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The deep past in the virtual present: developing an interdisciplinary approach towards understanding the psychological foundations of palaeolithic cave art

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
Virtual Reality (VR) has vast potential for developing systematic, interdisciplinary studies to understand ephemeral behaviours in the archaeological record, such as the emergence and development of visual culture.
Izzy Wisher   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘Missing persons’: Ancient legacies of human–environment interaction in tropical natural properties inscribed under the 1972 World Heritage Convention

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Cultural and natural values form the core of World Heritage designation. Properties displaying both values, however, comprise a fraction of inscriptions (currently c. 3%) to the World Heritage List. In 1992, when that fraction stood at c. 5%, adoption of the popular ‘cultural landscapes’ category of cultural heritage in 1992 was therefore ...
Ryan J. Rabett
wiley   +1 more source

Esquemas operativos laminares en el Musteriense final de la cueva de El Castillo (Puente Viesgo, Cantabria)

open access: yesEspacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie I, Prehistoria y Arqueología, 2000
Se presentan una serie de evidencias de la presencia de esquemas operativos laminares y microlaminares en los niveles musterienses de la Cueva del Castillo.
Victoria Cabrera Valdés   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Lithic analysis in African archaeology: Advances and key themes

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Stone artifacts (lithics) preserve for extended periods; thus they are key evidence for probing the evolution of human technological behaviors. Africa boasts the oldest record of stone artifacts, spanning 3.3 Ma, rare instances of ethnographic stone tool‐making, and stone tool archives from diverse ecological settings, making it an anchor for ...
Deborah I. Olszewski   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Oldest Traces of Alcoholic Beverages in the Border Zone of the North and East European Plains

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Analysis of organic compounds preserved on pottery from the Bell Beaker community and the initial phase of the Trzciniec Cultural Sphere in the border zone of the Eastern and North European Plains was prompted by traces of alcoholic beverages found in contextually and formally analogous discoveries of more westerly provenance.
Dariusz Manasterski   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Steps towards operationalizing an evolutionary archaeological definition of culture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This paper will examine the definition of archaeological cultures/techno-complexes from an evolutionary perspective, in which culture is defined as a system of social information transmission.
Riede, F
core  

Boyhood, initiation, homosexual behaviour and homosexuality in European Palaeolithic and Mesolithic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In this article, boyhood in European Pleistocene is decribed. After the introduction, it describes the terms "child" and "boy". In the section about the first people in Europe I have included the first people in Greece and Italy as well because most ...
Adrian van Mechelen
core   +1 more source

‘You Load Sixteen Tons, What Do You Get?’. The Jodłowno Hoard (Pomerania, Poland) as Evidence of Long‐Distance Contacts in the Early Iron Age

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents multifaceted analyses of metal artefacts from the Jodłowno Hoard (Northern Poland), revealing that the metal originated from Iberian polymetallic ore deposits. Transported as raw ingots via Atlantic maritime routes, this copper was reworked locally into regionally distinctive forms.
K. Nowak   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Terrace reconstruction and long profile projection: a case study from the Solent river system near Southampton, England [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
River terrace sequences are important frameworks for archaeological evidence and as such it is important to produce robust correlations between what are often fragmentary remnants of ancient terraces.
Allen   +54 more
core   +1 more source

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