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Pilot Geophysical Survey in Handigaon, Kathmandu (2019)
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Coningham, R., Acharya, K., Kunwar, R., Davis, C., Hale, D., Manuel, M., Villis, R., & Watson, L. (online). Pilot Geophysical Survey in Handigaon, Kathmandu. PRACINA NEPALA. ANCIENT NEPAL, 19-37

The environment and subsistence in the lower reaches of the Yellow River around 10,000 BP ——faunal evidence from the bianbiandong cave site in Shandong Province, China (2019)
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Song, Y., Sun, B., Gao, Y., & Yi, H. (2019). The environment and subsistence in the lower reaches of the Yellow River around 10,000 BP ——faunal evidence from the bianbiandong cave site in Shandong Province, China. Quaternary International, 521, 35-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2019.06.022

The Bianbiandong cave site in Shandong Province is the earliest Neolithic site found in the lower reaches of the Yellow River basin to date, with a maximum age of approximately 10,000 yr BP. Identifiable faunal remains include Unio, Fruticicolidae, T... Read More about The environment and subsistence in the lower reaches of the Yellow River around 10,000 BP ——faunal evidence from the bianbiandong cave site in Shandong Province, China.

Mobile elites at Frattesina: flows of people in a Late Bronze Age ‘port of trade’ in northern Italy (2019)
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Cavazzuti, C., Cardarelli, A., Quondam, F., Salzani, L., Ferrante, M., Nisi, S., …Skeates, R. (2019). Mobile elites at Frattesina: flows of people in a Late Bronze Age ‘port of trade’ in northern Italy. Antiquity, 93(369), 624-644. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2019.59

Following a mid twelfth-century BC demographic crisis, Frattesina, in northern Italy, arose as a prominent hub linking continental Europe and the Mediterranean, as evidenced by the remarkable variety of exotic materials and commodities discovered at... Read More about Mobile elites at Frattesina: flows of people in a Late Bronze Age ‘port of trade’ in northern Italy.

Contribution of strontium to the human diet from querns and millstones: an experiment in digestive strontium isotope uptake (2019)
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Johnson, L., Montgomery, J., Evans, J., & Hamilton, E. (2019). Contribution of strontium to the human diet from querns and millstones: an experiment in digestive strontium isotope uptake. Archaeometry, 61(6), 1366-1381. https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12485

The question of whether rock grit ingested unintentionally from querns, metates or millstones or deliberately through pica or geophagy is bioaccessible in the human gut has not been addressed in archaeological Sr-isotope studies. This study employed... Read More about Contribution of strontium to the human diet from querns and millstones: an experiment in digestive strontium isotope uptake.

Revisiting the tuberculosis and leprosy cross-immunity hypothesis: expanding the dialogue between immunology and paleopathology (2019)
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Crespo, F., White, J., & Roberts, C. (2019). Revisiting the tuberculosis and leprosy cross-immunity hypothesis: expanding the dialogue between immunology and paleopathology. International Journal of Paleopathology, 26, 37-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2019.05.005

Objective: Our primary objective is to re-visit the tuberculosis and leprosy cross-immunity. hypothesis through the careful integration of immunology and paleopathology. Methods: Using an integrated theoretical analysis that evaluates clinical litera... Read More about Revisiting the tuberculosis and leprosy cross-immunity hypothesis: expanding the dialogue between immunology and paleopathology.

Arqueoentomología y arqueobotánica de los espacios de almacenamiento a largo plazo: el granero de Risco Pintado, Temisas (Gran Canaria) (2019)
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Henríquez-Valido, P., Morales, J., Vidal-Matutano, P., Santana-Cabrera, J., & Rodríguez Rodríguez, A. (2019). Arqueoentomología y arqueobotánica de los espacios de almacenamiento a largo plazo: el granero de Risco Pintado, Temisas (Gran Canaria). Trabajos de Prehistoria, 76(1), 120-137. https://doi.org/10.3989/tp.2019.12229

Este trabajo pretende contribuir al estudio de las técnicas de almacenamiento utilizadas en el pasado mediante el análisis de los restos entomológicos y vegetales presentes en el granero prehispánico canario de Risco Pintado, fechado entre los siglos... Read More about Arqueoentomología y arqueobotánica de los espacios de almacenamiento a largo plazo: el granero de Risco Pintado, Temisas (Gran Canaria).

Twisted handaxes in Middle Pleistocene Britain and their implications for regional-scale cultural variation and the deep history of Acheulean hominin groups (2019)
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White, M., Ashton, N., & Bridgland, D. (2019). Twisted handaxes in Middle Pleistocene Britain and their implications for regional-scale cultural variation and the deep history of Acheulean hominin groups. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 85, 61-81. https://doi.org/10.1017/ppr.2019.1

A better understood chronological framework for the Middle Pleistocene of Britain has enabled archaeologists to detect a number of temporally-restricted assemblage-types, based not on ‘culture historical’ schemes of typological progression but on ind... Read More about Twisted handaxes in Middle Pleistocene Britain and their implications for regional-scale cultural variation and the deep history of Acheulean hominin groups.

Human, Transhuman, Posthuman Digital Archaeologies: An Introduction (2019)
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Diaz-Guardamino, M., & Morgan, C. (2019). Human, Transhuman, Posthuman Digital Archaeologies: An Introduction. European Journal of Archaeology, 22(3), 320-323. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2019.26

Current archaeological thought evokes a sparking Catherine wheel: spinning fireworks that detonate light, colour, and sound with every movement. These theoretical turns swirl alongside the ongoing development and adoption of scientific and digital te... Read More about Human, Transhuman, Posthuman Digital Archaeologies: An Introduction.

The Origins of Trypillia Megasites (2019)
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Chapman, J., Gaydarska, B., & Nebbia, M. (2019). The Origins of Trypillia Megasites. Frontiers in digital humanities, 6, Article 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdigh.2019.00010

The Trypillia megasites of Ukraine are the largest known settlements in 4th millennium BC Europe and possibly the world. With the largest reaching 320 ha in size, megasites pose a serious question about the origins of such massive agglomerations. Mos... Read More about The Origins of Trypillia Megasites.

An Archaeology of Decolonization: Imperial Intimacies in Contemporary Lisbon (2019)
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Coelho, R. G. (2019). An Archaeology of Decolonization: Imperial Intimacies in Contemporary Lisbon. Journal of Social Archaeology, 19(2), 181-205. https://doi.org/10.1177/1469605319845971

The fall of the European empires over the course of the 20th century forced massive migratory flows from the former colonies to the old metropolis and between colonized regions. The experiences that came with the loss of colonies were traumatic for t... Read More about An Archaeology of Decolonization: Imperial Intimacies in Contemporary Lisbon.

Childhood “stress” and stable isotope life-histories in Transylvania (2019)
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Crowder, K., Montgomery, J., Gröcke, D., & Filipek, K. (2019). Childhood “stress” and stable isotope life-histories in Transylvania. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 29(4), 644-653. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2760

Aims and Objectives: Macroscopic skeletal analysis and stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses were employed to examine the relationship between skeletal “stress” lesions and changes in the isotopic life‐history profiles of six non‐adults from th... Read More about Childhood “stress” and stable isotope life-histories in Transylvania.

What was the ecological impact of a Trypillia mega-site occupation? Multi-proxy palaeo-environmental investigations at Nebelivka, Ukraine (2019)
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Albert, B., Innes, J., Krementskiy, K., Millard, A., Gaydarska, B., Nebbia, M., & Chapman, J. (2020). What was the ecological impact of a Trypillia mega-site occupation? Multi-proxy palaeo-environmental investigations at Nebelivka, Ukraine. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 29(1), 15-34. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-019-00730-9

Fine-resolution sampling of pollen, non-pollen palynomorphs and microcharcoal as well as sedimentological data in a 6-m sediment core were used to reconstruct both natural conditions and human impacts in the late fifth and early fourth millennia cal... Read More about What was the ecological impact of a Trypillia mega-site occupation? Multi-proxy palaeo-environmental investigations at Nebelivka, Ukraine.

New anthropological data from Cussac Cave (Gravettian, Dordogne, France): In situ and virtual analyses of Locus 3 (2019)
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Peignaux, C., Kacki, S., Guyomarc’h, P., Schotsmans, E. M., & Villotte, S. (2019). New anthropological data from Cussac Cave (Gravettian, Dordogne, France): In situ and virtual analyses of Locus 3. Comptes Rendus Palevol, 18(4), 455-464. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crpv.2019.02.004

Cussac Cave presents a unique combination of parietal art and several hundred parts of scattered human remains, dated to the Middle Gravettian (29–28,000 cal BP). The cave is protected as a National Heritage site. As a result, only noninvasive bioant... Read More about New anthropological data from Cussac Cave (Gravettian, Dordogne, France): In situ and virtual analyses of Locus 3.

The antiquity of Jaffna Fort: new evidence from post-disaster archaeological investigations in northern Sri Lanka (2019)
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Davis, C., Coningham, R., Gunawardhana, P., Pushparatnam, P., Schmidt, A., & Manuel, M. (2019). The antiquity of Jaffna Fort: new evidence from post-disaster archaeological investigations in northern Sri Lanka. Antiquity, 93(368), Article e13. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2019.30

Post-disaster archaeological investigations at Jaffna Fort have revealed material demonstrating pre-colonial contact, shedding new light on the importance of the site in Indian Ocean trade and communications networks before European occupation.

Impacts of long term climate change during the collapse of the Akkadian Empire (2019)
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Cookson, E., Hill, D. J., & Lawrence, D. (2019). Impacts of long term climate change during the collapse of the Akkadian Empire. Journal of Archaeological Science, 106, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2019.03.009

Four thousand years ago what is often considered to be the world's first empire, the Akkadian Empire, collapsed. Proxy data has suggested a regional aridification event coincided with this collapse, but there is a lack of records collected from withi... Read More about Impacts of long term climate change during the collapse of the Akkadian Empire.