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Multi‐Century Grindstone Quarrying at Brumby Yard, Queensland
Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The timing and duration of prehistoric quarrying is poorly understood within Australia, with limited ages available for quarries owing to the difficulties in dating these rock‐sediment constructions. We report the first multi‐sample, optically stimulated luminescence ages from quarry pits in Brumby Yard, an Aboriginal grindstone quarry ...
Kieran McGee +4 more
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Archaeological Investigations at 41AN115 [PDF]
, 2005 41AN115 is located in the northwestern part of Anderson County, Texas, on a western terrace of Town Creek approximately nine miles from the Trinity River.
Amick, Clyde, Furman, Ed
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Археология евразийских степейThe archaeology of the Kola Peninsula is related to the archaeology of neighboring regions. The Early Neolithic (~5.3–4 millennia BC) is characterized by the Säräisniemi 1 ceramics of the two Varzina and Chavanga variants and the Pit-Comb, bifacial stone
Evgeniy M. Kolpakov +3 more
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Analytical Study of Lanolin as Potential Biomarker of Prehistoric Sheep‐Shearing Practice
Chemistry–Methods, EarlyView.Lanolin, a complex wax found on sheep wool, accumulates on shearing tools, such as flint and obsidian blades, used since the Neolithic. This study explores lanolin's degradation patterns as a potential biomarker for prehistoric sheep‐shearing practices, employing micro‐Fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy, hyperspectral imaging, and gas ...
Claudia Adsuar Fuster +8 more
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Metaphor and Materiality in Early Prehistory [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper we argue for a relational perspective based on metaphorical rather than semiotic understandings of human and hominin1 material culture. The corporeality of material culture and thus its role as solid metaphors for a shared experience of ...
Coward, Fiona, Gamble, C.
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Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A Late Upper Paleolithic (LUP) site containing Ahrensburgian‐type stone tools has been discovered at South Cuidrach, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Together with a group of intertidal stone circular alignments also recently discovered on the island, this new evidence for the occupation of northern Scotland also represents the most northerly LUP site ...
Karen Hardy +5 more
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Dating the Middle Palaeolithic of Fumane Cave by the combined ESR/U‐series method
Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Fumane Cave, located in Northern Italy, is a major prehistoric site for understanding late Neandertal and early modern human behaviours. The cave contains a 12‐m‐thick stratigraphic sequence of Middle and Upper Palaeolithic layers, which have yielded a number of flint artefacts and faunal remains.
Christophe Falguères +4 more
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Archive Report: Lithics from Cnoc an Fhoimheir, Lodge Farm, Kirkapol, Tiree [PDF]
, 2018 An analysis of the lithic assemblage from the excavations undertaken by Calluna Archaeology at Cnoc an Fhoimheir, Lodge Farm, Kirkapol ...
Wright, Dene
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores the marmalade machine, a mechanical device designed to slice orange peel. These niche objects were manufactured between roughly 1870 and 1938 in Britain. As a so‐called ‘labour‐saving’ gadget, the marmalade machine sliced orange peel quickly and effectively, removing the tedious process of slicing orange peel by hand ...
Katie Carpenter
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Three Stories About the Exploitation of “Chocolate” Flint During the Stone Age in Central Poland
Archaeologia Polona, 2018 This paper argues that, despite the purely physical nature of the process of the creation of blades that later will be components of multi-material tools, this is also like an artistic act.
Dominik Kacper Płaza, Piotr Papiernik
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