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Isotope analysis

RETRACTED: 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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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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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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RETRACTED: 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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Enhancing reproducibility in stable isotope analysis (SIA) of fish eye lenses: A comparison between lamina number and diameter

Alexandra Chu, Danhong Ally Li, Miranda Bell-Tilcock, Miranda Lowe-Webb, Carson Jeffres, Rachel C. Johnson

published 26 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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Boomerang and bones: Refining the chronology of the Early Upper Paleolithic at Obłazowa Cave, Poland

Sahra Talamo, Nicole Casaccia, Michael P. Richards, Lukas Wacker, Laura Tassoni, Adam Nadachowski, Anna Kraszewska, Magda Kowal, Jakub Skłucki, Christopher Barrington, Monica Kelly, Frankie Tait, Mia Williams, Carla Figus, Antonino Vazzana, Ginevra Di Bernardo, Matteo Romandini, Giovanni Di Domenico, Stefano Benazzi, Cristina Malegori, Giorgia Sciutto, Paolo Oliveri, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Mateja Hajdinjak, Pontus Skoglund, Andrea Picin, Paweł Valde‑Nowak

published 25 Jun 2025

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Expansion of forest cover and coeval shifts in Later Stone Age land-use at Taforalt and Rhafas Caves, Morocco, as inferred from carbon isotopes in ungulate tooth enamel

Kayla B. Worthey, Philippe Fernandez, Elaine Turner, Teresa E. Steele, Louise Humphrey, R. Nick E. Barton, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Abdeljalil Bouzouggar

published 12 Jun 2025

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Buca della Iena and Grotta del Capriolo: New chronological, lithic, and faunal analyses of two late Mousterian sites in Central Italy

Jacopo Gennai, Tom Higham, Marco Romboni, Angelica Fiorillo, Maddalena Giannì, Laura van der Sluis, Damiano Marchi, Elisabetta Starnini

published 11 Jun 2025

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The oldest Pottery Neolithic (PN) culture of northeastern Iran: First absolute dating from eastern Mazandaran plains

Rahmat Abbasnejad Seresti, Xinying Zhou, Seyyed Kamal Asadi Ojaei

published 10 Jun 2025

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