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7000 Years of Aboriginal Mining at Sugarloaf Hill in the Riverland Region of South Australia
Archaeology in Oceania, Volume 61, Issue 2, Page 277-311, July 2026.ABSTRACT Silcrete and chert are commonly represented in Aboriginal archaeological lithic assemblages across large parts of the southwestern Murray‐Darling Basin (MDB). In South Australia (SA), these materials were sourced from a series of quarries located along the incised course of the Murray River through the upper Riverland region.
Craig Westell +8 more
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Archaeology in Oceania, Volume 61, Issue 1, Page 39-54, April 2026.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
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Lithic Miniaturization Provides a Signature of an MIS4‐3 Southern Dispersal of Homo sapiens
Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 35, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT Fossil and artefactual evidence shows Homo sapiens in Eurasia well before 75 ka. However, genetic evidence suggests all extant non‐African populations derive almost all of their ancestry from a dispersal that only diverged in the last 60–50 ka. In northern Eurasia, the Upper Paleolithic with its laminar blade knapping provides an archeological
Ceri Shipton
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New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, Volume 69, Issue 1, March 2026.The Pool Burn basin is a tectonic depression that became almost isolated from the regional drainage system by river reorientation during Pleistocene uplift of surrounding ridges. Consequently, detrital gold in the basin was largely locally derived, from supergene zones on orogenic deposits and recycled from paleoplacers in erosional remnants of Miocene
Marshall Palmer, Dave Craw
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Habitat Modification by Grazing Lawns Reduces Soil Mite Diversity in a South African National Park
African Journal of Ecology, Volume 64, Issue 2, March 2026.ABSTRACT Soil mesofauna are an integral part of the functioning of an ecosystem. They are relatively small in body size, occur in varying habitats and operate in a range of ecological niches. Soil mites are quite sensitive to changes in their environment and contribute to several important ecosystem services in their environments.
Claire Grootboom +3 more
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Burn Selection: How Fire Injury Shaped Human Evolution
BioEssays, Volume 48, Issue 2, February 2026.Intentional fire use exposed humans and their ancestors to high‐temperature burn injury, a risk rare in other species, bringing major survival benefits and technologies but also repeated exposure to extreme heat. The Burn Selection Hypothesis reframes this cost of fire mastery as a unique selective pressure, which shaped our evolution.
Joshua Cuddihy +9 more
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On Sourcing Stonehenge Sarsen Stone #58: A Response to Nash and Ciborowski's Comments
Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 1, Page 48-50, February 2026.ABSTRACT This is a brief response to Nash and Ciborowski's comments in 2025 on our 2024 paper, which focused on the reinterpretation of geochemical data for Stonehenge stone #58 published by Nash et al. in 2020. We address the problems they perceived in our use of absolute elemental concentrations, our selection of discriminating elements, and single ...
R. G. V. Hancock +4 more
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Hydrological Processes, Volume 40, Issue 1, January 2026.Calibration procedure selection should be carefully considered in data‐scarce circumstances, as good model efficiency does not necessarily guarantee a realistic representation of hydrological processes. Stable isotopes proved effective in validating model results and detecting shortcomings in the J2000 model caused by sparse hydroclimatic data and the ...
Marlene de Witt +3 more
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Archaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 6, Page 1423-1436, December 2025.Abstract In a recent paper in this journal (Hancock et al. (2024) Stonehenge revisited: A geochemical approach to interpreting the geographical source of sarsen stone #58. Archaeometry https://www.doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12999), Hancock and colleagues present a reanalysis of the geochemical dataset used to identify the likely source for the majority of ...
David J. Nash, T. Jake R. Ciborowski
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Cap structures as diagnostic indicators of silcrete origin [PDF]
Sedimentary Geology, 2015 Abstract Cap structures within silcretes have long been used as a diagnostic indicator of pedogenic silicification. However, a growing number of studies of the micromorphology of non-pedogenic silcretes indicate that this may no longer be appropriate.
Ullyott, John +2 more
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