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Crystallographic texture and mineral concentration quantification of developing and mature human incisal enamel (2018)
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Al-Mosawi, M., Davis, G. R., Bushby, A., Montgomery, J., Beaumont, J., & Al-Jawad, M. (2018). Crystallographic texture and mineral concentration quantification of developing and mature human incisal enamel. Scientific Reports, 8, Article 14449. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-32425-y

For human dental enamel, what is the precise mineralization progression spatially and the precise timing of mineralization? This is an important question in the fundamental understanding of matrix-mediated biomineralization events, but in particular... Read More about Crystallographic texture and mineral concentration quantification of developing and mature human incisal enamel.

Fire in the Moor: Mesolithic carbonised remains in riverine deposits at Gleann Mor Barabhais, Lewis, Western Isles of Scotland (2018)
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Piper, S., Bishop, R., Rowley-Conwy, P., Elliott, L., & Church, M. (2018). Fire in the Moor: Mesolithic carbonised remains in riverine deposits at Gleann Mor Barabhais, Lewis, Western Isles of Scotland. Journal of the North Atlantic, 35, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.3721/037.006.3501

This paper presents the results of a palaeoenvironmental investigation of riverine deposits containing charred heathland plant material, recovered during an archaeological survey of Gleann Mor Barabhais, Lewis, Western Isles of Scotland. This survey... Read More about Fire in the Moor: Mesolithic carbonised remains in riverine deposits at Gleann Mor Barabhais, Lewis, Western Isles of Scotland.

Drinking on the Periphery: The Tell Nebi Mend Goblets in their Regional and Archaeometric Context (2018)
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Kennedy, M., Badreshany, K., & Philip, G. (2020). Drinking on the Periphery: The Tell Nebi Mend Goblets in their Regional and Archaeometric Context. Levant, 52(1-2), 103-135. https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2018.1442076

This paper explores the late 3rd millennium BC goblet corpus from Tell Nebi Mend in the upper Orontes Valley, Syria, by comparing the form, size, petrographic and chemical composition of these drinking vessels. The available evidence suggests that Te... Read More about Drinking on the Periphery: The Tell Nebi Mend Goblets in their Regional and Archaeometric Context.

Comparing apples and oranges: why infant bone collagen may not reflect dietary intake in the same way as dentine collagen (2018)
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Beaumont, J., Craig Atkins, E., Buckberry, J., Haydock, H., Horne, P., Howcroft, R., …Montgomery, J. (2018). Comparing apples and oranges: why infant bone collagen may not reflect dietary intake in the same way as dentine collagen. American journal of physical anthropology, 167(3), 524-540. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23682

Objectives: Recent developments in incremental dentine analysis allowing increased temporal resolution for tissues formed during the first 1,000 days of life have cast doubt on the veracity of weaning studies using bone collagen carbon (δ13C) and nit... Read More about Comparing apples and oranges: why infant bone collagen may not reflect dietary intake in the same way as dentine collagen.

Gravettian Figurative Art in the Western Pyrenees: Stratigraphy, Cultural Context, and Chronology (2018)
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Ochoa, B., García-Diez, M., Maíllo-Fernández, J., Arrizabalaga, Á., & Pettitt, P. (2019). Gravettian Figurative Art in the Western Pyrenees: Stratigraphy, Cultural Context, and Chronology. European Journal of Archaeology, 22(2), 168-184. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2018.31

The timing and nature of the emergence of art in human evolution has been one of the more debated subjects in palaeoanthropology in the last few years, and one of the areas where archaeology has made impressive advances. Here, we discuss the first ev... Read More about Gravettian Figurative Art in the Western Pyrenees: Stratigraphy, Cultural Context, and Chronology.

Isotopic evidence for landscape use and the role of causewayed enclosures during the earlier Neolithic in southern Britain (2018)
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Neil, S., Evans, J., Montgomery, J., & Scarre, C. (2018). Isotopic evidence for landscape use and the role of causewayed enclosures during the earlier Neolithic in southern Britain. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 84, 185-205. https://doi.org/10.1017/ppr.2018.6

The nature of landscape use and residence patterns during the British earlier Neolithic has often been debated. Here we use strontium and oxygen isotope analysis of tooth enamel, from individuals buried at the Hambledon Hill causewayed enclosure monu... Read More about Isotopic evidence for landscape use and the role of causewayed enclosures during the earlier Neolithic in southern Britain.

Phototransferred TL properties of alumina substrates (2018)
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Bossin, L., Bailiff, I. K., & Terry, I. (2018). Phototransferred TL properties of alumina substrates. Radiation Measurements, 120, 41-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radmeas.2018.07.018

Alumina substrates, such as those found as surface-mount resistors in mobile phones, are currently the strongest candidate as a surrogate dosimeter material in emergency radiological scenarios using luminescence techniques. However, the rate of fadin... Read More about Phototransferred TL properties of alumina substrates.

An examination of beta dose attenuation effects in coarse grains located in sliced samples (2018)
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Bailiff, I. (2019). An examination of beta dose attenuation effects in coarse grains located in sliced samples. Radiation Measurements, 120, 188-194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radmeas.2018.07.015

Previous work has demonstrated the feasibility of performing spatially resolved luminescence measurements with sliced solid materials (e.g., rock and ceramic) to determine the cumulative absorbed dose to individual luminescent grains in situ. In the... Read More about An examination of beta dose attenuation effects in coarse grains located in sliced samples.

Detecting hidden diets and disease: Zoonotic parasites and fish consumption in Mesolithic Ireland (2018)
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Perri, A., Power, R., Stuijts, I., Heinrich, S., Talamo, S., Hamilton-Dyer, S., & Roberts, C. (2018). Detecting hidden diets and disease: Zoonotic parasites and fish consumption in Mesolithic Ireland. Journal of Archaeological Science, 97, 137-146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2018.07.010

Archaeoparasitology is increasingly being used as a tool in archaeological research to investigate relationships between past humans, environments, diets and disease. It can be particularly useful in contexts where parasite eggs preserve, but human a... Read More about Detecting hidden diets and disease: Zoonotic parasites and fish consumption in Mesolithic Ireland.

Copper ingots from a probable Bronze Age shipwreck off the coast of Salcombe, Devon: composition and microstructure (2018)
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Wang, Q., Strekopytov, S., & Roberts, B. (2018). Copper ingots from a probable Bronze Age shipwreck off the coast of Salcombe, Devon: composition and microstructure. Journal of Archaeological Science, 97, 102-117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2018.07.002

The seabed site of a probable Bronze Age shipwreck off the coast of Salcombe in south-west England was explored between 1977 and 1982 and from 2004 onwards. Nearly 400 objects including copper and tin ingots, bronze artefacts/fragments and gold ornam... Read More about Copper ingots from a probable Bronze Age shipwreck off the coast of Salcombe, Devon: composition and microstructure.

Hominin evolutionary thanatology from the mortuary to funerary realm. The palaeoanthropological bridge between chemistry and culture (2018)
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Pettitt, P. (2018). Hominin evolutionary thanatology from the mortuary to funerary realm. The palaeoanthropological bridge between chemistry and culture. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373(1754), Article 20180212. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0212

Palaeoanthropology, or more precisely Palaeolithic archaeology, offers the possibility of bridging the gap between mortuary activities that can be observed in the wider animal community and which relate to chemistry and emotion; to the often-elaborat... Read More about Hominin evolutionary thanatology from the mortuary to funerary realm. The palaeoanthropological bridge between chemistry and culture.

The evolutionary history of dogs in the Americas (2018)
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Ní Leathlobhair, M., Perri, A. R., Irving-Pease, E. K., Witt, K. E., Linderholm, A., Haile, J., …Frantz, L. A. (2018). The evolutionary history of dogs in the Americas. Science, 361(6397), 81-85. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aao4776

Dogs have been present in North America for at least 9000 years. To better understand how present-day breeds and populations reflect their introduction to the New World, Ní Leathlobhair et al. sequenced the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes of ancien... Read More about The evolutionary history of dogs in the Americas.

The Provenance, Use, and Circulation of Metals in the European Bronze Age: The State of Debate (2018)
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Radivojević, M., Roberts, B., Pernicka, E., Stos-Gale, Z., Martinón-Torres, M., Rehren, T., …Broodbank, C. (2019). The Provenance, Use, and Circulation of Metals in the European Bronze Age: The State of Debate. Journal of Archaeological Research, 27(2), 131-185. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10814-018-9123-9

Bronze is the defining metal of the European Bronze Age and has been at the center of archaeological and science-based research for well over a century. Archaeometallurgical studies have largely focused on determining the geological origin of the con... Read More about The Provenance, Use, and Circulation of Metals in the European Bronze Age: The State of Debate.

The Making of Chalcolithic Assembly Places: Trypillia Megasites as Materialised Consensus Among Equal Strangers? (2018)
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Nebbia, M., Gaydarska, B., Millard, A., & Chapman, J. (2018). The Making of Chalcolithic Assembly Places: Trypillia Megasites as Materialised Consensus Among Equal Strangers?. World Archaeology, 50(1), 41-61. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2018.1474133

In the last decade, we have witnessed a second methodological revolution in research into the Trypillia megasites of Ukraine – the largest sites in fourth-millennium BC Europe and possibly the world. However, these methodological advances have not be... Read More about The Making of Chalcolithic Assembly Places: Trypillia Megasites as Materialised Consensus Among Equal Strangers?.

Fulayj: a late Sasanian fort on the Arabian coast (2018)
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al-Jahwari, N., Kennet, D., Priestman, S., & Sauer, E. (2018). Fulayj: a late Sasanian fort on the Arabian coast. Antiquity, 92(363), 724-741. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.64

Archaeological evidence for a Sasanian presence in the ‘Uman region of Eastern Arabia is sparse. Recent excavations at the site of Fulayj in Oman have, however, revealed it to be a Late Sasanian fort, the only securely dated example in Arabia, or ind... Read More about Fulayj: a late Sasanian fort on the Arabian coast.