【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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Political dynamics and religious change in the late pre-colonial Banda Islands, Eastern Indonesia
Recently completed archaeological survey and excavation, in conjunction with a re-analysis of historical documents and oral histories, brings to light new evidence about the pre-colonial (tenth to seventeenth centuries) society of the banda Islands, once
Two millennia of socio-cultural development in Luwu, South Sulawesi, Indonesia
The project 'Origins of Complex Society in South Sulawesi' has recorded some fifty sites contemporary with the meteoric rise of the chiefdom of Luwu between AD 1300 and 1600. Six earlier sites, dated between 2000 and 900 years ago, trace the first impor
Heterogenetic cities in premodern Southeast Asia
Archaeologists working in non-Western areas of the world tend to employ monothetic, unilinear definitions of 'urbanization'. The definition of what constitutes a 'city' in archaeological terms is also ambiguous. Most definitions are biased by dependen
Doubts on diffusion: Challenging the assumed Indian origin of Iron Age agate and carnelian beads in
Iron Age agate and carnelian beads found in Southeast Asia have long been assumed to be Indian imports, often featuring in diffusion-orientated theories of Southeast Asian state development that cite Indian influence as a major causal factor. The origin o
Agriculture and dental caries? The case of rice in prehistoric Southeast Asia
The agricultural transition has long been recognized to have been a very important period in human prehistory. Its timing and consequences, including the effects on human health, have been intensively researched. In recent decades, this has included the i
The development of subsistence system models for Island Southeast Asia and Near Oceania: The nature
Unique arboreal-based subsistence economies emerged in Wallacea, New Guinea and Near Oceania. Initial developments have their roots in the Pleistocene. The developmental history of arboreal-based economies (often called arboriculture) in Southeast Asia an
Upland resources and the early Palaeolithic occupation of Southern China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand an
The southwestern Chinese provinces and neighbouring upland areas in Burma, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam form a geographical region with an expanding Palaeolithic record. The area was a gateway for the dispersion of populations into East Asia and Island and
The current state of Korean paleoanthropology
The hominid fossil and Paleolithic archaeology records from the Korean Peninsula are extensive, but relatively little is known about the Korean human evolutionary record outside this region. The Korean paleoanthropological record is reviewed here in light
Pre-European catches of snapper (Pagrus auratus) in northern New Zealand
Archaeological fish bones of the species Pagrus auratus (snapper) wee examined from five archaeological sites in northern New Zealand. Live fork length was estimated with standard errors ranging from 9-18 mm, and live ungutted weight with standard errors
Palaeoecological evidence for the prehistoric settlement of Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, southwest England
Radiocarbon-dated pollen sequences from two areas of Bodmin Moor-Rough Tor in the north-west and the East Moor-are presented and the evidence for settlement in the prehistoric period on the moor considered. The nature and extent of human impact in the two
The Stonehenge we deserve
After years of discussion and argument, the fate of Stonehenge and its landscape has been decided. As Professor Geoffrey Wainwright (former Head of Archaeology at English Heritage) describes, there is at last political will to ensure a better future for t
A 'tree' is not a 'train': Mistaken analogies in Pacific archaeology
Archaeologists and anthropologists work alongside, but outside, conventional science. Quite often, as here, misunderstandings and misreadings of archaeological data and interpretation can distort the reading of our discipline!
Palaeoecological evidence for the prehistoric settlement of Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, Southwest England
Bodmin Moor is one of the most complete and best preserved upland prehistoric landscapes in Britain. The field archaeology has been described in some detail, although on the basis of comparatively little excavation, but this has nevertheless been used to
Micro-archaeology of engraved and painted rock surface crusts at Yiwarlarlay (the Lightning Brothers
The formation of calcium oxalate (whewellite) on the encrusted surfaces at Yiwarlarlay, both over engraving and off-art, was dated using laser and permanganate oxidation techniques and C-14 accelerator mass spectrometry. An age estimate of 3160 BP was obt
The not so peaceful civilization: A review of Maya war
The first Maya encountered by Europeans in the early sixteenth century were exceedingly warlike, but by the 1940s the earlier Classic Maya (AD 250-1000) were widely perceived as an inordinately peaceful civilization. Today, in sharp contrast, conflict is