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Validating Pottery Seriation with Radiocarbon Dates: Relative and Absolute Chronology of the Early Bronze Age Necropolis in Mokrin 用放射性碳年代验证陶器系列：莫克林早期青铜时代墓地的相对和绝对年代学

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Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Pub Date : 2026-01-28 DOI: 10.1007/s10816-026-09762-8

Marko Porčić, Mihailo Radinović, Marija Krečković Gavrilović

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Buffer Zones, Population, Ecology, and Conflict: Ethnological Modeling and Archaeological Implications 缓冲区、人口、生态和冲突：民族学模型和考古意义

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Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Pub Date : 2026-01-24 DOI: 10.1007/s10816-025-09760-2

Mark Golitko, David M. Grogan

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Pilgrimage Centers as Persistent Places: Spiritual Magnetism, Affects, and Atmospheres 作为持久场所的朝圣中心：精神磁力、影响和气氛

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Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Pub Date : 2026-01-14 DOI: 10.1007/s10816-026-09763-7

B. Jacob Skousen

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Anthropic Activity Markers 2.0: A Shift Towards Compositional Data Analysis. 人类活动标志2.0：向成分数据分析的转变。

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Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-06-10 DOI: 10.1007/s10816-026-09799-9

Abel Ruiz-Giralt, Stefano Biagetti, Carla Lancelotti, Óscar Parque, Antonios Koutroumpas, Keelie S Rix, Jordi Ibáñez-Insa, Marco Madella

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Bow and Arrow Technology in North America 北美的弓箭技术

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Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Pub Date : 2025-12-17 DOI: 10.1007/s10816-025-09756-y

Raven Garvey, Ian Beggen, Rocky Brockway, Christopher Morgan, Shannon Tushingham, Robert Bettinger

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Differential Taphonomic Behavior of Flint Types: Experimental Insights and Implications for the Middle Stone Age Assemblages of Wadi Lazalim in the Northern Sahara (Kebili, Tunisia) 燧石类型的不同埋藏行为：对北撒哈拉（突尼斯Kebili）瓦迪拉扎利姆（Wadi Lazalim）中石器时代组合的实验见解和启示

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Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Pub Date : 2025-12-16 DOI: 10.1007/s10816-025-09757-x

Olivier Scancarello, Cristina Lemorini, Alain Queffelec, Tarek Ben Fraj, Héla Mekki, Andrea Zupancich, Nabiha Aouadi, Emanuele Cancellieri

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A Comparative Study of Hierarchical Significance Based on the Size and Terrain Elevation of Dolmens and Network Centrality: Focusing on Dolmens in Asan-myeon, Gochang County (Korea) 基于规模、地形高程与网络中心性的层次意义比较研究——以韩国高昌峨山面地区为例

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Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Pub Date : 2025-12-11 DOI: 10.1007/s10816-025-09751-3

Younghee Noh, Seok Kim

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Exploring the “Microburin Blow”: An Insight into the Variability of the Microburin Blow Method for the Production of Sauveterrian Geometrics in the Site of Mondeval de Sora (N-E, Italy) 探索“微灼烧”：对Mondeval de Sora遗址sauveterran几何图形生产微灼烧方法可变性的洞察（N-E，意大利）

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Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Pub Date : 2025-12-09 DOI: 10.1007/s10816-025-09755-z

Nicolò Fasser, Federica Fontana

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Processing Into the Past: The Chaco South Road as a Multi-Century Religious Corridor 追溯过去：作为多世纪宗教走廊的查科南路

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Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Pub Date : 2025-12-08 DOI: 10.1007/s10816-025-09753-1

Robert S. Weiner

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The First Occupations of Western Europe: Dispersals and Population Dynamics in the Early to Middle Pleistocene 西欧的第一次占领：早更新世到中更新世的扩散和种群动态

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Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Pub Date : 2025-11-29 DOI: 10.1007/s10816-025-09752-2

Carolina Cucart-Mora, Diego Lombao, Antonio Pineda, Bruno Boemke, Beniamino Mecozzi, Marie-Hélène Moncel

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