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“Flames Over Persepolis”: New Scientific Evidence Supporting Historical Perspectives

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the burning of Persepolis Terrace, historically attributed to Alexander III in 330 bce. A review of classical accounts and excavation reports, combined with diagnostic surveys, confirms the fire's historicity and provides novel insights.
Maria Letizia Amadori, Ileana De Giuseppe, Fabrizio Frontalini, Luca Pellegrino, Richard W. Jordan, Pierfrancesco Callieri, Emad Matin, Alireza Askari Chaverdi, Hamid Fadaei, Valeria Mengacci, Fulvio Fantino   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating remote datasets to identify precontact architecture and settlement patterns along the Wampu River system, Eastern Honduras. [PDF]

PLoS One
Cohen AS, Fernandez-Diaz JC, Groat E, Eury Q.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Fecal Steroids as Tracers of Human Population and Waste Management Practices at the Ancient Maya City of Ucanal, Guatemala

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Geochemical data compiled from dried sediments from three water reservoirs at the ancient Maya city of Ucanal, Petén, Guatemala, reveal low to undetectable fecal biomarker concentrations. These low concentrations may be the result of the aerobic decay of sterols combined with well‐managed waste disposal practices.
Jean D. Tremblay, Peter M. J. Douglas, Christina T. Halperin, Yves Gélinas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Age and origin of a Cahokian wooden monument at the Mitchell site, Illinois, USA. [PDF]

PLoS One
Kessler NV, Benson EM, Pauketat TR, Kirk JD, Therrell MD.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Ceramic Production and Geodiversity in Iron Age Iberia: An Archaeometric Study of Pottery from Castrejón de Capote (SW Spain)

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The hillfort of Castrejón de Capote is one of the best investigated settlements of Late Iron Age southwest Iberia. Located in the territory that the classical sources attributed to the Celtici, it was occupied between the early 4th and the 1st centuries bce.
Beatrijs de Groot, Luis Berrocal‐Rangel, Manuel Fernández‐Götz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hierarchical organization and skilled workforces for constructing the Tartessic earthen building at Casas del Turuñuelo (Guareña, Spain). [PDF]

Sci Rep
Cutillas-Victoria B, Lorenzon M, Rodríguez González E, Celestino Pérez S.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

An Archaeometric Approach to Reveal Organic Compounds via GC‐MS Analyses of Two Discovered Incense Burners at Daba Al‐Bayah

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study focuses on two terracotta incense burners discovered in the Daba Al‐Bayah necropolis in the Musandam Peninsula (Oman), associated with an Iron Age collective tomb (LCG‐2). Through gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC‐MS), the organic residues preserved within these artifacts were analyzed to investigate their use and ...
Francesco Genchi, Federica Spagnoli, Vittorio Vinciguerra, Stefania Garzoli   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Smart room occupancy detection using neural networks and the puma optimization algorithm. [PDF]

Sci Rep
El-Kenawy EM, Zaki AM, Mattar EA, Alhussan AA, Khafaga DS, Eid MM, El-Seddek M.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A sacrificed monkey at Teotihuacan and ancient imperial relationships in Mesoamerica. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023
Masson MA.
europepmc   +1 more source

Activism for Socialist Industrial Heritage in Romania: The Carbochim Project Controversy

Area, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This study aims to better understand activism in the Romanian post‐socialist society during a struggle to preserve the socialist industrial heritage of Carbochim, in Cluj‐Napoca, Romania. From an urban activist perspective, we present a failed heritagisation process because of commercial‐oriented real estate development, but that enables
Oana‐Ramona Ilovan, Adriana Măgeruşan, Paul Mutică, Smaranda Todoran   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source