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Challenges in dating blanket peat and implications for understanding its initiation in Ireland

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Blanket peat is widespread in maritime extra‐tropical environments. Prehistoric land‐use activity was traditionally invoked as the stimulus of blanket peat initiation in the British Isles, but recently, climate has been viewed as the driver of peat formation.
Helen Essell, Gill Plunkett, Maarten Blaauw   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

UKCropDiversity‐HPC: A collaborative high‐performance computing resource approach for sustainable agriculture and biodiversity conservation

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Diverse gene pools are fundamental to crop improvement, biodiversity maintenance and environmental management. The UKCropDiversity‐HPC high‐performance computing resource enables seven UK institutes to perform plant and conservation research with increased efficiency, cost‐effectiveness and environmental sustainability.
Lawrence Percival‐Alwyn, Ian Barnes, Matthew D. Clark, James Cockram, Michael P. Coffey, Susan Jones, Paul J. Kersey, Catherine A. Kidner, Carolin Kosiol, Bingjie Li, William A. Marsh, Ji Zhou, Mario Caccamo, Iain Milne   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Neolithic transition in Europe: archaeological models and genetic evidence [PDF]

, 2003
The major pattern in the European gene pool is a southeast-northwest frequency gradient of classic genetic markers such as blood groups, which population geneticists initially attributed to the demographic impact of Neolithic farmers dispersing from the ...
Richards, Martin B.
core   +4 more sources

Distinguishing Spiennes and Lanaye Flints Using Portable ED‐XRF to Trace Neolithic Exchange Networks in the Rhine‐Meuse Delta

X-Ray Spectrometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Flint, or chert, sources in the Rhine‐Meuse delta are generally distinguished based on macroscopic characteristics such as fossil inclusions, colour variations, and translucency. Previous studies on chemical characterisations of flint sources proved challenging due to the variation and overlap between different sources. Energy Dispersive X‐ray
Lasse Van Den Dikkenberg, Dennis Braekmans   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Against interpretive exclusivism* Contre l'exclusivisme interprétatif

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Interpretive exclusivism is the dogma that we can only understand cultural systems by interpreting them, thereby ruling out causal explanations of cultural phenomena using scientific methods, for example based on measurement, comparison, and experiment.
Harvey Whitehouse
wiley   +1 more source

The neolithic of the Levant

, 1978
The archaeological evidence for the Neolithic of the Levant, considered to have lasted from c. 8500 to 3750 B.C., is presented and an attempt made to explain its origins and development. The discussion is concerned with four principal themes: (1) the transition from a hunter-gatherer to a farming economy, (2) the social evolution that accompanied this ...
Moore, A, Moore, A. M. T.
openaire   +1 more source

Agropastoral possibilism and the trajectorial affordances of Danish inland heaths: a study of deep‐time entrapment Possibilisme agropastoral et affordances des trajectoires dans les landes de l'arrière‐pays danois : une étude des entraves dans le passé lointain

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
History does not unfold along a single trajectory, and yet the socioecological configuration of landscapes may narrow the directions history can take. This article develops a framework for assessing the directionality of history in a (pre)historic heath landscape in Denmark.
Zachary Caple, Mette Løvschal
wiley   +1 more source

Humanimals: A Socio‐Ecological Reading of the Marseille Plague of 1720

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The aim of this article is to return to a small number of historically significant first‐person testimonies of the Marseille epidemic of 1720 in order to analyse in detail their construction and depiction of human exceptionality as a form of life in a time of plague.
David McCallam
wiley   +1 more source

How efficient is an integrative approach in archaeological geophysics? Comparative case studies from Neolithic settlements in Thessaly (Central Greece) [PDF]

, 2015
The geophysical prospection of Neolithic tells imposes specific challenges due to the preservation and nature of the architectural context and the multiple, usually disturbed, soil strata.
Cuenca-Garcia, C., Donati, J.C., Kalayci, T., Manataki, M., Sarris, A., Simon, F.-X.   +5 more
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Validating a Target‐Enrichment Design for Capturing Uniparental Haplotypes in Ancient Domesticated Animals

Molecular Ecology Resources, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the last three decades, DNA sequencing of ancient animal osteological assemblages has become an important tool complementing standard archaeozoological approaches to reconstruct the history of animal domestication. However, osteological assemblages of key archaeological contexts are not always available or do not necessarily preserve enough
Kuldeep D. More, Ophélie Lebrasseur, Jaime Lira Garrido, Andaine Seguin‐Orlando, Emmanuel Discamps, Oscar Estrada, Laure Tonasso‐Calvière, Loreleï Chauvey, Gaëtan Tressières, Stéphanie Schiavinato, Morgane Gibert, Horacio Padula, Horacio Chiavazza, Pablo M. Fernández, Nicolás M. Guardia, Caroline Borges, Stéphane Bertani, Juan Contreras‐Mancilla, Diana Allccarima‐Crisóstomo, Miguel Fhon, Eric Barrey, Léa Charliquart, Emilie Robbe, Thibault de Noblet, Rinat Zhumatayev, Samat Shakenov, Emmanuelle Vila, Rémi Berthon, Marjan Mashkour, Roya Khazaeli, Ahmad Nikgoftar, Ali A. Vahdati, Pavel Kosintsev, Jean‐Luc Houle, Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan, Jaroslaw Wilczynski, Magdalena Moskal‐del Hoyo, Marek Nowak, William Taylor, Adrian Bălășescu, Roxana Dobrescu, Norbert Benecke, Benjamin Arbuckle, Sharon Steadman, Gregory McMahon, Petra Rajić Šikanjić, Marcel Buric, Tajana Trbojević Vukičević, Nadir Alvarez, Jean‐Christophe Castel, Myriam Boudadi‐Maligne, Bastiaan Star, Julian Robert Post‐Melbye, Christian Løchsen Rødsrud, David W. G. Stanton, Sophy Charlton, Victoria E. Mullin, Kevin G. Daly, Nohemi Sala Burgos, Adrian Pablos, Love Dalen, Daniel G. Bradley, Laurent Frantz, Greger Larson, Ludovic Orlando   +64 more
wiley   +1 more source