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A 7000-year record of environmental change, including early farming impact, based on lake-sediment geochemistry and pollen data from County Sligo, western Ireland

Michael O'Connell, Beatrice Ghilardi, Liam Morrison, M. O'Connell, more

Quaternary Research > 2014 > 81 > 1 > 35-49

Detailed, chronologically tightly constrained, lake-sediment-based geochemical and pollen records have enabled local changes in soil erosion, woodland cover and composition, and prehistoric farming impact to be reconstructed in considerable detail. The profile opens shortly after 7800BC when tall canopy trees were well-established and presumably in equilibrium with their environment. A distinct perturbation...

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A cattle mandible thong‐smoother from a grave: Strap production and cattle traction in the Late Copper Age in Hungary

Erika Gál, Piroska Rácz, Mária Bondár

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology > 34 > 2 > n/a - n/a

A recently found cattle‐based mandibular thong‐smoother, which was the only bone tool in the Baden culture burial of a 6–10‐year‐old child at the site of Balatonlelle‐Rádpuszta‐Romtemplom mellett (western Hungary), represents the best‐preserved Eneolithic implement in this category ever published in Hungary. Being one of the oldest specimens from the distribution area of mandibular thong‐smoothers,...

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Oral health and nonmolar dental attrition in the Siwa‐period individuals from the Bronze Age Mogou cemetery, Northwest China

Shannon Monroe, Jenna M. Dittmar, Elizabeth Berger, Angela Dautartas, more

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology > 34 > 2 > n/a - n/a

Dental data can reveal evidence for a past population's oral health, nutrition, and certain cultural activities. This study aims to explore oral health and dental attrition during the late Bronze Age in order to explore health outcomes in different subgroups as well as aspects of foodways and changes in subsistence strategies during the second millennium BCE in northwest China. To do this, the skeletal...

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The Bronze Age occupation of the Black Sea coast of Georgia—New insights from settlement mounds of the Colchian plain

Hannes Laermanns, Mikheil Elashvili, Giorgi Kirkitadze, Christopher P. Loveluck, more

Geoarchaeology > 39 > 3 > 335 - 350

Along the lower course of the Rioni and several minor rivers, more than 70 settlement mounds (local name: Dikhagudzuba) have been identified by field surveys and remote sensing techniques. They give evidence of a formerly densely populated landscape in the coastal lowlands on the Colchian plain (western Georgia) and have been dated to the Bronze Age. As yet, limited information is available on their...

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Tracking population structure and phenology through time using ancient genomes from waterlogged white oak wood

Stefanie Wagner, Andaine Seguin‐Orlando, Jean‐Charles Leplé, Thibault Leroy, more

Molecular Ecology > 33 > 3 > n/a - n/a

Whole genome characterizations of crop plants based on ancient DNA have provided unique keys for a better understanding of the evolutionary origins of modern cultivars, the pace and mode of selection underlying their adaptation to new environments and the production of phenotypes of interest. Although forests are among the most biologically rich ecosystems on earth and represent a fundamental resource...

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Mapping spatial patterning of Bronze Age towers in Oman according to water flow accumulation

Smiti Nathan, Michael J. Harrower

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy > 34 > S1 > S51 - S60

Water played an undeniably significant role in the origins of complex societies across the Near East, but political complexity in regions like Southeast Arabia diverges dramatically from the more well‐known histories of Egypt, the Levant and Mesopotamia. Through quantitative analysis, this paper investigates spatial associations between water availability and Umm an‐Nar towers in Adh Dhahirah Governorate...

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Twelve years of the ‘Arabian Seashores’ project: How the extensive investigation of coastal Oman changed the paradigm of the Arabian Neolithic

Vincent Charpentier, Maria Pia Maiorano, Gregor Marchand, Jérémie Vosges, more

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy > 34 > S1 > S1 - S21

For over a decade, the French mission ‘Archaeology of the Arabian Seashores’ has been exploring the evolution of the Omani coastline, from hunter–gatherers to the rise of complex societies during the crucial passages from the culmination of the Pleistocene to the Early Bronze Age, passing through the Neolithic. The team extensively surveyed the land spreading from the eastern head of Arabia, Ra's...

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A common ecogeographic trend in the internal nasal cavity variation across Mesolithic to Bronze Age Eastern European and Caucasian populations

Pavel D. Manakhov, Andrej A. Evteev

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology > 33 > 5 > 841 - 857

The ecogeographic trends in the shape of the internal nasal cavity and external facial skeleton were explored in a sample of Mesolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Age skulls from Northeastern Europe and the Caucasus and tested against a background of the variation in recent populations from the same area. The volume, surface area, and several linear dimensions of the internal nasal cavity as well as a...

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A Bronze to Iron Age fishing economy at Kalbāʾ 4 (Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates)

Kevin Lidour, Mark J. Beech, Daniel Eddisford, Carl S. Phillips, more

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy > 34 > 1 > 44 - 62

This paper represents a study of archaeological fish remains retrieved from the excavations conducted by C. S. Phillips between 1993 and 2001 at Kalbāʾ 4 (Emirate of Sharjah, UAE). Kalbāʾ 4 is a major coastal site that was continuously occupied from the Umm an‐Nar period to the Iron Age (c. 2700–600 BCE). The site is of particular interest regarding monumental architecture, pottery studies and exchange...

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From Dilmun to Wādī al‐Fāw: A forgotten desert corridor, c. 2000 BC

Steffen Terp Laursen, Faleh al‐Otaibi

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy > 34 > 1 > 63 - 86

There is a lacuna of knowledge on the inland trade routes across Bronze Age central Arabia, which this article seeks to fill based on new evidence from Wādī al‐Fāw, Saudi Arabia. Contrary to a common belief that interior Southeast Arabia after the Holocene Humid Phase and until the domestication of the dromedary had turned desolate Badlands, this study offers documentation that during the early Bronze...

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Study of Pottery Technology in Kura-Araxes Culture of Astanakroud 2 Site of Kojur County Using Petrographic Method

Mohammad Hossein REZAEI, Parastoo MASJEDI KHAK, Ali MOTAVALI RAMEH

Historia i Świat > 2023 > 12 > 97–110

The pottery samples under investigation in this study include the findings of the Astankroud 2 Site in the Kojur region of western Mazandaran Province. The site was uncovered during an archaeological survey of the region in 2010 and has been thus far the easternmost site of Kura-Araxes. Considering the importance of discussions concerning the characteristics of this culture and the reasons for its...

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Arrowheads in the cultural-historical property repository of the Administration of Cultural Heritage of Kerman. An Introduction

Ehsan KHONSARINEJAD, Reza RIAHIYAN GOHORTI, Sahar TAVAKOLI

Historia i Świat > 2023 > 12 > 73–96

In this paper, the authors have examined 94 unprovenanced arrowheads (tanged and socketed) that are stored in the cultural historical property repository of the Administration of Cultural Heritage of Kerman Province (Southeastern Iran). The illlegal possessors claimed to have discovered the arrowheads via illegal diggings in the Kerman Province. Most of the examined arrowheads were probably designed...

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The Investigation of residential architecture in the Bronze Age. Tape Yal (Yalda), Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran

Zohreh OVEISI-KEIKHA, Hosseinali KAVOSH

Historia i Świat > 2023 > 12 > 9–30

The first villages were formed during the Neolithic period, when people began building residential architecture. Villages continued to exist in Iran until the 2nd half of the 4th millennium BC, when the first cities appeared. Settlement in Shahr-i Sokhta had begun during this period, and in the 3rd millennium BC, the city’s size expanded and many related-settlement sites were formed in the Sistan...

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Coastal changes and human occupation in the eastern part of Thessaloniki Bay: Geoarchaeological investigations of Toumba Gona

Jakub Niebieszczański, Iwona Hildebrandt‐Radke, Janusz Czebreszuk, Cezary Bahyrycz, more

Geoarchaeology > 38 > 4 > 406 - 419

The Holocene marine transgression in the Aegean Sea area has significantly impacted prehistoric societies. Toumba Gona is a tell site located at the mouth of the Anthemous River, east of Thessaloniki Bay. According to earlier research, the site should be dated at most to the late stage of the Early Bronze Age. Geoarchaeological research by means of electrical resistivity tomography, vibra‐coring,...

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Variation in human bone bioerosion during the Late Eneolithic/Bronze Age in Moravia (Czech Republic): A novel approach to BSE‐SEM image quality and quantity assessment

Anna Pankowská, Andrea Žižková, Jaroslav Kapusta, Martin Moník

Archaeometry > 65 > 2 > 370 - 390

Human bones from Late Eneolithic graves and Bronze Age settlement pits in Moravia (Czech Republic) were studied to reconstruct their post‐mortem histories based on the distribution of their microbial destruction. Backscattered electrons in a scanning electron microscope (BSE‐SEM) were used for visual assessment of bioerosion. Visual data from the histological analysis were transformed into quantitative...

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Starch remains from human teeth reveal the Bronze and Early Iron Ages vegetal diet of Xinjiang, Northwest China

Sen You, Long Wang, John W. Olsen, Ying Guan, more

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology > 33 > 1 > 94 - 113

China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has long been a vital link between Europe and Eastern Asia. Xinjiang's geographical location and natural environment have led to unique dietary habits and traditions among both the region's modern inhabitants and their ancient forebears. Here, we report on the analysis of human dental residue samples unearthed from the Jiayi Cemetery, a 10^th to 2^nd century...

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Stanowiska archeologiczne w powiecie siedleckim

Marta Czerwieniec-Ivasyk

Radzyński Rocznik Humanistyczny > 2023 > 21 > 7-29

Stanowiska archeologiczne na Wysoczyźnie Siedleckiej pozwalają na zaobserwowanie historii osadnictwa na tym terenie od późnego paleolitu do średniowiecza. Teren usytuowany na piaszczystych morenach czołowych, mimo szeroko rozgałęzionych szlaków wodnych, nie stanowił bardzo atrakcyjnej lokalizacji osadniczej. Na obszarze obecnie funkcjonującego powiatu udało wyodrębnić się kilkaset śladów obecności...

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Kladivo s tuľajkou z doby bronzovej z Košeckého Podhradia

Lucia Benediková, Viliam Mezey

Zborník Slovenského národného múzea Archeológia > 2023 > 117 > 37-45

The Bronze Age socketed hammer was discovered on the hill nearby Košecké Podhradie. It belongs to the Bronze Age socketed hammers occurring between Bz C and Ha B1 in Europe and evidencing the developed bronze production in the regions of their distribution, thus supposedly also in the micro-region around Košecké Podhradie. Regarding its shape, weight and composition of metal (investigated by XRF spectrometry)...

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Kadlub na odlievanie záveskov z Tekovských Lužian

Juraj Bartík, Radoslav Čambal, Daniel Ozdín

Zborník Slovenského národného múzea Archeológia > 2023 > 117 > 25-35

The contribution presents a casting mould made of greywacke sandstone for spear-shaped pendants, found in Tekovské Lužany on the surface of a low plateau. The artefact analysis and regional spread of archaeological cultures suggest that the mould was created in the Middle or Late Bronze Age.

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Praveké a včasnodejinné výšinné lokality v Dlhej nad Oravou a v Komjatnej

Barbora Lofajová Danielová, Martin Furman

Zborník Slovenského národného múzea Archeológia > 2023 > 117 > 81-113

This paper shows the results of the archaeological survey (incl. metal detector prospection) of newly discovered hillside settlements in Dlhá nad Oravou, site Banský (district of Dolný Kubín) and in Komjatná, site Hlavačka (district of Ružomberok). In both sites, we have documented a cultural layer with ceramic finds and we have discovered several metal objects. The Dlhá site was quite probably continuously...

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A 7000-year record of environmental change, including early farming impact, based on lake-sediment geochemistry and pollen data from County Sligo, western Ireland

A cattle mandible thong‐smoother from a grave: Strap production and cattle traction in the Late Copper Age in Hungary

Oral health and nonmolar dental attrition in the Siwa‐period individuals from the Bronze Age Mogou cemetery, Northwest China

The Bronze Age occupation of the Black Sea coast of Georgia—New insights from settlement mounds of the Colchian plain

Tracking population structure and phenology through time using ancient genomes from waterlogged white oak wood

Mapping spatial patterning of Bronze Age towers in Oman according to water flow accumulation

Twelve years of the ‘Arabian Seashores’ project: How the extensive investigation of coastal Oman changed the paradigm of the Arabian Neolithic

A common ecogeographic trend in the internal nasal cavity variation across Mesolithic to Bronze Age Eastern European and Caucasian populations

A Bronze to Iron Age fishing economy at Kalbāʾ 4 (Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates)

From Dilmun to Wādī al‐Fāw: A forgotten desert corridor, c. 2000 BC

Study of Pottery Technology in Kura-Araxes Culture of Astanakroud 2 Site of Kojur County Using Petrographic Method

Arrowheads in the cultural-historical property repository of the Administration of Cultural Heritage of Kerman. An Introduction

The Investigation of residential architecture in the Bronze Age. Tape Yal (Yalda), Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran

Coastal changes and human occupation in the eastern part of Thessaloniki Bay: Geoarchaeological investigations of Toumba Gona

Variation in human bone bioerosion during the Late Eneolithic/Bronze Age in Moravia (Czech Republic): A novel approach to BSE‐SEM image quality and quantity assessment

Starch remains from human teeth reveal the Bronze and Early Iron Ages vegetal diet of Xinjiang, Northwest China

Stanowiska archeologiczne w powiecie siedleckim

Kladivo s tuľajkou z doby bronzovej z Košeckého Podhradia

Kadlub na odlievanie záveskov z Tekovských Lužian

Praveké a včasnodejinné výšinné lokality v Dlhej nad Oravou a v Komjatnej

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