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Animais como psicopompos nas sepulturas do Sítio Arqueológico Justino? (Canindé de São Francisco — Sub-região de Xingó — Sergipe, Brasil)

Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología, 2017
The sub-region known as Xingó in the town of Canindé de São Francisco, in the State of Sergipe (Northeastern Brazil), has several important archaeological sites, among which the Justino site stands out for having many traces of the ancient populations ...
Albérico Nogueira de Queiroz, Carlos Eduardo Cardoso, Olivia Alexandre de Carvalho   +2 more
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Using MALDI‐FTICR Mass Spectrometry to Enhance ZooMS Identifications of Pleistocene Bone Fragments Showing Variable Collagen Preservation

Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rationale Recent advances in high‐throughput molecular analyses of collagen peptides, especially ZooMS (Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry), have permitted breakthroughs in the analysis of archaeological material that is highly fragmented, a factor that hinders morphological identification.
Pauline Raymond, Karen Ruebens, Fabrice Bray, Jean‐Christophe Castel, Eugène Morin, Foni Le Brun‐Ricalens, Jean‐Guillaume Bordes, Christian Rolando, Jean‐Jacques Hublin   +8 more
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Aproximaciones y escalas de análisis en la zooarqueología y tafonomía sudamericanas. algunas reflexiones sobre su estado actual y perspectivas para su desarrollo

Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología, 2011
Theoretical and methodological aspects of zooarchaeology and taphonomy are discussed in relation to the development of these disciplines in South America.
Mariana Mondini, A. Sebastián Muñoz
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Adventive Vertebrates and Historical Ecology in the Pre-Columbian Neotropics

Diversity, 2009
The arrival of Europeans in the Western Hemisphere (ca. AD 1500) is generally used as a convenient reference point for signaling the early appearance of invasive faunas. Although use of this date embraces an implicit belief in benign landscape management
Peter W. Stahl
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The Early Upper Palaeolithic in British caves: problems and potential Le Paléolithique supérieur ancien dans les grottes de Grande‐Bretagne : problèmes et potentiels

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Recent years have seen landmark progress in our understanding of early Homo sapiens occupation of Europe, owing to new excavations and the application of new analytical methods. Research on British sites, however, continues to lag. This is because of limitations inherent in existing cave collections, and limited options for new fieldwork at known sites.
Robert Dinnis
wiley   +1 more source

New Results From the Pre‐Pottery Neolithic Site of Al Uyaynah, Tabuk, in Northwestern Saudi Arabia

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Al Uyaynah is a low sandstone mound on an alluvial plain, long known for its extensive surface remains of stone‐built circular and rectangular structures. Following test excavations in 2012, more detailed excavation was undertaken in 2016 within one of the largest rectangular stone structures.
Khalid Alasmari, Stephanie F. Piper, Kirsten Grothe, W. Derek Hamilton, Delphine Joly, Penny Bickle, Geoff Bailey   +6 more
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Estimating size-at-harvest from Indigenous archaeological clamshell assemblages in Coastal British Columbia

FACETS
Shellfish have supported Indigenous lifeways on the Pacific Coast of North America for millennia. Despite the ubiquity of clamshells in archaeological sites, shell size measurements are rarely reported due to a lack of applicable basis for generating ...
Dylan Hillis, Kristina M. Barclay, Erin Foster, Hannah M. Kobluk, Taylor Vollman, Anne K. Salomon, Chris T. Darimont, Iain McKechnie   +7 more
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Household Rituals and Merchant Caravanners: The Phenomenon of Early Bronze Age Donkey Burials from Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel

Animals, 2022
Most studies of ritual and symbolism in early complex societies of the Near East have focused on elite and/or public behavioural domains. However, the vast bulk of the population would not have been able to fully participate in such public displays. This
Haskel J. Greenfield, Jon Ross, Tina L. Greenfield, Shira Albaz, Sarah J. Richardson, Aren M. Maeir   +5 more
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The Early Upper Palaeolithic open‐air site of Friedrichsdorf‐Seulberg, Germany, in the context of the northern central European Aurignacian

Boreas, EarlyView.
Our knowledge of the Early Upper Palaeolithic occupation in northern central Europe is very limited, and recent research at the open‐air site of Friedrichsdorf‐Seulberg in Hesse, Germany, provides important new information on the Aurignacian. The site is rather small (26.5 m2) and spatial analysis identified a central hearth with two associated ...
Tilman Böckenförde, Gabriele Russo, Neda Rahimzadeh, Felix Bittmann, Nikolitsa Nikolakopoulou, Thomas Terberger   +5 more
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Middle Stone Age fauna from the RS sub-member (MSA I) at Cave 1B, Klasies River Main site, South Africa

Southern African Field Archaeology
Klasies River is an important site for the study of the evolution of Homo sapiens, understanding modern behaviour and human interaction with the environment during the Middle Stone Age. The faunal sample from the RS sub-member in Cave 1B (MSA I), dating
Joel Ezeimo, Sarah Wurz, Shaw Badenhorst
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