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Luminescence dating of qanat technology: prospects for further development (2018)
Journal Article
Bailiff, I., Jankowski, N., Snape, L., Gerrard, C., Gutiérrez, A., & Wilkinson, K. (2018). Luminescence dating of qanat technology: prospects for further development. Water History, 10(1), 73-84. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12685-018-0213-x

With few exceptions in which dating is implied by indirect association with adjacent settlements or incorporation of diagnostic artefacts in upcast sediment, individual qanats have proven very difficult to date. This absence of a chronological framew... Read More about Luminescence dating of qanat technology: prospects for further development.

South Shields 1875: an early excavation in context (2018)
Journal Article
Stewart, M. (2018). South Shields 1875: an early excavation in context. Archaeologia Aeliana, 46, 181-220

Robert Blair (1845–1923) served as Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, and editor of this journal, for forty years until his death. But his association with the Society had in fact begun a decade earlier, when he became involved in... Read More about South Shields 1875: an early excavation in context.

AMS Dating of the Late Copper Age Varna Cemetery, Bulgaria (2018)
Journal Article
Higham, T., Slavchev, V., Gaydarska, B., & Chapman, J. (2018). AMS Dating of the Late Copper Age Varna Cemetery, Bulgaria. Radiocarbon, 60(02), 493-516. https://doi.org/10.1017/rdc.2018.9

The Varna I cemetery, on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, is one of the most remarkable sites in European prehistory, with the world’s earliest large-scale assemblage of gold artifacts. Modeling of the first series of 14 accelerator mass spectrometry (... Read More about AMS Dating of the Late Copper Age Varna Cemetery, Bulgaria.

Aurochs Hunters: The Large Animal Bones from Blick Mead (2018)
Book Chapter
Rogers, B., Gron, K., Montgomery, J., Gröcke, D., & Rowley-Conwy, P. (2018). Aurochs Hunters: The Large Animal Bones from Blick Mead. In D. Jacques, T. Phillips, & T. Lyons (Eds.), Blick mead : exploring the 'first place' in the Stonehenge landscape. Archaeological excavations at Blick Mead, Amesbury, Wiltshire 2005–2016 (127-152). Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/b11044

The site of Blick Mead has attracted an unusual degree of interest. In addition to its intrinsic importance as a Mesolithic site, its location less than two kilometres east of Stonehenge and its temporal overlap with the massive Mesolithic posts in t... Read More about Aurochs Hunters: The Large Animal Bones from Blick Mead.

U-Th dating of carbonate crusts reveals Neandertal origin of Iberian cave art (2018)
Journal Article
Hoffmann, D., Standish, C., García-Diez, M., Pettitt, P., Milton, J., Zilhão, J., …Pike, A. (2018). U-Th dating of carbonate crusts reveals Neandertal origin of Iberian cave art. Science, 359(6378), 912-915. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aap7778

he extent and nature of symbolic behavior among Neandertals are obscure. Although evidence for Neandertal body ornamentation has been proposed, all cave painting has been attributed to modern humans. Here we present dating results for three sites in... Read More about U-Th dating of carbonate crusts reveals Neandertal origin of Iberian cave art.

Look Down, Not Up: Protecting the Post-disaster Subsurface Heritage of the Kathmandu Valley’s UNESCO World Heritage Site. (2018)
Book Chapter
Coningham, R., Acharya, K., Davis, C., Weise, K., Kunwar, R., & Simpson, I. (2018). Look Down, Not Up: Protecting the Post-disaster Subsurface Heritage of the Kathmandu Valley’s UNESCO World Heritage Site. In L. Bracken, H. Ruszczyk, & T. Robinson (Eds.), Evolving Narratives of Hazard and Risk The Gorkha Earthquake, Nepal, 2015 (159-181). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65211-5_10

Short-term environmental shocks generate long-term impacts, and although the Gorkha earthquake devastated large areas of Nepal, it also caused a cultural catastrophe within Kathmandu’s UNESCO World Heritage Site. Playing a central ritual role in the... Read More about Look Down, Not Up: Protecting the Post-disaster Subsurface Heritage of the Kathmandu Valley’s UNESCO World Heritage Site..

Detecting Mobility in Early Iron Age Thessaly by Strontium Isotope Analysis (2018)
Journal Article
Panagiotopoulou, E., Montgomery, J., Nowell, G., Peterkin, J., Doulgeri-Intzesiloglou, A., Arachoviti, P., …Tsiouka, F. (2018). Detecting Mobility in Early Iron Age Thessaly by Strontium Isotope Analysis. European Journal of Archaeology, 21(4), 590-611. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2017.88

This article presents evidence of population movements in Thessaly, Greece, during the Early Iron Age (Protogeometric period, eleventh–ninth centuries BC). The method we employed to detect non-local individuals is strontium isotope analysis (87Sr/86S... Read More about Detecting Mobility in Early Iron Age Thessaly by Strontium Isotope Analysis.