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Discovering Potential Settlement Areas around Archaeological Tells Using the Integration between Historic Topographic Maps, Optical, and Radar Data in the Northern Nile Delta, Egypt (2019)
Journal Article
Elfadaly, A., A.R. Abouarab, M., M. El Shabrawy, R. R., Mostafa, W., Wilson, P., Morhange, C., Silverstein, J., & Lasaponara, R. (2019). Discovering Potential Settlement Areas around Archaeological Tells Using the Integration between Historic Topographic Maps, Optical, and Radar Data in the Northern Nile Delta, Egypt. Remote Sensing, 11(24), Article 3039. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11243039

The primary objective of this study is to leverage the integration of surface mapping data derived from optical, radar, and historic topographical studies with archaeological sampling to identify ancient settlement areas in the Northern Nile Delta, E... Read More about Discovering Potential Settlement Areas around Archaeological Tells Using the Integration between Historic Topographic Maps, Optical, and Radar Data in the Northern Nile Delta, Egypt.

Megalithic Tombs in Western Iberia. Excavations at the Anta da Lajinha (2019)
Book
Scarre, C., & Oosterbeek, L. (Eds.). (2019). Megalithic Tombs in Western Iberia. Excavations at the Anta da Lajinha. Oxbow Books

Western Iberia has one of the richest inventories of Neolithic chambered tombs in Atlantic Europe, with particular concentrations in Galicia, northern Portugal and the Alentejo. Less well known is the major concentration of tombs along the Tagus vall... Read More about Megalithic Tombs in Western Iberia. Excavations at the Anta da Lajinha.

Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic (2019)
Journal Article
Ameen, C., Feuerborn, T. R., Brown, S. K., Linderholm, A., Hulme-Beaman, A., Lebrasseur, O., …Evin, A. (2019). Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286(1916), Article 20191929. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1929

Domestic dogs have been central to life in the North American Arctic for millennia. The ancestors of the Inuit were the first to introduce the widespread usage of dog sledge transportation technology to the Americas, but whether the Inuit adopted loc... Read More about Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic.

Historical fiction and archaeological interpretation: introduction (2019)
Book Chapter
Van Helden, D., & Witcher, R. (2020). Historical fiction and archaeological interpretation: introduction. In D. Van Helden, & R. Witcher (Eds.), Researching the archaeological past through imagined narratives: a necessary fiction. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203730904-1

The transformation of the material traces of the past into archaeological narrative is a fundamentally creative act. But what happens when archaeologists engage with the work and methods of historical novelists and filmmakers? Do they risk transgress... Read More about Historical fiction and archaeological interpretation: introduction.

The Mother-Infant Nexus in Anthropology. Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes (2019)
Book
Gowland, R., & Halcrow, S. (Eds.). (2020). The Mother-Infant Nexus in Anthropology. Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes. Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27393-4

Over the past 20 years there has been increased research traction in the anthropology of childhood. However, infancy, the pregnant body and motherhood continue to be marginalised. This book will focus on the mother-infant relationship and the variabl... Read More about The Mother-Infant Nexus in Anthropology. Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes.

What Doesn't Kill you: Early Life Health and Nutrition in Anglo-Saxon East Anglia (2019)
Book Chapter
Kendall, E. J., Millard, A., Beaumont, J., Gowland, R., Gorton, M., & Gledhill, A. (2019). What Doesn't Kill you: Early Life Health and Nutrition in Anglo-Saxon East Anglia. In R. Gowland, & S. Halcrow (Eds.), The Mother-Infant Nexus in Anthropology and Archaeology. Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes (103-124). Springer Verlag

Concluding Thoughts. Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes (2019)
Book Chapter
Halcrow, S., & Gowland, R. (2019). Concluding Thoughts. Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes. In R. Gowland, & S. Halcrow (Eds.), The Mother-Infant Nexus in Anthropology. Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes (275-277). Springer Verlag

The Iron Age I in the Levant: Prologue (2019)
Book Chapter
Welton, L., & Charaf, H. (2019). The Iron Age I in the Levant: Prologue. In H. Charaf, & L. Welton (Eds.), The Iron Age I in the Levant : a view from the North (Part 1) (2-7). Lebanese British Friends of the National Museum

Late Prehistoric Stelae, Persistent Places and Connected Worlds: A Multi-Disciplinary Review of the Evidence at Almargen (Lands of Antequera, Spain) (2019)
Journal Article
Díaz-Guardamino, M., García Sanjuán, L., Wheatley, D., Lozano Rodríguez, J., Rogerio Candelera, M., & Casado Ariza, M. (2020). Late Prehistoric Stelae, Persistent Places and Connected Worlds: A Multi-Disciplinary Review of the Evidence at Almargen (Lands of Antequera, Spain). Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 30(1), 69-96. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959774319000490

This paper examines how monuments with ‘local’ idiosyncrasies are key in processes of place-making and how, through persistence, such places can engage in supra-local and even ‘global’ dynamics. Departing from a detailed revision of its context, mate... Read More about Late Prehistoric Stelae, Persistent Places and Connected Worlds: A Multi-Disciplinary Review of the Evidence at Almargen (Lands of Antequera, Spain).

Ruptured: Reproductive Loss, Bodily Boundaries, Time and the Life Course in Archaeology (2019)
Book Chapter
Gowland, R. (2019). Ruptured: Reproductive Loss, Bodily Boundaries, Time and the Life Course in Archaeology. In R. Gowland, & S. Halcrow (Eds.), The mother-infant nexus in anthropology : small beginnings, significant outcomes (257-274). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27393-4_14

The concept of the bounded body is powerfully resonant within the post-industrialised Western world; it is performed and reinforced through cultural practices which observe the maintenance of bodily space and the delineation of individual bodies. Rec... Read More about Ruptured: Reproductive Loss, Bodily Boundaries, Time and the Life Course in Archaeology.

Like Mother, Like Child: Investigating Perinatal and Maternal Health Stress in Post-Medieval London (2019)
Book Chapter
Hodson, C. M., & Gowland, R. L. (2019). Like Mother, Like Child: Investigating Perinatal and Maternal Health Stress in Post-Medieval London. In R. Gowland, & S. Halcrow (Eds.), The mother-infant nexus in anthropology : small beginnings, significant outcomes (39-64). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27393-4_3

Post-Medieval London (sixteenth-nineteenth centuries) was a stressful environment for the poor. Overcrowded and squalid housing, physically demanding and risky working conditions, air and water pollution, inadequate diet and exposure to infectious di... Read More about Like Mother, Like Child: Investigating Perinatal and Maternal Health Stress in Post-Medieval London.

Urban Built Environments of the Early 1st Millennium BCE: Results of the Tayinat Archaeological Project, 2004-2012 (2019)
Journal Article
Osborne, J., Harrison, T., Batiuk, S., Welton, L., Dessel, J., Denel, E., & Demirci, Ö. (2019). Urban Built Environments of the Early 1st Millennium BCE: Results of the Tayinat Archaeological Project, 2004-2012. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 382, 261-312. https://doi.org/10.1086/705728

The archaeological site of Tell Tayinat in the province of Hatay in southern Turkey was the principal regional center in the Amuq Plain and North Orontes Valley during the Early Bronze and Iron Ages. This paper focuses on the latest known period of o... Read More about Urban Built Environments of the Early 1st Millennium BCE: Results of the Tayinat Archaeological Project, 2004-2012.

Primate thanatology and hominoid mortuary archeology (2019)
Journal Article
Pettitt, P., & Anderson, J. R. (2020). Primate thanatology and hominoid mortuary archeology. Primates, 61(1), 9-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-019-00769-2

In recent years, a thanatology of primates has become a respectable research topic, and although still sparse, observations among several taxa have shown how complex responses to the dead can be. In human evolutionary archeology, re-analysis of old ‘... Read More about Primate thanatology and hominoid mortuary archeology.