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Approaches to Sensory Landscape Archaeology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
As the medium through which humans interact with the physical world, senses are crucial to explore when trying to understand the beings that embody them.
Faycurry, Jessica
core   +2 more sources

Households without Houses : Mobility and Moorings on the Eurasian Steppe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The research that provided the basis for this paper was carried out in collaboration with the Institutes of History and Archaeology of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences and would not have been possible without my colleagues Chunag Amartuvshin, William ...
Wright, Joshua
core   +1 more source

"Two tribes": Handaxe shape variation shows distinct regional cultural groups in southeastern Britain between 424 000 and 374 000 BP

open access: yesJournal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines regional and chronological variations in Acheulean handaxe morphology during Marine Isotope Stage 11 (c. 425–365 ka BP) in Britain. Using a data set of 737 handaxes from 13 securely dated sites in East Anglia and the Thames Valley, we apply three‐dimensional geometric morphometric analysis to examine morphological ...
Mark White   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

L’archéologie paléolithique à la reconquête de territoires oubliés

open access: yesArchéopages, 2008
The myth of the prehistoric caves and cave-men who inhabited them stems from the fact that for so long prehistoric research concentrated almost exclusively on caves and rock-shelters, where archaeological remains tend to be better preserved.
Marc Jarry
doaj   +1 more source

East Texas Caddo Ceramic Sherd Database [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
A considerable amount of effort has been expended over the years by archaeologists in the identification, description, and classification of ancestral Caddo ceramic vessels and sherds recovered from sites across East Texas, beginning with the masterful ...
Perttula, Timothy K.
core   +1 more source

Hunters and Gatherers of the Rio Grande Plain and the Lower Coast of Texas [PDF]

open access: yes, 1976
This paper summarizes the prehistoric cultural manifestations found on the Rio Grande Plain of Texas. The primary goal in this paper is to briefly outline the major prehistoric cultural traditions on the Rio Grande Plain.
Hester, Thomas R.
core   +2 more sources

Decoupling climate and human impacts on the nitrogen cycle during the Irish Bronze Age

open access: yesJournal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disentangling climate variability and human activity in past nitrogen cycling is key to understanding ecosystems. Previous studies in Ireland observed a widespread, permanent shift in terrestrial nitrogen cycling during Later Prehistory, potentially linked to intensifying land‐use.
Sarah Ferrandin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of the Prehistoric Caddo Ceramics from 41LR351, Lamar County, Texas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Site 41LR351 was first recorded during the 2005 Texas Archeological Society summer field school on the Stallings Ranch in Lamar County, Texas. This prehistoric site is on a natural knoll (420-430 feet amsl) in the headwaters of Pine Creek, a northward ...
Perttula, Timothy K.
core   +1 more source

A Review of Bioarcheological Investigations in Iron Age Cambodia

open access: yesInternational Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Archeological research within Cambodia is quite extensive, with significant projects led by both Cambodian archeologists and international researchers alike. Many of these projects have uncovered human skeletal remains. This article reviews archeological human skeletal studies in Cambodia, synthesizing published and unpublished data, primarily
Sophorn Nhoem, Kate Domett, Nigel Chang
wiley   +1 more source

Social life and the material world: a reappraisal of practice theory in Archaeology

open access: yesActa Archaeologica Carpathica
This paper revisits the role of practice theory in shaping archaeological understandings of sociality and materiality.
Tobias L. Kienlin
doaj   +1 more source

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