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Permafrost preservation reveals proteomic evidence for yak milk consumption in the 13th century

Communications Biology, 2023
Proteomic evidence from permafrost human dental calculus indicates consumption of yak milk in Mongolia as early as 1270 CE.
Alicia R. Ventresca Miller, Shevan Wilkin, Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan, Abigail Ramsøe, Julia Clark, Batsuren Byambadorj, Sandra Vanderwarf, Nils Vanwezer, Ashleigh Haruda, Ricardo Fernandes, Bryan Miller, Nicole Boivin   +11 more
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Chemical Modification of Biomarkers through Accelerated Degradation: Implications for Ancient Plant Identification in Archaeo-Organic Residues

Molecules, 2022
Biochemical and biomolecular archaeology is increasingly used to elucidate the consumption, use, origin, and trade of plants in the past. However, it can be challenging to use biomarkers to identify the taxonomic origin of archaeological plants due to ...
Barbara Huber, Daniel Giddings Vassão, Patrick Roberts, Yiming V. Wang, Thomas Larsen   +4 more
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Now the wars are over: The past, present and future of Scottish battlefields [PDF]

, 2010
Battlefield archaeology has provided a new way of appreciating historic battlefields. This paper provides a summary of the long history of warfare and conflict in Scotland which has given rise to a large number of battlefield sites.
C Duffy, D Smurthwaite, DD Scott, G Foard, G MacDonald Fraser, GS Maxwell, Iain Banks, J Cooper, J Fraser, K Durham, L Alcock, O Lelong, P Harrington, P Salway, S Reid, T Pollard, T Pollard, T Pollard, T Pollard, T Pollard, T Pollard, T Pollard, Tony Pollard, W Hutton   +23 more
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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, Irina N. Vasilyeva   +1 more
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Archeologia klasyczna w poszukiwaniu swej tożsamości. Między przeszłością, teraźniejszą a historią sztuki [PDF]

, 2018
The article defines classical archaeology as one of the first and oldest branches of archaeology practised in Europe by stressing that interests in the relics of ancient civilisations have been deeply embedded in the cultural self-identification of ...
Bugaj, Ewa
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Narrating landscape: The potential of oral history for landscape archaeology [PDF]

, 2012
Reproduced with permission of the publisher. © 2004 James & James(Science Publishers) Ltd.The potential of an oral history approach to the study of landscape archaeology is considered.
Brown, Tony, Harvey, David, Mills, Sara, Riley, Mark   +3 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, Noel Amano, Michelle C. Langley, Katerina Douka, James Blinkhorn, Alison Crowther, Siran Deraniyagala, Nikos Kourampas, Ian Simpson, Nimal Perera, Andrea Picin, Nicole Boivin, Michael Petraglia, Patrick Roberts   +13 more
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COINS IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXT. ARE THEY USEFUL TO THE ARCHAEOLOGIST? A case study from the former town of Napoca in Roman Dacia

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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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, Hilja Solala, Jussi Kinnunen, Eve Rannamäe   +3 more
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Evolution in Archaeology [PDF]

, 2008
This review begins with a brief outline of the key concepts of Darwinian archaeology. Its history is then summarized, beginning with its emergence as a significant theoretical focus within the discipline in the early 1980s; its main present-day currents ...
Shennan, SJ
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