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Accessory minerals: a provenancing tool for steatite quarries (2025)
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Chmielowski, R., Badreshany, K., & Milek, K. (in press). Accessory minerals: a provenancing tool for steatite quarries. Archaeometry, https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.13087

Steatite has been a widely traded material across a range of archaeological contexts. Yet, challenges inherent to determining its provenance limits our understanding of the networks and mechanisms of its exchange. We present a robust new accessory mi... Read More about Accessory minerals: a provenancing tool for steatite quarries.

Triterpenoid wax esters confirm Ficus religiosa in archaeological sequences within the Mayadevi temple shrine, Lumbini – the birthplace of Buddha (2025)
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Reay, M. K., Simpson, I. A., Zhao, W., Coningham, R. A. E., Davis, C., Acharya, K. P., Manuel, M., Strickland, K., Gilliland, K., Kinnaird, T. C., & Bull, I. D. (2025). Triterpenoid wax esters confirm Ficus religiosa in archaeological sequences within the Mayadevi temple shrine, Lumbini – the birthplace of Buddha. Frontiers in Geochemistry, 3, Article 1507366. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgeoc.2025.1507366

Leaf wax biomarkers permit chemotaxonomic identification of past vegetation in archaeological contexts. At the birthplace of Buddha, Lumbini in Nepal, archaeological evidence of a multi-phase tree shrine from the earliest beginnings of Buddhism has b... Read More about Triterpenoid wax esters confirm Ficus religiosa in archaeological sequences within the Mayadevi temple shrine, Lumbini – the birthplace of Buddha.

The age of hand stencils in Maltravieso cave (Extremadura, Spain) established by U-Th dating, and its implications for the early development of art (2025)
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Standish, C. D., Pettitt, P., Collado, H., Aguilar, J. C., Milton, J. A., García-Diez, M., Hoffmann, D. L., Zilhão, J., & Pike, A. W. (2025). The age of hand stencils in Maltravieso cave (Extremadura, Spain) established by U-Th dating, and its implications for the early development of art. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 61, Article 104891. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104891

U-Th dating of associated carbonate crusts has been applied to date parietal art in Maltravieso cave, Extremadura, Spain. Known for its large collection of red hand stencils (≥60), one example previously dated to >66.7 ka was taken to suggest Neander... Read More about The age of hand stencils in Maltravieso cave (Extremadura, Spain) established by U-Th dating, and its implications for the early development of art.

Assessing quantitative methods in archaeology via simulated datasets: The Archaeoriddle challenge. Concept, project and motivations (2025)
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Cortell-Nicolau, A., Carrignon, S., Rodíguez-Palomo, I., Hromada, D., Kahlenberg, R., Mes, A., Priss, D., Yaworsky, P., Zhang, X., Brainerd, L., Lewis, J., Redhouse, D., Simmons, C., Coto-Sarmiento, M., Daems, D., Deb, A., Lawrence, D., O'Brien, M., Riede, F., Rubio-Campillo, X., & Crema, E. (2025). Assessing quantitative methods in archaeology via simulated datasets: The Archaeoriddle challenge. Concept, project and motivations. Journal of Archaeological Science, 177, Article 106179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2025.106179

Compared to what is found in many other scientific disciplines, archaeological data are typically scarce, biased and fragmented. This, coupled with the fact that archaeologists can rarely test their hypotheses using experimental design, makes archaeo... Read More about Assessing quantitative methods in archaeology via simulated datasets: The Archaeoriddle challenge. Concept, project and motivations.

A multi-analytical study of the Montelirio beaded attires: Marine resources, sumptuary crafts, and female power in copper age Iberia (2025)
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Sanjuán, L. G., Ramírez-Cruzado, S., Díaz-Guardamino, M., Rodríguez, J. A. L., Romero, T. D., Vargas, J. Á. A., Rodríguez-Rellán, C., Nieto, V. B., Puro, L. M. C., Wheatley, D. W., Earle, T., Cintas-Peña, M., Jiménez, J. M. V., Flores, Á. F., Triviño, M. L., Cárdenas-Párraga, J., Merino, M. M., & Guinea, F. M. (2025). A multi-analytical study of the Montelirio beaded attires: Marine resources, sumptuary crafts, and female power in copper age Iberia. Science Advances, 11(5), Article eadp1917. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adp1917

Excellent indicators of technology, social organization, exchange patterns, and even beliefs, beads are a topic of research in their own right. Findings made between 2010 and 2011 at the Montelirio tholos burial, part of the Valencina Copper Age mega... Read More about A multi-analytical study of the Montelirio beaded attires: Marine resources, sumptuary crafts, and female power in copper age Iberia.

Fuel use in ancient Southwest Asia based on wood charcoal and seed data from fire installations (2025)
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Deckers, K., Riehl, S., Karakaya, D., Müller, T., Badreshany, K., Tumolo, V., & Lawrence, D. (2025). Fuel use in ancient Southwest Asia based on wood charcoal and seed data from fire installations. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 62, Article 104999. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.104999

This study synthesizes a large dataset of published and new charcoal and seed data from archaeological fire installations in southwest Asia to gain an understanding in regional and temporal variation in fuel use through the last 10,000 years. It cons... Read More about Fuel use in ancient Southwest Asia based on wood charcoal and seed data from fire installations.

Cremated Bone in Archaeology: Ethical Considerations in the Excavation, Analysis, Storage, and Display of Cremated Bone in the United Kingdom (2025)
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Squires, K., McKinley, J., Roberts, C., & Biers, T. (online). Cremated Bone in Archaeology: Ethical Considerations in the Excavation, Analysis, Storage, and Display of Cremated Bone in the United Kingdom. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Article e3382. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3382

In the United Kingdom, the study of archaeological cremated human remains has risen exponentially over the past three decades. Consequently, we are gaining a more rounded understanding of past communities, rather than a skewed perspective caused by a... Read More about Cremated Bone in Archaeology: Ethical Considerations in the Excavation, Analysis, Storage, and Display of Cremated Bone in the United Kingdom.

Filling the Gaps—Computational Approaches to Incomplete Archaeological Networks (2025)
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Priß, D., Wainwright, J., Lawrence, D., Turnbull, L., Prell, C., Karittevlis, C., & Ioannides, A. A. (2025). Filling the Gaps—Computational Approaches to Incomplete Archaeological Networks. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 32(1), Article 19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-024-09688-z

Networks are increasingly used to describe and analyse complex archaeological data in terms of nodes (archaeological sites or places) and edges (representing relationships or connections between each pair of nodes). Network analysis can then be appli... Read More about Filling the Gaps—Computational Approaches to Incomplete Archaeological Networks.

Archival and Scientific Analyses of the Allegro Qumran-Type Jar and Lid (2024)
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MIZZI, D., TAYLOR, J. E., BADRESHANY, K., & FIDANZIO, M. (2024). Archival and Scientific Analyses of the Allegro Qumran-Type Jar and Lid. Revue de Qumran, 36(1), Article 123. https://doi.org/10.2143/RQ.36.1.3293415

The Leverhulme-funded Network for the Study of Dispersed Qumran Cave Artefacts and Archival Sources (DQCAAS) commissioned the scientific testing of a mysterious deposit found inside a Qumran-type jar lid, now in a private collection. Along with a cyl... Read More about Archival and Scientific Analyses of the Allegro Qumran-Type Jar and Lid.

Strontium isoscape of sub-Saharan Africa allows tracing origins of victims of the transatlantic slave trade (2024)
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Wang, X., Bocksberger, G., Arandjelovic, M., Agbor, A., Angedakin, S., Aubert, F., Ayimisin, E. A., Bailey, E., Barubiyo, D., Bessone, M., Bobe, R., Bonnet, M., Boucher, R., Brazzola, G., Brewer, S., Lee, K. C., Carvalho, S., Chancellor, R., Cipoletta, C., Cohen, H., …Oelze, V. M. (2024). Strontium isoscape of sub-Saharan Africa allows tracing origins of victims of the transatlantic slave trade. Nature Communications, 15, Article 10891. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55256-0

A multi-proxy reconstruction of anthropogenic land use in southwest Asia at 6 kya: Combining archaeological, ethnographic and environmental datasets (2024)
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Welton, L., Hammer, E., Chelazzi, F., de Gruchy, M., Gaastra, J., & Lawrence, D. (2025). A multi-proxy reconstruction of anthropogenic land use in southwest Asia at 6 kya: Combining archaeological, ethnographic and environmental datasets. Quaternary Science Reviews, 349, Article 109142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109142

Land use and land cover (LULC) changes have important biophysical and biogeochemical effects on climate via a variety of mechanisms. Several climate modelling studies have demonstrated the impact of LULC scenarios on past climate reconstructions. Tes... Read More about A multi-proxy reconstruction of anthropogenic land use in southwest Asia at 6 kya: Combining archaeological, ethnographic and environmental datasets.

Identification of Architectural Roman Remains in the Complex Archaeological Site of Buto ‘Tell El Fara'in’, Northern Egypt, Using Geophysical and Remote Sensing Data (2024)
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A. R. Abouarab, M., Ibrahim, A., Eldosouky, A., Aboalkassim, I., Younes, A., El‐Qady, G., Abbas, A., El‐hemaly, I., Awad, A., Wilson, P., Elfadaly, A., & Lasaponara, R. (online). Identification of Architectural Roman Remains in the Complex Archaeological Site of Buto ‘Tell El Fara'in’, Northern Egypt, Using Geophysical and Remote Sensing Data. Archaeological Prospection, https://doi.org/10.1002/arp.1971

The integrated use of remote sensing (RS) techniques, vertical magnetic gradient (VMG) and electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) measurements, and, in particular, combined analysis of 2D and 3D data, can provide a viable option for the identificati... Read More about Identification of Architectural Roman Remains in the Complex Archaeological Site of Buto ‘Tell El Fara'in’, Northern Egypt, Using Geophysical and Remote Sensing Data.

From Land’s End to the Levant: did Britain’s tin sources transform the Bronze Age in Europe and the Mediterranean? (2024)
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Williams, R. A., Montesanto, M., Badreshany, K., Berger, D., Jones, A. M., Aragón, E., Brügmann, G., Ponting, M., & Roberts, B. W. (in press). From Land’s End to the Levant: did Britain’s tin sources transform the Bronze Age in Europe and the Mediterranean?. Antiquity,

Project Ancient Tin has produced strong analytical and archaeological evidence that tin sources and trade from Southwest Britain played a fundamental role in the massive technological and cultural transition from copper to full tin-bronze across Euro... Read More about From Land’s End to the Levant: did Britain’s tin sources transform the Bronze Age in Europe and the Mediterranean?.

Practitioner preferences in the analysis of cremation deposits in archaeology and biological anthropology: An overview of current osteoarchaeological practices with a focus on sex estimation (2024)
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Hlad, M., Löffelmann, T., Griffith, J. I., James, H. F., Vercauteren, M., Snoeck, C., & Veselka, B. (2024). Practitioner preferences in the analysis of cremation deposits in archaeology and biological anthropology: An overview of current osteoarchaeological practices with a focus on sex estimation. PLoS ONE, 19(12), Article e0310380. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310380

Osteological data, such as biological sex, constitute a base for research in paleodemography and palaeopathology, as well as for understanding past socio-cultural practices. Despite extensive research efforts concerning cremated human remains over th... Read More about Practitioner preferences in the analysis of cremation deposits in archaeology and biological anthropology: An overview of current osteoarchaeological practices with a focus on sex estimation.

Quaternary rivers, tufas and mires of southern England: Description of Geological Conservation Review sites (2024)
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Briant, R. M., Whiteman, C. A., Haggart, B. A., Bridgland, D. R., Egberts, E., Grant, M. J., Hatch, M., Knowles, P. G., Schreve, D. C., Toms, P. S., Wenban-Smith, F. F., & White, M. J. (online). Quaternary rivers, tufas and mires of southern England: Description of Geological Conservation Review sites. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2024.10.002

Southern England contains a wealth of sites, reviewed here, that contain evidence for past deposition in freshwa-ter environments over a period of over 0.5 million years and have been designated as Geological Conservation Review sites for their repre... Read More about Quaternary rivers, tufas and mires of southern England: Description of Geological Conservation Review sites.

The effect of seaweed fertilisation on sulfur isotope ratios (δ 34 S) and grain size in barley: implications for agronomy and archaeological research (2024)
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Blanz, M., Gröcke, D. R., Martin, P., & Church, M. J. (2024). The effect of seaweed fertilisation on sulfur isotope ratios (δ 34 S) and grain size in barley: implications for agronomy and archaeological research. Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, 3, Article 1465082. https://doi.org/10.3389/fearc.2024.1465082

Introduction: Stable sulfur isotope ratios (δ34S) in bone collagen are often employed to study the consumption of marine and freshwater fish, wetland grazing, marine foraging patterns, and the possible geographic origins of food sources. However, a r... Read More about The effect of seaweed fertilisation on sulfur isotope ratios (δ 34 S) and grain size in barley: implications for agronomy and archaeological research.

Dress pins, bosses and pegged playing pieces: changing identities of some Early Medieval glass artefacts (2024)
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Hall, M. A., Graham-Campbell, J., & Petts, D. (online). Dress pins, bosses and pegged playing pieces: changing identities of some Early Medieval glass artefacts. Archaeological Journal, https://doi.org/10.1080/00665983.2024.2412406

This paper discusses, without fixing, the meaning and identity of two glass bosses from Northern British archaeological contexts of the late first millennium AD, both power-centres in a socio-cultural network encompassing Pictland and Northumbria. Th... Read More about Dress pins, bosses and pegged playing pieces: changing identities of some Early Medieval glass artefacts.

Chinese ceramics as global commodities: a thousand years of production and trade of Chinese ceramics in the Western Indian Ocean (2024)
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Zhang, R. (online). Chinese ceramics as global commodities: a thousand years of production and trade of Chinese ceramics in the Western Indian Ocean. World Archaeology, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2024.2425801

This paper analyses the production and distribution of Chinese trade ceramics from AD 800 to 1900 to understand how these ceramic products became global commodities and how their production and exchange in the Western Indian Ocean evolved. Through a... Read More about Chinese ceramics as global commodities: a thousand years of production and trade of Chinese ceramics in the Western Indian Ocean.