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The Making of Chalcolithic Assembly Places: Trypillia Megasites as Materialised Consensus Among Equal Strangers? (2018)
Journal Article
Nebbia, M., Gaydarska, B., Millard, A., & Chapman, J. (2018). The Making of Chalcolithic Assembly Places: Trypillia Megasites as Materialised Consensus Among Equal Strangers?. World Archaeology, 50(1), 41-61. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2018.1474133

In the last decade, we have witnessed a second methodological revolution in research into the Trypillia megasites of Ukraine – the largest sites in fourth-millennium BC Europe and possibly the world. However, these methodological advances have not be... Read More about The Making of Chalcolithic Assembly Places: Trypillia Megasites as Materialised Consensus Among Equal Strangers?.

Fulayj: a late Sasanian fort on the Arabian coast (2018)
Journal Article
al-Jahwari, N., Kennet, D., Priestman, S., & Sauer, E. (2018). Fulayj: a late Sasanian fort on the Arabian coast. Antiquity, 92(363), 724-741. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.64

Archaeological evidence for a Sasanian presence in the ‘Uman region of Eastern Arabia is sparse. Recent excavations at the site of Fulayj in Oman have, however, revealed it to be a Late Sasanian fort, the only securely dated example in Arabia, or ind... Read More about Fulayj: a late Sasanian fort on the Arabian coast.

Dates for Neanderthal art and symbolic behaviour are reliable (2018)
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Hoffmann, D., Standish, C., Pike, A., Garcia-Diez, M., Pettitt, P., Angelucci, D., Villaverde, V., Zapata, J., Milton, J., Alcolea-Gonzalez, J., Cantalejo-Duarte, P., Collado, H., de Balbin, R., Lorblanchet, M., Ramos-Munoz, J., Weniger, G.-C., & Zilhao, J. (2018). Dates for Neanderthal art and symbolic behaviour are reliable. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2, 1044-1045. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0598-z

New insights on Final Epigravettian funerary behaviour at Arene Candide Cave (Western Liguria, Italy) from osteological and spatial analysis of secondary bone deposits (2018)
Journal Article
Sparacello, V., Rossi, S., Pettitt, P., Roberts, C., Salvatore, J., & Formicola, V. (2018). New insights on Final Epigravettian funerary behaviour at Arene Candide Cave (Western Liguria, Italy) from osteological and spatial analysis of secondary bone deposits. Journal of Anthropological Sciences, 96, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.4436/jass.96003

We gained new insights on Epigravettian funerary behavior at the Arene Candide cave through the osteological and spatial analysis of the burials and human bone accumulations found in the cave during past excavations. Archaeothanathological informatio... Read More about New insights on Final Epigravettian funerary behaviour at Arene Candide Cave (Western Liguria, Italy) from osteological and spatial analysis of secondary bone deposits.

Broken Childhoods: Rural and Urban Non-Adult Health during the Industrial Revolution in Northern England (Eighteenth-Nineteenth Centuries) (2018)
Journal Article
Gowland, R., Caffell, A., Newman, S., Levene, A., & Holst, M. (2018). Broken Childhoods: Rural and Urban Non-Adult Health during the Industrial Revolution in Northern England (Eighteenth-Nineteenth Centuries). Bioarchaeology international, 2(1), 44-62. https://doi.org/10.5744/bi.2018.1015

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, England underwent a period of rapid urbanization and industrialization. The detrimental effects of urban living conditions and child factory labor on the health of children during this time has been the... Read More about Broken Childhoods: Rural and Urban Non-Adult Health during the Industrial Revolution in Northern England (Eighteenth-Nineteenth Centuries).

Taking Stock: A systematic review of archaeological evidence of cancers in human and early hominin remains (2018)
Journal Article
Hunt, K., Roberts, C., & Kirkpatrick, C. (2018). Taking Stock: A systematic review of archaeological evidence of cancers in human and early hominin remains. International Journal of Paleopathology, 21, 12-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2018.03.002

This study summarizes data from 154 paleopathological studies documenting 272 archaeologically recovered individuals exhibiting skeletal or soft tissue evidence of cancer (malignant neoplastic disease) between 1.8 million years ago and 1900 CE. The p... Read More about Taking Stock: A systematic review of archaeological evidence of cancers in human and early hominin remains.

Lost Lives, New Voices. Unlocking the stories of the Scottish soldiers from the Battle of Dunbar 1650 (2018)
Book
Gerrard, C., Graves, C., Millard, A., Annis, R., & Caffell, A. (2018). Lost Lives, New Voices. Unlocking the stories of the Scottish soldiers from the Battle of Dunbar 1650. Oxbow Books

In November 2013 two mass burials were discovered unexpectedly on a construction site in the city of Durham in north-east England. Over the next 2 years, a complex jigsaw of evidence was pieced together by a team of archaeologists to establish the id... Read More about Lost Lives, New Voices. Unlocking the stories of the Scottish soldiers from the Battle of Dunbar 1650.