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Frozen motion: Contextualizing wheel rut data within and beyond the Pompeiian street grid

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Journal of Archaeological Science Pub Date : 2025-02-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2025.106155

David Picker-Kille

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Early Island rice farmers on the South China Coast during the 7th millennium BP

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Journal of Archaeological Science Pub Date : 2025-02-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2025.106158

Guiyu Zhou , Xinxin Zuo , Zhenyu Zhou , Jianhui Jin , Xuechun Fan , Junjie Wei , Yaoyao Pei , Hui Xie , Yongjun Huang , Lin Ren , Yingjun Lin

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From dots to dynamics: Searching the complexities of prehistoric mobility in the Lisbon Peninsula 从点到动态：探索里斯本半岛史前移动的复杂性

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Journal of Archaeological Science Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2024.106127

André Texugo , Pablo Sánchez de Oro , Ana Catarina Sousa

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Strontium isotopes and the geographic origins of camelids in the Virú Valley, Peru 秘鲁Virú山谷的锶同位素和骆驼科动物的地理起源

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Journal of Archaeological Science Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2024.106142

Nicole Hultquist , Jean-Francois Millaire , Paul Szpak

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An improved age estimation method for caribou and reindeer using tooth eruption and wear 利用牙齿萌出和磨损估算驯鹿和驯鹿年龄的改进方法

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Journal of Archaeological Science Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2024.106133

Grace Kohut , Robert Losey , Susan Kutz , Kamal Khidas , Maxime Pelletier , Tatiana Nomokonova

{"title":"An improved age estimation method for caribou and reindeer using tooth eruption and wear","authors":"Grace Kohut , Robert Losey , Susan Kutz , Kamal Khidas , Maxime Pelletier , Tatiana Nomokonova","doi":"10.1016/j.jas.2024.106133","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jas.2024.106133","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Dental age estimation based on tooth eruption schedules and wear is a useful analytical tool in zooarchaeology for developing demographic profiles for animal skeletal remains, particularly those from ruminants. While tooth eruption schedules are applicable only to younger individuals, tooth wear can be used for older animals as the heights of their crowns shorten over their lifetime, creating recognizable visual changes to tooth occlusal surfaces. This study presents a novel tooth eruption and wear age estimation method for <em>Rangifer tarandus</em>, a key species of the Circumpolar North. The method was created using a sample of over 600 mandibles from known-age caribou and reindeer from several populations. These are Qamanirjuaq, Beverly, Dolphin-Union, Bluenose East, and Bluenose West caribou herds from Canada and forest reindeer from Finland. The method provides a user-friendly manual featuring tooth wear illustrations of premolars and molars created using frequency of occurrence data of easily recognizable visual wear traits. This method can be applied to modern and archaeological <em>Rangifer</em> dentition to estimate age and can be utilized with complete or fragmentary mandibles, including isolated teeth.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50254,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Archaeological Science","volume":"174 ","pages":"Article 106133"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142825126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The sedaDNA revolution and archaeology: Progress, challenges, and a research agenda dna革命和考古学：进展、挑战和研究议程

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Journal of Archaeological Science Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2024.106132

A.G. Brown , M. Lucas , I.G. Alsos , B. Fromm , S. Hudson

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Exploring the rhenium-osmium isotopic system and metal trace-elements analysis for iron provenance 探讨铼锇同位素体系及铁物源的金属微量元素分析

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Journal of Archaeological Science Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2024.106134

Adi Eliyahu-Behar , Ivan Stepanov , Ernst Pernicka , Michael Brauns

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First provenance evidence for lapis lazuli artefacts from Arabia: Analytical study of beads from the Umm an-Nar tomb DH7-1 at Dahwa, Sultanate of Oman 阿拉伯天青石文物的首个来源证据：对阿曼苏丹达瓦乌姆安-纳尔墓DH7-1中珠子的分析研究

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Journal of Archaeological Science Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2024.106131

Marta Magalini , Laura Guidorzi , Alessandro Re , Dennys Frenez , Kimberly D. Williams , Khaled A. Douglas , Nasser S. al-Jahwari , Quentin Lemasson , Claire Pacheco , Laurent Pichon , Brice Moignard , Alessandro Lo Giudice

{"title":"First provenance evidence for lapis lazuli artefacts from Arabia: Analytical study of beads from the Umm an-Nar tomb DH7-1 at Dahwa, Sultanate of Oman","authors":"Marta Magalini , Laura Guidorzi , Alessandro Re , Dennys Frenez , Kimberly D. Williams , Khaled A. Douglas , Nasser S. al-Jahwari , Quentin Lemasson , Claire Pacheco , Laurent Pichon , Brice Moignard , Alessandro Lo Giudice","doi":"10.1016/j.jas.2024.106131","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jas.2024.106131","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this work, two wholly preserved lapis lazuli beads from an Umm An-Nar-type communal tomb excavated in Dahwa (2500-2000 BCE, Sultanate of Oman) have been analysed by means of non-invasive analytical techniques to try to determine the provenance of their raw material. The importance of these beads is due to the fact that they are possibly among the earliest lapis lazuli objects found in south-eastern Arabia to date. The combined results of the provenance and stylistic investigations presented in this work aim to assess the geological origin of the raw material used to produce these beads as well as their cultural affiliation, providing crucial insights into reconstructing the lapis lazuli trade between Western Asia and the Mediterranean during the third millennium BCE. To identify the lapis lazuli provenance, in-air ion microbeam techniques were used to measure the trace elements content and the luminescent properties of different mineralogical phases within the lapis lazuli rock. Data were compared with those collected over the past 15 years on rocks from five mining areas in Chile, Afghanistan, Siberia, Tajikistan and Myanmar. Using a protocol based on this rock database and exploiting a multivariate method (principal component analysis) on the compositional results, it was possible to prove that the raw material of the beads only matched the Afghan quarry district.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50254,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Archaeological Science","volume":"174 ","pages":"Article 106131"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142874798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Comparative study of Bronze Age ceramic moulds reveals diachronic and spatial change in mould material processing in the Central Plain of China, c. 13th-3rd century BCE

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Journal of Archaeological Science Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2024.106145

Naidong Liu , Cong Wang , Michela Spataro , Jianli Chen , Siran Liu , Yu Liu , Quanyu Wang

{"title":"Comparative study of Bronze Age ceramic moulds reveals diachronic and spatial change in mould material processing in the Central Plain of China, c. 13th-3rd century BCE","authors":"Naidong Liu , Cong Wang , Michela Spataro , Jianli Chen , Siran Liu , Yu Liu , Quanyu Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.jas.2024.106145","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jas.2024.106145","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A combination of polarised light microscopy analyses with geochemical techniques interpreted through Principal Component Analyses (PCA) was employed to characterise ceramic bronze-casting moulds from China. Eighty-three ceramic bronze-casting moulds from five Bronze Age foundries, and seven soil samples from three of the five sites in the Central Plain of China were analysed, including Houma, the largest foundry site found to date in China. The results show two main differences in the body fabrics of these moulds: the presence/absence of calcite, and the mode of the quartz's particle size distribution, indicating a difference in the bronze-casting mould manufacturing techniques employed at each site.</div><div>This is the first time that a large number of Bronze Age moulds dated to different periods and from different regions were analysed by the complementary use of these two techniques, and the results indicate a diachronic and spatial change in mould material processing. This work will help understand bronze production in different regions of the Central Plain, and serve as a base to the establishment of a comprehensive database on ceramic bronze-casting moulds produced in different regions during the Chinese Bronze Age.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50254,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Archaeological Science","volume":"174 ","pages":"Article 106145"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143182231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Mixed Sources of Pb and Sn in late bronze age European tin ingots provide insights into production processes 在青铜时代晚期的欧洲锡锭中，铅和锡的混合来源提供了对生产过程的见解

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Journal of Archaeological Science Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2024.106135

W. Powell , R. Mathur , K.A. Yener , M. Johnson

{"title":"Mixed Sources of Pb and Sn in late bronze age European tin ingots provide insights into production processes","authors":"W. Powell , R. Mathur , K.A. Yener , M. Johnson","doi":"10.1016/j.jas.2024.106135","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jas.2024.106135","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Tin ingots have been the focus of multi-method studies involving Sn and Pb isotopes, as well as trace element patterns, in an effort to determine provenance. Although they are non-alloyed artifacts, it has been demonstrated recently that the Pb in most tin ingots was acquired from multiple sources. Herein, we re-examine the corpus of analytical chemical and isotopic studies of European tin ingots from prehistory to investigate the nature and extent of metal mixing in these objects. Multi-variable mixing trends were identified in 20% of Uluburun ingots and 50% of Israeli ingots. A general Pb-associated mixing trend observed throughout the full assemblage of oxhide ingots in the Uluburun cargo suggests that the extent of mixing is considerably higher. The absence of mixing patterns in Sn and Pb isotopes and small size of the ingots from SW England suggests simple one-pour casts of small ingots. In contrast, the extensive mixing in large Mediterranean ingots demonstrates that amalgamation and recasting of tin metal was commonplace within this region of extensive long-distance exchange. Mixing trends were also identified for trace elements including Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Se, Nb, Cd, In, Sb, Te, Ta, Au, and Bi. The complex mixing patterns associated with Mediterranean tin ingots provide new information regarding the <em>habitus</em> of workers engaged in the <em>chaîne opératoire</em> of tin production, including ore purification, contamination during smelting and/or casting, and the recasting of tin to facilitate transport and exchange in the large-scale, standardized markets of the eastern Mediterranean. Given the apparent extent of mixing evident in tin ingots, mixed metal sources must be considered when interpreting the isotopic and trace element compositions of tin artifacts to infer the metal's provenance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50254,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Archaeological Science","volume":"174 ","pages":"Article 106135"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142874772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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