herrero-Corral AM, Paulos-Bravo R, Maicas R, Flores-Fernández R, Garrido-Pena R, Yravedra J.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Technologies of Transition: Pottery Production and Specialization in Early Rome and Its Neighbors. Neutron Activation Analysis of Regional Assemblages and a Mineralogical‐Petrographic Study of Impasto Chiaro‐Sabbioso

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The following paper investigates ceramic production and signs of specialization in Rome and the wider region during the early first millennium bce, through an archaeometric approach using Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA), and complementary techniques.
Mattia D'Acri, Maria Verde, Alberto De Bonis, Vincenzo Morra, Brandi L. MacDonald   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Maya Postclassic persistence in the Birds of Paradise Wetland Fields, Belize. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Sánchez-Morales LM, Beach TP, Luzzadder-Beach S, Krause S, Cook D, Smith B, Lentz D, Quiroz C, Pratt W, Phillips L, Guderjan T, Hanratty C, Valdez F.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Making of Forum Ware: A High‐Resolution Archaeometric Study of Early Medieval Glazed Pottery From the Templum Pacis (Imperial Forum, Rome)

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The object of this study consists of an archaeometric investigation of Early medieval Forum Ware glazed ceramics found in the central archaeological area of Rome, a significant chronological and economic marker for 8th–11th centuries. Instrumental analysis included digital microscopy, ESEM‐EDS imaging, EDS spectral analysis, EMPA quantitative ...
Martina Bernardi, Simona Boccuti, Emiliano Di Luzio   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Monumental rock art illustrates that humans thrived in the Arabian Desert during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Guagnin M, Shipton C, Al-Jibreen F, Losi G, Kalifi A, Armitage SJ, Stileman F, Stewart M, Al-Tamimi F, Breeze PS, van Buchem F, Drake N, Al-Shamry M, Al-Shammari A, Al-Wadani J, Alsharekh AM, Petraglia M.   +16 more
europepmc   +1 more source

An Uncommon Instance of Egyptian Blue in the “Pigmented Intonachino” of the Fishpond Wall Painting From the Roman Villa of Torre di Pordenone (Northeast Italy)

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The increasingly close integration of analytical techniques in the study of Greek and Roman wall paintings has shown that Egyptian blue was a common pigment, widely documented in the production of blue and greenish hues in ancient painted production.
Simone Dilaria, Clelia Sbrolli, Hilary Becker, Yotam Asscher, Anna De Zotti, Monica Salvadori   +5 more
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An interoperable catalogue of Middle and Late Bronze Age settlements in western Anatolia (c. 2000-1200 BCE). [PDF]

Sci Data
Aşınmaz A, Mutlu S, Zangger E.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Massif Central as a Centre of Roman Brass Production? New Geochemical Data of the So‐Called Hemmoor Buckets

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT New analytical data of the so‐called Hemmoor buckets, a group of brass vessels from the Roman period of the 2nd to 3rd century ad that are widespread throughout central and eastern Europe, show considerable similarities with the polymetallic Cévennes ore deposits in south‐eastern France in terms of their geochemical characteristics and lead ...
Tobias B. Skowronek, Michael Bode, Norbert Hanel, Daniel Neumann, Moritz Jansen, Karl Schmeer   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Complex perishable technologies from the North American Great Basin reveal specialized Late Pleistocene adaptations. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Rosencrance RL, Smith GM, McDonough KN, Jazwa CS, Antonosyan M, Kallenbach EA, Connolly TJ, Culleton BJ, Puseman K, McGuinness M, Jenkins DL, Stueber DO, Endzweig PE, Roberts P.   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source