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Origin, evolution and biogeographic dynamics of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) in Southwestern Europe

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The Pleistocene is a key period for understanding the evolutionary history and palaeobiogeography of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). The species was first documented in southeastern Iberia at the beginning of the Middle Pleistocene and appears to have rapidly spread throughout Southwestern Europe, where it was found in numerous ...
Maxime Pelletier
wiley   +1 more source

A Second Mortuary Hiatus on Lake Baikal in Siberia and the Arrival of Small-Scale Pastoralism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Peer reviewedPublisher ...
Kharinskii, Artur A.   +3 more
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Under the Shade of a Coolabah Tree: A Second Cache of Tulas From the Boulia District, Western Queensland

open access: yesArchaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper reports on the excavation of a cache of stone artefacts, buried on the bank of a waterhole or ‘billabong’ in central western Queensland. This is an extremely rare find, and yet it is the second such site to be reported within less than a 10 km radius.
Yinika L. Perston   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bayesian modeling and chronological precision for Polynesian settlement of Tonga. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2015
First settlement of Polynesia, and population expansion throughout the ancestral Polynesian homeland are foundation events for global history. A precise chronology is paramount to informed archaeological interpretation of these events and their ...
David Burley   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

New Radiocarbon Dates, Stable Isotope, and Anthropological Analysis of Prehistoric Human Bones from the Balkans and Southwestern Carpathian Basin

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2021
The paper provides a detailed overview of new radiocarbon dates, stable isotopes, and anthropological information obtained on prehistoric human remains (mostly Neolithic) from the Balkans and southwestern Carpathian Basin.
Jelena Jovanović   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Compilation, Calibration, and Synthesis of Faunal and Floral Radiocarbon Dates, Rancho La Brea, California [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper presents a compilation and synthesis of calibrated radiocarbon dates for the Rancho La Brea tar pits, Los Angeles, California. A literature survey yielded 188 dates, and 21 additional dates are presented here for the first time. These range in
Fet, Elizabeth V.   +2 more
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A multiple profile approach to the palynological reconstruction of Norse landscapes in Greenland's Eastern Settlement [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Acknowledgments The Leverhulme Trust is thanked for financial support. Gordon Cook provided radiocarbon dates. Thanks are also due to Andy McMullen for botanical identifications and assistance in the field, and to Sikuu Motzfeld for hospitality during ...
Edwards, Kevin J   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Gleaning the Rocky Shore? 2500 Years of Coastal Resource Use at Red Bluff 1, GunaiKurnai Country, SE Australia

open access: yesArchaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Shell middens in Gippsland along the eastern half of Victoria's coastline have usually been characterised as small, short‐duration camp sites with relatively low shell densities and low taxonomic diversity. Here we present new excavation results from a dense, high‐diversity site at Red Bluff near the eastern end of GunaiKurnai Country, a ...
Patrick Faulkner   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Radiocarbon dates of fossil shells from raised beach sediments along the Soya Coast, East Antarctica -A report on a geomorphological survey during JARE-35 (1993-94)-

open access: yesAntarctic Record, 1998
40 Radiocarbon ages are obtained from fossil shells collected from raised beach deposits along the Soya Coast, East Antarctica during the summer season of JARE-35,1994. They are clearly classified into younger Holocene dates of 3ka to 8ka and dates older
Kazuomi Hirakawa, Takanobu Sawagaki
doaj   +1 more source

New Radiocarbon Dates from Four East Texas Caddo Sites [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The East Texas Radiocarbon Database is an important and relatively new database concerning one key aspect of the archaeological record of the Caddo peoples that lived in East Texas from as early as ca. A.D. 800/850.
Perttula, Timothy K.
core   +1 more source

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