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The Late Agricultural Development of Central Arabian Oases—Archaeobotanical and Archaeozoological Studies of the al‐Kharj Oasis

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While oasis settlements emerged during the Bronze Age in Eastern and Northern Arabia, the settlement process in Central Arabia was different. Excavations at al‐Yamāma—main ancient settlement of the al‐Kharj oasis (Riyadh Province, KSA)—suggest that the latter did not emerge before the second half of the first millennium BCE.
Elora Chambraud, Hervé Monchot, Vladimir Dabrowski, Charlène Bouchaud, Jérémie Schiettecatte   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Soil wetting and drying processes influence stone artefact distribution in clay‐rich soils: A case study from Middle Gidley Island in Murujuga, northwest Western Australia

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Soils that contain swelling clay minerals (e.g., montmorillonite) expand and contract during wetting and drying, causing movement within the soil profile. This process, known as argilliturbation, can alter artefact distributions, destroy stratigraphy and complicate the interpretation of archaeological deposits.
Caroline Mather, Matthias Leopold, Kaitlin Sullivan, Kane Ditchfield, Tom Horrocks, Luke Gliganic, Emma Beckett, Diana Patalwala, Emielda Yusiharni, Michael Smirk, William Hiscock, Jo McDonald   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Radiocarbon Investigation of the Solitary African Baobab from Dalkut, Dhofar, Oman

Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Chemia
The article discloses the AMS (accelerator mass spectrometry) radiocarbon dating results of the well-known African baobab of Dalkut, Dhofar Governorate, Oman. The investigation shows that the baobab has a cluster structure and is composed of 3 perfectly
Adrian PATRUT, Ileana Andreea RATIU, Abdulrahman R. AL HINAI, Khalid A. AL FARSI, Laszlo RAKOSY, J. Jed BROWN, Laila S. AL HARTHY, Mihaly MOLNAR, Roxana T. PATRUT, Jenő BODIS   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Biometric Analysis of Giant and Large Murid Remains From Matja Kuru 2, Timor‐Leste

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Published research on Matja Kuru 2 (MK2) demonstrates its significance for understanding human lifestyle during the terminal Pleistocene and Holocene. Murids represent the most commonly identified taxa in the site, with specimens preliminarily classified as small, large and giant based on size comparisons.
Sarah Hannan, Sofia C. Samper Carro, Sue O'Connor   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rewriting the Central European Early Bronze Age Chronology: Evidence from Large-Scale Radiocarbon Dating

PLoS ONE, 2015
The transition from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age in Central Europe has often been considered as a supra-regional uniform process, which led to the growing mastery of the new bronze technology.
P. Stockhammer, Ken Massy, C. Knipper, R. Friedrich, B. Kromer, S. Lindauer, Jelena Radosavljević, Fabian Wittenborn, J. Krause   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Variations of radiocarbon in tree rings: southern hemisphere offset preliminary results [PDF]

, 1998
The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland and University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand radiocarbon laboratories have undertaken a series of high-precision measurements on decadal samples of dendrochronologically dated oak (Quercus patrea ...
Higham, T. F.G., Palmer, Jonathan G., Baillie, M. L., Hoper, S.T., Higham, T. G., Pilcher, J.R., Brown, David, Palmer, J. G., Xiong, Limin, Hoper, S. T., Baillie, M. G.L., Baillie, Mike G.L., McCormac, F.G., Hogg, Alan G., Higham, Thomas F.G., McCormac, F. G., Hogg, A. G., Pilcher, J. R.   +17 more
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Tracing Identity in a Fragmented Past: Multi‐Proxy Analysis of Human Skeletal Remains From Dungowan Creek, New South Wales, Australia

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human skeletal remains constitute critical archaeological evidence for reconstructing past societies, yet their investigation requires careful ethical, cultural, and legislative consideration. This paper reports on the discovery, recovery and analysis of a set of skeletal remains encountered during a cultural heritage management (CHM ...
Antonella Skepasianos, Cameron Neal, Sarah Croker, Anthony Dosseto, Michelle Fermor, Steve Talbott, Warren Mayers, Joel Mason, Florian Dux, Luke Kirkwood, Pamela Kottaras, Alan N. Williams   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

A dataset of radiocarbon dates from Holarctic mammal collagen purified with high-quality chemistry

Scientific Data
Radiocarbon dates from megafaunal remains provide insights into climatic and anthropogenic factors shaping past ecosystems. Chronologies have advanced through rigorous chemical purification (pretreatment) of fossil vertebrate collagen for accelerator ...
Salvador Herrando-Pérez, Kieren J. Mitchell, John R. Southon, Chris S. M. Turney, Thomas W. Stafford   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Learning Across the Divide: Understanding Knowledge Sharing Through Petrographic Analysis on Ceramics From the Rhine‐Meuse Delta During the Middle to Late Neolithic Transition (3400–2200 bce)

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vlaardingen (VL) communities on the Dutch West coast (3400–2200 bce) are part of a unique, long‐term continuity in the European Neolithic. Despite large‐scale changes in European populations during the Neolithic, the genomic diversity and cultural practices of VL communities can be retraced to the Mesolithic.
Jisca de Bruin, Erik Kroon, Lasse van den Dikkenberg, Dennis Braekmans   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The importance of shell: Redating of the To'aga site (Ofu Island, Manu'a) and a revised chronology for the Lapita to Polynesian Plainware transition in Tonga and Sāmoa.

PLoS ONE, 2019
Radiocarbon dating Pacific archaeological sites is fraught with difficulties. Often situated in coastal beach ridges or sand dunes, these sites exhibit horizontal and vertical disturbances, datable materials such as wood charcoal are typically highly ...
Fiona Petchey, Patrick V Kirch
doaj   +1 more source