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Human–Bird Interactions Across Time and Space in a Bronze Age City: The Case of Tell Atchana, Alalakh (Amuq Valley, Turkey)

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 35, Issue 6, Page 597-611, November/December 2025.
ABSTRACT Birds have played both subsistence and symbolic roles in past human societies, with their significance evolving alongside sedentary lifestyles and agriculture. Although Neolithic settlements in Western Asia primarily relied on domesticated mammals, birds remained a marginal resource, their importance varying by region.
Marcel van Tuinen, Lionel Gourichon, Anderson L. Carter, K. Aslıhan Yener, Müge Bulu, Murat Akar, Canan Çakırlar   +6 more
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Animal Husbandry, Cultural Change, and Economic Networks: An Archaeozoological Perspective on the Transformation of Iron Age Oppida Societies

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 35, Issue 2, March/April 2025.
ABSTRACT In the 2nd century bce, with the Iron Age Oppida Civilisation, Central Europe experienced an unprecedented degree of urbanization, economic centralization, and supra‐regional exchange. However, from 80 bce onwards, in the Northern Alpine Foreland (present‐day southern Germany), these structures declined, leading to the abandonment of both ...
Simon Trixl, Janette Horvath
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Testigos de piedra: estelas armadas entre el Tajo internacional y el Duero, Península Ibérica [PDF]

, 2019
Pocos territorios en Europa reúnen la concentración de estelas en piedra que se documentan entre el Tajo y el Duero. La arqueología asegura amplias posibilidades extractivas, con un claro centro neurálgico en el actual distrito de Castelo Branco ...
Balbín Behrmann, Rodrigo de, Barroso Bermejo, Rosa, Bueno Ramírez, Primitiva, Salvado, Pedro   +3 more
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Signs of the sacred at the sanctuary of Gravisca, Italy: reconstruction of an Etruscan ritual through a multidisciplinary approach

Archaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 235-247, February 2025.
Abstract Archaeological campaigns carried out at the emporic sanctuary of Gravisca (Tarquinia, Italy) have revealed extraordinary evidence for ritual depositions and ceremonies linked to the divinities/guarantors of the sanctuary. The ritual of one such deposition was reconstructed using a multidisciplinary approach, comprising an in‐depth analysis of ...
Giulia Patrizi, Maxime Rageot, Sara Cafisso, Antonio Pennetta, Lucio Fiorini, Giuseppe Egidio De Benedetto, Cynthianne Spiteri, Girolamo Fiorentino   +7 more
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Organic Residue Analysis on Iron Age Ceramic Mugs (5th–1st Century BC) from Valle Camonica—UNESCO Site n. 94, Northern Italy

Heritage
The paper is dedicated to the study of organic remains in ceramic drinking vessels from protohistoric Northern Italy. These one-handled mugs are a typical item of the prealpine area, dating from the 5th to the 1st century BCE, and possibly carried high ...
Paolo Rondini, Giulia Patrizi, Giuseppe Egidio De Benedetto   +2 more
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La Dama de Elche [PDF]

, 1997
Este trabajo trata de la actualización de los estudios referidos a la Dama de Elche y aporta el análisis de las recientes investigaciones realizadas sobre ella, relativas a su condición de producción local o pieza importada; a si la obra responde a un ...
Ramos Fernández, Rafael
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Basket Cases and Breadbaskets: Sacred Rice and Agricultural Development in Postcolonial Africa [PDF]

, 2012
Author's final manuscript.Based on ethnographic research among rural Diola in Guinea-Bissau, I provide a broad view of the history and interpenetration of rice in social, political, religious, and ecological domains, while chronicling the current ...
Almada, Aw, Baum, Baum, Brooks, Carney, Carney, Cernea, Coelho, Crane, Culture and Agriculture, Da Silva, Davidson, Davidson, Eltis, Ferguson, Ferguson, Ferguson, Fermé, Fernando, Fields-Black, Grist, Hawthorne, Kurlansky, Linares, Linares, Linares, Linares, Linares, Linares, Littlefield, McCann, Mintz, Nuijten, Offei, Ohnuki-Tierney, Osseo-Asare, Paulme, Portères, Portères, Pélissier, Richards, Richards, Richards, Richards, Richards, Richards, Richards, Richards, Richards, Sarró, Sauer, Scott, Swaminathan, Temudo, Thomas, Thomas, Walsh, Wood   +58 more
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The uncertain death. Estimating mortality structure by random sampling

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 35, Issue 1, January/February 2025.
Abstract Imprecise data produced by commonly applied osteological age‐at‐death estimations profoundly affect all research on age‐dependent mortality in past societies. With uncertain death estimation (UCD), we propose a novel approach to estimating the mortality structure from imprecise data and present a corresponding R package for simple application.
Daria Moser, Sandra L. Pichler, Ana Luisa Santos, Florian Klimscha, Katharina Fuchs   +4 more
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Analizele compoziției metalice a pieselor de harnașament și mărgelelor de argint de la Agighiol și comparația lor cu monedele histriene de argint de la Capul Dolojman [PDF]

Peuce, 2019
The X-ray fluorescence analyses of 19 harnesses pieces and 13 beads from Agighiol show that they were made from silver, gold and copper; some items include copper to strengthen the alloy and some phalerae were gilded and contain more gold in the protome.
Emilian TELEAGA, Migdonia GEORGESCU, Gheorghe NICULESCU   +2 more
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Le site mégalithique de Wanar (Sénégal)

Afrique Archéologie Arts, 2009
This article presents the results of the first excavations conducted on the World Heritage megalithic site of Wanar, which are part of a new program of scientific cooperation between France and Senegal (2008-2011).
Luc Laporte, Hamady Bocoum, Régis Bernard, Francis Bertin, Vincent Dartois, Adrien Delvoye, Malik Diop, Abdoulaye Kane, Laurent Quesnel   +8 more
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