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Mathematics, statistics and archaeometry: the past 50 years or so [PDF]

, 2008
This review of developments in the use of mathematics and statistics in archaeometry over the past 50 years is partial, personal and 'broad-brush'. The view is expressed that it is in the past 30 years or so that the major developments have taken place ...
Aitchison, Baxter, Baxter, Baxter, Baxter, Baxter, Baxter, Baxter, Beier, Bieber, Binford, Binford, Bronk-Ramsey, Buck, Buxeda i Garrigós, Buxeda i Garrigós, Buxeda i Garrigós, Clarke, Doran, Dunnell, Freeman, Glascock, Hodson, Kendall, Kendall, Naylor, Neff, Orton, Pollard, Pollard, Ringrose, Robinson, Scaife, Scaife, Shanks, Shennan, Shennan, Spaulding, Whittle   +38 more
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A reappraisal of the Middle to Later Stone Age prehistory of Morocco Réévaluer la préhistoire du Maroc, du Middle Stone Age au Later Stone Age

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Over the last 25 years, perceptions of the early prehistory of Northwest Africa have undergone radical changes due to new fieldwork projects and a corresponding growth in scientific interest in the region. Much of this work has been focused in Morocco, known for its extremely rich fossil and archaeological records in caves and rock shelters.
Nick Barton, Abdeljalil Bouzouggar, Stacy Carolin, Louise Humphrey   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Radiocarbon geochronology of the sediments of the São Paulo Bight (southern Brazilian upper margin)

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2011
The aim of this work was to generate an inventory of the data on radiocarbon datings obtained from sediments of the São Paulo Bight (southern Brazilian upper margin) and to analyze the data in terms of Late Quaternary sedimentary processes and ...
Michel M. Mahiques, Silvia H.M. Sousa, Leticia Burone, Renata H. Nagai, Ilson C.A. Silveira, Rubens C.L. Figueira, Rafael G. Soutelino, Leandro Ponsoni, Daniel A. Klein   +8 more
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Age, growth, and spawning season of red bream (Beryx decadactylus) off the southeastern United States [PDF]

, 2011
Red bream (Beryx decadactylus) is a commercially important deep-sea benthopelagic fish with a circumglobal distribution on insular and continental slopes and seamounts.
Friess, Claudia, Sedberry, George R.
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Exploring site formation and building local contexts through wiggle-match radiocarbon dating: re-dating of the Firth of Clyde Crannogs, Scotland [PDF]

, 2017
There are at least four wooden intertidal platforms, also known as marine crannogs, in the Firth of Clyde, on the west coast of Scotland. The interpretation of these sites partly depends on their dating and, if coeval, they could point to the presence of
Cook, Gordon, Hale, Alex G.C., Hamilton, Derek, Jacobsson, Piotr   +3 more
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The Early Upper Palaeolithic in British caves: problems and potential Le Paléolithique supérieur ancien dans les grottes de Grande‐Bretagne : problèmes et potentiels

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
wiley   +1 more source

The German Market Introduction Program for Biobased Lubricants

Tribology Online, 2010
In order to promote biobased lubricants, the German government has supported the conversion of existing or new equipment from mineral oil to biobased oil through financial grants, technical advice, and publicity, during the years 2001 through 2008.
Heinrich Theissen
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Monks and Icon Painters from the Spaso-Andronikov Monastery, Moscow [PDF]

, 2009
In the Monastery of Our Saviour and St. Andronicus in Moscow, skeletal remains of clerics and of (possibly) famous icon painters were discovered. The bones were radiocarbon dated, and concentrations of trace elements in bone tissues were measured.
Alexandrovskaya, E.I.,, Alexandrovskiy, A.L.,, Kovalyukh, N.N.,, Plicht, J. van der,, Skripkin, V.V.,   +4 more
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125 years of exploration and research at Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK) 125 ans d'exploration et de recherches à Gough's Cave (Somerset, Royaume‐Uni)

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, Mark D. Lewis, Simon A. Parfitt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Radiocarbon evidence for the pace of the M-/L-PPNB transition in the 8th millennium BC south-west Asia [PDF]

, 2017
The transition from the Middle to Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) happened throughout southwest Asia in the mid-8th millennium cal BC. It entailed the abandonment of a number of sites, rapid growth of others, as well as the wide spread of ...
Jacobsson, Piotr
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