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Soil wetting and drying processes influence stone artefact distribution in clay‐rich soils: A case study from Middle Gidley Island in Murujuga, northwest Western Australia

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Soils that contain swelling clay minerals (e.g., montmorillonite) expand and contract during wetting and drying, causing movement within the soil profile. This process, known as argilliturbation, can alter artefact distributions, destroy stratigraphy and complicate the interpretation of archaeological deposits.
Caroline Mather, Matthias Leopold, Kaitlin Sullivan, Kane Ditchfield, Tom Horrocks, Luke Gliganic, Emma Beckett, Diana Patalwala, Emielda Yusiharni, Michael Smirk, William Hiscock, Jo McDonald   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Material perception across different media-comparing perceived attributes in oil paintings and engravings. [PDF]

Iperception
Zhao Y, Stumpel J, de Ridder H, Wijntjes MWA.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Art by firelight? Using experimental and digital techniques to explore Magdalenian engraved plaquette use at Montastruc (France). [PDF]

PLoS One, 2022
Needham A, Wisher I, Langley A, Amy M, Little A.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Fiery Eyes of a Maenad: Origin Determination of Faceted Garnet Eye Inlays in a Roman Bronze Bust From Southern Tyrol

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1837, the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck, Austria, purchased a Roman bronze statue of a maenad from the 2nd century ce with red garnets as facetted eye inlays found near Brixen, Southern Tyrol. These garnets were investigated using optical microscopy, a portable hand‐held and a stationary micro‐X‐ray fluorescence device, as
H. Albert Gilg, Simon Wagner, Anton Höck, Peter Tropper   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Art beyond cognition: reframing Neanderthal art through social connectivity and cultural transmission. [PDF]

Evol Hum Sci
Straffon L, Tennie C.
europepmc   +1 more source

First discovery of charcoal-based prehistoric cave art in Dordogne. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2023
Reiche I, Coquinot Y, Trosseau A, Maigret A.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Six Cardiac and Vascular Cases: With Remarks and Engravings

British medical journal, 1881
E. Rickards
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Mapping Language: Names, Speakers and Voices

Area, EarlyView.
Short Abstract In this conversational piece, we reflect on our experience of working with and on maps and map‐makers that have shaped linguistic conventions and ideas, suggesting geographers have much to contribute by engaging with such mapping. It illuminates how maps rendered the unpredictable geography of speakers and the naming of places as ...
Beth Williamson, Philip Jagessar
wiley   +1 more source

Identifying potential palaeolithic artificial memory systems via Spatial statistics: Implications for the origin of quantification. [PDF]

Archaeol Anthropol Sci
Courtenay LA, d'Errico F, Núñez R, Blasi DE.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A 36,200-year-old carving from Grotte des Gorges, Amange, Jura, France. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2023
d'Errico F, David S, Coqueugniot H, Meister C, Dutkiewicz E, Pigeaud R, Sitzia L, Cailhol D, Bosq M, Griggo C, Affolter J, Queffelec A, Doyon L.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source