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Stone age

Ecological flexibility and adaptation to past climate change in the Middle Nile Valley: A multiproxy investigation of dietary shifts between the Neolithic and Kerma periods at Kadruka 1 and Kadruka 21

Charles Le Moyne, Patrick Roberts, Quan Hua, Madeleine Bleasdale, Jocelyne Desideri, Nicole Boivin, Alison Crowther

published 02 Feb 2023

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First evidence for cattle traction in Middle Neolithic Ireland: A pivotal element for resource exploitation

Fabienne Pigière, Jessica Smyth

published 26 Jan 2023

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Particle size distribution: An experimental study using southern African reduction methods and raw materials

Paloma de la Peña, Marc Thomas, Tumelo R. Molefyane

published 30 Dec 2022

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New evidence for rice harvesting in the early Neolithic Lower Yangtze River, China

Jiajing Wang, Jiangping Zhu, Dongrong Lei, Leping Jiang

published 07 Dec 2022

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Diachronic shifts in lithic technological transmission between the eastern Eurasian Steppe and northern China in the Late Pleistocene

Chao Zhao, Youping Wang, John P. Walden

published 03 Nov 2022

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Applying lead (Pb) isotopes to explore mobility in humans and animals

Jane A. Evans, Vanessa Pashley, Katy Mee, Doris Wagner, Mike Parker Pearson, Delphine Fremondeau, Umberto Albarella, Richard Madgwick

published 26 Oct 2022

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Paleolithic occupation of arid Central Asia in the Middle Pleistocene

Emma M. Finestone, Paul S. Breeze, Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach, Nick Drake, Laura Bergmann, Farhod Maksudov, Akmal Muhammadiyev, Pete Scott, Yanjun Cai, Arina M. Khatsenovich, Evgeny P. Rybin, Gernot Nehrke, Nicole Boivin, Michael Petraglia

published 21 Oct 2022

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After the blades: The late MIS3 flake-based technology at Shuidonggou Locality 2, North China

Peiqi Zhang, Nicolas Zwyns, Fei Peng, Sam C. Lin, Corey L. Johnson, Jialong Guo, Huiming Wang, Xing Gao

published 12 Oct 2022

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Archaeobotanical and isotopic analyses of waterlogged remains from the Neolithic pile-dwelling site of Zug-Riedmatt (Switzerland): Resilience strategies of a plant economy in a changing local environment

Bigna L. Steiner, Héctor Martínez-Grau, Stefano M. Bernasconi, Eda Gross, Irka Hajdas, Stefanie Jacomet, Madalina Jaggi, Gishan F. Schaeren, Ferran Antolín

published 28 Sep 2022

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Preservation of microscopic fur, feather, and bast fibers in the Mesolithic ochre grave of Majoonsuo, Eastern Finland

Tuija Kirkinen, Olalla López-Costas, Antonio Martínez Cortizas, Sanna P. Sihvo, Hanna Ruhanen, Reijo Käkelä, Jan-Erik Nyman, Esa Mikkola, Janne Rantanen, Esa Hertell, Marja Ahola, Johanna Roiha, Kristiina Mannermaa

published 27 Sep 2022

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Epipalaeolithic animal tending to Neolithic herding at Abu Hureyra, Syria (12,800–7,800 calBP): Deciphering dung spherulites

Alexia Smith, Amy Oechsner, Peter Rowley-Conwy, Andrew M. T. Moore

published 14 Sep 2022

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Revisiting Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella) body size change in the southern Levant: A case for anthropogenic impact

Natalie D. Munro, Roxanne Lebenzon, Lidar Sapir-Hen

published 31 Aug 2022

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Finding Mycenaeans in Minoan Crete? Isotope and DNA analysis of human mobility in Bronze Age Crete

Michael Richards, Colin Smith, Olaf Nehlich, Vaughan Grimes, Darlene Weston, Alissa Mittnik, Johannes Krause, Keith Dobney, Yannis Tzedakis, Holley Martlew

published 10 Aug 2022

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