{"title":"The Ursoaia Kiln (north-eastern Romania): a benchmark for Chalcolithic specialised pottery production","authors":"Diana Măriuca Vornicu,Felix-Adrian Tencariu,Andrei Asăndulesei,Ana Drob,Radu-Gabriel Pîrnău,Maria-Cristina Ciobanu,Adina Amăriuței,Analisa Ariton,Radu-Alexandru Brunchi,Bogdan-Ștefan Novac,Cristin Groapă","doi":"10.15184/aqy.2026.10428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2026.10428","url":null,"abstract":"Excavated in 2025 at Ursoaia, north-eastern Romania, a Chalcolithic (fifth–fourth millennia BCE) bicameral kiln sets a new benchmark for prehistoric pyrotechnology. Its large working surface exceeds known Cucuteni–Trypillia and most Eurasian Chalcolithic examples, suggesting an intensification of ceramic production and an early shift towards craft specialisation in south-eastern Europe.","PeriodicalId":8058,"journal":{"name":"Antiquity","volume":"25 1","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148933976","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 : 2026-09-08DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2026.10426
Peter Skoglund,Marta Díaz-Guardamino,Stina Tegnhed,Eric Andrieux,Per Möller,Tony Axelsson,Per Wranning
{"title":"Hagbard’s Gallows in context: dating a Bronze Age monument in south-western Sweden","authors":"Peter Skoglund,Marta Díaz-Guardamino,Stina Tegnhed,Eric Andrieux,Per Möller,Tony Axelsson,Per Wranning","doi":"10.15184/aqy.2026.10426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2026.10426","url":null,"abstract":"The Bronze Age monument known as Hagbard’s Gallows in Sweden is a combination of monumental standing stones, rock art and mounds. A new research project uses optically stimulated luminescence and radiocarbon dating techniques to investigate the monument’s chronology.","PeriodicalId":8058,"journal":{"name":"Antiquity","volume":"35 1","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148933977","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 : 2026-09-03DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2026.10430
Mattias Legnér
{"title":"Nordic rock art and Nazi mythology: the Ahnenerbe and the search for Germanic origins","authors":"Mattias Legnér","doi":"10.15184/aqy.2026.10430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2026.10430","url":null,"abstract":"Following its formation in 1935, the Nazi German think-tank, the Ahnenerbe, launched numerous archaeological investigations, including two expeditions to create detailed casts of Swedish rock art. Previous scholarship has emphasised the pseudoscientific claims made by Ahnenerbe scholars and the racist motivations behind the fieldwork, yet the casts and other documentation from these early expeditions have not been analysed in detail. This article delves into the archives, examining how the casts were produced and interpreted and tackling the question of why it was necessary to make exact copies of rock-art images when the past was already being falsified for political means.","PeriodicalId":8058,"journal":{"name":"Antiquity","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148899385","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 : 2026-09-01DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2026.10411
Gijs Willem Tol,Astrid Van Oyen,Rhodora G. Vennarucci,Thomas J. Keep
{"title":"An altar-shaped Italian\u0000 terra sigillata\u0000 stamp from Podere Marzuolo, Tuscany, Italy","authors":"Gijs Willem Tol,Astrid Van Oyen,Rhodora G. Vennarucci,Thomas J. Keep","doi":"10.15184/aqy.2026.10411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2026.10411","url":null,"abstract":"An altar-shaped name stamp from the workshop of Avillius was found in a mid-first-century CE context at the site of Podere Marzuolo (Tuscany, Italy). Among the known repertoire of name stamps on Italian terra sigillata , this stamp stands out both in terms of size and complexity.","PeriodicalId":8058,"journal":{"name":"Antiquity","volume":"10 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148899386","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}