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Archaeological Investigations Associated with Mission San Juan (41BX5) Church Underpinning, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas: Volume I

open access: yes, 2014
The Center for Archaeological Research (CAR) was contracted by Pugh Constructors, Inc. of San Antonio, Texas, to conduct archaeological investigations in association with the underpinning of the current church walls at Mission San Juan de Capistrano ...
Mauldin, Raymond P.   +6 more
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Glassow: An Archaeological Overview of the Northern Channel Islands, California, Including Santa Barbara Island [PDF]

open access: yes, 1978
An Archaeological Overview of the Northern Channel Islands, California, Including Santa Barbara Island. Michael A. Glassow. Tucson: Western Archeological Center, U. S. National Park Service, 1977.
Hoover, Robert L
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Trace Element Patterns in Juvenile Wild Chimpanzee Dentitions

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Trace elements are used to infer mammalian early‐life diets, environmental toxins, dispersal patterns, stress histories, and weaning ages. Here, we employ laser ablation‐inductively coupled plasma‐mass spectrometry (LA‐ICP‐MS) to reveal elemental patterns in our closest living relatives, chimpanzees.
Tanya M. Smith   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Provenance Analysis Based on Cluster In‐Betweenness and Support Vector Machines: Identifying Migrant Candidates Using Multi‐Isotope Fingerprints

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Provenance reconstruction using strontium and lead stable isotopes can produce complex multidimensional fingerprints, challenging traditional methods. Identifying nonlocals, who migrated between sites, is a major task. Migrants are identifiable by divergent multi‐isotope fingerprints due to isotopic mixing between origin and destination sites.
Andrea Göhring   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Maritime and Marine Historic Environment Research Framework: the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age

open access: yes, 2010
Maritime themes have long been established in both Neolithic and Early Bronze Age research in England. From Crawford’s (1912) identification of the western seaways as a critical conduit for prehistoric communication, through Childe’s (1946, 36 ...
Van-de-Noort, Robert, Sturt, Fraser
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Navigating the Flames: Comparative Analysis of Cremation Practices in the Roman and Early Medieval Periods at Gbely‐Kojatín (SK) and Přítluky (CZ)

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Cremation became the dominant funerary practice in the Middle Danube Region during the Roman Period (RP) (1st–4th century) and reappeared in the Early Medieval Ages (EMA) (6th/7th–8th century). This study aims to reconstruct differences in cremation conditions from the Gbely‐Kojatín site (Slovakia, RP and EMA) and the Přítluky site (Czech ...
Katarína Hladíková   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Archaeological testing to determine the National Register eligibility status of 18 prehistoric sites on Camp Bowie, Brown County, Texas, Volume I

open access: yes, 2003
Between the fall of 1999 and the summer of 2001, archaeologists from the Center for Archaeological Research (CAR) at The University of Texas at San Antonio conducted National Register Eligibility testing on 18 prehistoric sites within Camp Bowie in Brown
Mauldin, Raymond P.   +2 more
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Biometric Analysis of Giant and Large Murid Remains From Matja Kuru 2, Timor‐Leste

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Published research on Matja Kuru 2 (MK2) demonstrates its significance for understanding human lifestyle during the terminal Pleistocene and Holocene. Murids represent the most commonly identified taxa in the site, with specimens preliminarily classified as small, large and giant based on size comparisons.
Sarah Hannan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The social lives of lived and inscribed objects: a Lapita perspective

open access: yes, 2008
As James Cook and his men on the Resolution and Discovery sailed through Polynesia and the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America, they were treated to a number of welcome rituals and ceremonial performances.
Marshall, Yvonne
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Objects in Context, Objects in Use: Material Spatiality in Late Antiquity (Late Antique Archaeology 5) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This book promotes the study of material spatiality in late antiquity: not just the study of buildings, but of the people, dress and objects used within them, drawing on all available source material.

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