【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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The taphonomy of cooked bone: Characterizing boiling and its physico-chemical effects
Cooking is perhaps the most common pre-burial taphonomic transformation that occurs to bone, yet it is still one of the least understood. Little progress has been made in determining a method of identifying cooked bone in the archaeological record, despit
Mid-Holocene climate change in North China, and the effect on cultural development
In this study, to reconstruct the paleoclimatic history, pollen and oxygen isotope were analyzed on the samples of a 2.7 m peat core from Taishizhuang, Huailai County, Hebei Province. Combining our data with other information of climate history and archae
Red blood cell haemotaphonomy of experimental human bloodstains on techno-prehistoric lithic raw mat
Mammalian erythrocytes or red blood cells (RBC)--whose presence in a smear is evidence for blood residues--have been previously reported on prehistoric implements estimated to be approximately two million years old. On the basis of the Principle of Actual
Sta. Cruz Atizapan: a 22-ka lake level record and climatic implications for the late Holocene human
The Upper Lerma is a high altitude basin with three water bodies linked by the Lerma River. This basin has a long archaeological history, characterised by the establishment of settlements within the lacustrine ecosystem itself (man-made islands) during th
Starch and charcoal: Useful measures of activity areas in archaeological rockshelters
Intrasite studies of the spatial arrangements of archaeological materials to interpret structure sin activity areas is an important faces of archaeology. As post-depositional processes move these materials from their original position it is imperative tha
Evaluating natural site formation processes in eolian dune sands: A case study from the Krmpotich Fo
Eolian dune sands commonly contain archaeological material in both surface and buried contexts. However, because of the dynamic nature of dunes, the original context of an archaeological site can be severely modified or destroyed as a result of post-occup
First palaeopathological example of Kienbock's Disease from early modern Sakhalin Ainu
A disorder of the carpal lunate has been diagnosed as Kienbock's disease in a skeleton of a middle-aged Ainu male that was excavated from Sakhalin Island, northeast Asia. The bone lesion is primarily and unilaterally associated with the right wrist, wher
Cut and tooth mark distributions on large animal bones: Ethnoarchaeological data from the Hadza and
Distributions of cut and tooth marks on the bones of large animals found in archaeological sites are increasingly used as sources of inference about the relative importance of hunting and scavenging in early human diets, and (by extension) about the role
Detecting Palaeolithic activity areas through electrical resistivity survey: An assessment from Vale
The open air Late Pleistocene campsite of Vale de Obidos provided an opportunity to systematically assess the utility of electrical resistivity surveying for activity area detection at Palaeolithic sites. Detailed surface mapping facilitated the explorati
Photographs, skeuomorphs and marionettes - Some thoughts on mind, agency and object
The aim of this article is to investigate the agency of objects, a seemingly paradoxical statement within most recent western thought, in which agents and objects are sharply contrasted. However, in an important attempt to overcome the profound dichotomy
Rethinking precolonial plant cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America
The indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast of North America are widely believed to have been true hunter-fisher-gatherers, lacking plant cultivation of any kind. This depiction of the region's indigenous inhabitants emerged within early colonial accou
Movies for the visualization of MCMC output
Past work on visualization methods for Markov chain Monte Carlo analyses leaves many open questions. Particular difficulties arise when the researcher wishes to monitor several aspects of the chain's behavior jointly. We propose a movie, which is an exte
Monitoring and modelling saturation as a proxy indicator for in-situ preservation in wetlands -: A G
The unifying nature of water on the preservation of organic archaeological and palaeoenvironmental source material within wet deposits is well recognized. It is also understood that, while the preservation of such deposits is fundamental towards our under
Radiocarbon dates and the Late Quaternary palaeogeography of the Province of the Eastern Cape, South
A total of 193 dates are listed from the Eastern Cape. Middle Stone Age hunter-gatherers existed in the Drakensberg prior to the rigours of cold climatic conditions after ca. 22,000 BP. These uplands were reoccupied under more favourable climatic conditio
Stabbing of metal sheets by a triangular knife. An archaeological investigation
in order to provide a basis for comparative evaluation of ancient and early modern metal armour, experiments have been made with a simplified knife to investigate the action of stabbing into thin metal sheets. The forces required for indentation, perforat