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What can lithics tell us about food production during the transition to farming? Exploring harvesting practices and cultural changes during the neolithic in Southwest Asia: a view from Qminas (north‐western Syria)

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the continuity and change in harvesting practices between the Late Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B (LPPNB) and the Early Pottery Neolithic at Qminas, north‐western Levant, through a traceological analysis of flint sickles. By combining qualitative traceological analysis with quantitative functional approaches, we demonstrate that ...
Fiona Pichon, Osamu Maeda, Juan José Ibáñez Estévez, Patricia Anderson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Baseline isotopic variability in plants and animals and implications for the reconstruction of human diet in 1 st century AD Pompeii. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Soncin S, Amoretti V, Comegna C, Corbino CA, Mantile N, Altieri S, Di Cicco MR, Giacometti V, Bakker J, Caso M, Trentacoste A, Ellis S, Tafuri MA, Zuchtriegel G, Craig OE, Lubritto C.   +15 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Production of arsenical bronze using speiss on the Elephantine Island (Aswan, Egypt) during the Middle Kingdom (Middle Bronze Age) (c.2000–1650 BCE)

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Systematic bone tool production at 1.5 million years ago. [PDF]

Nature
de la Torre I, Doyon L, Benito-Calvo A, Mora R, Mwakyoma I, Njau JK, Peters RF, Theodoropoulou A, d'Errico F.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Soil wetting and drying processes influence stone artefact distribution in clay‐rich soils: A case study from Middle Gidley Island in Murujuga, northwest Western Australia

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Soils that contain swelling clay minerals (e.g., montmorillonite) expand and contract during wetting and drying, causing movement within the soil profile. This process, known as argilliturbation, can alter artefact distributions, destroy stratigraphy and complicate the interpretation of archaeological deposits.
Caroline Mather, Matthias Leopold, Kaitlin Sullivan, Kane Ditchfield, Tom Horrocks, Luke Gliganic, Emma Beckett, Diana Patalwala, Emielda Yusiharni, Michael Smirk, William Hiscock, Jo McDonald   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Toward a synthesis of Paleoamerican fluted point cultures in the Carolinas. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Daniel IR, Goodyear AC, Moore CR, Thulman DK, Wilkinson JE.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Oldest Traces of Alcoholic Beverages in the Border Zone of the North and East European Plains

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Analysis of organic compounds preserved on pottery from the Bell Beaker community and the initial phase of the Trzciniec Cultural Sphere in the border zone of the Eastern and North European Plains was prompted by traces of alcoholic beverages found in contextually and formally analogous discoveries of more westerly provenance.
Dariusz Manasterski, Katarzyna Januszek, Angelina Rosiak, Aleksandra Cetwińska, Joanna Kałużna‐Czaplińska   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Detection of <i>Clostridium sporogenes</i> in a Roman-era cattle mass grave at Vilauba. [PDF]

Virulence
Myburgh DA, da Silva NA, Haller-Caskie M, Colominas L, Castanyer P, Frigola J, Tremoleda J, Hölzel C, Unterweger D, Nebel A, Krause-Kyora B.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Provenance of Silver in the Viking‐Age Hoard From Bedale, North Yorkshire

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The acquisition of silver was a key motive propelling the Viking expansion out of Scandinavia; identifying the sources of Viking silver during the early part of the Viking Age can provide critical insights into the relative significance of western European and eastern, Islamic wealth in the Viking expansion.
Jane Kershaw, Stephen Merkel, Andrew Woods, Jane Evans, Vanessa Pashley, Simon Chenery   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Earliest evidence of rice cultivation in Remote Oceania: Ritual use by the first islanders in the Marianas 3500 years ago. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Carson MT, Wang W, Huan X, Dong S, Hung HC, Deng Z.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source