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Relooking at the Archaeology of Neem ka Thana tehsil, Rajasthan, India 重新审视印度拉贾斯坦邦楝树卡塔纳区的考古学

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Archaeological Research in Asia Pub Date : 2024-06-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.ara.2024.100538

Esha Prasad , Shweta Sinha Deshpande

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Intensive use of Northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan plateau during the middle Holocene: New excavation of a base camp, Dongguotan site 全新世中期青藏高原东北部的集约利用：东沟滩遗址大本营的新发掘

IF 0.9 2区历史学

Archaeological Research in Asia Pub Date : 2024-06-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.ara.2024.100539

Fang Han , Qi Meng , Hongliang Lu , Jixiang Song , Hong Qiao , Jiyuan Li , Yanping Xia , Qingjiang Yang , Zhanwei Du

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An elite grave of the pre-Mongol period, from Dornod Province, Mongolia 蒙古多尔诺德省的一座前蒙古时期的精英墓葬

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Archaeological Research in Asia Pub Date : 2024-06-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.ara.2024.100537

Amartuvshin Chunag , Gideon Shelach-Lavi , William Honeychurch , Batdalai Byambatseren , Orit Shamir , Uuriintuya Munkhtur , Daniela Wolin , Shuzhi Wang , Nofar Shamir

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Megalithic structure from Burabay: Gold mining and cult communities of the Late Bronze Age of Northern Kazakhstan 布拉拜的巨石结构：北哈萨克斯坦青铜时代晚期的金矿开采和崇拜社区

IF 1.5 2区历史学

Archaeological Research in Asia Pub Date : 2024-06-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.ara.2024.100536

Sergey Yarygin , Zerrin Aydın Tavukçu , Sergazy Sakenov

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Pastoral provisioning of Uyghur elites in an urban setting: Zooarchaeological and isotope evidence from medieval Karabalgasun, Mongolia 城市环境中维吾尔族精英的牧业供给：蒙古卡拉巴尔加顺中世纪的动物考古学和同位素证据

IF 1.5 2区历史学

Archaeological Research in Asia Pub Date : 2024-06-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.ara.2024.100523

Lea Kohlhage , Cheryl A. Makarewicz

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Identifying resilient women through bioarchaeology: Perspectives from two contemporaneous Inner Asian studies dating to the Late Bronze-Early Iron Age transition 通过生物考古学识别有复原能力的妇女：从青铜时代晚期向铁器时代早期过渡的两项同时代的内亚研究中窥见一斑

IF 1.5 2区历史学

Archaeological Research in Asia Pub Date : 2024-06-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.ara.2024.100534

Michelle Hrivnyak , Jacqueline T. Eng , Jargalan Burentogtokh , Quanchao Zhang

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Isotopic evidence of millet consumption in the Liangshan region of southwestern China during the Neolithic 中国西南凉山地区新石器时代小米消费的同位素证据

IF 1.5 2区历史学

Archaeological Research in Asia Pub Date : 2024-06-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.ara.2024.100535

Yi Guo , Guicheng Guo , Juebao Xia , Huashi Liu , Yan Zhang , Rubi Wu , Yongge Sun , Yuxin He

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A reflection on neolithization in the plains of Behshahr and Neka in Eastern Mazandaran, Iran 对伊朗东马赞达兰地区贝赫沙赫尔和内卡平原新石器化的思考

IF 1.5 2区历史学

Archaeological Research in Asia Pub Date : 2024-05-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.ara.2024.100522

Seyyed Kamal Asadi Ojaei , Rahmat Abbasnejad Seresti , Christopher P. Thornton , Roger Matthews

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A new type of Early Iron Age stela from Tuva (Inner Asia) 图瓦（内亚）出土的一种新型早期铁器时代石碑

IF 1.5 2区历史学

Archaeological Research in Asia Pub Date : 2024-04-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.ara.2024.100524

Timur Sadykov , Jegor Blochin , Evgeniya Asochakova , Daria Fedorova , Gino Caspari

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The pictographs of Chel-Dokhtaroon in the Southern Zagros Mountains, Fars, Central Southern Iran 伊朗中南部法尔斯扎格罗斯山脉南部的切尔-多赫塔隆象形文字

IF 1.5 2区历史学

Archaeological Research in Asia Pub Date : 2024-04-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.ara.2024.100521

Ebrahim Karimi , Cyrus Barfi , Samira Jafari , Sahar Samghani , Reza Norouzi

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