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Modeling, simulating, and comparing biased archaeological mortuary assemblages

International Journal of Population Studies, 2022
This paper uses a novel approach to compensate for inherent sampling biases and to compare the age profiles of two ancient Maya sacrificial assemblages to expectations from a model life table for traditional horticultural populations. It seeks to statistically rule out the possibility that either site is accumulated due to a standard mortality process ...
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Graman Revisited Once Again: A Reanalysis of the Late Holocene Legacy Faunal Assemblage From GB4 Rockshelter, New South Wales

Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The archaeological site Graman B4 provided one of the first records of substantial dietary change in ancient Australian Aboriginal society. Initial examination of the faunal remains from this site suggested that Late Holocene hunters reduced their focus on high‐ranked kangaroos to increasingly rely on arboreal possums; and that these ...
Loukas George Koungoulos, Jane Balme, Sue O'Connor   +2 more
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In defense of the soils. A hybrid perspective of archaeology of agriculture in the Andean high valleys (Catamarca, Argentina)

Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology
This paper aims at presenting soils as a suitable object for archaeological inquiry and, therefore, as part of material culture. This perspective is based on my Ph.D. research experience developed in three high valleys of north-western Argentina.
María Laura Taddei Salinas
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Caddo Ceramic Sherd Assemblage from a Hearth Feature at the Cherokee Lake Site (41RK132) in Rusk County, Texas [PDF]

, 2016
There is a collection of plain and decorated ceramic sherds in the Gregg County Historical Museum from a feature, described as either a fire pit or a hearth, excavated by Buddy Calvin Jones in March 1956 at the Cherokee Lake site (41RK132) on Toawichi ...
Perttula, Timothy K.
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Tracking the Dynamics of human Colonisation and Adaptation in Central Vanuatu: Preliminary Results From Excavation and Survey at Pangpang, East Efate

Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In October 2022 an extensive archaeological landscape was identified by staff of the Vanuatu Cultural Centre at Pangpang on the east coast of Efate Island in central Vanuatu. It included midden deposits on the banks of the Pangpang River near the sea at Forari Bay where Lapita and Early Erueti‐style pottery sherds were recovered.
Stuart Bedford, Iarawai Phillip, Lucas Sarvanu, Edson Willie, Stuart Hawkins, Robert Henderson, Frédérique Valentin, Siri Seoule, Emily Nutman, Phillip Parton   +9 more
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Caddo Ceramic Assemblage from a Site Across the Road from the Millsey Williamson Site in Rusk County, Texas [PDF]

, 2016
In archaeological investigations by Jones at the Nadaco Caddo Millsey Williamson site (41RK3), he identified a burial area on the western tip of an alluvial terrace landform on the east side of Martin Creek, as well as a village area to the east.
Perttula, Timothy K.
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Automated Feature Extraction and Classification of Submerged Cultural Heritage Assets in the Puck Lagoon via Multisensor Remote Sensing

Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents a strong framework for the detection and classification of Submerged Cultural Heritage Assets (SCHA) in shallow marine environments using the integration of multibeam echosounder and airborne LiDAR bathymetry with object‐based image analysis and fuzzy logic–based classification.
Łukasz Janowski, Andrzej Pydyn, Mateusz Popek, Anna M. Kotarba‐Morley, Paweł Tysiąc   +4 more
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Det store i det små – vikingtidens finsmeder under lupen

Primitive Tider, 2013
From small detail to big picture – a scientific analysis of Viking Age non-ferrous metalworkers. Archaeometallurgical analyses of the non-ferrous metalworking assemblage from Kaupang gave me valuable experience from scientific archaeology.
Unn Pedersen
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Who was buried with Nestor's Cup? Macroscopic and microscopic analyses of the cremated remains from Tomb 168 (second half of the 8th century BCE, Pithekoussai, Ischia Island, Italy).

PLoS ONE, 2021
Cremation 168 from the second half of the 8th century BCE (Pithekoussai's necropolis, Ischia Island, Italy), better known as the Tomb of Nestor's Cup, is widely considered as one of the most intriguing discoveries in the Mediterranean Pre-Classic ...
Melania Gigante, Alessia Nava, Robert R Paine, Ivana Fiore, Francesca Alhaique, Carmen Mariarosaria Esposito, Alessandra Sperduti, Jacopo Bonetto, Teresa Elena Cinquantaquattro, Bruno d'Agostino, Luca Bondioli   +10 more
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Additional Material Culture Remains from the Bowles Creek Site (41CE475) in Cherokee County, Texas [PDF]

, 2016
The Bowles Creek site is on a low alluvial rise in the Bowles Creek floodplain; Bowles Creek is a southward-flowing tributary of the Neches River. Stingley found the site in early 2015 during a surface walk over, when Caddo ceramic sherds were noted in a
Perttula, Timothy K., Stingley, Kevin
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