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The Evolution of Diet During the 5th to 2nd millennium BCE for the ‎population buried at Tepe Hissar, North-eastern Central Iranian Plateau: ‎The Stable Isotope Evidence (2019)
Journal Article
Afshar, Z., Roberts, C., Millard, A., & Gröcke, D. (2019). The Evolution of Diet During the 5th to 2nd millennium BCE for the ‎population buried at Tepe Hissar, North-eastern Central Iranian Plateau: ‎The Stable Isotope Evidence. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 27, Article 101983. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101983

This study investigated subsistence economy and dietary changes during the Chalcolithic and Bronze Ages (the 5th to 2nd millennium BCE) in the Central Iranian Plateau through a study of skeletal remains buried at Tepe Hissar, Iran. Tepe Hissar experi... Read More about The Evolution of Diet During the 5th to 2nd millennium BCE for the ‎population buried at Tepe Hissar, North-eastern Central Iranian Plateau: ‎The Stable Isotope Evidence.

Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe (2019)
Journal Article
Frantz, L. A., Haile, J., Lin, A. T., Scheu, A., Geörg, C., Benecke, N., …Larson, G. (2019). Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(35), 17231-17238. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1901169116

Archaeological evidence indicates that pig domestication had begun by ∼10,500 y before the present (BP) in the Near East, and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) suggests that pigs arrived in Europe alongside farmers ∼8,500 y BP. A few thousand years after the... Read More about Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe.

Trypillia mega-sites of the Ukraine (2019)
Digital Artefact
Chapman, J., Gaydarska, B., Nebbia, M., Millard, A., Albert, B., Hale, D., …Ukrainii, G. (2019). Trypillia mega-sites of the Ukraine. [[Media unknown]]

PRIMITIVA BUENO RAMÍREZ, JOSÉ ANTONIO LINARES CATELA, RODRIGO DE BALBÍN BEHRMANN & ROSA BARROSO BERMEJO (eds.). 2019. Símbolos de la muerte en la Prehistoria Reciente del sur de Europa. El Dolmen de Soto, Huelva. España. Sevilla: Junta de Andalucía, Consejería de Cultura: Arqueología Monografías. (2019)
Journal Article
Diaz-Guardamino, M. (online). PRIMITIVA BUENO RAMÍREZ, JOSÉ ANTONIO LINARES CATELA, RODRIGO DE BALBÍN BEHRMANN & ROSA BARROSO BERMEJO (eds.). 2019. Símbolos de la muerte en la Prehistoria Reciente del sur de Europa. El Dolmen de Soto, Huelva. España. Sevilla: Junta de Andalucía, Consejería de Cultura: Arqueología Monografías. Antiquity,

A tool and methodology for rapid assessment and monitoring of heritage places in a disaster and post-disaster context: Syria as a case study (2019)
Book Chapter
Vafadari, A., Philip, G., & Jennings, R. (2019). A tool and methodology for rapid assessment and monitoring of heritage places in a disaster and post-disaster context: Syria as a case study. In M. Dawson, E. James, & M. Nevell (Eds.), Heritage under pressure – threats and solutions : studies of agency and soft power in the historic environment (87-100). Oxbow

The World of Christendom and Islam (2019)
Book Chapter
Patrick, J., & Elmore, J. (2019). The World of Christendom and Islam. In S. Joeckel, & T. St. Antoine (Eds.), Entering the Conversation: A Guide to the World of Great Books (131-190). Tressler Press

Reducing Disaster Risk to Life and Livelihoods by Evaluating the Seismic Safety of Kathmandu’s Historic Urban Infrastructure: enabling an interdisciplinary pilot (2019)
Journal Article
Coningham, R., Acharya, K., Barclay, C., Barclay, R., Davis, C., Graham, C., …Wilson, A. (2019). Reducing Disaster Risk to Life and Livelihoods by Evaluating the Seismic Safety of Kathmandu’s Historic Urban Infrastructure: enabling an interdisciplinary pilot. Journal of the British Academy, 7(S2), 45-82. https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/007s2.045

Kathmandu’s cities are exceptional architectural and artistic achievements, underpinned by centuries of seismic adaptation. They represent portals where heavens touch the earth and individuals commune with guiding deities; their tangible and intangib... Read More about Reducing Disaster Risk to Life and Livelihoods by Evaluating the Seismic Safety of Kathmandu’s Historic Urban Infrastructure: enabling an interdisciplinary pilot.

Animal domestication in the high Arctic: Hunting and holding reindeer on the I͡Amal peninsula, northwest Siberia (2019)
Journal Article
Anderson, D. G., Harrault, L., Milek, K. B., Forbes, B. C., Kuoppamaa, M., & Plekhanov, A. V. (2019). Animal domestication in the high Arctic: Hunting and holding reindeer on the I͡Amal peninsula, northwest Siberia. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 55, Article 101079. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2019.101079

The history of animal domestication in the Arctic is often represented as marginal or a weak copy of more complex pastoral situations in southern climes. This article re-assesses the classic archaeological site of I͡Arte 6 on the I͡Amal Peninsula of... Read More about Animal domestication in the high Arctic: Hunting and holding reindeer on the I͡Amal peninsula, northwest Siberia.

Variation in the prion protein gene (PRNP) sequence of wild deer in Great Britain and mainland Europe (2019)
Journal Article
Robinson, A. L., Williamson, H., Güere, M. E., Tharaldsen, H., Baker, K., Smith, S. L., …Houston, F. (2019). Variation in the prion protein gene (PRNP) sequence of wild deer in Great Britain and mainland Europe. Veterinary Research, 50(1), Article 59. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13567-019-0675-6

Susceptibility to prion diseases is largely determined by the sequence of the prion protein gene (PRNP), which encodes the prion protein (PrP). The recent emergence of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Europe has highlighted the need to investigate PR... Read More about Variation in the prion protein gene (PRNP) sequence of wild deer in Great Britain and mainland Europe.

Victoria cabrera site: A middle stone age site at Olduvai gorge, Tanzania (2019)
Journal Article
Maíllo-Fernández, J., Marín, J., Solano-Megías, I., Uribelarrea, D., Martín-Perea, D., Aramendi, J., …Mabulla, A. (2019). Victoria cabrera site: A middle stone age site at Olduvai gorge, Tanzania. Quaternary International, 526, 129-154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2019.07.032

Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) is a key site for the study and comprehension of human evolution in East Africa. However, the origin of Homo sapiens and the Middle Stone Age have been poorly understood in the Gorge thus far. In this study, we present the da... Read More about Victoria cabrera site: A middle stone age site at Olduvai gorge, Tanzania.

Exploring the risks accompanying child-bearing in aboriginal society on Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, 13th–15th cal. CE): death of a pregnant woman during her third trimester (2019)
Journal Article
Santana-Cabrera, J., Alamón-Núñez, M., Alberto-Barroso, V., & Delgado-Darias, T. (2019). Exploring the risks accompanying child-bearing in aboriginal society on Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, 13th–15th cal. CE): death of a pregnant woman during her third trimester. HOMO, 70(1), 45-56. https://doi.org/10.1127/homo/2019/1011

In the pre-Hispanic necropolis of Juan Primo, northwest Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, Spain) a grave was found containing a 20–25 year-old woman with a foetus in her abdominal region, whose age at death was estimated at 33–35 weeks of gestation. The... Read More about Exploring the risks accompanying child-bearing in aboriginal society on Gran Canaria (Canary Islands, 13th–15th cal. CE): death of a pregnant woman during her third trimester.

Digital Sensoriality: The Neolithic Figurines from Koutroulou Magoula, Greece (2019)
Journal Article
Papadopoulos, K., Hamilakis, Y., Kyparissi-Apostolika, N., & Diaz-Guardamino, M. (2019). Digital Sensoriality: The Neolithic Figurines from Koutroulou Magoula, Greece. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 29(4), 625-652. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959774319000271

The image-based discourse on clay figurines that treated them as merely artistic representations, the meaning of which needs to be deciphered through various iconological methods has been severely critiqued and challenged in the past decade. This dis... Read More about Digital Sensoriality: The Neolithic Figurines from Koutroulou Magoula, Greece.

Ecclesiastical Tidescapes: Exploring the Early Medieval Tidal World (2019)
Journal Article
Petts, D. (2019). Ecclesiastical Tidescapes: Exploring the Early Medieval Tidal World. Norwegian Archaeological Review, 52(1), 41-64. https://doi.org/10.1080/00293652.2019.1634754

This paper explores the way in which tides contribute to the construction of complex cognitive landscapes. Drawing on the notion of assembly and process it emphasises how tidescapes are in a constant state of becoming. The early medieval monastery of... Read More about Ecclesiastical Tidescapes: Exploring the Early Medieval Tidal World.