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Making a U-turn on the Purfleet Interchange: Stone Tool Technology in Marine Isotope Stage 9 Britain and the Emergence of the Middle Palaeolithic in Europe (2024)
Journal Article
White, M., Rawlinson, A., Foulds, F., Dale, L., Davis, R., Bridgland, D., Shipton, C., & Ashton, N. (2024). Making a U-turn on the Purfleet Interchange: Stone Tool Technology in Marine Isotope Stage 9 Britain and the Emergence of the Middle Palaeolithic in Europe. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, 7(1), Article 13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-024-00177-z

This paper re-examines earlier Palaeolithic core technology from British sites assigned to MIS 11, 9, and 7 using primarily a châine opératoire approach, with the objective of better understanding the earliest occurrence and distribution of Levallois... Read More about Making a U-turn on the Purfleet Interchange: Stone Tool Technology in Marine Isotope Stage 9 Britain and the Emergence of the Middle Palaeolithic in Europe.

Wool they, won’t they: Zooarchaeological perspectives on the political and subsistence economies of wool in northern Mesopotamia (2024)
Journal Article
Price, M. D., & Wolfhagen, J. (2024). Wool they, won’t they: Zooarchaeological perspectives on the political and subsistence economies of wool in northern Mesopotamia. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 74, Article 101590. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2024.101590

An important facet in the study of complex societies involves documenting how the extraction of resources to support political structures (the political economy) impacted the subsistence economy of everyday life. Caprine production was a central feat... Read More about Wool they, won’t they: Zooarchaeological perspectives on the political and subsistence economies of wool in northern Mesopotamia.

Recovering a lost seismic disaster. The destruction of El Castillejo and the discovery of the earliest historic earthquake affecting the Granada region (Spain) (2024)
Journal Article
Forlin, P., Reicherter, K., Gerrard, C. M., Bailiff, I., & García Porras, A. (2024). Recovering a lost seismic disaster. The destruction of El Castillejo and the discovery of the earliest historic earthquake affecting the Granada region (Spain). PLoS ONE, 19(4), Article e0300549. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0300549

This paper discusses recent archaeological fieldwork conducted at El Castillejo, a medieval Islamic settlement in Los Guájares, Granada, southern Spain. Results from combined archaeological excavation and archaeoseismological assessment of standing s... Read More about Recovering a lost seismic disaster. The destruction of El Castillejo and the discovery of the earliest historic earthquake affecting the Granada region (Spain).

First evidence for human occupation of a lava tube in Arabia: The archaeology of Umm Jirsan Cave and its surroundings, northern Saudi Arabia (2024)
Journal Article
Stewart, M., Andrieux, E., Blinkhorn, J., Guagnin, M., Fernandes, R., Vanwezer, N., Hatton, A., Alqahtani, M., Zalmout, I., Clark-Wilson, R., Al-Mufarreh, Y. S. A., Al-Shanti, M., Zahrani, B., Al Omari, A., Al-Jibreen, F., Alsharekh, A. M., Scerri, E. M. L., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M. D., & Groucutt, H. S. (2024). First evidence for human occupation of a lava tube in Arabia: The archaeology of Umm Jirsan Cave and its surroundings, northern Saudi Arabia. PLoS ONE, 19(4), Article e0299292. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0299292

Recent advances in interdisciplinary archaeological research in Arabia have focused on the evolution and historical development of regional human populations as well as the diverse patterns of cultural change, migration, and adaptations to environmen... Read More about First evidence for human occupation of a lava tube in Arabia: The archaeology of Umm Jirsan Cave and its surroundings, northern Saudi Arabia.

Ancient pathogens and paleoepidemiology (2024)
Book Chapter
Blevins, K. E. (2024). Ancient pathogens and paleoepidemiology. In Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-323-99931-1.00202-6

The recovery of ancient pathogen genomes has greatly improved our understanding of infectious disease in the past. This chapter reviews the timeline and methodological advancements of pathogen paleogenomics and current sampling, labora-tory, bioinfor... Read More about Ancient pathogens and paleoepidemiology.

Provisioning urbanism: a comparative urban-rural zooarchaeology of ancient Southwest Asia (2024)
Journal Article
Gaastra, J. S., Lawrence, D., & Tumolo, V. (2024). Provisioning urbanism: a comparative urban-rural zooarchaeology of ancient Southwest Asia. Antiquity, 98(398), https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.24

Historically, urban centres are seen as consumers that draw in labour and resources from their rural hinterlands. Zooarchaeological studies of key urban sites in Southwest Asia demonstrate the movement of livestock, but the region-wide application of... Read More about Provisioning urbanism: a comparative urban-rural zooarchaeology of ancient Southwest Asia.

Comparaison des approches histologiques et micro-tomographiques pour l’étude de la diagenèse osseuse (2024)
Journal Article
Trenchat, L., Vanderesse, N., Pubert, É., Lefrais, Y., Van de Vijver, K., Kacki, S., & Schotsmans, E. (2024). Comparaison des approches histologiques et micro-tomographiques pour l’étude de la diagenèse osseuse. Bulletins et mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris (En ligne), 36(1), https://doi.org/10.4000/bmsap.14092

Histology is a conventional but destructive technique for investigating bone diagenesis. Micro-tomography is a non-destructive technique that can also be used to investigate diagenetic alterations. The aim of this study is to evaluate the benefits an... Read More about Comparaison des approches histologiques et micro-tomographiques pour l’étude de la diagenèse osseuse.

Enabling equitable and ethical research partnerships in crisis situations: Lessons learned from post-disaster heritage protection interventions following Nepal’s 2015 earthquake (2024)
Journal Article
Coningham, R., Lewer, N., Acharya, K. P., Weise, K., Kunwar, R. B., Joshi, A., & Parajuli Khanal, S. (2024). Enabling equitable and ethical research partnerships in crisis situations: Lessons learned from post-disaster heritage protection interventions following Nepal’s 2015 earthquake. Research Ethics, https://doi.org/10.1177/17470161241234502

The earthquakes which struck Nepal’s capital in 2015 were humanitarian disasters. Not only did they inflict tragic loss of life and livelihoods, they also destroyed parts of the Kathmandu Valley’s unique UNESCO World Heritage site. These monuments we... Read More about Enabling equitable and ethical research partnerships in crisis situations: Lessons learned from post-disaster heritage protection interventions following Nepal’s 2015 earthquake.