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Multiproxy study reveals equality in the deposition of flaked lithic grave goods from the Baltic Stone Age cemetery Zvejnieki (Latvia)

Anđa Petrović, Jessica Bates, Aija Macāne, Ilga Zagorska, Mark Edmonds, Kerkko Nordqvist, Aimée Little

published 10 Sep 2025

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A Late Bronze Age foreign elite? Investigating mobility patterns at Seddin, Germany

Anja B. Frank, Jens May, Serena Sabatini, Franz Schopper, Robert Frei, Flemming Kaul, Susanne Storch, Svend Hansen, Kristian Kristiansen, Karin M. Frei

published 10 Sep 2025

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Shocked quartz at the Younger Dryas onset (12.8 ka) supports cosmic airbursts/impacts contributing to North American megafaunal extinctions and collapse of the Clovis technocomplex

James P. Kennett, Malcolm A. LeCompte, Christopher R. Moore, Gunther Kletetschka, John R. Johnson, Wendy S. Wolbach, Siddhartha Mitra, Abigail Maiorana-Boutilier, Victor Adedeji, Marc D. Young, Timothy Witwer, Kurt Langworthy, Joshua J. Razink, Valerie Brogden, Brian van Devener, Jesus Paulo Perez, Randy Polson, Allen West

published 10 Sep 2025

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Funerary practices of cremation at the megalithic societies of South-Eastern Iberia: The cemetery of Los Milanes

Paula Becerra Fuello, Gonzalo Aranda Jiménez, Miriam Vílchez Suárez, Sonia Robles Carrasco, Lara Milesi García, Marta Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, Christophe Snoeck, Elisavet Stamataki, Javier Lescure, Margarita Sánchez Romero

published 03 Sep 2025

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A Later Stone Age quartz knapping workshop and fireplace dated to the Early Holocene in Senegal: The Ravin Blanc X site (RBX)

Charlotte Pruvost, Eric Huysecom, Aline Garnier, Irka Hajdas, Alexa Höhn, Laurent Lespez, Michel Rasse, Katja Douze, Sylvain Soriano, Valentine Fichet, Ségolène Saulnier-Copard, Matar Ndiaye, Anne Mayor

published 03 Sep 2025

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Geoarchaeological research on site formation process, paleoenvironment, and human behaviors in the early Holocene of the Gobi Desert, Mongolia

Grzegorz Michalec, Rafał Sikora, Małgorzata Winiarska-Kabacińska, Davaakhuu Odsuren, Antoni Wójcik, Piotr Moska, Marcin Szmit, Dashzeveg Bazargur, Przemysław Bobrowski, Maciej Jórdeczka, Józef Szykulski, Patryk Muntowski, Andrzej Gałaś, Byambaa Gunchinsuren, Mirosław Masojć

published 02 Sep 2025

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Unearthing prehistoric diets: First evidence of horse meat consumption in Early Bronze Age Sicily

Davide Tanasi, Roberto Micciché, Robert H. Tykot, Luis Busetti, Pierluigi Barbieri, Gianpiero Di Maida, Viviana Ardesia, Alessandro Miani, Elia Marin, Enrico Greco

published 29 Aug 2025

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Sulfur as a proxy for identifying coast-inland human mobility in Northern Iberia during Late Prehistory

Borja González-Rabanal, Marco Vidal-Cordasco, Jennifer R. Jones, Lucía Agudo Pérez, Eduardo Carmona-Ballestero, Belén López, Miguel Ángel Martín Merino, Ana Isabel Ortega, Lawrence G. Straus, Rhiannon E. Stevens, Cristina Vega-Maeso, Manuel R. González Morales, Ana B. Marín-Arroyo

published 28 Aug 2025

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When the hammer drops: Identification of knapping techniques in blade production based on a multi-scale study of knapping traces

Olivier Touzé, Veerle Rots

published 27 Aug 2025

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Cultural, economic, and settlement shifts over the last 9,000 years at Kakapel Rockshelter, Western Kenya

Steven T. Goldstein, Natalie G. Mueller, Emma Finestone, Elizabeth A. Sawchuk, Sara Juengst, Anthony Odera Otwani, Jennifer M. Miller, Michelle C. Langley, Ricardo Fernandes, Axel Steinhof, Victor Iminjili, Christine Chepkorir, Anneke Janzen, Christine Ogola, Emmanuel Ndiema, Michael Petraglia, Nicole Boivin

published 20 Aug 2025

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AI-ming backwards: Vanishing archaeological landscapes in Mesopotamia and automatic detection of sites on CORONA imagery

Alessandro Pistola, Valentina Orrù, Nicolò Marchetti, Marco Roccetti

published 18 Aug 2025

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Early evidence for capacity standardisation in Western Europe. The vessels from Mailhac (Aude, France) 9th-7th centuries BC

Thibaud Poigt, Alexis Gorgues, Antoine Dumas

published 13 Aug 2025

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Arrow heads at Obi-Rakhmat (Uzbekistan) 80 ka ago?

Hugues Plisson, Alena V. Kharevich, Vladimir M. Kharevich, Pavel V. Chistiakov, Lydia V. Zotkina, Malvina Baumann, Eric Pubert, Ksenya A. Kolobova, Farhod A. Maksudov, Andrei I. Krivoshapkin

published 11 Aug 2025

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