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Understanding the long-term development of an irrigation network using a sinuosity-based automatic classification of waterways (2024)
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Boon, M., Motta, D., Massa, M., Wainwright, J., Lawrence, D., & Ayala, G. (2025). Understanding the long-term development of an irrigation network using a sinuosity-based automatic classification of waterways. Holocene, 35(1), 29-43. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836241285795

This study investigates the use of planform sinuosity as a metric to produce an automatic classification of waterways in the pre-modern and present-day irrigation networks in the Konya Plain in south-central Türkiye. Results show that such automatic... Read More about Understanding the long-term development of an irrigation network using a sinuosity-based automatic classification of waterways.

PLOMAT: plotting material flows of ‘commonplace’ Late Bronze Age seals in western Eurasia (2024)
Journal Article
Tsouparopoulou, C., Maynard, G., & Russo, S. G. (online). PLOMAT: plotting material flows of ‘commonplace’ Late Bronze Age seals in western Eurasia. Antiquity, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.156

Since the mid-twentieth century, the study of designs on seals has often focused on exotica and elite items. The PLOMAT project investigates visual and material communication outside of elite exchange networks during the Late Bronze Age in western Eu... Read More about PLOMAT: plotting material flows of ‘commonplace’ Late Bronze Age seals in western Eurasia.

Modelling cultural responses to disease spread in Neolithic Trypillia mega-settlements (2024)
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Bentley, R. A., Carrignon, S., Gaydarska, B., Chapman, J., Buchanan, B., & O'Brien, M. J. (2024). Modelling cultural responses to disease spread in Neolithic Trypillia mega-settlements. Journal of the Royal Society. Interface, 21(219), https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2024.0313

As zoonotic diseases coevolved with early agriculture, social distancing within dense human settlements could have conferred a selective advantage in terms of infection risk. Here, we consider the case of Trypillia mega-settlements after 4000 BC, as... Read More about Modelling cultural responses to disease spread in Neolithic Trypillia mega-settlements.

How Does Visibility Count? An Open Data‐Driven Approach to Compare the Use of Ground Visibility in Archaeological Field‐Walking Surveys in the Mediterranean Region (2024)
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Strupler, N. (online). How Does Visibility Count? An Open Data‐Driven Approach to Compare the Use of Ground Visibility in Archaeological Field‐Walking Surveys in the Mediterranean Region. Archaeological Prospection, https://doi.org/10.1002/arp.1964

There is a common agreement among archaeologists that assessing visibility in the field is essential to measure the accuracy of their observations. Archaeologists widely expect that low visibility negatively impacts the recovery rate of artefacts and... Read More about How Does Visibility Count? An Open Data‐Driven Approach to Compare the Use of Ground Visibility in Archaeological Field‐Walking Surveys in the Mediterranean Region.

Rickets, resorption and revolution: An investigation into the relationship between vitamin D deficiency in childhood and osteoporosis in adulthood in an 18th-19th century population. (2024)
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Bowers, A., Gowland, R., & Hind, K. (2024). Rickets, resorption and revolution: An investigation into the relationship between vitamin D deficiency in childhood and osteoporosis in adulthood in an 18th-19th century population. International Journal of Paleopathology, 47, 27-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2024.09.002

This study employs a Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) approach to assess the effect of vitamin D deficiency (VDD) in childhood on the risk of osteoporosis in adulthood in an archaeological sample of skeletons dating from the 18th t... Read More about Rickets, resorption and revolution: An investigation into the relationship between vitamin D deficiency in childhood and osteoporosis in adulthood in an 18th-19th century population..

Isotopic insights from carpological remains: one of the first datasets for the Italian Bronze Age (2024)
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Cortese, F., De Angelis, F., Bontempo, L., Carrara, N., Cuda, M. T., Longa, E. D., Cecchi, I. M., Sarti, L., Silvestri, L., Rickards, O., & Rolfo, M. F. (2024). Isotopic insights from carpological remains: one of the first datasets for the Italian Bronze Age. Data in Brief, 57, Article 111000. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2024.111000

Even though agriculture already spread into Eurasia during the Neolithic, the transition between the Copper Age and the Bronze Age was the time where Italian communities tuned horticultural techniques to foster the soil productivity. Carbon and nitro... Read More about Isotopic insights from carpological remains: one of the first datasets for the Italian Bronze Age.

Recommendations for stable isotope analysis of charred archaeological crop remains (2024)
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Styring, A. K., Vaiglova, P., Bogaard, A., Church, M., Gröcke, D. R., Larsson, M., Liu, X., Stroud, E., Szpak, P., & Wallace, M. P. (in press). Recommendations for stable isotope analysis of charred archaeological crop remains. Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, 3, Article 1470375. https://doi.org/10.3389/fearc.2024.1470375

Stable isotope analysis of plant remains recovered from archaeological sites is becoming more routine. There remains a lack of consensus, however, on how to appropriately select archaeological plant remains for isotopic analysis, how to account for d... Read More about Recommendations for stable isotope analysis of charred archaeological crop remains.

Lateglacial Interstadial to mid-Holocene stratigraphy and palynology at Pepper Arden Bottoms, North Yorkshire, UK (2024)
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Innes, J. B., Rutherford, M. M., Bridgland, D. R., Gearey, B. R., Lillie, M. C., Mitchell, W. A., O'Brien, C. E., Jones, R. T., & Thompson, G. J. (2024). Lateglacial Interstadial to mid-Holocene stratigraphy and palynology at Pepper Arden Bottoms, North Yorkshire, UK. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 135(5), 569-588. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2024.08.005

Investigations at Pepper Arden Bottoms, a lake basin site on the interfluve between the rivers Tees and Swale in northeast England, have recovered lithostratigraphical, pollen and plant macrofossil sequences which have allowed the reconstruction of s... Read More about Lateglacial Interstadial to mid-Holocene stratigraphy and palynology at Pepper Arden Bottoms, North Yorkshire, UK.

Karstic Aquifers and Climate Refugia: A Preliminary Outline History of Water-Management Strategy in Bronze and Iron Age Southeast Arabia (2024)
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de Vreeze, M., Kennet, D., & Deadman, W. M. (2024). Karstic Aquifers and Climate Refugia: A Preliminary Outline History of Water-Management Strategy in Bronze and Iron Age Southeast Arabia. Open Quaternary, 10, Article 5. https://doi.org/10.5334/oq.144

This paper attempts to set out a preliminary narrative of changing water exploitation and settlement in Southeast Arabia from the Umm an-Nar period to the Iron Age, with a particular focus on the 4.2ka event. It argues for long-term cultural and adap... Read More about Karstic Aquifers and Climate Refugia: A Preliminary Outline History of Water-Management Strategy in Bronze and Iron Age Southeast Arabia.

Dietary Variability in the Varna Chalcolithic Cemeteries (2024)
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Gaydarska, B., Roe, J., & Slavchev, V. (online). Dietary Variability in the Varna Chalcolithic Cemeteries. European Journal of Archaeology, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2024.33

This article presents the results of AMS radiocarbon dating, stable isotope analysis, and FRUITS dietary modelling to investigate dietary variability among sixty individuals buried at Varna in the mid-fifth millennium BC. The principal pattern was th... Read More about Dietary Variability in the Varna Chalcolithic Cemeteries.