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Design and Development of a Scientific Lithotheque: Application to the LitUCA Case Study (University of Cádiz)

open access: yesHeritage
The creation of the LitUCA lithotheque represents a significant methodological advance in geoarchaeological research in the southwest of Spain. This article presents a systematic framework for the conservation, documentation, and digital integration of ...
José Luis Ramírez-Amador   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Marine Isotope Stage 4 glaciation in northern England, UK: Evidence from Victoria Cave, North Yorkshire

open access: yesJournal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Victoria Cave, north Yorkshire, England, contains a long sequence of Pleistocene clastic sediments and calcite flowstones. Earlier work, using U–Th dating, established that the flowstone units formed in interglacial stages corresponding to Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 13, 11, 9, 7 and 5.
Tom C. Lord   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geoarchaeological Studies in Paphos – First Results

open access: yesStudies in Ancient Art and Civilization, 2015
The geoarchaeological research conducted consisted of a geomorphological prospecting of the Paphos region and a geophysical examination of the ancient town of Nea Paphos and its agora.
Tomasz Kalicki   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hydraulic reconstruction of catastrophic drainage from the Late Glacial, Lake Fraser, British Columbia, Canada

open access: yesJournal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Glacial Lake Fraser, which formed in British Columbia against the retreating Cordilleran Ice Sheet, stored ~520 km3 of water before its near‐total drainage into the Salish Sea during an outburst flood event. Despite the impact of the outburst flood on sediment transport and landscape evolution in the Fraser River valley, its peak discharge and
Sean M. Loeffler   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Farming in the shadows of Rome: A multi‐proxy palaeoenvironmental record from Loch Clunie—Perthshire

open access: yesJournal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Roman impacts on local society is a subject of international significance. Loch Clunie, Perthshire, lies only 5.4 km from Inchtuthil, the only Roman legionary fortress in Scotland, and contains two crannogs and a probable lakeside hillfort. Despite this proximity and the likelihood of local–Roman interaction, these sites remain unexcavated ...
Samantha E. Jones   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamiques croisées des milieux et des sociétés dans les basses terres tropicales mayas : hydrosystème et agrosystème à Naachtun (Guatemala)

open access: yesLes Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2016
Managing resources in inter-tropical environment has always been a critical issue for the rise and prosperity of complex societies. The socio-ecological system of Naachtun, a large Classic Period Maya city (AD 250-950), lies at the heart of this issue ...
Cyril Castanet   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Geoarchaeology and Environmental History Research Cluster, University of Stirling

open access: yes, 2014
Geoarchaeology and Environmental History Research Cluster, University of Stirling Directeur/Director : Simpson Ian (i.a.simpson@stir.ac.uk) Coordonnées/Contact details : Biological and Environmental Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, University of ...
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Shared foraging behaviors between hyenas and hominins in the Middle Paleolithic Levant: New evidence from Geula Cave, Israel

open access: yesJournal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While competition with large carnivores is likely to have shaped Middle Paleolithic hominins' subsistence behavior, palimpsested human and carnivore accumulations render the signal challenging to isolate. This study presents a detailed zooarchaeological and taphonomic analysis of a non‐anthropogenic faunal assemblage from a MIS 5 (~130–80 ka ...
Meir Orbach   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The geomorphology, geoarchaeology and alluvial history of the Frome Valley

open access: yes, 2011
Geoarchaeology of the Frome ...
Dinnin, Mark   +2 more
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Late Holocene environmental history of Dojran, Macedonia: Investigating the interplay of imperial dynamics and climatic change

open access: yesJournal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents a high‐resolution, multi‐proxy reconstruction of environmental and land‐use change from Lake Dojran over historical times (last 2500 years), combining pollen, biomarkers, radiocarbon dating, Ottoman taxation records and other historical data.
Alessia Masi   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

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