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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.

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.

A multi-proxy reconstruction of anthropogenic land use in southwest Asia at 6 kya: Combining archaeological, ethnographic and environmental datasets (2024)
Journal Article
Welton, L., Hammer, E., Chelazzi, F., de Gruchy, M., Gaastra, J., & Lawrence, D. (2025). A multi-proxy reconstruction of anthropogenic land use in southwest Asia at 6 kya: Combining archaeological, ethnographic and environmental datasets. Quaternary Science Reviews, 349, Article 109142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109142

Land use and land cover (LULC) changes have important biophysical and biogeochemical effects on climate via a variety of mechanisms. Several climate modelling studies have demonstrated the impact of LULC scenarios on past climate reconstructions. Tes... Read More about A multi-proxy reconstruction of anthropogenic land use in southwest Asia at 6 kya: Combining archaeological, ethnographic and environmental datasets.

Practitioner preferences in the analysis of cremation deposits in archaeology and biological anthropology: An overview of current osteoarchaeological practices with a focus on sex estimation (2024)
Journal Article
Hlad, M., Löffelmann, T., Griffith, J. I., James, H. F., Vercauteren, M., Snoeck, C., & Veselka, B. (2024). Practitioner preferences in the analysis of cremation deposits in archaeology and biological anthropology: An overview of current osteoarchaeological practices with a focus on sex estimation. PLoS ONE, 19(12), Article e0310380. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310380

Osteological data, such as biological sex, constitute a base for research in paleodemography and palaeopathology, as well as for understanding past socio-cultural practices. Despite extensive research efforts concerning cremated human remains over th... Read More about Practitioner preferences in the analysis of cremation deposits in archaeology and biological anthropology: An overview of current osteoarchaeological practices with a focus on sex estimation.

Quaternary rivers, tufas and mires of southern England: Description of Geological Conservation Review sites (2024)
Journal Article
Briant, R. M., Whiteman, C. A., Haggart, B. A., Bridgland, D. R., Egberts, E., Grant, M. J., Hatch, M., Knowles, P. G., Schreve, D. C., Toms, P. S., Wenban-Smith, F. F., & White, M. J. (online). Quaternary rivers, tufas and mires of southern England: Description of Geological Conservation Review sites. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2024.10.002

Southern England contains a wealth of sites, reviewed here, that contain evidence for past deposition in freshwa-ter environments over a period of over 0.5 million years and have been designated as Geological Conservation Review sites for their repre... Read More about Quaternary rivers, tufas and mires of southern England: Description of Geological Conservation Review sites.

The effect of seaweed fertilisation on sulfur isotope ratios (δ 34 S) and grain size in barley: implications for agronomy and archaeological research (2024)
Journal Article
Blanz, M., Gröcke, D. R., Martin, P., & Church, M. J. (2024). The effect of seaweed fertilisation on sulfur isotope ratios (δ 34 S) and grain size in barley: implications for agronomy and archaeological research. Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, 3, Article 1465082. https://doi.org/10.3389/fearc.2024.1465082

Introduction: Stable sulfur isotope ratios (δ34S) in bone collagen are often employed to study the consumption of marine and freshwater fish, wetland grazing, marine foraging patterns, and the possible geographic origins of food sources. However, a r... Read More about The effect of seaweed fertilisation on sulfur isotope ratios (δ 34 S) and grain size in barley: implications for agronomy and archaeological research.

Preserving the Past, Building the Future: The Role of Adaptive Heritage Reuse in Achieving SDGs Through Tourism (2024)
Book Chapter
Mohammed, A. (2024). Preserving the Past, Building the Future: The Role of Adaptive Heritage Reuse in Achieving SDGs Through Tourism. In W. Leal Filho, & V. Kuzmanović (Eds.), Sustainable Development Seen Through the Lenses of Ethnoeconomics and the Circular Economy (149-171). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-72676-7_8

Cultural heritage is recognized as a crucial element in building a sustainable environment that contributes to sustainable economic growth. Adaptive heritage reuse (AHR) is seen not only as a means to safeguard and maintain heritage, but also as a dr... Read More about Preserving the Past, Building the Future: The Role of Adaptive Heritage Reuse in Achieving SDGs Through Tourism.

Dress pins, bosses and pegged playing pieces: changing identities of some Early Medieval glass artefacts (2024)
Journal Article
Hall, M. A., Graham-Campbell, J., & Petts, D. (online). Dress pins, bosses and pegged playing pieces: changing identities of some Early Medieval glass artefacts. Archaeological Journal, https://doi.org/10.1080/00665983.2024.2412406

This paper discusses, without fixing, the meaning and identity of two glass bosses from Northern British archaeological contexts of the late first millennium AD, both power-centres in a socio-cultural network encompassing Pictland and Northumbria. Th... Read More about Dress pins, bosses and pegged playing pieces: changing identities of some Early Medieval glass artefacts.

Chinese ceramics as global commodities: a thousand years of production and trade of Chinese ceramics in the Western Indian Ocean (2024)
Journal Article
Zhang, R. (online). Chinese ceramics as global commodities: a thousand years of production and trade of Chinese ceramics in the Western Indian Ocean. World Archaeology, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2024.2425801

This paper analyses the production and distribution of Chinese trade ceramics from AD 800 to 1900 to understand how these ceramic products became global commodities and how their production and exchange in the Western Indian Ocean evolved. Through a... Read More about Chinese ceramics as global commodities: a thousand years of production and trade of Chinese ceramics in the Western Indian Ocean.

First bioarchaeological evidence of the familial practice of embalming of infant and adult relatives in Early Modern France (2024)
Journal Article
Partiot, C., Bessou, M., Kacki, S., Penet, M., Sachau-Carcel, G., & Castex, D. (2024). First bioarchaeological evidence of the familial practice of embalming of infant and adult relatives in Early Modern France. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 27075. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-78258-w

While medieval and modern embalming practices in Western Europe are attested to historically and bioarcheologically, especially for famous historical figures, there are few recorded occurrences of this type of corpse preparation for a large number of... Read More about First bioarchaeological evidence of the familial practice of embalming of infant and adult relatives in Early Modern France.