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Plastic raw materials in Neolithic pottery production
Documenta Praehistorica, 2012 The paper is dedicated to the investigation of various natural silts as the most ancient type of raw material used in pottery production. The authors describe the specific features of the composition of plain and mountain silts, and discover the same ...
Alexander A. Bobrinsky +1 more
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Specialized rainforest hunting by Homo sapiens ~45,000 years ago
Nature Communications, 2019 As modern humans migrated out of Africa, they encountered novel habitats. Here, Wedage et al. study the archaeological site of Fa-Hien Lena in Sri Lanka and show that the earliest human residents of the island practiced specialized hunting of small ...
Oshan Wedage +13 more
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Multidisciplinary History of Goats in Finland: A Comparative Approach
Heritage, 2022 This article aims to study the history of goats (Capra hircus) in Finland using a multisource approach combining zooarchaeological data with evidence from written sources, the Silver Tax Record of 1571, and statistical data from the year 1900. We present
Auli Bläuer +3 more
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Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology, 2020 The present paper is presenting a case study of a controlled archaeological investigation on an area from the former colonia of Napoca in Roman Dacia (today, Cluj-Napoca in Romania).
Cristian Gazdac, Sorin Cocis
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Ancient proteins provide evidence of dairy consumption in eastern Africa
Nature Communications, 2021 Consuming the milk of other species is a unique adaptation of Homo sapiens. Here, the authors carry out proteomic analysis of dental calculus of 41 ancient individuals from Sudan and Kenya, indicating milk consumption occurred as soon as herding spread ...
Madeleine Bleasdale +27 more
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La Grava The Archaeology and History of a Royal Manor and Alien Priory of Fontevrault
, 2013 The site of La Grava (known locally as Grove Priory) lies on the border between historic Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, south of Leighton Buzzard. Much of the core of the site and elements of its associated field closes (1.85ha of an area of 7.8ha ...
Albion Archaeology
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RECORDS REACHING RECORDING DATA TECHNOLOGIES [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2013 The goal of RECORDS (Reaching Recording Data Technologies) is the digital capturing of buildings and cultural heritage objects in hard-to-reach areas and the combination of data. It is achieved by using a modified crane from film industry, which is able
G. W. L. Gresik, S. Siebe, R. Drewello
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Whole‐genome analysis of 1,054 chickens reveals three ancestral sources (NWC, SYA, and SHF) with distinct temporal entry patterns into the Tibetan Plateau. Route‐specific selection scans, calibrated against a demographic null, suggest complementary functional enrichments—vascular homeostasis (NWC), calcium signaling and cardiac adaptation (SYA), and ...
Zongyi Zhao +7 more
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From Town to Countryside: Middle-Byzantine Bath-Houses in Eastern Crete and Their Changing Functions
Land, 2018 The article examines the context of a recently discovered double bath-house complex in Loutres, a site near Mochlos on the north shore of eastern Crete.
Natalia Poulou, Anastasios Tantsis
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An Aegean History and Archaeology Written through Radiocarbon Dates
Journal of Open Archaeology Data, 2020 This dataset is the outcome of an INSTAP-funded project “An Aegean Prehistory Written in Radiocarbon Dates”. It includes 3159 14C dates from 353 sites in Greece and reflects an attempt to exhaustively collect and cross-check all published radiocarbon ...
Markos Katsianis +3 more
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