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The British Late Middle Palaeolithic: An Interpretative Synthesis of Neanderthal Occupation at the Northwestern Edge of the Pleistocene World (2011)
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White, M., & Pettitt, P. (2011). The British Late Middle Palaeolithic: An Interpretative Synthesis of Neanderthal Occupation at the Northwestern Edge of the Pleistocene World. Journal of World Prehistory, 24(1), 25-97. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-011-9043-9

The British Middle Palaeolithic is divided into two discrete periods of occupation: the Early Middle Palaeolithic (MIS 9–7, ~330–180 ka BP) and the Late Middle Palaeolithic (MIS 3, ~59–36 ka BP), separated by a long hiatus. Owing to the relative pove... Read More about The British Late Middle Palaeolithic: An Interpretative Synthesis of Neanderthal Occupation at the Northwestern Edge of the Pleistocene World.

An Icelandic freshwater radiocarbon reservoir effect: Implications for lacustrine 14C chronologies (2011)
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Ascough, P., Cook, G., Hastie, H., Dunbar, E., Church, M., Einarsson, Á., …Dugmore, A. (2011). An Icelandic freshwater radiocarbon reservoir effect: Implications for lacustrine 14C chronologies. Holocene, 21(7), 1073-1080. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683611400466

A freshwater radiocarbon (14C) reservoir effect (FRE) is a 14C age offset between the atmospheric and freshwater carbon reservoirs. FREs can be on the order of 10 000 14C yr in extreme examples and are a crucial consideration for 14C dating of palaeo... Read More about An Icelandic freshwater radiocarbon reservoir effect: Implications for lacustrine 14C chronologies.

1000 years of environmental change and human impact at Stóra-Mörk, southern Iceland: A multiproxy study of a dynamic and vulnerable landscape (2011)
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Vickers, K., Erlendsson, E., Church, M., Edwards, K., & Bending, J. (2011). 1000 years of environmental change and human impact at Stóra-Mörk, southern Iceland: A multiproxy study of a dynamic and vulnerable landscape. Holocene, 21(6), 979-995. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683611400201

Multiproxy pollen, sediment, plant macrofossil and subfossil insect analyses are used to explore environmental change at Stóra-Mörk in southern Iceland between ad 500 and 1500. Previous palaeoecological studies in Iceland have indicated that vegetati... Read More about 1000 years of environmental change and human impact at Stóra-Mörk, southern Iceland: A multiproxy study of a dynamic and vulnerable landscape.

Making sense of world art: an archaeological perspective (2011)
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Skeates, R. (2011). Making sense of world art: an archaeological perspective. World Art, 1(1), 143-149. https://doi.org/10.1080/21500894.2011.534595

This article explores the methods through which the anthropology of the senses or sensual culture studies might be extended to world art studies. Reflexivity, inventory, experimentation, thick description and creative writing are all recommended. The... Read More about Making sense of world art: an archaeological perspective.

Cave Men: stone tools, Victorian science and the ‘primitive mind’ of deep time (2011)
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Pettitt, P., & White, M. (2011). Cave Men: stone tools, Victorian science and the ‘primitive mind’ of deep time. Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, 65(1), 25-42. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2010.0100

Palaeoanthropology, the study of the evolution of humanity, arose in the nineteenth century. Excavations in Europe uncovered a series of archaeological sediments which provided proof that the antiquity of human life on Earth was far longer than the b... Read More about Cave Men: stone tools, Victorian science and the ‘primitive mind’ of deep time.

Contest and co-operation: strategies for medieval and later irrigation along the upper Huecha valley, Aragon, north-east Spain (2011)
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Gerrard, C. (2011). Contest and co-operation: strategies for medieval and later irrigation along the upper Huecha valley, Aragon, north-east Spain. Water History, 3(1), 3-28. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12685-011-0030-y

This case study from north-east Spain examines technologies of water capture, storage and distribution in the Middle Ages and later. Drawing on details from contemporary documents and archaeological fieldwork, the article then explores the allocation... Read More about Contest and co-operation: strategies for medieval and later irrigation along the upper Huecha valley, Aragon, north-east Spain.

Northton, Harris (2011)
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Bishop, R., Church, M., & Rowley-Conwy, P. (2011). Northton, Harris. Discovery and excavation in Scotland, 11,

Mealasta, Tigh nan Cailleachan Dubha (2011)
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Caldwell, D., Gilmour, S., & Church, M. (2011). Mealasta, Tigh nan Cailleachan Dubha. Discovery and excavation in Scotland, 12,

News from the West: Ancient DNA from a French megalithic burial chamber (2011)
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Deguilloux, M., Soler, L., Pemonge, M., Scarre, C., Joussaume, R., & Laporte, L. (2011). News from the West: Ancient DNA from a French megalithic burial chamber. American journal of physical anthropology, 144(1), 108-118. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.21376

Recent paleogenetic studies have confirmed that the spread of the Neolithic across Europe was neither genetically nor geographically uniform. To extend existing knowledge of the mitochondrial European Neolithic gene pool, we examined six samples of h... Read More about News from the West: Ancient DNA from a French megalithic burial chamber.

Can we reconcile individualisation with relational personhood? A case study from the Early Neolithic? (2011)
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Chapman, J., & Gaydarska, B. (2011). Can we reconcile individualisation with relational personhood? A case study from the Early Neolithic?. Documenta Praehistorica, 38, 21-44. https://doi.org/10.4312/dp.38.3

In this article, we seek to discuss the tension between relational personhood, characterised by ‘dividuals’, and the individualisation of persons whose driving force was the creation of new embodied skills learnt to perform the wide range of new task... Read More about Can we reconcile individualisation with relational personhood? A case study from the Early Neolithic?.

Stephen Weiner. Microarchaeology: beyond the visible archaeological record. xviii+396 pages, 95 illustrations, 4 colour plates, 13 tables. 2010. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-0-521-8803-9 hardback £55 & $95; 978-0-521-70584-4 paperback £24.99 & $36.99 (2011)
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Millard, A. (2011). Stephen Weiner. Microarchaeology: beyond the visible archaeological record. xviii+396 pages, 95 illustrations, 4 colour plates, 13 tables. 2010. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-0-521-8803-9 hardback £55 & $95; 978-0-521-70584-4 paperback £24.99 & $36.99. Antiquity, 85(328), 687-688. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00068228

Temple Bay, Harris (2011)
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Church, M., Bishop, R., Blake, E., Nesbitt, C., Perri, A., Piper, S., & Rowley-Conwy, P. (2011). Temple Bay, Harris. Discovery and excavation in Scotland, 12,

Tràigh na Beirigh, Uig (2011)
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Church, M., Bishop, R., Blake, E., Nesbitt, C., Perri, A., Piper, S., & Rowley-Conwy, P. (2011). Tràigh na Beirigh, Uig. Discovery and excavation in Scotland, 12, 194-195