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Bronze Age non-elite mobility in Denmark examined through a new human-based bioavailable strontium isotope range

Karin Margarita Frei, Malene Refshauge Beck, Pernille Pantmann, Niels Algreen Møller, Morten Søvsø, Robert Frei

published 06 Feb 2026

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Paleo-proteomic analysis of Iron Age dental calculus provides direct evidence of Scythian reliance on ruminant dairy

Jaruschka Pecnik, Alicia R. Ventresca Miller, Christian Panse, Laura Kunz, Antje Dittmann, James A. Johnson, Sergey Makhortykh, Ludmilla Litvinova, Svetlana Andrukh, Gennady Toschev, Michael Krützen, Verena J. Schuenemann, Shevan Wilkin

published 21 Jan 2026

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Ancient use and long-distance transport of the Four Corners Potato (Solanum jamesii) across the Colorado Plateau: Implications for early stages of domestication

Lisbeth A. Louderback, Cynthia Wilson, Stefania L. Wilks, Kaley Joyce, Sara Rickett, John Bamberg, Alfonso del Rio, Bruce M. Pavlik

published 21 Jan 2026

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Improving micromorphological analysis with CNN-based segmentation of flint/obsidian, bone and charcoal

Rafael Arnay, Pedro García-Villa, Javier Hernández-Aceituno, Sara Rueda-Saiz, Carolina Mallol

published 20 Jan 2026

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The Demodifier: A tool for screening modification-induced alternate peptide taxonomy in palaeoproteomics

Miranda Evans

published 12 Jan 2026

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Investigating human paleodiet at Mesolithic Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov, Karelia using a multi-proxy stable isotope approach

Rebekka I. I. Eckelmann, Laura Arppe, Rick J. Schulting, Sambit Ghosh, Jakub Trubač, Aneta Kuchařová, Matthew J. Wooller, Dmitry Gerasimov, Vyacheslav Moiseyev, Kristiina Mannermaa

published 07 Jan 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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A near-continuous archaeological record of Pleistocene human occupation at Leang Bulu Bettue, Sulawesi, Indonesia

Basran Burhan, Budianto Hakim, Iwan Sumantri, Suryatman, Andi Muhammad Saiful, Adhi Agus Oktaviana, Ratno Sardi, Hasliana, Muhammad Ramli, Linda Siagian, Andi Jusdi, Abdullah, Fardi Ali Syahdar, Hamrullah, Imran Ilyas, Putra Hudlinas Muhammad, Sofyan Setia Budi, Nur Ihsan Djindar, Shinatria Adhityatama, Rustan Lebe, Marlon N. R. Ririmasse, Irfan Mahmud, Akin Duli, Yinika L. Perston, Mark W. Moore, Mariana Sontag-González, Bo Li, Gerrit D. van den Bergh, Maxime Aubert, Rainer Grün, David P. McGahan, Michelle C. Langley, Emma C. James, Tiina Manne, Ian Moffat, Brian Jones, Adam Brumm

published 23 Dec 2025

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Pathways at the Iberian crossroads: Dynamic modeling of the middle–upper paleolithic transition

Yaping Shao, Konstantin Klein, Christian Wegener, Gerd-Christian Weniger

published 19 Dec 2025

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Estimating weaning duration from incremental dentine δ¹⁵N and δ¹³C using a sequence-based LSTM neural network: A deep learning framework for bioarchaeological applications

Elissavet Ganiatsou, Angelos Souleles, Christina Papageorgopoulou

published 17 Dec 2025

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Human occupations at the Alpysbaev Cave (western Tian Shan): Bioarchaeological insights from the Iron Age burial cluster

Abay Namen, Saine C. Hernandez Burgos, Aristeidis Varis, Emily Coco, Rachel Kalisher, Emily Gaul, Guido Alberto Gnecchi-Ruscone, Maria A. Spyrou, Cosimo Posth, Susanne Lindauer, David Naumann, Scott A. Williams, Zhaken Taimagambetov, Radu Iovita

published 11 Dec 2025

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A Late Pleistocene archaic human tooth from Gua Dagang (Trader’s Cave), Niah national park, Sarawak (Malaysia)

Darren Curnoe, Mohammed S. Sauffi, Hsiao Mei Goh, Xue-feng Sun, Roshan Peiris

published 10 Dec 2025

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