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Bronze Age Swordsmanship: New Insights from Experiments and Wear Analysis
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2020 The article presents a new picture of sword fighting in Middle and Late Bronze Age Europe developed through the Bronze Age Combat Project . The project investigated the uses of Bronze Age swords, shields, and spears by combining integrated experimental ...
Raphael Hermann +4 more
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.Abstract We examine the number of sites with silver objects in China over a period of 3500 years to suggest that technologies that stimulated the indigenous exploitation of silver‐bearing ores were innovated during the Spring and Autumn period (c. 770–476 BCE), and that increased centralisation and bureaucratisation from the Warring States period (475 ...
Jonathan R. Wood, Yaxiong Liu
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Access Track 81 - Tower TD125, Pittentian, Crieff, Perth & Kinross: Archive Report: the lithic assemblage (4008161) [PDF]
, 2018 An analysis of the lithic assemblage form the excavations undertaken by Northlight Heritage at Pittentian ...
Wright, Dene
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Journal of Paleolithic ArchaeologyThe Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in France and northern Spain reflects the transition from Neandertals to Homo sapiens and the emergence of novel cultural entities and standardised blade and bladelet technologies between ~ 55 and 40 thousand ...
Igor Djakovic +2 more
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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 +3 more
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The Tay Landscape Partnership Scheme: Report on the assessment of Mesolithic lithic artefacts [PDF]
, 2012 The archaeological record for Mesolithic events in Perth and Kinross has proved elusive. On behalf of the Tay Landscape Partnership Scheme an investigation of the lithic assemblages from Perth and Kinross held in the collections of the National Museums ...
Wright, Dene
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Mesolithic projectile variability along the southern North Sea basin (NW Europe) : hunter-gatherer responses to repeated climate change at the beginning of the Holocene [PDF]
, 2019 This paper investigates how former hunter-gatherers living along the southern North Sea coast in NW Europe adapted to long-term and short-term climatic and environmental changes at the beginning of the Holocene.
Crombé, Philippe
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Medieval weaponry from the River Dziwna, the Wolin Commune, in the light of metallographic analyses
Fasciculi Archaeologiae Historicae, 2015 Technological examinations of weaponry found in the River Dziwna near Wolin were carried out in the Laboratory for Bio- and Archaeometry of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Paweł Gan, Zdzisław Hensel
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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
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Analysis of New Artifact Collections from Archaic to Ancestral Caddo Sites in the Saline Creek Basin in Northern Smith County, Texas [PDF]
, 2014 This article concerns the continued documentation of prehistoric and/or historic artifacts from four sites in the Saline Creek drainage basin in the Post Oak Savannah in northern Smith County, Texas.
Perttula, Timothy K., Thacker, Mark
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