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Goknur Karahan, Kadriye Ozcelik, Harun Taskiran
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Ruffell Alastair, Rocke Benjamin
Summary: The real-time use of drone-derived orthoimagery and ground-penetrating radar (GPR) enables efficient ground surveying and aerial visual reference of subterranean features within cemeteries, allowing for sympathetic restoration and better understanding of historical use.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROSPECTION
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Amanda Anne Burtt, Della Collins Cook
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OSTEOARCHAEOLOGY
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Emma Maayan-Fanar, Yotam Tepper
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Louise Felding
Summary: This paper introduces the concept of multi-locality as a relational approach to examining past gendered mobility and identities. It identifies multi-local individuals through strontium isotope analyses, highlighting how isotopic ratios change over an individual's lifetime. The study focuses on the intersection of social institutions and mobility, seeking to understand the relationship between mobility, age, and gender in multi-local individuals. By presenting five cases from the Nordic Bronze Age, the paper demonstrates how various social institutions could cause age-related gendered mobility patterns. It suggests that alternative kinship models should be considered in addition to the prevailing model of patrilocal exogamy during the Nordic Bronze Age.
NORWEGIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL REVIEW
(2023)
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Magdalena M. Wozniak, Bartlomiej Witkowski, Tomasz Gierczak, Magdalena Biesaga
Summary: This paper presents the analysis results of 17 samples of textiles collected from the ancient capital of Old Dongola in the Middle Nile Valley. The study identified the presence of both plant and animal dyes using high performance liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry. The findings provide the first dye identification for textiles produced in Sudan during the 17th and 18th centuries, contributing new data to the research on textile production and trade in post-medieval Sudan.
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Archaeology
Kamil Kopij, Pawel Cwiakala, Edyta Puniach, Grzegorz Sochacki, Lukasz Miszk, Jaroslaw Bodzek
Summary: Looting is a worldwide issue that occurs not only in conflict zones or areas with weak governmental control, and its complexity and insufficient allocation of resources make it far from being solved. The findings of the study suggest that looting is a persistent issue in the Tuwaneh area of southern Sudan, highlighting the importance of implementing effective measures to prevent the loss of archaeological heritage.
JOURNAL OF FIELD ARCHAEOLOGY
(2023)
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Elizabeth J. Reitz, Chester Depratter
Summary: This study examines the influence of traditional Indigenous knowledge on colonial economies by analyzing a vertebrate collection from Santa Elena, South Carolina. The findings suggest that the traditional practices of Indigenous Americans, particularly in fishing, merged with Eurasian animal husbandry to create a new cultural form, which continued to influence local cuisines well into the nineteenth century.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
(2023)
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Deborah Sweeney
Summary: This article provides a new analysis of the period when Paneb was chief workman of the right-hand side of the crew during the late 19th Dynasty, connecting the political upheavals of these years to Paneb's rise to power and fall from grace.
JOURNAL OF EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
(2023)
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Jaume Coll Conesa
Summary: This article reviews the historical development and global dissemination of tin-glaze technology in the Iberian Peninsula. From the 14th century, Manises lusterware became an exported product that adapted to different societal and aesthetic changes. The technology initially gained admiration in European feudal society before spreading to America through overseas trade.
HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
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John Blair, John Hines, Katherine Tait, Richard Madgwick
Summary: Shakenoak villa is a potentially sacred site that experienced continuity throughout the post-Roman period. Through place-name and topographical evidence, as well as multi-isotope analysis, it is revealed that there was cultural and population movement in the region.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL
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Isis Isabella Mesfin, David Pleurdeau
Summary: This study examines a large number of macrotools found in the Leopard Cave in the Erongo Mountains, Namibia, during the Later Stone Age. Through a combination of operational chains and techno-functional approaches, the researchers argue that despite the varied production methods, these tools belong to a consistent specialized technological category. The study suggests that the apparent lithic technological variability reflects specialized technical behaviors at the Leopard Cave site.
JOURNAL OF PALEOLITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY
(2023)
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Samuel Nion-Alvarez
Summary: This paper analyzes the term 'oppidum' and its significance in understanding social complexity in Iron Age Europe. Using a semiotic perspective, the most relevant debates regarding oppida and their value are synthesized, with a focus on urban planning, social hierarchies, and political centralization. The study aims to frame research in terms of Iron Age mentalities and cultural diversity, evaluating the 'oppidum' as a conceptual tool for understanding the European Iron Age.
OXFORD JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY
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Joseph Yellin
Summary: This article studies the chemical composition of Roman period pottery excavated in Jerusalem and provides a reexamination of the origin of the pottery. The study confirms the validity of the composition but suggests further exploration on whether the pottery was made in Jerusalem or not.
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Archaeology
Magda Wieckowska-Lueth, Christoph Rinne
Summary: This study reconstructs the land use history of the Late and Final Neolithic periods in central Germany by analyzing palynological data from floodplain deposits. The results show that humans have continuously utilized the surrounding landscape from the Michelsberg culture to the Bronze Age, with a noticeable decline in human impact during the transitional stage between the Michelsberg and Wartberg cultures. The changes in land use are found to be correlated with environmental changes in the floodplain and river dynamics.
ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY
(2023)
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John Wall, DelWayne R. Bohnenstiehl, Norman S. Levine, John K. Millhauser, Dru E. Mcgill, Karl W. Wegmann, Vincent Melomo
Summary: Oberlin Cemetery, the main cemetery for the largest freedmen's community in Wake County, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, has been successfully nominated to the US National Register of Historic Places by the Friends of Oberlin Village (FOV), who have also received grants for its preservation efforts.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROSPECTION
(2023)
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Ryan Mathur, Jonathan Burns, Glenn Nelson, Karen Morrow, James Stuby, Martin Helmke, Daniel Bochicchio, Linda Godfrey, George Kamenov, George Pedlow
Summary: Fort Roberdeau was a lead mine located in central Pennsylvania during the American Revolution. Limited information regarding the original fort's location, mining activity during the period, and artifacts have been found. This study integrates various data sources to determine the original fort location and mining activities, including historical, geological, geophysical, geochemical, geomorphological, and archaeological data. Geological mapping and geophysical surveys confirmed the existence of at least one mine from the Revolutionary period, matching historical records. The location of period metallic artifacts, as well as the presence of a road and corner of the original fort, placed the original fort near the current replica.
HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
(2023)
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Archaeology
Anthony Spalinger
Summary: This paper discusses the crucial element of enemy citadel-fortress depiction in New Kingdom pictorial representations of warfare in Asia, and emphasizes the need for further specification regarding its inclusion and absence. By analyzing images of warfare, it explores the contrast between urban scenes and combat depictions of Libya and Nubia.
JOURNAL OF EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
(2023)
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Archaeology
Camilla Di Biase-Dyson
Summary: This study presents a new edition and the first English translation of the Turin tablet CGT 58004, examining the Contendings between the Body and the Head. Closer analysis of the manuscript provides a more precise date for the text and facilitates discussion on issues raised by other scholars. The study considers whether the text was written by a student and whether the Contendings are part of a longer composition.
JOURNAL OF EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
(2023)
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Archaeology
Jean-Christophe Antoine
Summary: This article investigates the issue of tomb and temple robberies in ancient Egypt. By creating a database with nearly 400 individuals involved in these crimes, it provides detailed information on the identities of the robbers, what they stole, and their motives.
JOURNAL OF EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
(2023)
