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Rich table but short life: Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis in Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) and its possible consequences (2018)
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Kacki, S., Velemínský, P., Lynnerup, N., Kaupová, S., Lacoste Jeanson, A., Povýšil, C., …Brůžek, J. (2018). Rich table but short life: Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis in Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) and its possible consequences. PLoS ONE, 13(4), Article e0195920. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195920

The exhumation of Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546–1601) was performed in 2010 to verify speculative views on the cause of his death. Previous analyses of skeletal and hair remains recovered from his grave refuted the presumption that he died from... Read More about Rich table but short life: Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis in Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) and its possible consequences.

Isotopic analysis of burials from the early Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Eastbourne, Sussex, U.K (2018)
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Hughes, S. S., Millard, A. R., Chenery, C. A., Nowell, G., & Pearson, D. G. (2018). Isotopic analysis of burials from the early Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Eastbourne, Sussex, U.K. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 19, 513-525. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.03.004

The transition from Roman Britain to early Anglo-Saxon England, traditionally described as the Adventus Saxonum and associated with a large-scale invasion by Germanic peoples, has been the subject of much debate. The archaeological record does not su... Read More about Isotopic analysis of burials from the early Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Eastbourne, Sussex, U.K.

Pica 8: Refining dietary reconstruction through amino acid δ 13 C analysis of tendon collagen and hair keratin (2018)
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Mora, A., Pacheco, A., Roberts, C., & Smith, C. (2018). Pica 8: Refining dietary reconstruction through amino acid δ 13 C analysis of tendon collagen and hair keratin. Journal of Archaeological Science, 93, 94-109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2018.03.002

Stable isotope analysis of archaeological human remains is routinely applied to explore dietary habits and mobility patterns. The isotope information pertaining to the period prior to death may help in identifying locals and non-locals, especially wh... Read More about Pica 8: Refining dietary reconstruction through amino acid δ 13 C analysis of tendon collagen and hair keratin.

Zooarchaeology and the elusive feast: from performance to aftermath (2018)
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Rowley-Conwy, P. (2018). Zooarchaeology and the elusive feast: from performance to aftermath. World Archaeology, 50(2), 221-241. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2018.1445024

Ethnographic descriptions of feasts reveal that consumption of meat is usually prominent. Zooarchaeological evidence may thus provide the best way of seeing feasts in the archaeological record. The accumulation of trophy arrays and ongoing high-statu... Read More about Zooarchaeology and the elusive feast: from performance to aftermath.

The Qanāt: a multidisciplinary and diachronic approach to the study of groundwater catchment systems in archaeology (2018)
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Charbonnier, J., & Hopper, K. (2018). The Qanāt: a multidisciplinary and diachronic approach to the study of groundwater catchment systems in archaeology. Water History, 10(1), 3-11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12685-018-0214-9

The qanāt, as a traditional, low-cost, sustainable, water distribution system, was fundamental for the settlement of arid environments. This brief introduction to the special issue “The Qanāt: Archaeology and Environment” presents an overview of a wo... Read More about The Qanāt: a multidisciplinary and diachronic approach to the study of groundwater catchment systems in archaeology.

‘Are You Local?’ Indigenous Iron Age and Mobile Roman and Post-Roman Populations: Then, Now and In-Between (2018)
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Hingley, R., Bonacchi, C., & Sharpe, K. (2018). ‘Are You Local?’ Indigenous Iron Age and Mobile Roman and Post-Roman Populations: Then, Now and In-Between. Britannia: A Journal of Romano-British and Kindred Studies, 49, 283-302. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0068113x18000016

The Iron Age and Roman periods are often defined against each other through the establishment of dualities, such as barbarity–civilisation, or spiritual–rational. Despite criticisms, dualities remain prevalent in the National Curriculum for schools,... Read More about ‘Are You Local?’ Indigenous Iron Age and Mobile Roman and Post-Roman Populations: Then, Now and In-Between.

Antígona y su biobanco de ADN: Desaparecidos, búsqueda y tecnologías forenses en México. = Antigone's forensic DNA database: Forensic technologies and the search for the disappeared in Mexico (2018)
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Schwartz-Marin, E., & Cruz-Santiago, A. (2018). Antígona y su biobanco de ADN: Desaparecidos, búsqueda y tecnologías forenses en México. = Antigone's forensic DNA database: Forensic technologies and the search for the disappeared in Mexico. Athenea Digital, 18(1), 129-153. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/athenea.2260

La tragedia de Antígona ha sido apropiada estética y políticamente por artistas y activistas en México para discutir la búsqueda de personas desaparecidas. Reflexionando sobre las relaciones entre la futilidad, las tecnologías forenses y la noción de... Read More about Antígona y su biobanco de ADN: Desaparecidos, búsqueda y tecnologías forenses en México. = Antigone's forensic DNA database: Forensic technologies and the search for the disappeared in Mexico.

Luminescence dating of qanat technology: prospects for further development (2018)
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Bailiff, I., Jankowski, N., Snape, L., Gerrard, C., Gutiérrez, A., & Wilkinson, K. (2018). Luminescence dating of qanat technology: prospects for further development. Water History, 10(1), 73-84. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12685-018-0213-x

With few exceptions in which dating is implied by indirect association with adjacent settlements or incorporation of diagnostic artefacts in upcast sediment, individual qanats have proven very difficult to date. This absence of a chronological framew... Read More about Luminescence dating of qanat technology: prospects for further development.

South Shields 1875: an early excavation in context (2018)
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Stewart, M. (2018). South Shields 1875: an early excavation in context. Archaeologia Aeliana, 46, 181-220

Robert Blair (1845–1923) served as Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, and editor of this journal, for forty years until his death. But his association with the Society had in fact begun a decade earlier, when he became involved in... Read More about South Shields 1875: an early excavation in context.

AMS Dating of the Late Copper Age Varna Cemetery, Bulgaria (2018)
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Higham, T., Slavchev, V., Gaydarska, B., & Chapman, J. (2018). AMS Dating of the Late Copper Age Varna Cemetery, Bulgaria. Radiocarbon, 60(02), 493-516. https://doi.org/10.1017/rdc.2018.9

The Varna I cemetery, on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, is one of the most remarkable sites in European prehistory, with the world’s earliest large-scale assemblage of gold artifacts. Modeling of the first series of 14 accelerator mass spectrometry (... Read More about AMS Dating of the Late Copper Age Varna Cemetery, Bulgaria.

U-Th dating of carbonate crusts reveals Neandertal origin of Iberian cave art (2018)
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Hoffmann, D., Standish, C., García-Diez, M., Pettitt, P., Milton, J., Zilhão, J., …Pike, A. (2018). U-Th dating of carbonate crusts reveals Neandertal origin of Iberian cave art. Science, 359(6378), 912-915. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aap7778

he extent and nature of symbolic behavior among Neandertals are obscure. Although evidence for Neandertal body ornamentation has been proposed, all cave painting has been attributed to modern humans. Here we present dating results for three sites in... Read More about U-Th dating of carbonate crusts reveals Neandertal origin of Iberian cave art.

Detecting Mobility in Early Iron Age Thessaly by Strontium Isotope Analysis (2018)
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Panagiotopoulou, E., Montgomery, J., Nowell, G., Peterkin, J., Doulgeri-Intzesiloglou, A., Arachoviti, P., …Tsiouka, F. (2018). Detecting Mobility in Early Iron Age Thessaly by Strontium Isotope Analysis. European Journal of Archaeology, 21(4), 590-611. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2017.88

This article presents evidence of population movements in Thessaly, Greece, during the Early Iron Age (Protogeometric period, eleventh–ninth centuries BC). The method we employed to detect non-local individuals is strontium isotope analysis (87Sr/86S... Read More about Detecting Mobility in Early Iron Age Thessaly by Strontium Isotope Analysis.

Tracking natural and anthropogenic Pb exposure to its geological source (2018)
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Evans, J., Pashley, V., Madgwick, R., Neil, S., & Chenery, C. (2018). Tracking natural and anthropogenic Pb exposure to its geological source. Scientific Reports, 8(1), Article 1969. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-20397-y

Human Pb exposure comes from two sources: (i) natural uptake through ingestion of soils and typified by populations that predate mining activity and (ii) anthropogenic exposure caused by the exposure to Pb derived from ore deposits. Currently, the me... Read More about Tracking natural and anthropogenic Pb exposure to its geological source.

Dental disease and dietary isotopes of individuals from St Gertrude Church cemetery, Riga, Latvia (2018)
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Petersone-Gordina, P., Roberts, C., Millard, A., Montgomery, J., & Gerhards, G. (2018). Dental disease and dietary isotopes of individuals from St Gertrude Church cemetery, Riga, Latvia. PLoS ONE, 13(1), Article e0191757. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191757

This research explores oral health indicators and stable carbon and nitrogen isotope data to explore diet, and differences in diet, between people buried in the four different contexts of the St Gertrude Church cemetery (15th– 17th centuries AD): the... Read More about Dental disease and dietary isotopes of individuals from St Gertrude Church cemetery, Riga, Latvia.

Let's talk about stress, baby! Infant-feeding practices and stress in the ancient Atacama desert, Northern Chile (2018)
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King, C. L., Halcrow, S. E., Millard, A. R., Gröcke, D. R., Standen, V. G., Portilla, M., & Arriaza, B. T. (2018). Let's talk about stress, baby! Infant-feeding practices and stress in the ancient Atacama desert, Northern Chile. American journal of physical anthropology, 166(1), 139-155. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23411

Aims and objectives: The transition to an agricultural economy is often presumed to involve an increase in female fertility related to changes in weaning practice. In particular, the availability of staple crops as complementary foods is hypothesized... Read More about Let's talk about stress, baby! Infant-feeding practices and stress in the ancient Atacama desert, Northern Chile.

Marine resource reliance in the human populations of the Atacama Desert, northern Chile – a view from prehistory (2018)
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King, C. L., Millard, A. R., Gröcke, D. R., Standen, V. G., Arriaza, B. T., & Halcrow, S. E. (2018). Marine resource reliance in the human populations of the Atacama Desert, northern Chile – a view from prehistory. Quaternary Science Reviews, 182, 163-174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.12.009

The Atacama Desert is one of the most inhospitable terrestrial environments on Earth, yet the upwelling of the Humboldt Current off the coast has resulted in the presence of a rich marine biota. It is this marine environment which first enabled the h... Read More about Marine resource reliance in the human populations of the Atacama Desert, northern Chile – a view from prehistory.

Interpersonal violence among the Chalcolithic and Bronze Ages inhabitants living on the Central Plateau of Iran: A voice from Tepe Hissar (2018)
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Afshar, Z., Roberts, C., & Millard, A. (2018). Interpersonal violence among the Chalcolithic and Bronze Ages inhabitants living on the Central Plateau of Iran: A voice from Tepe Hissar. Anthropologischer Anzeiger, 75(1), 49-66. https://doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/2018/0723

The site of Tepe Hissar (Iran) experienced widespread cultural and economic changes during the Chalcolithic and Bronze Ages (5th to the 2nd millennium B.C.). The discovery of evidence of burning, including charred human remains, the destruction of bu... Read More about Interpersonal violence among the Chalcolithic and Bronze Ages inhabitants living on the Central Plateau of Iran: A voice from Tepe Hissar.

Ireland's fallow deer: their historical, archaeological and biomolecular records (2018)
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Beglane, F., Baker, K., Carden, R., Rus Hoelzel, A., Lamb, A., Mhig Fhionnghaile, R., …Sykes, S. (2018). Ireland's fallow deer: their historical, archaeological and biomolecular records. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature, 118C, 141-165. https://doi.org/10.3318/priac.2018.118.01

The Anglo-Normans first introduced fallow deer (Dama dama) to Ireland in the thirteenth century, however no biomolecular research has previously been undertaken to examine the timing, circumstances and impact of the arrival of this species. This stud... Read More about Ireland's fallow deer: their historical, archaeological and biomolecular records.