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Multi‐Century Grindstone Quarrying at Brumby Yard, Queensland

Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The timing and duration of prehistoric quarrying is poorly understood within Australia, with limited ages available for quarries owing to the difficulties in dating these rock‐sediment constructions. We report the first multi‐sample, optically stimulated luminescence ages from quarry pits in Brumby Yard, an Aboriginal grindstone quarry ...
Kieran McGee, Justine Kemp, Joshua Gorringe, George Gorringe, Trudy Gorringe   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mesa Redonda Complex (Villaverde del Río, Seville): a tell above the Lower Guadalquivir Valley

Trabajos de Prehistoria
The archaeological site of Mesa Redonda (Villaverde del Río, Seville) was the subject of archaeological research at the end of the 1970s, and only recently has new research been carried out.
Marta Diaz-Zorita Bonilla, Martin Bartelheim, Döbereiner Chala-Aldana, Javier Escudero Carrillo, Francisco José García Fernández, Eduardo Ferrer Albelda, Pablo Garrido González, Fernando Daza Pastrana   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Timing the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition in the Iberian Peninsula: The Radiocarbon Dataset

Journal of Open Archaeology Data, 2019
In this paper, we describe the radiocarbon dataset compiled in the context of the project HAR2015-68962 EVOLPAST: 'Dinámicas evolutivas y patrones de variabilidad cultural de los últimos cazadores-recolectores y el primer Neolítico en el este peninsular (
Salvador Pardo-Gordó, Oreto García Puchol, Joan Bernabeu Aubán, Agustín Diez Castillo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The prehistory of biology preprints: A forgotten experiment from the 1960s

PLoS Biology, 2017
In 1961, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) began to circulate biological preprints in a forgotten experiment called the Information Exchange Groups (IEGs).
M. Cobb
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Waste Management and Waste Disposal Detected by Combination of Analytical Methods: Late Bronze Age Březnice Settlement Site (South Bohemia)

Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Waste disposal processes and landfill management are crucial subjects in the field of settlement archaeology. Our study is focused on understanding the processes that are connected to the formation of the infills of settlement features and the recycling of the building materials (daub and wood) and waste management.
Tereza Šálková, Kristýna Budilová, Jaromír Kovárník, Antonín Majer, Jan Novák, Jaroslav Pavelka, Barbora Strouhalová, Libor Vobejda, Ondřej Šťastný, Martin Kuna, Ondřej Chvojka   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Naïve, adult, captive chimpanzees do not socially learn how to make and use sharp stone tools

Scientific Reports, 2023
Although once regarded as a unique human feature, tool-use is widespread in the animal kingdom. Some of the most proficient tool-users are our closest living relatives, chimpanzees.
Elisa Bandini, Claudio Tennie
doaj   +1 more source

The Brexit hypothesis and prehistory

Antiquity, 2018
Archaeologists have more opportunities than ever to disseminate their research widely—and the public more opportunities to engage and respond. This has led to the increasing mobilisation of archaeological data and interpretations within the discourses of
K. Brophy
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Drone‐Based High‐Resolution LiDAR for Undercanopy Archaeology in Mediterranean Environment: Rusellae Case Study (Italy)

Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents a novel methodology and workflow successful in identifying and mapping undercanopy archaeology in woodland Mediterranean areas. The study area is characterized by dense vegetation typical of the Mediterranean area, located in southern Tuscany (Italy), within the territory of the ancient city of Rusellae next to the ...
G. P. Cirigliano, G. Mazzacca, F. Remondino, P. Liverani, G. Cantoro, H. Maschner, S. Campana   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction: European Prehistory and Urban Studies

Journal of World Prehistory, 2017
The idea for this special issue arose out of a session on ‘Pre-Roman Urbanism in Eurasia’ at the conference of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) in Istanbul in 2014.
B. Gaydarska
semanticscholar   +1 more source

SARchaeological Prospection: Synthetic Aperture Radar for the Reconstruction and Mapping of Temperate Floodplain Environments

Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Temperate river floodplains present a significant challenge for archaeologists, as cultural and palaeoenvironmental remains are often difficult to locate but can be exceptionally well preserved, especially where groundwater levels are high. In these alluvial environments, the deposition of thick, fine‐grained sediments has potential to deeply ...
Nicholas Crabb, Chris Carey, Andy J. Howard, Matthew Brolly   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source