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Metals, mines and moorland: the changing lead mining landscapes of the North Pennines, UK, 1700-1948 (2022)
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Kincey, M., Gerrard, C., & Warburton, J. (2022). Metals, mines and moorland: the changing lead mining landscapes of the North Pennines, UK, 1700-1948. Post-Medieval Archaeology, 56(1), 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/00794236.2022.2058221

Intensive metal mining considerably altered many British upland landscapes between the 18th and 20th centuries, modifying both subterranean and surface environments and fundamentally changing the character of local settlements, infrastructure and soc... Read More about Metals, mines and moorland: the changing lead mining landscapes of the North Pennines, UK, 1700-1948.

Caves, Senses, and Ritual Flows in the Iberian Iron Age: The Territory of Edeta (2022)
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Machause López, S., & Skeates, R. (2022). Caves, Senses, and Ritual Flows in the Iberian Iron Age: The Territory of Edeta. Open Archaeology, 8(1), 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2022-0222

This article seeks to contribute to recent scholarship on ritual performances in caves, sensory archaeology and ritual journeys, and to stimulate fresh questions and debate about society, ritual, and mobility in the Iberian Iron Age. It uses an updat... Read More about Caves, Senses, and Ritual Flows in the Iberian Iron Age: The Territory of Edeta.

Fine-Scale Genetic Structure in the United Arab Emirates Reflects Endogamous and Consanguineous Culture, Population History, and Geography (2022)
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Elliott, K. S., Haber, M., Daggag, H., Busby, G. B., Sarwar, R., Kennet, D., …Barakat, M. T. (2022). Fine-Scale Genetic Structure in the United Arab Emirates Reflects Endogamous and Consanguineous Culture, Population History, and Geography. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 39(3), https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msac039

The indigenous population of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has a unique demographic and cultural history. Its tradition of endogamy and consanguinity is expected to produce genetic homogeneity and partitioning of gene pools while population movement... Read More about Fine-Scale Genetic Structure in the United Arab Emirates Reflects Endogamous and Consanguineous Culture, Population History, and Geography.

Raincheck: A new diachronic series of rainfall maps for Southwest Asia over the Holocene (2022)
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Hewett, Z., de Gruchy, M., Hill, D., & Lawrence, D. (2022). Raincheck: A new diachronic series of rainfall maps for Southwest Asia over the Holocene. Levant, 54(1), 5-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2022.2052660

Fluctuations in climate have been associated with significant societal changes, both in the modern day and in the past. In dryland environments such as much of Southwest Asia, rainfall is often used as a proxy for soil moisture available for crop pro... Read More about Raincheck: A new diachronic series of rainfall maps for Southwest Asia over the Holocene.

Times as Task, Not Timing: Reconsidering Qoheleth’s Catalogue of the Times (2021)
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Peterson, J. M. (2022). Times as Task, Not Timing: Reconsidering Qoheleth’s Catalogue of the Times. Vetus Testamentum, 72(3), 444-473. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685330-bja10039

This essay examines Qoheleth’s Catalogue of the Times poem in Eccl 3:2–8. I argue that the two most common scholarly interpretations of the poem’s overall meaning fail to sufficiently account for its literary context and that an underdeveloped altern... Read More about Times as Task, Not Timing: Reconsidering Qoheleth’s Catalogue of the Times.

Archaeometric Characterization of Pottery from the Iron Age Hillfort of Pintia (Valladolid, Spain) (2021)
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Coria-Noguera, J. C., Badreshany, K., & Sanz-Mínguez, C. (2022). Archaeometric Characterization of Pottery from the Iron Age Hillfort of Pintia (Valladolid, Spain). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 41, Article 103313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103313

This paper presents the results of an archaeometric analysis of pre-Roman and Roman ceramics from the Vaccean Iron Age hillfort of Pintia (Valladolid, Spain). The study assesses degrees of romanization and hybridization by investigating changes in lo... Read More about Archaeometric Characterization of Pottery from the Iron Age Hillfort of Pintia (Valladolid, Spain).

The characterisation of ceramic production from the Central Levant and Egyptian trade in the Pyramid Age (2021)
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Badreshany, K., Sowada, K., Ownby, M., Jean, M., De Vreeze, M., McClymont, A., & Philip, G. (2022). The characterisation of ceramic production from the Central Levant and Egyptian trade in the Pyramid Age. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 41, Article 103309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103309

A recent petrographic study of ceramic jars from Giza imported into Egypt during the 4th Dynasty of the Pyramid Age (c. 2613–2494 BC) identified the original production zone as the Lebanese coast generally between Beirut and Tripoli, including the re... Read More about The characterisation of ceramic production from the Central Levant and Egyptian trade in the Pyramid Age.

Impact of anthropogenic activities on woodland in northern Syria (4th-2nd millennia BC): Evidence from charcoal assemblages and oak measurements (2021)
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Deckers, K., Polisca, F., Riehl, S., de Gruchy, M., & Lawrence, D. (2024). Impact of anthropogenic activities on woodland in northern Syria (4th-2nd millennia BC): Evidence from charcoal assemblages and oak measurements. Environmental Archaeology, 29(2), 129-164. https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2021.1989977

In this paper charcoals from the Syrian sites Tell Mozan and Tell Jerablus are investigated to understand the impact of 4th to 2nd millennium BC settlement and urbanization on the vegetation. In total 18,786 charcoal fragments from these sites have b... Read More about Impact of anthropogenic activities on woodland in northern Syria (4th-2nd millennia BC): Evidence from charcoal assemblages and oak measurements.

The Roman Hinterland Project: integrating archaeological field surveys around Rome and beyond (2021)
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Attema, P., Carafa, P., Jongman, W., Smith, C., Bronkhorst, A., Capanna, M., …Wouda, N. (2022). The Roman Hinterland Project: integrating archaeological field surveys around Rome and beyond. European Journal of Archaeology, 25(2), 238-258. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2021.51

This article presents the background to and prospects for a new initiative in archaeological field survey and database integration. The Roman Hinterland Project combines data from the Tiber Valley Project, Roman Suburbium Project, and the Pontine Reg... Read More about The Roman Hinterland Project: integrating archaeological field surveys around Rome and beyond.

The Khandaq Shapur: Defense, Irrigation, Boundary, Frontier (2021)
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de Gruchy, M., Jotheri, J., Alqaragholi, H., Al-Janabi, J., Alabdan, R., Al-Talaqani, H., …Al-Rubaye, H. (2021). The Khandaq Shapur: Defense, Irrigation, Boundary, Frontier. Land, 10(10), Article 1017. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10101017

Khandaq Shapur has been named one of the great barriers of the ancient world, but very little is known about the monumental-scale linear feature. This interdisciplinary paper brings together archaeologists and historians to present (1) an updated his... Read More about The Khandaq Shapur: Defense, Irrigation, Boundary, Frontier.

Law and Justice among the Socratics: Contexts for Plato’s Republic (2021)
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Horky, P. S. (2021). Law and Justice among the Socratics: Contexts for Plato’s Republic. Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought, 38(3), 399-419. https://doi.org/10.1163/20512996-12340342

At the beginning of Republic 2 (358e–359b), Plato has Glaucon ascribe a social contract theory to Thrasymachus and ‘countless others’. This paper takes Glaucon’s description to refer both within the text to Thrasymachus’ views, and outside the text t... Read More about Law and Justice among the Socratics: Contexts for Plato’s Republic.

Ancient genomes reveal structural shifts after the arrival of Steppe-related ancestry in the Italian Peninsula (2021)
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Saupe, T., Montinaro, F., Scaggion, C., Carrara, N., Kivisild, T., D’Atanasio, E., …Scheib, C. L. (2021). Ancient genomes reveal structural shifts after the arrival of Steppe-related ancestry in the Italian Peninsula. Current Biology, 31(12), 2576-2591. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.04.022

Across Europe, the genetics of the Chalcolithic/Bronze Age transition is increasingly characterized in terms of an influx of Steppe-related ancestry. The effect of this major shift on the genetic structure of populations in the Italian Peninsula rema... Read More about Ancient genomes reveal structural shifts after the arrival of Steppe-related ancestry in the Italian Peninsula.

Sandhills, sandbanks, waterways, canals and sacred lakes at Sais in the Nile Delta (2021)
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Wilson, P., & Ghazala, H. (2021). Sandhills, sandbanks, waterways, canals and sacred lakes at Sais in the Nile Delta. E&G - Quaternary Science Journal, 70(1), 129-143. https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-70-129-2021

The paper explores the relationship between the archaeological zones of the ancient city of Sais at Sa el-Hagar, Egypt, and the natural landscape of the western central Nile Delta and, in particular, the extent to which the dynamic form of the landsc... Read More about Sandhills, sandbanks, waterways, canals and sacred lakes at Sais in the Nile Delta.