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Exploring circulation dynamics in Han Dynasty China: insights from isotopic analysis of lead glazed pottery 探索汉代中国的流通动态：从铅釉陶器的同位素分析中获得启示

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Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences Pub Date : 2024-10-25 DOI: 10.1007/s12520-024-02096-0

Chen Wang, Sarah De Ceuster, Katherine Eremin, Sarah Laursen, Patrick Degryse

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Correction to: Exploring the limits of the provenience postulate: chemical and mineralogical characterization of Bronze Age ceramics from the Great Hungarian Plain 更正：探索产地假设的局限性：匈牙利大平原青铜时代陶瓷的化学和矿物学特征描述

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Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences Pub Date : 2024-10-24 DOI: 10.1007/s12520-024-02101-6

Mark Golitko, Danielle J. Riebe, Attila Kreiter, Paul R. Duffy, Györgyi Parditka

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Imputation methods for mixed datasets in bioarchaeology 生物考古学中混合数据集的估算方法。

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Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences Pub Date : 2024-10-23 DOI: 10.1007/s12520-024-02078-2

Jessica Ryan-Despraz, Amanda Wissler

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Identification of chemically altered cut marks: an experimental approach from Geometrics Morphometrics 化学蚀刻痕迹的识别：《几何形态计量学》的实验方法

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Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences Pub Date : 2024-10-22 DOI: 10.1007/s12520-024-02091-5

David Rodríguez de la Fuente, Lloyd A. Courtenay, Darío Herranz-Rodrigo, Jose Yravedra, Antonio Pineda

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Human-bird interactions in the Levant during the Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene: Multi-scalar analysis of avifaunal remains 晚更新世至全新世早期黎凡特地区的人鸟互动：鸟类遗骸的多尺度分析

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Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences Pub Date : 2024-10-22 DOI: 10.1007/s12520-024-02090-6

Lisa Yeomans, Camilla Mazzucato

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Patterns of ceramic production in Colonia Augusta Achaica Patrensis (Patras, Greece): a petrographic and mineralogical approach Colonia Augusta Achaica Patrensis（希腊帕特雷）的陶瓷生产模式：岩石学和矿物学方法

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Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences Pub Date : 2024-10-21 DOI: 10.1007/s12520-024-02081-7

N. Kougia, P. Reynolds, I. Iliopoulos

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Wonderboom, South Africa: An Acheulean workshop with evidence of flake harvesting 南非旺德博姆：带有片状采集证据的阿契莱人作坊

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Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences Pub Date : 2024-10-18 DOI: 10.1007/s12520-024-02075-5

Matt G. Lotter, Marlize Lombard, Matthew V. Caruana

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Traceology suggests an unexpected use of antler cheekpieces from the Early Iron Age site at Gzin, Poland 痕迹学表明波兰格津早期铁器时代遗址出人意料地使用了鹿角颊饰

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Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences Pub Date : 2024-10-18 DOI: 10.1007/s12520-024-02089-z

Jacek Gackowski, Grzegorz Osipowicz, Łukasz Kowalski, Jadwiga Chudziakowa, Albin Sokół, Michalina Brzozowska, Aleksandra Lisowska Gaczorek, Krzysztof Szostek, Andrzej P. Kowalski, Jacek Kukuczka, Magdalena Kozicka

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Water, salt, and heat in raised field agriculture: Using hydrologic modeling and thermal imagery to investigate soil drainage and temperature dynamics 高畦农业中的水、盐和热：利用水文模型和热成像研究土壤排水和温度动态

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Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences Pub Date : 2024-10-16 DOI: 10.1007/s12520-024-02082-6

Seth Price

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On time scales and “synchronic” variability in the archaeology of human origins: short-term technological variations at SHK (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania) 人类起源考古学中的时间尺度和 "同步 "变异：SHK（坦桑尼亚奥杜威峡谷）的短期技术变异

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Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences Pub Date : 2024-10-16 DOI: 10.1007/s12520-024-02092-4

Fernando Diez-Martín, Cristina Fraile-Márquez, Javier Duque-Martínez, Policarpo Sánchez-Yustos, Sara de Francisco, Enrique Baquedano, Audax Mabulla, Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo

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