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Collapse and continuity: A multi-proxy reconstruction of settlement organization and population trajectories in the Northern Fertile Crescent during the 4.2kya Rapid Climate Change event (2021)
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Lawrence, D., Palmisano, A., & de Gruchy, M. W. (2021). Collapse and continuity: A multi-proxy reconstruction of settlement organization and population trajectories in the Northern Fertile Crescent during the 4.2kya Rapid Climate Change event. PLoS ONE, 16(1), Article e0244871. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244871

The rise and fall of ancient societies have been attributed to rapid climate change events. One of the most discussed of these is the 4.2kya event, a period of increased aridity and cooling posited as the cause of societal changes across the globe, i... Read More about Collapse and continuity: A multi-proxy reconstruction of settlement organization and population trajectories in the Northern Fertile Crescent during the 4.2kya Rapid Climate Change event.

New Prospects for Investigating Early Life-Course Experiences and Health in Archaeological Fetal, Perinatal and Infant Individuals (2021)
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Hodson, C. M. (2021). New Prospects for Investigating Early Life-Course Experiences and Health in Archaeological Fetal, Perinatal and Infant Individuals. Childhood in the Past, 14(1), 3-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/17585716.2021.1905884

Children have become firmly embedded within multidisciplinary investigations of young lives, yet within these studies, the youngest members of past populations persist in lingering on the margins of discussion. Fetal, perinatal and infant lives are t... Read More about New Prospects for Investigating Early Life-Course Experiences and Health in Archaeological Fetal, Perinatal and Infant Individuals.

Modeling Health during Societal Collapse: Can Recent History Help Our Understanding of Post-Roman Gaul? (2020)
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Quade, L., & Gowland, R. (2020). Modeling Health during Societal Collapse: Can Recent History Help Our Understanding of Post-Roman Gaul?. Bioarchaeology international, 4(3-4), 172-190

Societal collapse results in structural breakdowns and instability, which can affect life expectancy and population health. Previous bioarchaeological studies have, however, sometimes struggled to identify correlations between sociopolitical changes... Read More about Modeling Health during Societal Collapse: Can Recent History Help Our Understanding of Post-Roman Gaul?.

The visual psychology of European Upper Palaeolithic figurative art: using Bubbles to understand outline depictions (2020)
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Meyering, L., Kentridge, R., & Pettitt, P. (2020). The visual psychology of European Upper Palaeolithic figurative art: using Bubbles to understand outline depictions. World Archaeology, 52(2), 205-222. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2020.1891964

How have our visual brains evolved, and exactly how did this constrain the specific way that animals were depicted in Upper Palaeolithic art? Here, we test predictions derived from visual neuroscience in this field. Using the example of open-air Uppe... Read More about The visual psychology of European Upper Palaeolithic figurative art: using Bubbles to understand outline depictions.

Scottish soldiers from the Battle of Dunbar 1650: A prosopographical approach to a skeletal assemblage (2020)
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Millard, A. R., Annis, R. G., Caffell, A. C., Dodd, L. L., Fischer, R., Gerrard, C. M., …Speller, C. F. (2020). Scottish soldiers from the Battle of Dunbar 1650: A prosopographical approach to a skeletal assemblage. PLoS ONE, 15(12), Article e0243369. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243369

After the Battle Dunbar between English and Scottish forces in 1650, captured Scottish soldiers were imprisoned in Durham and many hundreds died there within a few weeks. The partial skeletal remains of 28 of these men were discovered in 2013. Buildi... Read More about Scottish soldiers from the Battle of Dunbar 1650: A prosopographical approach to a skeletal assemblage.

Holocene regional population dynamics and climatic trends in the Near East: a first comparison using archaeo-demographic proxies (2020)
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Palmisano, A., Lawrence, D., de Gruchy, M. W., Bevan, A., & Shennan, S. (2020). Holocene regional population dynamics and climatic trends in the Near East: a first comparison using archaeo-demographic proxies. Quaternary Science Reviews, 252, Article 106739. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106739

This paper illustrates long-term trends in human population and climate from the Late Pleistocene to the Late Holocene (14,000-2500 cal. yr. BP) in order to assess to what degree climate change impacted human societies in the Near East. It draws on a... Read More about Holocene regional population dynamics and climatic trends in the Near East: a first comparison using archaeo-demographic proxies.

A new perspective on Copper Age technology, economy and settlement: grinding tools at the Valencina mega‑site (2020)
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Martínez-Sevilla, F., Lozano Rodríguez, J., Martínez Jordán, J., Scarre, C., Vargas Jiménez, J., Pajuelo Pando, A., & López Aldana, P. (2020). A new perspective on Copper Age technology, economy and settlement: grinding tools at the Valencina mega‑site. Journal of World Prehistory, 33(4), 513-559. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-020-09150-4

Activity patterns at large prehistoric sites are often difficult to interpret, as they frequently combine productive, domestic and funerary components. Valencina, the largest of the Copper Age mega-sites in Iberia, has proved particularly challenging... Read More about A new perspective on Copper Age technology, economy and settlement: grinding tools at the Valencina mega‑site.

Canine Economies of the Ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean (2020)
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Price, M., Meier, J., & Arbuckle, B. (2021). Canine Economies of the Ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean. Journal of Field Archaeology, 46(2), 81-92. https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2020.1848322

Archaeological assemblages, texts, and iconography indicate a multifaceted, yet often ignored, canine economy in the ancient eastern Mediterranean and Near East. This economy included not only dogs’ celebrated roles as hunting aids, guards, village s... Read More about Canine Economies of the Ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean.

The Middle Euphrates and its Transformation from the 3rd to the 7th c.: The case of Dibsi Faraj (2020)
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Leone, A., & Sarantis, A. (2020). The Middle Euphrates and its Transformation from the 3rd to the 7th c.: The case of Dibsi Faraj. Journal of Late Antiquity, 13(2), 308-351

Dibsi Faraj is a fortified citadel situated on the middle reaches of the Euphrates River in modern Syria which was occupied until the ninth century, when it was abandoned and then reoccupied in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. This article exami... Read More about The Middle Euphrates and its Transformation from the 3rd to the 7th c.: The case of Dibsi Faraj.

Beyond megadrought and collapse in the Northern Levant: The chronology of Tell Tayinat and two historical inflection episodes, around 4.2ka BP, and following 3.2ka BP (2020)
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Manning, S. W., Lorentzen, B., Welton, L., Batiuk, S., & Harrison, T. P. (2020). Beyond megadrought and collapse in the Northern Levant: The chronology of Tell Tayinat and two historical inflection episodes, around 4.2ka BP, and following 3.2ka BP. PLoS ONE, 15(10), Article e0240799. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240799

There has been considerable focus on the main, expansionary, and inter-regionally linked or ‘globalising’ periods in Old World pre- and proto-history, with a focus on identifying, analyzing and dating collapse at the close of these pivotal periods. T... Read More about Beyond megadrought and collapse in the Northern Levant: The chronology of Tell Tayinat and two historical inflection episodes, around 4.2ka BP, and following 3.2ka BP.