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Herbivore Diets and the Anthropogenic Environment of Early Farming in Southern Scandinavia (2016)
Journal Article
Gron, K., & Rowley-Conwy, P. (2017). Herbivore Diets and the Anthropogenic Environment of Early Farming in Southern Scandinavia. Holocene, 27(1), 98-109. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683616652705

Farming practice in the first period of the southern Scandinavian Neolithic (Early Neolithic I, Funnel Beaker Culture, 3950–3500 cal. BC) is not well understood. Despite the presence of the first farmers and their domesticated plants and animals, lit... Read More about Herbivore Diets and the Anthropogenic Environment of Early Farming in Southern Scandinavia.

The city is dead! Long live the city! (2016)
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Gaydarska, B. (2016). The city is dead! Long live the city!. Norwegian Archaeological Review, 49(1), 40-57. https://doi.org/10.1080/00293652.2016.1164749

The urban way of life is considered to be a major milestone in human development. It has attracted unparalleled research interest, breaking boundaries between time and space and between modern academic disciplines. The 150-year-long history of this r... Read More about The city is dead! Long live the city!.

On the curious date of the Rylstone log-coffin burial (2016)
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Melton, N., Montgomery, J., Roberts, B., Cook, G., & Harris, S. (2016). On the curious date of the Rylstone log-coffin burial. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 82, 383-392. https://doi.org/10.1017/ppr.2016.5

Radiocarbon dates have been obtained from a log-coffin burial excavated in 1864 by Canon William Greenwell from a ditched round barrow at Scale House, near Rylstone, North Yorkshire. The oak tree-trunk coffin had contained an extended body wrapped in... Read More about On the curious date of the Rylstone log-coffin burial.

The identification of peptides by nanoLC-MS/MS from human surface tooth enamel following a simple acid etch extraction (2016)
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Stewart, N. A., Molina, G. F., Issa, J. P. M., Yates, N. A., Sosovicka, M., Vieira, A. R., …Gerlach, R. F. (2016). The identification of peptides by nanoLC-MS/MS from human surface tooth enamel following a simple acid etch extraction. RSC Advances, 6(66), 61673-61679. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6ra05120k

Tooth enamel is the hardest, densest and most mineralized tissue in vertebrates. This is due to the high crystallinity of enamel. During enamel formation, proteins responsible for mineralization are degraded by proteases, which results in mature enam... Read More about The identification of peptides by nanoLC-MS/MS from human surface tooth enamel following a simple acid etch extraction.

Preliminary Results of Post-Disaster Archaeological Investigations at the Vatsala Temple and within Bhaktapur’s Durbar Square, Kathmandu Valley UNESCO World Heritage Property (Nepal) (2016)
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Coningham, R., Acharya, K., Davis, C., Kunwar, R., Tremblay, J., Schmidt, A., & Simpson, I. (2016). Preliminary Results of Post-Disaster Archaeological Investigations at the Vatsala Temple and within Bhaktapur’s Durbar Square, Kathmandu Valley UNESCO World Heritage Property (Nepal). PRACINA NEPALA. ANCIENT NEPAL, 191-192, 3-27

Preliminary Results of Post-Disaster Archaeological Investigations at the Kasthamandap and within Hanuman Dhoka, Kathmandu Valley UNESCO World Heritage Property (Nepal) (2016)
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Coningham, R., Acharya, K., Davis, C., Kunwar, R., Simpson, I., Schmidt, A., & Tremblay, J. (2016). Preliminary Results of Post-Disaster Archaeological Investigations at the Kasthamandap and within Hanuman Dhoka, Kathmandu Valley UNESCO World Heritage Property (Nepal). PRACINA NEPALA. ANCIENT NEPAL, 191-192, 28-51

Landscape evolution and agro-sylvo-pastoral activities on the Gorgan Plain (NE Iran)in the last 6000 years (2016)
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Shumilovskikh, L. S., Hopper, K., Djamali, M., Ponel, P., Demory, F., Rostek, F., Tachikawa, K., Bittmann, F., Golyeva, A., Guibal, F., Talon, B., Wang, L.-C., Nezamabadi, M., Bard, E., Lahijani, H., Nokandeh, J., Rekavandi, H. O., de Beaulieu, J.-L., Sauer, E., & Andrieu-Ponel, V. (online). Landscape evolution and agro-sylvo-pastoral activities on the Gorgan Plain (NE Iran)in the last 6000 years. Holocene, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683616646841

The Gorgan Plain (NE Iran) is characterized by fertile soils formed on a loess plateau and is at present primarily exploited for intensive agriculture. However, the timing and intensity of the human impact on the landscape in the past are still uncle... Read More about Landscape evolution and agro-sylvo-pastoral activities on the Gorgan Plain (NE Iran)in the last 6000 years.

Anti peatonalidad. Historia sobre la transformación de la Calzada de Tlalpan (2016)
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Hinojosa Baliño, I. (2016). Anti peatonalidad. Historia sobre la transformación de la Calzada de Tlalpan. Historia 2.0 (En linea), VI(11), 224-251

En este artículo se hace una reseña histórica de una avenida de la Ciudad de México, la Calzada de Tlalpan, desde sus orígenes prehispánicos hasta la actualidad, tratando de mostrar que la forma de movilidad en la misma cambió radicalmente con la int... Read More about Anti peatonalidad. Historia sobre la transformación de la Calzada de Tlalpan.

Dedicated followers of fashion? Bioarchaeological perspectives on socio-economic status, inequality, and health in urban children from the Industrial Revolution (18th-19th C), England (2016)
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Newman, S., & Gowland, R. (2016). Dedicated followers of fashion? Bioarchaeological perspectives on socio-economic status, inequality, and health in urban children from the Industrial Revolution (18th-19th C), England. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 27(2), 217-229. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2531

The 18th and 19th centuries in England were characterised by a period of increasing industrialisation of its urban centres. It was also one of widening social and health inequalities between the rich and the poor. Childhood is well-documented as bein... Read More about Dedicated followers of fashion? Bioarchaeological perspectives on socio-economic status, inequality, and health in urban children from the Industrial Revolution (18th-19th C), England.

Death on the frontier: military cremation practices in the north of Roman Britain (2016)
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Thompson, T., Szigeti, J., Gowland, R., & Witcher, R. (2016). Death on the frontier: military cremation practices in the north of Roman Britain. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 10, 828-836. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.05.020

The study of cremated human remains from archaeological contexts has traditionally been viewed as less valuable than the study of inhumed bodies. However, recent methodological and theoretical developments regarding the taphonomic processes that tran... Read More about Death on the frontier: military cremation practices in the north of Roman Britain.

Bell Beaker people in Britain: migration, mobility and diet (2016)
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Parker Pearson, M., Chamberlain, A., Jay, M., Richards, M., Sheridan, A., Curtis, N., …Wilkin, N. (2016). Bell Beaker people in Britain: migration, mobility and diet. Antiquity, 90(351), 620-637. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.72

The appearance of the distinctive ‘Beaker package’ marks an important horizon in British prehistory, but was it associated with immigrants to Britain or with indigenous converts? Analysis of the skeletal remains of 264 individuals from the British Ch... Read More about Bell Beaker people in Britain: migration, mobility and diet.

Beyond Replication: The Quantification of Route Models in the North Jazira, Iraq (2016)
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de Gruchy, M. (2016). Beyond Replication: The Quantification of Route Models in the North Jazira, Iraq. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 23(2), 427-447. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-015-9247-x

The primary aim of this paper is to present a solution to the issue of the statistical validation of route models. In addition, it introduces a body of theory taken from the broader field of route studies, isolates individual physical variables commo... Read More about Beyond Replication: The Quantification of Route Models in the North Jazira, Iraq.

The Bennachie Colony: A Nineteenth-Century Informal Community in Northeast Scotland (2016)
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Oliver, J., Armstrong, J., Milek, K., Schofield, J. E., Vergunst, J., Brochard, T., …Noble, G. (2016). The Bennachie Colony: A Nineteenth-Century Informal Community in Northeast Scotland. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 20(2), 341-377. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-016-0336-7

In this paper we explore the intertwined issues of improvement and community relations within the context of the Colony site, a nineteenth-century informal settlement in Scotland best known through caricatures of the poor and stereotypes of rural liv... Read More about The Bennachie Colony: A Nineteenth-Century Informal Community in Northeast Scotland.

Can't find a pulse? Celtic bean (Vicia faba L.) in British prehistory (2016)
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Treasure, E., & Church, M. (2017). Can't find a pulse? Celtic bean (Vicia faba L.) in British prehistory. Environmental Archaeology, 22(2), 113-127. https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2016.1153769

Archaeobotanical research on prehistoric crops in Britain has primarily focussed on cereals and the potential importance of alternative crops, such as pulses, has often been overlooked. This paper reviews evidence for Celtic bean (Vicia faba L.) in B... Read More about Can't find a pulse? Celtic bean (Vicia faba L.) in British prehistory.

Challenges in Archaeological Tourism in China (2016)
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Gao, Q. (2016). Challenges in Archaeological Tourism in China. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 20(2), 422-436. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-016-0333-x

Worldwide archaeological tourism, or tourism to sites with archaeological significance, has been rapidly growing and has attracted increased academic attention in recent years. China is an outstanding case in this field. In fact, its government has b... Read More about Challenges in Archaeological Tourism in China.