AntiquityPub Date : 2026-10-16DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2026.10449
Patxi Pérez-Ramallo,Jesús Sesma Sesma,Olatz Villanueva Zubizarreta,Patrick Roberts
{"title":"Eating under Christian rule: isotopic evidence for food access and resilience among a medieval Muslim minority in Iberia","authors":"Patxi Pérez-Ramallo,Jesús Sesma Sesma,Olatz Villanueva Zubizarreta,Patrick Roberts","doi":"10.15184/aqy.2026.10449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2026.10449","url":null,"abstract":"Muslim minorities are documented as taxpayers or legal subjects in medieval Europe, but rarely as individuals or households. This study examines carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes from 120 individuals buried at Torre Monreal, Tudela (Navarre, Spain) between the late eleventh and fifteenth centuries to build a picture of everyday food access in an Islamic community under Christian rule. The results, the authors argue, show a long-term reorganisation of diet that reflects historical narratives on the legal accessibility and market availability of freshwater and terrestrial resources, and are presented here as evidence for adaptive food practices rather than dietary assimilation.","PeriodicalId":8058,"journal":{"name":"Antiquity","volume":"65 1","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149210782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AntiquityPub Date : 2026-10-15DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2026.10455
Christina Geisen
{"title":"Polyvalent approaches to ancient Egyptian religion beyond the Eurocentric lens","authors":"Christina Geisen","doi":"10.15184/aqy.2026.10455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2026.10455","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8058,"journal":{"name":"Antiquity","volume":"11 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149210783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AntiquityPub Date : 2026-10-15DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2026.10437
Nicolas C. Ciarlo,Carlos G. Landa,Alejandra Raies,Sebastian L. Avila,Roberto Ulloa,Atilio Francisco J. Zangrando
{"title":"Castaways at the end of the world: ongoing archaeological research at Franklin Bay, Isla de los Estados","authors":"Nicolas C. Ciarlo,Carlos G. Landa,Alejandra Raies,Sebastian L. Avila,Roberto Ulloa,Atilio Francisco J. Zangrando","doi":"10.15184/aqy.2026.10437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2026.10437","url":null,"abstract":"Ongoing archaeological research at Lacroix Inlet, in Franklin Bay on Isla de los Estados, part of the Atlantic-Pacific sailing route since the early seventeenth century, has provided new information on shipwreck remains and a temporary camp possibly linked with the schooner brig Espora (1873) of the renowned Argentine sailor Luis Piedra Buena.","PeriodicalId":8058,"journal":{"name":"Antiquity","volume":"72 1","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149210788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AntiquityPub Date : 2026-10-14DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2026.10444
Haggai Olshanetsky
{"title":"Ian Wood. 2025. Burgundy, 450–535: politics and religion in the Gibichung Province (Saggi di Storia Antica 48). Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider; 978-88-913-3637-8 hardback €75.","authors":"Haggai Olshanetsky","doi":"10.15184/aqy.2026.10444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2026.10444","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8058,"journal":{"name":"Antiquity","volume":"54 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149210784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AntiquityPub Date : 2026-10-14DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2026.10436
Bartłomiej Kaczyński,Andrzej Maciałowicz,Wojciech Janusz Borkowski,Cezary Sobczak,Michał Aniszewski
{"title":"Łysa Góra in north-eastern Poland: a key Early Iron Age site on the ‘Amber Route’","authors":"Bartłomiej Kaczyński,Andrzej Maciałowicz,Wojciech Janusz Borkowski,Cezary Sobczak,Michał Aniszewski","doi":"10.15184/aqy.2026.10436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2026.10436","url":null,"abstract":"Excavations at the site of Łysa Góra in north-eastern Poland have revealed La Tène artefacts such as a Berru -type helmet. Functioning as a fortified settlement, production centre and ritual site, Łysa Góra was a key hub on the amber trade route, facilitating long-distance exchange and interaction.","PeriodicalId":8058,"journal":{"name":"Antiquity","volume":"31 1","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149210785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AntiquityPub Date : 2026-10-13DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2026.10416
Christopher P. Loveluck,Hannah J. O’Regan,Anna Bloxam,Catrin Fear,Jane Evans,Simon Chenery,Carolyn Chenery,Colin Merrony,Fiona E. Moore,Angela Darlington
{"title":"Social dynamics of toxic metal industry in medieval Europe: Peak District lead production, AD 600–1500","authors":"Christopher P. Loveluck,Hannah J. O’Regan,Anna Bloxam,Catrin Fear,Jane Evans,Simon Chenery,Carolyn Chenery,Colin Merrony,Fiona E. Moore,Angela Darlington","doi":"10.15184/aqy.2026.10416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2026.10416","url":null,"abstract":"The Derbyshire Peak District in central England was one of the largest lead-producing regions in medieval Europe, yet the early history of production is obscure. Here, the authors use tooth-enamel-based lead concentrations accumulated in childhood in three cemeteries, linked to radiocarbon dates, to identify the development of post-Roman lead smelting from the mid-seventh century, with large-scale production and contamination around key mines, including Castleton, by the mid-eighth century AD. Intra- and inter-site comparisons of lead concentrations hint at the social dynamics of producer communities that may provide a benchmark for identifying lead- and silver-producing communities in medieval Europe more widely.","PeriodicalId":8058,"journal":{"name":"Antiquity","volume":"54 1","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149210826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AntiquityPub Date : 2026-10-10DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2026.10443
Matthew Magnani,Natalia Magnani
{"title":"Upper Palaeolithic mariners? Evaluating experimental evidence for intentional early seafaring","authors":"Matthew Magnani,Natalia Magnani","doi":"10.15184/aqy.2026.10443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2026.10443","url":null,"abstract":"Brought to popular consciousness by Thor Heyerdahl in the 1940s, the role of seafaring in human migration has been intensely debated. Aiming to stimulate discussion around the ways in which experimental archaeology is used to support such grand narratives, the authors of this debate critically assess a recent claim for Upper Palaeolithic seafaring in the Japanese archipelago. Here, they argue that creating a boat for which there is no archaeological evidence with generic tools that were not widely available in the region risks a confounding circularity of logic.","PeriodicalId":8058,"journal":{"name":"Antiquity","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149151716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AntiquityPub Date : 2026-10-07DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2026.10435
Andrzej Janowski,Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska,Aleksander Paroń
{"title":"Excavating a possible Christianisation mission: the medieval stronghold in Pyrzyce","authors":"Andrzej Janowski,Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska,Aleksander Paroń","doi":"10.15184/aqy.2026.10435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2026.10435","url":null,"abstract":"Historical accounts of Otto of Bamberg’s twelfth-century Christianisation mission in Pyrzyce, Poland, have inspired archaeological excavations, which in turn influenced anthropological research into contemporary religious imagery. Archaeological investigations at Pyrzyce’s early medieval stronghold thus inform broader scholarly recognition of the past religious landscape and its present transformation.","PeriodicalId":8058,"journal":{"name":"Antiquity","volume":"42 1","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149092721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}