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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.

Philipp W. Stockhammer and Joseph Maran, eds. Appropriating Innovations: Entangled Knowledge in Eurasia 5000–1500 bce (Oxford & Philadelphia: Oxbow, 2017, iv and 268pp., several colour and b/w illustrations and maps, hbk, ISBN 978-1-78570-724-7) (2019)
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Diaz-Guardamino, M. (2019). Philipp W. Stockhammer and Joseph Maran, eds. Appropriating Innovations: Entangled Knowledge in Eurasia 5000–1500 bce (Oxford & Philadelphia: Oxbow, 2017, iv and 268pp., several colour and b/w illustrations and maps, hbk, ISBN 978-1-78570-724-7). European Journal of Archaeology, 22(2), 305-309. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2019.11

'Rural' Rhetoric in 1930s Unemployment Relief Schemes (2019)
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O'Donnell, R., & Petts, D. (2019). 'Rural' Rhetoric in 1930s Unemployment Relief Schemes. Rural History, 30(1), 53-69. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0956793319000049

This article examines the role of particular ideas of the countryside in unemployment relief schemes. While interwar thinking on the countryside has received attention, it has not been examined in the specific context of unemployment relief. This art... Read More about 'Rural' Rhetoric in 1930s Unemployment Relief Schemes.

Dietary variation among indigenous Nicaraguan horticulturalists and their dogs: An ethnoarchaeological application of the Canine Surrogacy Approach (2019)
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Perri, A. R., Koster, J. M., Otárola-Castillo, E., Burns, J. L., & Cooper, C. G. (2019). Dietary variation among indigenous Nicaraguan horticulturalists and their dogs: An ethnoarchaeological application of the Canine Surrogacy Approach. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 55, Article 101066. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2019.05.002

Dietary reconstruction via stable isotope analysis is an important part of the study of past populations, but can raise issues in many parts of the world where human remains are scarce, absent, or restricted due to ethical concerns. Given these issue... Read More about Dietary variation among indigenous Nicaraguan horticulturalists and their dogs: An ethnoarchaeological application of the Canine Surrogacy Approach.

Mitogenomes illuminate the origin and migration patterns of the indigenous people of the Canary Islands (2019)
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Fregel, R., Ordóñez, A. C., Santana-Cabrera, J., Cabrera, V. M., Velasco-Vázquez, J., Alberto, V., …Bustamante, C. D. (2019). Mitogenomes illuminate the origin and migration patterns of the indigenous people of the Canary Islands. PLoS ONE, 14(3), Article e0209125. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209125

The Canary Islands’ indigenous people have been the subject of substantial archaeological, anthropological, linguistic and genetic research pointing to a most probable North African Berber source. However, neither agreement about the exact point of o... Read More about Mitogenomes illuminate the origin and migration patterns of the indigenous people of the Canary Islands.

Late Pleistocene human genome suggests a local origin for the first farmers of central Anatolia (2019)
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Feldman, M., Fernández-Domínguez, E., Reynolds, L., Baird, D., Pearson, J., Hershkovitz, I., …Krause, J. (2019). Late Pleistocene human genome suggests a local origin for the first farmers of central Anatolia. Nature Communications, 10, Article 1218. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09209-7

Anatolia was home to some of the earliest farming communities. It has been long debated whether a migration of farming groups introduced agriculture to central Anatolia. Here, we report the first genome-wide data from a 15,000-year-old Anatolian hunt... Read More about Late Pleistocene human genome suggests a local origin for the first farmers of central Anatolia.

Vikings, peat and settlement abandonment: a multi-method chronological approach from Shetland (2019)
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Swindles, G., Outram, Z., Batt, C., Hamilton, W., Church, M., Bond, J., …Dugmore, A. (2019). Vikings, peat and settlement abandonment: a multi-method chronological approach from Shetland. Quaternary Science Reviews, 210, 211-225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.02.026

Understanding the chronology of Norse settlement is crucial for deciphering the archaeology of many sites across the North Atlantic region and developing a timeline of human-environment interactions. There is ambiguity in the chronology of settlement... Read More about Vikings, peat and settlement abandonment: a multi-method chronological approach from Shetland.

Shifting Networks and Community Identity at Tell Tayinat in the Iron I (ca. 12th to mid-10th Cent. BCE) (2019)
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Welton, L., Harrison, T., Batiuk, S., Ünlü, E., Janeway, B., Karakaya, D., …Roames, J. (2019). Shifting Networks and Community Identity at Tell Tayinat in the Iron I (ca. 12th to mid-10th Cent. BCE). American Journal of Archaeology, 123(2), 291-333. https://doi.org/10.3764/aja.123.2.0291

The end of the 13th and beginning of the 12th centuries B.C.E. witnessed the demise of the great territorial states of the Bronze Age and, with them, the collapse of the extensive interregional trade networks that fueled their wealth and power. The p... Read More about Shifting Networks and Community Identity at Tell Tayinat in the Iron I (ca. 12th to mid-10th Cent. BCE).

North and south: A comprehensive analysis of non‐adult growth and health in the industrial revolution (AD 18th–19th C), England (2019)
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Newman, S. L., Gowland, R. L., & Caffell, A. C. (2019). North and south: A comprehensive analysis of non‐adult growth and health in the industrial revolution (AD 18th–19th C), England. American journal of physical anthropology, 169(1), 104-121. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23817

Objective Stark health inequalities exist in the present day between the North and South of England, with people in the South, overall, experiencing better health across a range of parameters (e.g., life expectancy and number of years spent in good h... Read More about North and south: A comprehensive analysis of non‐adult growth and health in the industrial revolution (AD 18th–19th C), England.

Economic and socio-cultural consequences of changing political rule on human and faunal diets in medieval Valencia (c. fifth–fifteenth century AD) as evidenced by stable isotopes (2019)
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Alexander, M. M., Gutiérrez, A., Millard, A. R., Richards, M. P., & Gerrard, C. (2019). Economic and socio-cultural consequences of changing political rule on human and faunal diets in medieval Valencia (c. fifth–fifteenth century AD) as evidenced by stable isotopes. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 11(8), 3875-3893. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-019-00810-x

This paper explores the impact of changing religious political rule on subsistence within a single city through time using stable isotope analysis of human and animal bone collagen. The diet and economy of the medieval city of Valencia (Spain) are ex... Read More about Economic and socio-cultural consequences of changing political rule on human and faunal diets in medieval Valencia (c. fifth–fifteenth century AD) as evidenced by stable isotopes.

Isotopic analysis of the Blick Mead dog: A proxy for the dietary reconstruction and mobility of Mesolithic British hunter-gatherers (2019)
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Rogers, B., Gron, K., Montgomery, J., Rowley-Conwy, P., Nowell, G., Peterkin, J., & Jacques, D. (2019). Isotopic analysis of the Blick Mead dog: A proxy for the dietary reconstruction and mobility of Mesolithic British hunter-gatherers. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 24, 712-720. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.02.022

A single domestic dog (Canis familiaris) tooth was recovered from the Mesolithic site of Blick Mead in the Stonehenge landscape. As no human remains were recovered from the site, the dog tooth provides a potential proxy for reconstructing human diet.... Read More about Isotopic analysis of the Blick Mead dog: A proxy for the dietary reconstruction and mobility of Mesolithic British hunter-gatherers.

Luminescence dating of sediment mounds: associated with shaft and gallery irrigation systems (2019)
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Bailiff, I., Jankowski, N., Gerrard, C., Gutiérrez, A., & Wilkinson, K. (2019). Luminescence dating of sediment mounds: associated with shaft and gallery irrigation systems. Journal of Arid Environments, 165, 34-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2019.02.004

Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) techniques, supported by geomorphological analysis, have been applied to date the construction of shaft and gallery irrigation systems, more commonly referred to as qanats, falaj and foggara. The approach devel... Read More about Luminescence dating of sediment mounds: associated with shaft and gallery irrigation systems.

Aggressive or funerary cannibalism? Skull-cup and human bone manipulation in Cueva de El Toro (Early Neolithic, southern Iberia) (2019)
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Santana, J., Rodríguez-Santos, F. J., Camalich-Massieu, M. D., Martín-Socas, D., & Fregel, R. (2019). Aggressive or funerary cannibalism? Skull-cup and human bone manipulation in Cueva de El Toro (Early Neolithic, southern Iberia). American journal of physical anthropology, 169(1), 31-54. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23805

Objective: We analyze the processing sequence involved in the manufacture of a skull‐cup and the manipulation of human bones from the Early Neolithic of Cueva de El Toro (Málaga, Spain). Materials and methods: The Early Neolithic material studied inc... Read More about Aggressive or funerary cannibalism? Skull-cup and human bone manipulation in Cueva de El Toro (Early Neolithic, southern Iberia).

Faecal biomarkers can distinguish specific mammalian species in modern and past environments (2019)
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Harrault, L., Milek, K., Jardé, E., Jeanneau, L., Derrien, M., & Anderson, D. (2019). Faecal biomarkers can distinguish specific mammalian species in modern and past environments. PLoS ONE, 14(2), Article e0211119. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211119

Identifying the presence of animals based on faecal deposits in modern and ancient environments is of primary importance to archaeologists, ecologists, forensic scientists, and watershed managers, but it has proven difficult to distinguish faecal mat... Read More about Faecal biomarkers can distinguish specific mammalian species in modern and past environments.