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Assessing human diet and movement in the Tongan maritime chiefdom using isotopic analyses.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2015
The rise of stratified societies fundamentally influences the interactions between status, movement, and food. Using isotopic analyses, we assess differences in diet and mobility of individuals excavated from two burial mounds located at the `Atele ...
Christina Stantis   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Dynamics of Anthropological Types of the Sarmatian Population That Left Staritsa Kurgan Cemetery

open access: yesНижневолжский археологический вестник, 2019
The paper presents the intergroup analysis made by the canonical method aimed at determining variability of anthropological types in chronological groups of the Sarmatian population that left Staritsa burial mound.
Mariya A. Balabanova
doaj   +1 more source

“Hidden” Landscape of Prehistoric Burial Monuments: The Use of Remote Sensing in the Detection of Neolithic Long Barrows in Bohemia (Czech Republic)

open access: yesArchaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Neolithic long barrows are among the earliest monumental structures in Europe, yet in many parts of Central Europe their surface expression has been largely erased by long‐term agricultural activity. This study evaluates the potential of integrated remote sensing approaches for identifying and contextualizing long barrows and associated ...
Petr Krištuf   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Craniological Materials of the Late Bronze Age from the Berezovsky V Kurgan Cemetery in the Trans Urals

open access: yesНижневолжский археологический вестник, 2020
This paper is dedicated to discussion of craniological materials obtained from Berezovsky 5 burial mound in the southern Trans-Urals during archaeological excavations in 1994. The mound necropolis dates back to the Late Bronze Age (14th to 13th сс.
Аleksey I. Nechvaloda
doaj   +1 more source

Multi‐Method Geophysical Surveys Between and Around the Kerlescan and the Manio Megalithic Alignments in Carnac (Morbihan, France)

open access: yesArchaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Carnac alignments in Morbihan (France) are among the most famous Neolithic sites of the world. Paradoxically, they have benefited little from a thorough renewal of archaeological data over the past century. There are many reasons for this, but it is mainly because the site has been regarded more as a monument to visit and protect than as ...
Guillaume Bruniaux   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biomineralization of primary carbonate cements: a new biosignature in the fossil record from the Anisian of Southern Italy

open access: yesLethaia, EarlyView., 2021
Biomineralization is a generic term used to indicate biological‐mediated mineral formation. In carbonate mineralization, nucleation of crystals can be: (1) controlled directly by the organisms, like in the skeletal formation of most metazoans; (2) induced by microbial communities, by indirect precipitation mediated by their metabolic activities; or (3)
Adriano Guido   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Burial Complex of the 1st Century AD from Kovalyovka Kurgan Gemetery

open access: yesНижневолжский археологический вестник, 2016
The present article is devoted to the burial complex of Kurgan No. 8 from Kovalyovka Cemetery located in the south of the Volga-Don interfluve, in the basin of the Aksay Yesaulovsky river. In the center of the burial mound surrounded by a circular ditch,
Aleksandr N. D’jachenko   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Layout and Size of an Early Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B Small Settlement Revealed by Geophysical Prospection at Harbetsuvan Tepesi in Southeastern Anatolia

open access: yesArchaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Upper Mesopotamia, the transition from the Pre‐Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) to Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) period, ca. 10 800–10 600 cal. BP, is marked by a series of changes in chipped stone industries, architectural forms, symbolic objects, regional distribution of settlements and long‐distance exchange networks among others.
Toshihiro Tada   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Materials of Burial Mound Ust-Pogozhye

open access: yesНижневолжский археологический вестник, 2017
Six burial mounds were excavated near the village of Ust-Pogozhye in the Ilovlinsky District of the Volgograd Region on the Berdiya River (the tributary of the Ilovlya River). There were burials of Yamna culture, Сatacomb culture and Srubna culture which
Vladislav I. Mamontov, Vasiliy V. Mataev
doaj   +1 more source

Mound of the Military Elite Sakas of Torgay

open access: yesПоволжская археология, 2020
The article is devoted to the results of excavations of one complex of the Saba burial ground in the Karatorgay river valley. The monument is located in the contact zone of two worlds: Sakas and Savromat-Sarmatian.
Onggaruly Akhan.   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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