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Early Medieval Shellfish Exploitation in Northwest Europe: Investigations at the Sands of Forvie Shell Middens, Eastern Scotland, and the Role of Coastal Resources in the First Millennium AD (2017)
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Noble, G., Turner, J., Hamilton, D., Hastie, L., Knecht, R., Stirling, L., …Milek, K. (2017). Early Medieval Shellfish Exploitation in Northwest Europe: Investigations at the Sands of Forvie Shell Middens, Eastern Scotland, and the Role of Coastal Resources in the First Millennium AD. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2017.1329242

Death by combat at the dawn of the Bronze Age? Profiling the dagger-accompanied burial from Racton, West Sussex (2017)
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Needham, S., Kenny, J., Cole, G., Montgomery, J., Jay, M., and, M. D., & Marshall, P. (2017). Death by combat at the dawn of the Bronze Age? Profiling the dagger-accompanied burial from Racton, West Sussex

A previously unresearched Early Bronze Age dagger-grave found in 1989 at Racton, West Sussex, is profiled here through a range of studies. The dagger, the only grave accompaniment, is of the ‘transitional’ Ferry Fryston type, this example being of br... Read More about Death by combat at the dawn of the Bronze Age? Profiling the dagger-accompanied burial from Racton, West Sussex.

Participatory Augering: A methodology for challenging perceptions of archaeology and landscape change (2017)
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Tully, G., & Allen, M. (2017). Participatory Augering: A methodology for challenging perceptions of archaeology and landscape change. Public Archaeology, 16(3-4), 191-213. https://doi.org/10.1080/14655187.2018.1496519

Public engagement is a significant feature of twenty-first-century archaeological practice. While more diverse audiences are connecting with the discipline in a multitude of ways, public perceptions of archaeology are still marred by stereotypes. Com... Read More about Participatory Augering: A methodology for challenging perceptions of archaeology and landscape change.

Mobility and Place Making in Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Italy (2017)
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Skeates, R. (2017). Mobility and Place Making in Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Italy. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, 30(2), 167-188. https://doi.org/10.1558/jmea.35404

This paper offers a revised overview and model of Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene hunter-gatherers in Italy, one that questions and extends existing materialist, evolutionary and ecological perspectives through an emphasis on the socio-cultural d... Read More about Mobility and Place Making in Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Italy.

Sex determination of human remains from peptides in tooth enamel (2017)
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Andre Stewart, N., Fernanda Gerlach, R., Gowland, R. L., Gron, K., & Montgomery, J. (2017). Sex determination of human remains from peptides in tooth enamel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(52), 13649-13654. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1714926115

The assignment of biological sex to archaeological human skeletons is a fundamental requirement for the reconstruction of the human past. It is conventionally and routinely performed on adults using metric analysis and morphological traits arising fr... Read More about Sex determination of human remains from peptides in tooth enamel.

Reconstruction of prehistoric pottery use from fatty acid carbon isotope signatures using Bayesian inference (2017)
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Fernandes, R., Eley, Y., Brabec, M., Lucquin, A., Millard, A., & Craig, O. (2018). Reconstruction of prehistoric pottery use from fatty acid carbon isotope signatures using Bayesian inference. Organic Geochemistry, 117, 31-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2017.11.014

Carbon isotope measurements of individual fatty acids (C16:0 and C18:0) recovered from archaeological pottery vessels are widely used in archaeology to investigate past culinary and economic practices. Typically, such isotope measurements are matched... Read More about Reconstruction of prehistoric pottery use from fatty acid carbon isotope signatures using Bayesian inference.

A large handaxe from Wadi Dabsa and early hominin adaptations within the Arabian Peninsula (2017)
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Foulds, F., Shuttleworth, A., Sinclair, A., Alsharekh, A., Al Ghamdi, S., Inglis, R., & Bailey, G. (2017). A large handaxe from Wadi Dabsa and early hominin adaptations within the Arabian Peninsula. Antiquity, 91(360), 1421-1434. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2017.153

The role played by the Arabian Peninsula in hominin dispersals out of Africa has long been debated. The DISPERSE Project has focused on south-western Arabia as a possible centre of hominin settlement and a primary stepping-stone for such dispersals.... Read More about A large handaxe from Wadi Dabsa and early hominin adaptations within the Arabian Peninsula.

A cold case closed. New light on the life and death of the Lateglacial elk from Poulton-le-Fylde (Lancashire, UK) (2017)
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Pettitt, P., Rowley-Conwy, P., Montgomery, J., & Richards, M. (2017). A cold case closed. New light on the life and death of the Lateglacial elk from Poulton-le-Fylde (Lancashire, UK). https://doi.org/10.7485/qu64_8

Since its excavation in the 1970s the Allerød, period adult male elk from Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire (UK) has been interpreted as a Lateglacial hunting episode, presumably by Federmessergruppen hunter-gatherers, albeit in the absence of typological... Read More about A cold case closed. New light on the life and death of the Lateglacial elk from Poulton-le-Fylde (Lancashire, UK).

La cronología radiocarbónica de las primeras manifestaciones megalíticas en el sureste de la Península Ibérica: las necrópolis de Las Churuletas, La Atalaya y Llano del Jautón (Purchena, Almería). = The radiocarbon chronology of the oldest megalithic monuments in southeastern Iberia: the necropolises of Las Churuletas, La Atalaya and Llano del Jautón (Purchena, Almería) (2017)
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Aranda Jiménez, G., Lozano Medina, Á., Camalich Massieu, M. D., Martín Socas, D., Rodríguez Santos, F. J., Trujillo Mederos, A., …Clop García, X. (2017). La cronología radiocarbónica de las primeras manifestaciones megalíticas en el sureste de la Península Ibérica: las necrópolis de Las Churuletas, La Atalaya y Llano del Jautón (Purchena, Almería). = The radiocarbon chronology of the oldest megalithic monuments in southeastern Iberia: the necropolises of Las Churuletas, La Atalaya and Llano del Jautón (Purchena, Almería). Trabajos de Prehistoria, 74(2), 257-277. https://doi.org/10.3989/tp.2017.12194

Por primera vez en el estudio del fenómeno megalítico del sureste de la Península Ibérica se ha obtenido una serie radiocarbónica para el análisis de sus manifestaciones más antiguas. Se han datado 30 restos antropológicos de sepulturas tipo rundgräb... Read More about La cronología radiocarbónica de las primeras manifestaciones megalíticas en el sureste de la Península Ibérica: las necrópolis de Las Churuletas, La Atalaya y Llano del Jautón (Purchena, Almería). = The radiocarbon chronology of the oldest megalithic monuments in southeastern Iberia: the necropolises of Las Churuletas, La Atalaya and Llano del Jautón (Purchena, Almería).

Frontiers of Romania: Nationalism and the Ideological Space of the Roman Limes (2017)
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Hanscam, E. (2017). Frontiers of Romania: Nationalism and the Ideological Space of the Roman Limes. Ex Novo (Roma), 2, 63-83

Modern Romania is a nation-state containing space which has long been considered marginal - first as part of the Roman Empire and now within the European Union. The national narrative of Romania highlights this liminality, focusing on the interaction... Read More about Frontiers of Romania: Nationalism and the Ideological Space of the Roman Limes.