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Fishing, Weaving, Matting: Debating the Function of Notched Cobbles in Neolithic Greece

open access: yesJournal of Neolithic Archaeology, 2022
This article focuses on notched cobbles – pieces of stone with indentations on roughly opposite parts of their periphery. While exhibiting a wide geographic and chronological distribution, these simple artefacts have rarely become the subject of ...
Anna Stroulia   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

A comparative study of ballpoint ink ageing parameters using GC/MS. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
For more than a decade scientists tried to develop methods capable of dating ink by monitoring the loss of phenoxyethanol (PE) over time. While many methods were proposed in the literature, few were really used to solve practical cases and they still ...
Koenig, A., Magnolon, S., Weyermann, C.
core   +1 more source

Tipuri de urme care fac obiectul de studiu al traseologiei judiciare și considerații asupra potențialului individualizator al acestora // Types of traces that are the subject of judicial study of traces and considerations on their individualizing potential

open access: yesAnalele Ştiinţifice ale Universităţii "Al.I. Cuza" din Iaşi. Ştiinţe Juridice, 2022
Among the classical fields of forensic technique, traceology has the widest scope in terms of types and categories of traces that form its object of study, the official expression used to certify the accumulation of a high level of knowledge and ...
Vasile Drobotă
doaj   +1 more source

Techniques and Ideas. Zigzag Motif, Barbed Line, and Shaded Band in the Meso-Neolithic Bone Assemblage at Zamostje 2, Volga-Oka Region (Russia)

open access: yesOpen Archaeology, 2022
Mesolithic geometric ornamentation is a part of the complex worldview of the latest hunter-gatherer societies. Questions about the functional role of the ornament in utilitarian objects – knives, daggers, arrowheads, etc.
Lozovskaya Olga V.
doaj   +1 more source

Grinding and Abrading Activities in the Earlier Neolithic of Northern Greece

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2022
Despite their widespread presence and potential to shed light on various aspects of prehistoric life, for a long time Neolithic macrolithics attracted little scholarly attention.
Anna Stroulia   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

How the Sima de los Huesos was won

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, Volume 307, Issue 7, Page 2225-2245, July 2024.
Abstract Although the first discovery of a human fossil in the Sima de los Huesos took place in 1976, systematic excavations did not begin there until 1984. Since then, this site has been continuously excavated in month‐long camps. The site is dated by different radiometric techniques to between 430,000 and 300,000 years ago.
Juan‐Luis Arsuaga   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tools and ornaments in vertebrate animal hard tissues from Los Castillejos site Montefrío, Spain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
En este trabajo, exponemos los resultados de los análisis (morfotipológicos, técnicos y traceológicos) de todo el conjunto de artefactos manufacturados en materias duras de animales vertebrados del poblado de Los Castillejos en las Peñas de los ...
Cámara Serrano, Juan Antonio   +1 more
core   +2 more sources

The utility of trace DNA within forensic science for investigative and intelligence purposes

open access: yesWIREs Forensic Science, Volume 6, Issue 4, July/August 2024.
Utility of trace DNA. Abstract Forensic science not only provides evidence to support criminal investigations, but also contributes to knowledge surrounding criminal phenomena. Forensic scientists are in the unique position to strategically combine information gained from traces to create intelligence that can assist the security space in keeping our ...
Rachael Hoffmann   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

New virtual approach to the study of metallurgy through the analysis of slice marks from the Chalcolithic site of Zanjillas (Torrejón de Velasco, Madrid, Spain)

open access: yesArchaeometry, Volume 66, Issue 3, Page 565-582, June 2024.
Abstract Although the discovery of metal objects is not common in Chalcolithic or Bronze Age sites, the study of bone surface microscopic grooves from animal butchering can yield evidence of the use of metal artefacts in these contexts. Additionally, the presence of slice marks made with metal objects in Chalcolithic and Bronze Age sites has ...
Julia Aramendi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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