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Inflammatory periosteal reaction on ribs associated with lower respiratory tract disease: A method for recording prevalence from sites with differing preservation (2019)
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Davies-Barrett, A. M., Antoine, D., & Roberts, C. A. (2019). Inflammatory periosteal reaction on ribs associated with lower respiratory tract disease: A method for recording prevalence from sites with differing preservation. American journal of physical anthropology, 168(3), 530-542. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23769

Objectives: Inflammatory periosteal reaction (IPR) on the visceral surfaces of the ribs has been used in bioarchaeology as an indicator of lower respiratory tract disease. This article presents a detailed method for recording IPR on the ribs, even th... Read More about Inflammatory periosteal reaction on ribs associated with lower respiratory tract disease: A method for recording prevalence from sites with differing preservation.

Flows of people in villages and large centres in Bronze Age Italy through strontium and oxygen isotopes (2019)
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Cavazzuti, C., Skeates, R., Millard, A., Nowell, G., Peterkin, J., Bernabò Brea, M., …Salzani, L. (2019). Flows of people in villages and large centres in Bronze Age Italy through strontium and oxygen isotopes. PLoS ONE, 14(1), Article e0209693. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209693

This study investigates to what extent Bronze Age societies in Northern Italy were permeable accepting and integrating non-local individuals, as well as importing a wide range of raw materials, commodities, and ideas from networks spanning continenta... Read More about Flows of people in villages and large centres in Bronze Age Italy through strontium and oxygen isotopes.

Investigating dietary patterns and organisational structure by using stable isotope analysis: a pilot study of the Danish medieval leprosy hospital at Næstved (2019)
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Brozou, A., Lynnerup, N., Mannino, M. A., Millard, A. R., & Gröcke, D. R. (2019). Investigating dietary patterns and organisational structure by using stable isotope analysis: a pilot study of the Danish medieval leprosy hospital at Næstved. Anthropologischer Anzeiger, 76(3), 167-178. https://doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/2019/0949

During the 12th and 13th centuries, numerous leprosy hospitals were founded in Europe. Given that leprosy was not considered infectious, this may reflect social dimensions of the disease. Aiming at exploring the impact of leprosy on medieval people a... Read More about Investigating dietary patterns and organisational structure by using stable isotope analysis: a pilot study of the Danish medieval leprosy hospital at Næstved.

Spinning Fates and The Song of the Loom: The Use of Textiles, Clothing and Cloth Production as Metaphor, Symbol and Narrative Device in Greek and Latin Literature (Ancient Textiles Series Vol. 24), Oxbow Books, Oxford and Philadelphia, 2016 (2018)
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Brooks, M. (2018). Spinning Fates and The Song of the Loom: The Use of Textiles, Clothing and Cloth Production as Metaphor, Symbol and Narrative Device in Greek and Latin Literature (Ancient Textiles Series Vol. 24), Oxbow Books, Oxford and Philadelphia, 2016. Textile History, 49(2), 252-254. https://doi.org/10.1080/00404969.2018.1515386

Ernestine S. Elster , Eugenia Isetti , John Robb and Antonella Traverso , eds. The Archaeology of Grotta Scaloria: Ritual in Neolithic Southeast Italy (Monumenta Archaeologica 38. Los Angeles: The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. 2016, 446 pp., 230 figs, 121 tables, hbk, ISBN 978-938770-07-4) (2018)
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Skeates, R. (2018). Ernestine S. Elster , Eugenia Isetti , John Robb and Antonella Traverso , eds. The Archaeology of Grotta Scaloria: Ritual in Neolithic Southeast Italy (Monumenta Archaeologica 38. Los Angeles: The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. 2016, 446 pp., 230 figs, 121 tables, hbk, ISBN 978-938770-07-4). European Journal of Archaeology, 21(1), 136-139. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2018.78

Insights into the economic organization of the Phoenician homeland: a multidisciplinary investigation of the later Iron Age II and Persian period Phoenician amphorae from Tell el-Burak (2018)
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Schmit, A., Badreshany, K., Tachatou, E., & Sader, H. (2018). Insights into the economic organization of the Phoenician homeland: a multidisciplinary investigation of the later Iron Age II and Persian period Phoenician amphorae from Tell el-Burak. Levant, 50(1), 52-90. https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2018.1547004

This paper details the results of a large-scale multi-disciplinary analysis of Iron Age pottery from a settlement in the core of the Phoenician homeland. The research presented is centred upon a large corpus of Phoenician carinated-shoulder amphorae... Read More about Insights into the economic organization of the Phoenician homeland: a multidisciplinary investigation of the later Iron Age II and Persian period Phoenician amphorae from Tell el-Burak.

New Evidence of the Earliest Domestic Dogs in the Americas (2018)
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Perri, A., Widga, C., Lawler, D., Martin, T., Loebel, T., Farnsworth, K., …Buenger, B. (2019). New Evidence of the Earliest Domestic Dogs in the Americas. American Antiquity, 84(1), 68-87. https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2018.74

The domestication of dogs likely occurred in Eurasia by 16,000 years ago, and the initial peopling of the Americas potentially happened around the same time. Dogs were long thought to have accompanied the first migrations into the Americas, but concl... Read More about New Evidence of the Earliest Domestic Dogs in the Americas.

A 7th-Century Necklace from Hardingstone, Northamptonshire, England (2018)
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Haworth, K. (2018). A 7th-Century Necklace from Hardingstone, Northamptonshire, England. Medieval Archaeology, 62(2), 237-261. https://doi.org/10.1080/00766097.2018.1535383

A NECKLACE ASSEMBLAGE from a small Anglo–Saxon cemetery in Hardingstone (Northamptonshire), was discovered during excavations in the 1960s, but until now has remained unpublished. It is an example of a type commonly found in the distinctive well-furn... Read More about A 7th-Century Necklace from Hardingstone, Northamptonshire, England.

Continuity and individuality in Medieval Hereford, England: A stable isotope approach to bulk bone and incremental dentine (2018)
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Halldórsdóttir, H., Rogers, B., Di Renno, F., Müldner, G., Gröcke, D., Barnicle, E., …Montgomery, J. (2019). Continuity and individuality in Medieval Hereford, England: A stable isotope approach to bulk bone and incremental dentine. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 23, 800-809. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.12.006

In this study, bulk bone collagen carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotope data from 49 individuals, recovered from two Medieval burial grounds in Hereford, England, are coupled with incremental dentine data from five individuals with high δ15N bone... Read More about Continuity and individuality in Medieval Hereford, England: A stable isotope approach to bulk bone and incremental dentine.

A geo-archaeological approach to the study of hydro-agricultural systems in arid areas of Western Syria (2018)
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Geyer, B., Braemer, F., Davtian, G., & Philip, G. (2019). A geo-archaeological approach to the study of hydro-agricultural systems in arid areas of Western Syria. Journal of Arid Environments, 163, 93-113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2018.11.005

Over the last 30 years, geoarchaeological surveys undertaken in the Near East have offered a powerful way of studying, inter alia, water supply systems at a microregional to regional scale. However, efforts to synthesize the results of surveys at a s... Read More about A geo-archaeological approach to the study of hydro-agricultural systems in arid areas of Western Syria.

Transdisciplinary archaeology and the future of archaeological practice: Citizen science, portable science, ethical science (2018)
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Milek, K. (2018). Transdisciplinary archaeology and the future of archaeological practice: Citizen science, portable science, ethical science. Norwegian Archaeological Review, 51(1-2), 36-47. https://doi.org/10.1080/00293652.2018.1552312

This paper presents a vision and a pathway for the future of archaeological practice, in which several fields that are currently considered distinct, including community-based collaborative archaeology, indigenous archaeology, and applied archaeology... Read More about Transdisciplinary archaeology and the future of archaeological practice: Citizen science, portable science, ethical science.