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A Review of Micromorphology and Microarchaeological Methods Applied to African Stone Age Sites
This chapter introduces the concepts of micromorphology and microarchaeology, and provides a brief overview of the history of their application to...
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The Urban Biography of a Mauritanian City: Microstratigraphic Analysis of the Eastern Quarter of Tamuda (Morocco)
The lack of vertical stratigraphic sondages and open area excavations constitutes a challenge to understanding Mauritanian urbanism. This makes the...
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Using Formation Processes to Explore Low-Density Sites and Settlement Patterns: A Case Study from the Swabian Jura
Paleolithic archaeologists often rely on cave and rockshelter sites with rich occupation levels to explore hominin behavior and settlement patterns....
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Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa Hominin behavior, geography, and chronology
This handbook showcases an Africa-wide compendium of Stone Age archaeological sites and methodological advances that have improved our understanding...
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Milling Cereals/Legumes and Stam** Bread in Mauretanian Tamuda (Morocco): An Interdisciplinary Study
Recent archaeological excavations (2016–2019) in the city of Tamuda (northern Morocco) yielded evidence of commercial milling and bread-making...
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Geological and Archeological Insight into Site Formation Processes and Acheulean Occupation at Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Wonderwerk Cave, located in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa, is a rare cave site with a sequence of Acheulean occupation that is derived...
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Fieldwork (Data Recovery) Methods in African Stone Age Research
The current state of human evolutionary studies owe much to the generations of committed researchers whose field expeditions to African Stone Age...
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The Shell Midden Conundrum: Comparative Micromorphology of Shell-Matrix Sites from South America
Shell-matrix sites are one of the most widespread archaeological deposits in the world. They inform archaeologists about human adaptations to coastal...
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Techné of Rock Engravings—the Timna Case Study
Traditionally, rock engravings were studied through their visual characteristics. They have been analyzed with comparative and interpretative...
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The Challenges and Future of Environmental Archaeology in Mauritius
This paper considers the value of past and prospective applications of key environmental archaeological and earth science fields relating to the...
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Microstratigraphy and Faunal Records from a Shell Midden on the Hyperarid Coast of the Atacama Desert (Taltal, Chile)
The present work contains the first microstratigraphic study of a shell midden located on the hyperarid coast of the Atacama Desert (Chile), Pacific...
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Mount Dendi (DEN12-A02), Ethiopia
The DEN12-A02 site is situated at an altitude of 3000 meters above sea level (asl) on Mount Dendi in the western central highland of Ethiopia (Fig....
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Waterfall Bluff, South Africa
Waterfall Bluff rock shelter is a recently excavated archaeological site located in the Lambasi region of eastern Mpondoland (Eastern Cape Province)...
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A Review of Methods to Analyze Archaeological Lime Production: Investigating Raw Materials Selection and Firing Conditions
AbstractLime-based materials are found in archaeological contexts across many world regions. The earliest evidence of lime production was discovered...
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Introduction: South American Archaeology’s Contributions to World Archaeology
Particularities of South American archaeological record have constantly challenged global proposals and explanations about humankind past. In this...
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Feasting at a World Center Shrine: Paleoethnobotanical and Micromorphological Investigations of a Woodhenge Earth Oven
Earth ovens are a ubiquitous feature of eastern North America, used throughout many cultures and periods, leaving a highly visible signature of...
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R. N. E. Barton, A. Bouzouggar, S. N. Collcutt, and L.T. Humphrey (Eds): Cemeteries and Sedentism in the Later Stone Age of NWAfrica: Excavations at Grotte des Pigeons, Taforalt, Morocco
This weighty (2.9 kg) monograph is a major contribution to renewed research on Maghreb prehistory. Two projects, of which this report is one, concern...