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Patterns of Etruscan urbanism (2020)
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Stoddart, S., Palmisano, A., Redhouse, D., Barker, G., Di Paola, G., Motta, L., …Witcher, R. (2020). Patterns of Etruscan urbanism. Frontiers in digital humanities, 7, Article 1. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdigh.2020.00001

This paper examines the patterns of Etruscan urbanism by the innovative use of newly available rural data, employing rank size, and indices of centralization. The detailed case study looks at the development of urbanism of pre-Roman Etruria where bot... Read More about Patterns of Etruscan urbanism.

An integrated methodology for the documentation and protection of cultural heritage in the MENA region: a case study from Libya and Tunisia (2020)
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Leone, A., Wootton, W., Fenwick, C., Nebbia, M., Alkhalaf, H., Jorayev, G., …Voke, P. (2020). An integrated methodology for the documentation and protection of cultural heritage in the MENA region: a case study from Libya and Tunisia. Libyan Studies, 51, 141-168. https://doi.org/10.1017/lis.2020.11

This paper presents the methodology and overall outcomes from the Training in Action project (TinA), funded by the British Council's Cultural Protection Fund between 2017 and 2019, which has built capacity among 72 employees of the Department of Anti... Read More about An integrated methodology for the documentation and protection of cultural heritage in the MENA region: a case study from Libya and Tunisia.

Archaeological Investigations at Dohani and Karma, two newly identified fortified enclosures in Kapilbastu District, Nepal: Preliminary results from geophysical survey, mapping and auger coring (2020)
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Coningham, R., Acharya, K., Kunwar, R., Gyawali, B., Davis, C., Simpson, I., …Woolston-Houshold, M. (2020). Archaeological Investigations at Dohani and Karma, two newly identified fortified enclosures in Kapilbastu District, Nepal: Preliminary results from geophysical survey, mapping and auger coring. PRACINA NEPALA. ANCIENT NEPAL, 204, 25-57

Authenticity and heritage conservation: seeking common complexities beyond the ‘Eastern’ and ‘Western’ dichotomy (2020)
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Gao, Q., & Jones, S. (2021). Authenticity and heritage conservation: seeking common complexities beyond the ‘Eastern’ and ‘Western’ dichotomy. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 27(1), 90-106. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2020.1793377

This article challenges the claimed gulf between ‘Eastern’ and ‘Western’ concepts and approaches to heritage conservation through an analysis of the common complexities surrounding authenticity. The past few decades have witnessed an important critiq... Read More about Authenticity and heritage conservation: seeking common complexities beyond the ‘Eastern’ and ‘Western’ dichotomy.

Does archaeology stink? detecting smell in the past using headspace sampling techniques (2020)
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Malik, R. (2021). Does archaeology stink? detecting smell in the past using headspace sampling techniques. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 25(2), 273-296. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-020-00552-w

Smell is a language, communicative and interpretive. Firmly embedded in the physical, social, emotional, and semantic context, odor emanates as existential expression that is integral and idiosyncratic to human culture, behaviors, and practices. Adva... Read More about Does archaeology stink? detecting smell in the past using headspace sampling techniques.

Issues of theory and method in the analysis of Paleolithic mortuary behavior: A view from Shanidar Cave (2020)
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Pomeroy, E., Hunt, C. O., Reynolds, T., Abdulmutalb, D., Asouti, E., Bennett, P., …Barker, G. (2020). Issues of theory and method in the analysis of Paleolithic mortuary behavior: A view from Shanidar Cave. Evolutionary Anthropology, 29(5), 263-279. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21854

Mortuary behavior (activities concerning dead conspecifics) is one of many traits that were previously widely considered to have been uniquely human, but on which perspectives have changed markedly in recent years. Theoretical approaches to hominin m... Read More about Issues of theory and method in the analysis of Paleolithic mortuary behavior: A view from Shanidar Cave.

Response to White et al.’s reply: ‘Still no archaeological evidence that Neanderthals created Iberian cave art’ [J. Hum. Evol. (2020) 102640] (2020)
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Hoffmann, D. L., Standish, C. D., García-Diez, M., Pettitt, P. B., Milton, J. A., Zilhão, J., …Pike, A. W. (in press). Response to White et al.’s reply: ‘Still no archaeological evidence that Neanderthals created Iberian cave art’ [J. Hum. Evol. (2020) 102640]. Journal of Human Evolution, 144, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102810

Ceramic Studies and Petrographic Analysis in Levantine Archaeology, the Limitations of Current Approaches (2020)
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Badreshany, K., & Philip, G. (2020). Ceramic Studies and Petrographic Analysis in Levantine Archaeology, the Limitations of Current Approaches. Levant, 52(1-2), 5-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2020.1786270

By way of an introduction to this volume, we look to provide a brief review of recent approaches to ceramic studies in Levantine archaeology, and to the way that the results of laboratory-based investigations have been integrated within these. As we... Read More about Ceramic Studies and Petrographic Analysis in Levantine Archaeology, the Limitations of Current Approaches.

Ancient DNA preservation, genetic diversity and biogeography: A study of houseflies from Roman Qasr Ibrim, lower Nubia, Egypt (2020)
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Simpson, A., Fernández-Domínguez, E., Panagiotakopulu, E., & Clapham, A. (2020). Ancient DNA preservation, genetic diversity and biogeography: A study of houseflies from Roman Qasr Ibrim, lower Nubia, Egypt. Journal of Archaeological Science, 120, Article 105180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2020.105180

The optimal preservation of many Egyptian archaeological sites provides unique opportunities in the research into the evolution of synanthropic species, wild animals or plants, which benefit from close association with man-made human habitats. In thi... Read More about Ancient DNA preservation, genetic diversity and biogeography: A study of houseflies from Roman Qasr Ibrim, lower Nubia, Egypt.

The Vinča group - (Almost) 40 years on John Chapman (independent scholar) (2020)
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Chapman, J. (2020). The Vinča group - (Almost) 40 years on John Chapman (independent scholar). Quaternary International, 560-561, 5-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.06.014

My inspiration for an undergraduate dissertation (1972) on the origins of the Vinča group and, then, a PhD on the group as a whole (1976) came from a 1971 trip to the Belo Brdo tell. The PhD was transformed by new analyses to become the 1981 BAR publ... Read More about The Vinča group - (Almost) 40 years on John Chapman (independent scholar).

Fragments of Faith: Unpicking Archbishop John Morton's Vestments (2020)
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Brooks, M. M., O’Connor, S., Caple, C., Graves, C. P., & Quye, A. (2020). Fragments of Faith: Unpicking Archbishop John Morton's Vestments. Antiquaries Journal, 100, 274-303. https://doi.org/10.1017/s000358152000027x

This paper uses evidence from a previously unresearched ecclesiastical textile associated with Archbishop John Morton (c 1420−1500) to generate new insights into the material culture of the Roman Catholic faith before, during and after the penal peri... Read More about Fragments of Faith: Unpicking Archbishop John Morton's Vestments.