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SERF Archive Report: Lithics from WH15 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Analysis of the lithic assemblage from SERF excavations of an Early Neolithic pit cluster, and a Bronze Age cist with cremation deposit undertaken at Wellhill, Dunning in ...
Wright, Dene
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The agency of a marmalade machine: Gender, class and mechanical gadgets in the British Kitchen, c.1870–1938

open access: yesGender &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
wiley   +1 more source

Lithic analysis in African archaeology: Advances and key themes

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Stone artifacts (lithics) preserve for extended periods; thus they are key evidence for probing the evolution of human technological behaviors. Africa boasts the oldest record of stone artifacts, spanning 3.3 Ma, rare instances of ethnographic stone tool‐making, and stone tool archives from diverse ecological settings, making it an anchor for ...
Deborah I. Olszewski   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

An early Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Quarrington, near Sleaford, Lincolnshire : report on excavations, 2000-2001 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
[FIRST PARAGRAPH] The early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries in the Kesteven part of Lincolnshire form two distinct distribution patterns (Fig.1): a north-south line along, or just to the west of, the limestone edge between the former Roman towns of Lincoln and ...
Dickinson, T.M.
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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)

open access: yesArchaeometry, 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
wiley   +1 more source

A Viking burial at Balnakeil, Sutherland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
A full discussion of a young Viking male pagan grave with full consideration of its context and broader significance in the context of the Norse in the British ...
Batey, C., Paterson, C.
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Aztec obsidian industries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Obsidian was the primary lithic or stone material used for cutting activities in Aztec society, including domestic food production, craft production, hunting, warfare, and ritual.
Carballo, David M., Pastrana, Alejandro
core   +1 more source

Medieval weaponry from the River Dziwna, the Wolin Commune, in the light of metallographic analyses

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

open access: yesArchaeometry, 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

‘You Load Sixteen Tons, What Do You Get?’. The Jodłowno Hoard (Pomerania, Poland) as Evidence of Long‐Distance Contacts in the Early Iron Age

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents multifaceted analyses of metal artefacts from the Jodłowno Hoard (Northern Poland), revealing that the metal originated from Iberian polymetallic ore deposits. Transported as raw ingots via Atlantic maritime routes, this copper was reworked locally into regionally distinctive forms.
K. Nowak   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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