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Archaeology

A 12,800-year-old layer with cometary dust, microspherules, and platinum anomaly recorded in multiple cores from Baffin Bay

Christopher R. Moore, Vladimir A. Tselmovich, Malcolm A. LeCompte, Allen West, Stephen J. Culver, David J. Mallinson, Mohammed Baalousha, James P. Kennett, William M. Napier, Michael Bizimis, Victor Adedeji, Seth R. Sutton, Gunther Kletetschka, Kurt A. Langworthy, Jesus P. Perez, Timothy Witwer, Marc D. Young, Mahbub Alam, Jordan Jeffreys, Richard C. Greenwood, James A. Malley

published 06 Aug 2025

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Decoding past microbial life and antibiotic resistance in İnonü Cave’s archaeological soil

Sukran Ozturk, F.Gülden Ekmen, Hamza Ekmen, Esra Mine Ünal, Ayşegül Er, Emre Keskin, Benjamin Stanley Arbuckle

published 31 Jul 2025

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Finding the original mass: A machine learning model and its deployment for lithic scrapers

Guillermo Bustos-Pérez

published 28 Jul 2025

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The dichotomy of human decision-making: An experimental assessment of stone tool efficiency

David Nora, João Marreiros, Walter Gneisinger, Antonella Pedergnana, Telmo Pereira

published 18 Jul 2025

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Climate variability and Germanic settlement dynamics in the Middle Danube region during the Roman Period (1^st–4^th Century CE)

Marek Vlach, Balázs Komoróczy, Max Carl Arne Torbenson, Jan Esper, Rudolf Brázdil, Ulf Büntgen, Daniela Semerádová, Otmar Urban, Jan Balek, Tomáš Kolář, Michal Rybníček, Miroslav Trnka

published 16 Jul 2025

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Random forest-based bioavailable strontium isoscape for environmental and archaeological applications in central eastern Argentina and western Uruguay

Cinzia Scaggion, Tommaso Giovanardi, Daniel Loponte, Mirian Carbonera, Elena Armaroli, Sara Bernardini, Stefano Benazzi, Andrés Gascue, Alejandro Acosta, Giulia Marciani, Eugenio Bortolini, Anna Cipriani, Federico Lugli

published 15 Jul 2025

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The seasonality experiment: Investigating how seasons affect the burning conditions of cremations

Elisavet Stamataki, Guy De Mulder, Rosalie Hermans, Martine Vercauteren, Christophe Snoeck

published 09 Jul 2025

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From chisel to inscription: affordable protocols for the digital documentation of stone carving techniques. An experimental archaeology and traceological approach applied to epigraphy

Giulia Previti, Salma Kusumastuti, Beatrice Luci, Luca Malatesta, Cristina Lemorini

published 07 Jul 2025

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Mass spectrometry measurements of mercury isotope ratios support geochemical sourcing of archaeological cinnabar in the Andean region

Michelle Young, Colin Cooke, Richard Burger, Emily Kaplan, Gabriel Prieto, Jacob Bongers, Jordan Dalton, Fathima Usama, Shengliu Yuan, Holger Hintelmann

published 07 Jul 2025

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Small flakes for sharp needs: Technological behaviour in the Lower Palaeolithic site of Marathousa 1, Greece

Dalila De Caro, Moritz Kuhn, Nicholas Thompson, Eleni Panagopoulou, Katerina Harvati, Vangelis Tourloukis

published 30 Jun 2025

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From ice cores to dinosaurs: physical collections managers’ research data curation perceptions and behaviors

Bradley Wade Bishop, Jaxx Fox, Sidney Wanda Taylor Gavel, Emily Grace Chapin, Sarah Kansa

published 27 Jun 2025

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Exploring the Early Neolithic in the Arabian Gulf: A newly discovered 8,400–year-old stone-built architecture on Ghagha Island, United Arab Emirates

Kevin Lidour, Noura Al Hameli, Rémy Crassard, Fabian D’Silva, Ahmed Al Haj

published 25 Jun 2025

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Altiplano agricultural origins was a process of economic resilience, not hardship: Isotope chemistry, zooarchaeology, and archaeobotany in the Titicaca Basin, 5.5-3.0 ka

Luis Flores-Blanco, Morgan Hall, Luisa Hinostroza, Jelmer Eerkens, Mark Aldenderfer, Randall Haas

published 25 Jun 2025

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