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The power of the past: materializing collective memory at early medieval lordly centres

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 34-69, February 2026.
The repurposing of earlier sites and monuments is an enduringly popular theme in early medieval archaeology, but in England it has attracted little interest among Late Saxon and early post‐Conquest studies. From the tenth century, however, an increasingly prevalent pattern is discernible of secular lords locating their power centres in relation to ...
Duncan W. Wright, Oliver H. Creighton, David Gould, Scott Chaussée, Tim Kinnaird, Michael Shapland, Aayush Srivastava, Sam Turner   +7 more
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About appearance of mega-hillforts in the Ukrainian Forest-Steppe in the early Scythian time: the search for an explanatory model

Tyragetia, 2020
Megaconstrucţiile antichităţii reprezintă întotdeauna un fenomen remarcabil, neobişnuit şi, într-o anumită măsură, misterios, evidenţiindu-se între alte manifestări ordinare.
Marina Daragan
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GATHERING THE HARVEST: THE COLLECTION AND TRANSPORTATION OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE IN ROMAN CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND PETERBOROUGH

Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 68-92, February 2026.
Summary When Rome colonized Britain, it created a transport network spanning the province. This transformed the Iron Age economy, creating large new markets which in turn supported specialized manufacturing. This article explores the impact of transportation on Roman agriculture – the core of the Romano‐British economy.
Rob Wiseman, with contributions by Rachel Fosberry, Martha Craven   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Archaeological Site Detection: Latest Results from a Deep Learning Based Europe Wide Hillfort Search

Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology
The increasing availability and resolution of LiDAR data are revolutionizing landscape archaeology, enabling unprecedented large-scale studies. However, the time-intensive nature of manual analysis has posed significant challenges.
Jürgen Landauer, Simon Maddison, Giacomo Fontana, Axel G. Posluschny   +3 more
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Hiding in Plain Sight: Rethinking the Size and Complexity of Iron Age Hillforts in NW Iberia Thanks to Aerial Archaeology and Geophysics

Archaeological Prospection, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 63-85, January/March 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper tackles one key limitation in the analysis of Iron Age communities in the Northwestern Iberian Peninsula: the limited exploration of areas beyond the fortified settlements known as castros (hillforts). The vast majority of archaeological studies have focused exclusively on the areas inside the walls of these settlements, which are ...
César Parcero‐Oubiña, Carlos Otero‐Vilariño, María Gómez‐Faro, Jesús Ignacio Jiménez Chaparro, Pastor Fábrega‐Álvarez, Juan Torrejón‐Valdelomar, Marta Crespo‐Fernández, David González‐Álvarez   +7 more
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Conservation and Use of Archaeological Heritage in Ulyanovsk Oblast

Поволжская археология, 2017
This article addresses the problems of preservation and use of archaeological sites on the territory of the Ulyanovsk Oblast, where over 700 sites were discovered.
Semykin Yuriy A
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Small grassland patches are hotspots for medicinal plants and associated phytochemical diversity in European agricultural landscapes

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 1, Page 231-244, January 2026.
Besides being important components of landscape‐level biodiversity, medicinal plants are essential resources for traditional and modern healthcare. However, human‐driven biodiversity loss has resulted in the decline of medicinal plant populations. By maintaining connections between nature, culture, and people, sacred natural sites can help counteract ...
Rita Engel, Orsolya Valkó, Attila Lengyel, Ádám Bede, Balázs Deák   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geoarchaeology in the Absence of Layers: Large‐Scale Sampling From an Iron Age Urban Context in the Southern Levant

Geoarchaeology, Volume 40, Issue 6, November/December 2025.
ABSTRACT Understanding the impact of erosion and postdepositional processes is essential for reconstructing site formation in ancient tells. At Tel1 Burna, a multiperiod stratified site in the Shephelah region of central Israel, we integrate portable X‐ray fluorescence (pXRF), portable optically stimulated luminescence (pOSL), and organic residue ...
Martin P. Janovský, Sabina Millerová, Chris McKinny, Oren Ackermann, Lenka Lisá, Jan Fišer, Tziona Ben‐Gedalya, Daniel Imas, Cynthianne Spiteri, Polina Nikolskaia, Itzick Shai   +10 more
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Use of Earth Remote Sensing Method in Searching for Fortified Structures in the Territory of Mongolia and Western Transbaikalia

Археология евразийских степей, 2021
The paper features the results of an analysis of satellite images of the territory of Mongolia and Western Transbaikalia obtained from free sources. Monitoring of the images allowed to identify new objects, which are interpreted by the authors as the ...
Denis A. Miyagaschev, Bilikto A. Bazarov, Yaroslav V. Dikiy   +2 more
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FRAUGHT WITH HIGH TRAGEDY: A CONTEXTUAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL RECONSIDERATION OF THE MAIDEN CASTLE IRON AGE ‘WAR CEMETERY’ (ENGLAND)

Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page 270-295, August 2025.
Summary The Iron Age ‘war cemetery’ of Maiden Castle hillfort, Dorset, England, is one of the most internationally celebrated of British archaeological discoveries, levels of trauma recorded on skeletons found there being interpreted as evidence for a Roman massacre.
Martin Smith, Miles Russell, Paul Cheetham   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source