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Microdebris Analysis of the Central Sewer and the Drainages of the Domus at Pompeiopolis (2023)
Journal Article
Tatbul, M., Brizzi, M., Ricci, G., Abate, A., Gürdal, T., & Musso, L. (in press). Microdebris Analysis of the Central Sewer and the Drainages of the Domus at Pompeiopolis. Anadolu Araştırmaları / Anatolian Research, https://doi.org/10.26650/anar.2023.29.1365177

In archaeological research, the discard behavior of domestic and industrial spaces can be mostly understood through the inspection of primary refuse contexts such as intra-site garbage pits, cesspits, last activity remains of fireplaces, activity flo... Read More about Microdebris Analysis of the Central Sewer and the Drainages of the Domus at Pompeiopolis.

Guidance for the identification of bony lesions related to smallpox (2023)
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Crawford, R. R., Hodson, C. M., & Errickson, D. (2024). Guidance for the identification of bony lesions related to smallpox. International Journal of Paleopathology, 44, 65-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2023.12.002

This research aimed to address the underrepresentation of smallpox (osteomyelitis variolosa) in palaeopathology, providing a synthesis of published literature and presenting guidance for the identification of osteomyelitis variolosa in non-adult and... Read More about Guidance for the identification of bony lesions related to smallpox.

The role of geoarchaeology in the interpretation of fragmented buildings and occupation surfaces: The case of coastal settlements in northeast Scotland (2023)
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Reid, V., Milek, K., O'Brien, C., Sveinbjarnarson, Ó. G., & Noble, G. (2024). The role of geoarchaeology in the interpretation of fragmented buildings and occupation surfaces: The case of coastal settlements in northeast Scotland. Geoarchaeology, 39(3), 238-267. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21990

Around the world, poorly preserved buildings and occupation deposits often represent the primary evidence for archaeological structures and settlements. Integrated geoarchaeological methods, such as soil chemistry and micromorphology, can be used to... Read More about The role of geoarchaeology in the interpretation of fragmented buildings and occupation surfaces: The case of coastal settlements in northeast Scotland.

Chronic maxillary sinusitis in palaeopathology: A review of methods (2023)
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Lee, M. J., Siek, T. J., & Hirst, C. S. (2024). Chronic maxillary sinusitis in palaeopathology: A review of methods. International Journal of Paleopathology, 44, 51-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2023.11.005

Objective This study reviews the palaeopathological literature discussing maxillary sinusitis to examine current trends and issues within the study of this condition, and to make recommendations for future research in this area. Materials Sevent... Read More about Chronic maxillary sinusitis in palaeopathology: A review of methods.

The Global Dynamics of Inequality (GINI) project: analysing archaeological housing data (2023)
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Bogaard, A., Ortman, S., Birch, J., Cervantes Quequezana, G., Chirikure, S., Crema, E., Cruz, P., Feinman, G., Fochesato, M., Green, A., Gronenborn, D., Hamerow, H., Jin, G., Kerig, T., Lawrence, D., McCoy, M., Munson, J., Roscoe, J., Rosenstock, E., Thompson, A., …Kohler, T. (2024). The Global Dynamics of Inequality (GINI) project: analysing archaeological housing data. Antiquity, 98(397), Article e6. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.188

The GINI project investigates the dynamics of inequality among populations over the long term by synthesising global archaeological housing data. This project brings archaeologists together from around the world to assess hypotheses concerning the ca... Read More about The Global Dynamics of Inequality (GINI) project: analysing archaeological housing data.

Towards an antifragility framework in past human–environment dynamics (2023)
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Jaffe, Y., Caramanica, A., & Price, M. D. (2023). Towards an antifragility framework in past human–environment dynamics. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 10(1), Article 915. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-02413-3

Scholarship on human–environment interactions tends to fall under two headings: collapse or resilience. While both offer valid explanatory frameworks for human–environment dynamics, both view stress as a net negative that, if unchecked, disrupts syst... Read More about Towards an antifragility framework in past human–environment dynamics.

Ending the war on error: towards an archaeology of failure (2023)
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Price, M., & Jaffe, Y. (2023). Ending the war on error: towards an archaeology of failure. Antiquity, 97(396), 1598-1606. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.120

Failure is a fundamental part of the human condition. While archaeologists readily identify large-scale failures, such as societal collapse and site abandonment, they less frequently consider the smaller failures of everyday life: the burning of a me... Read More about Ending the war on error: towards an archaeology of failure.

Failure on the frontier: a response to Price & Jaffe (2023)
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Kitching, P., & Witcher, R. (2023). Failure on the frontier: a response to Price & Jaffe. Antiquity, 97(396), 1613-1616. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.161

Price and Jaffe (2023) argue that acknowledging failure humanises the past. It can also serve as a lens through which to reflect on archaeological reasoning. Here, we turn to the Roman world, and the frontier of northern Britain in particular, to co... Read More about Failure on the frontier: a response to Price & Jaffe.

Knowledge and perception of leprosy amongst high school students in Italy: A survey (2023)
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Cristiani, E., Roberts, C., & Fiorin, E. (2023). Knowledge and perception of leprosy amongst high school students in Italy: A survey. Leprosy Review, 94(4), 341-349. https://doi.org/10.47276/lr.94.4.341

This study explores knowledge and perception of leprosy among adolescent Italian high school students. It primarily aimed to survey their knowledge and educate them about the social stigma linked with this infection, both past and present; it also in... Read More about Knowledge and perception of leprosy amongst high school students in Italy: A survey.

Pathways to the medieval hospital: collective osteobiographies of poverty and charity (2023)
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Inskip, S., Cessford, C., Dittmar, J., Rose, A., Mulder, B., O'Connell, T., …Robb, J. (2023). Pathways to the medieval hospital: collective osteobiographies of poverty and charity. Antiquity, 97(396), 1581-1597. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.167

Medieval hospitals were founded to provide charity, but poverty and infirmity were broad and socially determined categories and little is known about the residents of these institutions and the pathways that led them there. Combining skeletal, isotop... Read More about Pathways to the medieval hospital: collective osteobiographies of poverty and charity.

Connectivity Between Northern Iberia and Western France (2900–1100 cal bc): The Flux of Metalwork in the Bay of Biscay Modelled by Multivariate Clustering (2023)
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Latorre-Ruiz, J. (2023). Connectivity Between Northern Iberia and Western France (2900–1100 cal bc): The Flux of Metalwork in the Bay of Biscay Modelled by Multivariate Clustering. European Journal of Archaeology, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2023.41

Connections between northern Iberia and western France around the Bay of Biscay during the Chalcolithic, Early Bronze Age, and Middle Bronze Age are addressed in this article through a multivariate cluster analysis of a dataset of 1273 metal finds, c... Read More about Connectivity Between Northern Iberia and Western France (2900–1100 cal bc): The Flux of Metalwork in the Bay of Biscay Modelled by Multivariate Clustering.

Contextualising Counterfeits: Roman Coin Moulds in Britain and the Channel Islands (2023)
Journal Article
Hingley, R. (2023). Contextualising Counterfeits: Roman Coin Moulds in Britain and the Channel Islands. Britannia: A Journal of Romano-British and Kindred Studies, 54, 189-225. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X23000363

This paper addresses the archaeological contexts of the clay moulds which were used to produce copies of Roman coins in third-century Britain. Research has focused primarily upon the technology and chronology of the use of moulds to produce copies of... Read More about Contextualising Counterfeits: Roman Coin Moulds in Britain and the Channel Islands.

The first dietary stable isotope data from the Čunkāni-Dreņģeri Iron Age population (seventh–eleventh centuries CE) from Latvia (2023)
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Pētersone-Gordina, E., Gerhards, G., Vilcāne, A., Millard, A., & Moore, J. (2023). The first dietary stable isotope data from the Čunkāni-Dreņģeri Iron Age population (seventh–eleventh centuries CE) from Latvia. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 15(12), Article 185. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-023-01880-8

The main aim of this research was to study diet and possible social stratification in the Iron Age population of Čunkāni-Dreņģeri from Latvia through burial practice and dietary isotope analysis. This research also used previously published comparati... Read More about The first dietary stable isotope data from the Čunkāni-Dreņģeri Iron Age population (seventh–eleventh centuries CE) from Latvia.

Rievaulx Abbey, the Cistercian taskscape and environmental change (2023)
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Horsfield, F. (2023). Rievaulx Abbey, the Cistercian taskscape and environmental change. Cîteaux – Commentarii cistercienses, 2022(73), 187-211. https://doi.org/10.2143/CIT.73.1.0000000

Rievaulx Abbey, the Cistercian taskscape and environmental change The work contributes to the growing body of revisionist research into the Cistercian order by extending the concept of ‘taskscape,’ originally devised by anthropologist Tim Ingold t... Read More about Rievaulx Abbey, the Cistercian taskscape and environmental change.

Battlefield, Barracks, or Hospital? A Bioarchaeological Investigation of a Mass Grave at the Jičín Observatory, Czech Republic (2023)
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Quade, L., Sevillano, L., & Gaudio, D. (2023). Battlefield, Barracks, or Hospital? A Bioarchaeological Investigation of a Mass Grave at the Jičín Observatory, Czech Republic. European Journal of Archaeology, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2023.36

In 2016, a rescue excavation at the Jičín Natural Sciences Centre and Observatory uncovered a mass grave containing multiple commingled individuals buried in several layers. Zinc buttons and clothing remnants possibly related to eighteenth–nineteenth... Read More about Battlefield, Barracks, or Hospital? A Bioarchaeological Investigation of a Mass Grave at the Jičín Observatory, Czech Republic.