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Historical archaeology

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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Critical biblical studies via word frequency analysis: Unveiling text authorship

Shira Faigenbaum-Golovin, Alon Kipnis, Axel Bühler, Eli Piasetzky, Thomas Römer, Israel Finkelstein

published 03 Jun 2025

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Reconstructing smoking history through dental cementum analysis - a preliminary investigation on modern and archaeological teeth

Valentina Perrone, Anna M Davies-Barrett, Mario Migliario, Patrick Randolph-Quinney, Sarah A. Inskip, Edward C. Schwalbe

published 27 May 2025

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Modeling the potential impact of storm surge and sea level rise on coastal archaeological heritage: A case study from Georgia

Matthew D. Howland, Victor D. Thompson

published 28 Feb 2024

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An archaeomagnetic study of the Ishtar Gate, Babylon

Anita Di Chiara, Lisa Tauxe, Helen Gries, Barbara Helwing, Matthew D. Howland, E. Ben-Yosef

published 17 Jan 2024

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Applying thermal demagnetization to archaeological materials: A tool for detecting burnt clay and estimating its firing temperature

Yoav Vaknin, Ron Shaar, Oded Lipschits, Adi Eliyahu Behar, Aren M. Maeir, Erez Ben-Yosef

published 09 Oct 2023

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A multidisciplinary study on the social customs of the Tang Empire in the Medieval Ages

Dongyue Zhao, Yang Chen, Gaowen Xie, Pengcheng Ma, Yufeng Wen, Fan Zhang, Yafei Wang, Yinqiu Cui, Shizhu Gao

published 26 Jul 2023

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Embedding the remote sensing monitoring of archaeological site damage at the local level: Results from the “Archaeological practice and heritage protection in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq” project

Elise Jakoby Laugier, Nawzad Abdullatif, Claudia Glatz

published 15 Jun 2022

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Three hundred years of Palmyrene history. Unlocking archaeological data for studying past societal transformations

Rubina Raja, Olympia Bobou, Iza Romanowska

published 03 Nov 2021

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Rise of the war machines: Charting the evolution of military technologies from the Neolithic to the Industrial Revolution

Peter Turchin, Daniel Hoyer, Andrey Korotayev, Nikolay Kradin, Sergey Nefedov, Gary Feinman, Jill Levine, Jenny Reddish, Enrico Cioni, Chelsea Thorpe, James S. Bennett, Pieter Francois, Harvey Whitehouse

published 20 Oct 2021

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Resolving Indigenous village occupations and social history across the long century of European permanent settlement in Northeastern North America: The Mohawk River Valley ~1450-1635 CE

Sturt W. Manning, Brita Lorentzen, John P. Hart

published 15 Oct 2021

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Humans as geomorphic agents: Lidar detection of the past, present and future of the Teotihuacan Valley, Mexico

Nawa Sugiyama, Saburo Sugiyama, Tanya Catignani, Adrian S. Z. Chase, Juan C. Fernandez-Diaz

published 20 Sep 2021

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New relative sea-level (RSL) indications from the Eastern Mediterranean: Middle Bronze Age to the Roman period (~3800–1800 y BP) archaeological constructions at Dor, the Carmel coast, Israel

Assaf Yasur-Landau, Gilad Shtienberg, Gil Gambash, Giorgio Spada, Daniele Melini, Ehud Arkin-Shalev, Anthony Tamberino, Jack Reese, Thomas E. Levy, Dorit Sivan

published 09 Jun 2021

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