【Archaeology】An Annotated WWII Underwater Archaeology Bibliography
With four decades of WWII underwater archaeology publications, the time is nigh to create a comprehensive bibliography and conduct an analysis of tren... [more]
【Archaeology】Dirt in the Wounds: Confronting Hard Histories through Public Community Archaeology in Boston
The majority of Boston's residents are minorities. These minority residents confront the ongoing effects of racism, including the hard histories of e... [more]
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Degrees of freedom: Slavery in mid-first millennium BC Babylonia
This study examines the position of slaves in private ownership in Babylonia during the sixth and early fifth centuries BC, one of the best documented episodes in the history of ancient Mesopotamia. Drawing primarily on the records kept by a single family
Why did Athenian pots appeal to the Etruscans?
Very large quantities of pottery painted in Athens in the sixth and fifth centuries BC found their way to Etruria. This paper compares the scenes painted on Athenian pots found in Etruria with the scenes on pots found in Athens itself and with the scenes
Composing Avebury (Neolithic monuments, British Isles)
Avebury is one of the largest Neolithic monuments int he British Isles. Enormous earthworks define a vast enclosure on the Wessex chalkland, and within its boundaries are settings of standing stones which reach into the sky. The sheer size of this place i
Strength, toughness and thermal shock resistance of ancient ceramics, and their influence on technol
The basic underlying theory for the strength, toughness and thermal shock resistance of brittle multiphase clay ceramics, together with the measurement procedures to determine these parameters, are first outlined. Published experimental data obtained for
Diet and ethnicity during the Viking colonization of northern Scotland: Evidence from fish bones and
Diet and ethnicity are strongly related. Recent work on fish-bone ratios and stable carbon isotopes suggest that the Vikings increased the fish contribution to the diet of Orkney and Shetland by a greater investment in deep-sea fishing.
Sugar monoculture, bovid skeletal part frequencies, and stable carbon isotopes: Interpreting enslave
Sugar production was so pervasive in the British West Indies during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries that provisions were regularly shipped to the islands from as far away as Europe and North America. Skeletal part frequencies of bovids from late 18th c
Classic Maya state, urbanism, and exchange: Chipped stone evidence of the Copan Valley and its hinte
In this article I use quantitative data from 91,916 pieces of chipped stone artifacts from the Copan Valley and its hinterland in Honduras to understand better the nature and role of exchange in the development of a Classic Maya state-level society. The r
Automated analysis of environmental degradation of paint residues
The development of effective conservation strategies for the protection of rock art sites involves the assessment of the taphonomic risks posed by physical and chemical weathering. This study outlines the methodology used in a pilot study to monitor and m
A Late Pleistocene palaeoclimate record based on mineral magnetic properties of the entrance facies
Kulna Cave is located in the Moravian Karst, a well-developed karstic region formed in Devonian limestones in the eastern part of the Czech Republic. The entrance facies sediments in the cave consist of interbedded layers of silts (loess) and clay-rich si
Advances in polychrome ceramics in the Islamic world of the 12th century A.D.
As part of a multidisciplinary program of research on Islamic glazed pottery, the development of polychrome decoration during the 12th century has has been investigated by examining polished sections through glazed pottery in an analytical scanning electr
Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic analyses of the underclass at the colonial Cape of Good Hope in
Analysis of the stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratio of burials in a colonial cemetery in Cape Town, South Africa, reveals life histories of the underclass there. We are able to distinguish foreign from local-born people, and to infer social status, s
Constraints on Levallois core technology: A mathematical model
Recent volumetric definitions of Levallois core technology are amenable to mathematical modelling. We present a simple geometric model that permits controlled manipulation of a few of the key parameters defining Levallois core morphology. The models indic
Species associations among insect remains from urban archaeological deposits and their significance
Assemblages of archaeological insect (mainly Coleoptera) remains from in and around Anglo-Scandinavian buildings at 16-22 Coppergate, York, were investigated in order to identify associations between pairs and groups of species, and to determine the signi
Early human occupation at Devil's Lair, southwestern Australia 50,000 years ago
New dating confirms that people occupied the Australian continent before the earliest time inferred from conventional radiocarbon analysis. Many of the new ages were obtained by accelerator mass spectrometry C-14 dating after an acid-base-acid pretreatmen
Social status and biological status: A comparison of grave goods and skeletal indicators from Pontec
Comparison of funerary treatment and skeletal biology can be very informative about the interplay of social status and meanings and actual life conditions in ancient communities, but such comparison is rarely done, due in part to the disciplinary separati