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The age of hand stencils in Maltravieso cave (Extremadura, Spain) established by U-Th dating, and its implications for the early development of art (2025)
Journal Article
Standish, C. D., Pettitt, P., Collado, H., Aguilar, J. C., Milton, J. A., García-Diez, M., Hoffmann, D. L., Zilhão, J., & Pike, A. W. (2025). The age of hand stencils in Maltravieso cave (Extremadura, Spain) established by U-Th dating, and its implications for the early development of art. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 61, Article 104891. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104891

U-Th dating of associated carbonate crusts has been applied to date parietal art in Maltravieso cave, Extremadura, Spain. Known for its large collection of red hand stencils (≥60), one example previously dated to >66.7 ka was taken to suggest Neander... Read More about The age of hand stencils in Maltravieso cave (Extremadura, Spain) established by U-Th dating, and its implications for the early development of art.

Assessing quantitative methods in archaeology via simulated datasets: The Archaeoriddle challenge. Concept, project and motivations (2025)
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Cortell-Nicolau, A., Carrignon, S., Rodíguez-Palomo, I., Hromada, D., Kahlenberg, R., Mes, A., Priss, D., Yaworsky, P., Zhang, X., Brainerd, L., Lewis, J., Redhouse, D., Simmons, C., Coto-Sarmiento, M., Daems, D., Deb, A., Lawrence, D., O'Brien, M., Riede, F., Rubio-Campillo, X., & Crema, E. (2025). Assessing quantitative methods in archaeology via simulated datasets: The Archaeoriddle challenge. Concept, project and motivations. Journal of Archaeological Science, 177, Article 106179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2025.106179

Compared to what is found in many other scientific disciplines, archaeological data are typically scarce, biased and fragmented. This, coupled with the fact that archaeologists can rarely test their hypotheses using experimental design, makes archaeo... Read More about Assessing quantitative methods in archaeology via simulated datasets: The Archaeoriddle challenge. Concept, project and motivations.

A multi-analytical study of the Montelirio beaded attires: Marine resources, sumptuary crafts, and female power in copper age Iberia (2025)
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Sanjuán, L. G., Ramírez-Cruzado, S., Díaz-Guardamino, M., Rodríguez, J. A. L., Romero, T. D., Vargas, J. Á. A., Rodríguez-Rellán, C., Nieto, V. B., Puro, L. M. C., Wheatley, D. W., Earle, T., Cintas-Peña, M., Jiménez, J. M. V., Flores, Á. F., Triviño, M. L., Cárdenas-Párraga, J., Merino, M. M., & Guinea, F. M. (2025). A multi-analytical study of the Montelirio beaded attires: Marine resources, sumptuary crafts, and female power in copper age Iberia. Science Advances, 11(5), Article eadp1917. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adp1917

Excellent indicators of technology, social organization, exchange patterns, and even beliefs, beads are a topic of research in their own right. Findings made between 2010 and 2011 at the Montelirio tholos burial, part of the Valencina Copper Age mega... Read More about A multi-analytical study of the Montelirio beaded attires: Marine resources, sumptuary crafts, and female power in copper age Iberia.

Fuel use in ancient Southwest Asia based on wood charcoal and seed data from fire installations (2025)
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Deckers, K., Riehl, S., Karakaya, D., Müller, T., Badreshany, K., Tumolo, V., & Lawrence, D. (2025). Fuel use in ancient Southwest Asia based on wood charcoal and seed data from fire installations. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 62, Article 104999. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.104999

This study synthesizes a large dataset of published and new charcoal and seed data from archaeological fire installations in southwest Asia to gain an understanding in regional and temporal variation in fuel use through the last 10,000 years. It cons... Read More about Fuel use in ancient Southwest Asia based on wood charcoal and seed data from fire installations.

Cremated Bone in Archaeology: Ethical Considerations in the Excavation, Analysis, Storage, and Display of Cremated Bone in the United Kingdom (2025)
Journal Article
Squires, K., McKinley, J., Roberts, C., & Biers, T. (online). Cremated Bone in Archaeology: Ethical Considerations in the Excavation, Analysis, Storage, and Display of Cremated Bone in the United Kingdom. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Article e3382. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3382

In the United Kingdom, the study of archaeological cremated human remains has risen exponentially over the past three decades. Consequently, we are gaining a more rounded understanding of past communities, rather than a skewed perspective caused by a... Read More about Cremated Bone in Archaeology: Ethical Considerations in the Excavation, Analysis, Storage, and Display of Cremated Bone in the United Kingdom.

Filling the Gaps—Computational Approaches to Incomplete Archaeological Networks (2025)
Journal Article
Priß, D., Wainwright, J., Lawrence, D., Turnbull, L., Prell, C., Karittevlis, C., & Ioannides, A. A. (2025). Filling the Gaps—Computational Approaches to Incomplete Archaeological Networks. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 32(1), Article 19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-024-09688-z

Networks are increasingly used to describe and analyse complex archaeological data in terms of nodes (archaeological sites or places) and edges (representing relationships or connections between each pair of nodes). Network analysis can then be appli... Read More about Filling the Gaps—Computational Approaches to Incomplete Archaeological Networks.

Of goats, monuments and men: George Jeffery and the early management of Waqf-owned medieval monuments in British Cyprus (2024)
Book Chapter
Basri, P. (in press). Of goats, monuments and men: George Jeffery and the early management of Waqf-owned medieval monuments in British Cyprus. In L. Crewe, A. Reeve, & T. Kiely (Eds.), Empire and excavation. Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878–1960 (183-199). Sidestone Press Academics. https://doi.org/10.59641/h6k2e3f4g5

Despite spending his early life as a domestic and ecclesiastical architect, George Jeffery (1855–1935) is most famous for his impressively long tenure as the first Curator of Ancient Monuments in Cyprus. Chiefly interested in medieval architecture, f... Read More about Of goats, monuments and men: George Jeffery and the early management of Waqf-owned medieval monuments in British Cyprus.

Byblos During the Chalcolithic Period (2024)
Book Chapter
Badreshany, K. (2024). Byblos During the Chalcolithic Period. In National Museum of Antiquities (the Netherlands), & Ministry of Culture/Directorate General of Antiquities (Lebanon) (Eds.), Byblos: A Legacy Unearthed (53-58). Sidestone Press. https://doi.org/10.59641/z8124cl

Evidence for domestic settlement during the Chalcolithic is scant at Byblos, in contrast to the remarkable number of richly adorned jar burials attributed to the period (Artin, this volume). The Chalcolithic as defined by Levantine archaeologists is... Read More about Byblos During the Chalcolithic Period.

Archival and Scientific Analyses of the Allegro Qumran-Type Jar and Lid (2024)
Journal Article
MIZZI, D., TAYLOR, J. E., BADRESHANY, K., & FIDANZIO, M. (2024). Archival and Scientific Analyses of the Allegro Qumran-Type Jar and Lid. Revue de Qumran, 36(1), Article 123. https://doi.org/10.2143/RQ.36.1.3293415

The Leverhulme-funded Network for the Study of Dispersed Qumran Cave Artefacts and Archival Sources (DQCAAS) commissioned the scientific testing of a mysterious deposit found inside a Qumran-type jar lid, now in a private collection. Along with a cyl... Read More about Archival and Scientific Analyses of the Allegro Qumran-Type Jar and Lid.

Strontium isoscape of sub-Saharan Africa allows tracing origins of victims of the transatlantic slave trade (2024)
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Wang, X., Bocksberger, G., Arandjelovic, M., Agbor, A., Angedakin, S., Aubert, F., Ayimisin, E. A., Bailey, E., Barubiyo, D., Bessone, M., Bobe, R., Bonnet, M., Boucher, R., Brazzola, G., Brewer, S., Lee, K. C., Carvalho, S., Chancellor, R., Cipoletta, C., Cohen, H., …Oelze, V. M. (2024). Strontium isoscape of sub-Saharan Africa allows tracing origins of victims of the transatlantic slave trade. Nature Communications, 15, Article 10891. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55256-0