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Archaeological excavation

The mega-structure at Stăuceni-‘Holm’, Botoşani county, Romania and the debate about the governing of Cucuteni-Trypillia-settlements

Doris Mischka, Carsten Mischka, Adela Kovács, Constantin Aparaschivei, Elena Marinova

published 27 Mar 2026

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Earliest millet cultivation reflects steppe connections, dietary flexibility, and resilience in Bronze Age northern Greece

Kyriaki Karanikola, Soultana-Maria Valamoti, Giedrė Motuzaite Matuzeviciute

published 03 Mar 2026

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Chemical-mineralogical features and physical properties of archaeological adobe: The evidence from Tell Zurghul/Nigin (Dhi Qar, Iraq)

Luca Volpi, Francesco Santoro De Vico, Anna Arizzi, Nicola Lanzaro, Davide Nadali

published 23 Feb 2026

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What the landscape can tell: An integrative stratigraphic prospection approach to localize a Black Death mass grave in Erfurt/Central Germany

Michael Hein, Nik Usmar, Annabell Engel, Johannes Rabiger-Völlmer, Johannes Schmidt, Matthias Silbermann, Marco Pohle, Iris Nießen, Martin Offermann, Lukas Werther, Birgit Schneider, Christian Tannhäuser, Alexander Herbig, Jan Nováček, Ulrike Werban, Martin Bauch, Christoph Zielhofer

published 07 Jan 2026

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Late Acheulian stone-working by the riverbank: Patterns of continuity and change reflected in Jaljulia lithic assemblages, Israel

Tamar Rosenberg-Yefet, Aviad Agam, Ella Assaf, Bar Efrati, Yafit Kedar, Vlad Litov, Maayan Shemer, Ran Barkai

published 29 Dec 2025

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Shedding new light on the context and temporality of Iberian warrior stelae: The Cañaveral de León 2 Stela and Las Capellanías burial complex (Huelva, SW Spain)

Leonardo García Sanjuán, Timoteo Rivera-Jiménez, Marta Díaz-Guardamino, David Wheatley, José Antonio Lozano Rodríguez, Teodosio Donaire Romero, Antonio César González-García, Raquel Montero Artús, José Ruiz Flores, Javier Bermejo Meléndez, Miguel Ángel Rogerio-Candelera, Johan Ling, Eric Andrieux, Ian Bailiff

published 23 Apr 2025

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Tel Shiqmona during the Iron Age: A first glimpse into an ancient Mediterranean purple dye ‘factory’

Golan Shalvi, Naama Sukenik, Paula Waiman-Barak, Zachary C. Dunseth, Shay Bar, Sonia Pinsky, David Iluz, Zohar Amar, Ayelet Gilboa

published 16 Apr 2025

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Morphological changes in the human mandible associated with the presence of exostoses: A cross-sectional study in two archaeological populations from southern France

Estelle Casazza, Benoit Ballester, Camille Philip-Alliez, Yann Ardagna, Anne Raskin

published 12 Feb 2025

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Reconcilable differences: Using retrospective photogrammetry to bridge the divide between analogue and digital site data collected during long-term excavation projects

Ole Fredrik Unhammer, Magnus Mathisen Haaland, Simon James Armitage, Christopher Stuart Henshilwood, Karen Loise van Niekerk

published 21 Nov 2024

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Climatic and environmental changes of ~100 thousand years: The mammals from the early Middle Pleistocene sequence of Notarchirico (southern Italy)

Beniamino Mecozzi, Alessio Iannucci, Marco Carpentieri, Antonio Pineda, Rivka Rabinovich, Raffaele Sardella, Marie-Hélène Moncel

published 23 Oct 2024

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Spatial analyses of archaeobotanical record reveal site uses and activities at Early to Middle Holocene Takarkori (Libya, Central Sahara)

Savino di Lernia, Fabrizio Buldrini, Assunta Florenzano, Anna Maria Mercuri, Varinia Nardi, Rocco Rotunno

published 23 Oct 2024

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Middle through late Holocene long-distance transport of exotic shell personal adornments in Central West Patagonia (southern South America). The archaeomalacological assemblage of Baño Nuevo 1

Heidi Hammond, Leandro Zilio, Amalia Nuevo-Delaunay, César Méndez

published 24 May 2024

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Refits, cobbles, and fire: Approaching the temporal nature of an expedient Gravettian lithic assemblage from Lagar Velho (Leiria, Portugal)

Elvira Susana Alonso-Fernández, Manuel Vaquero, Joan Daura, Ana Maria Costa, Montserrat Sanz, Ana Cristina Araújo

published 20 Dec 2023

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