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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Recent years have seen landmark progress in our understanding of early Homo sapiens occupation of Europe, owing to new excavations and the application of new analytical methods. Research on British sites, however, continues to lag. This is because of limitations inherent in existing cave collections, and limited options for new fieldwork at known sites.
Robert Dinnis
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Archaeology of Atafu, Tokelau: Some initial results from 2008 [PDF]
, 2009 Surface survey, shovel testing, and stratigraphic excavations were done on Atafu Atoll in Tokelau during August 2008. Initial results suggest that Fale Islet has the most potential for further archaeological research.
Christensen, Carl +9 more
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Un préhistorien japonais à Paris : Nakaya Jiujirō (1929-1932)
Ebisu: Études Japonaises, 2014 The Japanese archaeologist Nakaya Jiujirō (1902-1936), who lived in Paris from 1929 to 1932, holds a special place in the context of the interwar years, shedding light on the history of Japanese archaeology and French-Japanese scientific interactions ...
Laurent Nespoulous
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Our understanding of the recolonization of northwest Europe in the period leading up to the Lateglacial Interstadial relies heavily on discoveries from Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK). Gough's Cave is the richest Late Upper Palaeolithic site in the British Isles, yielding an exceptional array of human remains, stone and organic artefacts, and butchered ...
Silvia M. Bello +2 more
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An iconography of insularity : a cosmological interpretation of some images and spaces in the late neolithic temples of Malta [PDF]
, 2001 This paper proposes a fresh model for interpreting some of the iconography and megalithic architectural forms that emerged in Malta during the Late Neolithic.
Grima, Reuben
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Our current understanding of the origins of Homo sapiens is limited, in part, by the fragmented fossil record from Late Pleistocene and early Holocene Africa. Here, we re‐examine the Kabua 1 cranium, an enigmatic and little‐studied Kenyan fossil discovered in the 1950s. We compare virtual reconstructions created previously by our team with a wide range
Abel Marinus Bosman +7 more
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, 2019 In December 2017, Cotswold Archaeology carried out an archaeological evaluation of land off Newton Road, North Petherton, Somerset. A total of 18 trenches was excavated within the site. The evaluation identified a series of ditches, pits and postholes
Cotswold Archaeology
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A Network View on the Big Exchange Project: Integrating and Analysing Heterogeneous Datasets
Journal of Computer Applications in ArchaeologyThis study presents a proof-of-concept for integrating 14 datasets on 11 archaeologically relevant raw materials from the Big Exchange project into a heterogeneous information network (HIN), an informational structure explicitly modelling multiple object
Mattis thor Straten +5 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article presents a synthesis of recent developments in the study of human evolution over the past five years. It begins with an overview of hominin species nomenclature and diversity, followed by an examination of the proposed population bottleneck ∼900,000 years ago.
James Cole +3 more
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Prehistoric Wetland Sites of Southern Europe
This is an open access book. Unique in its scope, this book provides for the first time a Southern European perspective on prehistoric wetland settlements and their natural environment. These are dwellings originally built in humid locations, i.e.
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