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Islands without Iron. Strategies for Manufacturing Prehistoric Rotary Querns without Metal Tools in the Canary Islands: Working Hypotheses and Experimentation
The introduction of the rotary quern into the Iberian Peninsula during the Iron Age represents a great technological innovation with regard to...
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Characterising the stone artefact raw materials at Liang Bua, Indonesia
At Liang Bua, the type site of Homo floresiensis on the Indonesian island of Flores, the stone artefact assemblages are dominated by two raw...
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Melka Kunture (Gombore Gully), Ethiopia
Melka Kunture is a vast cluster of archaeological sites in the Upper Awash valley, on the western shoulder of the Main Ethiopian Rift. It is located...
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Cartwright’s Site, Kenya
Cartwright’s site (GsJj 75) is a Late Pleistocene open-air Middle Stone Age (MSA) occurrence located on the edge of the Kinangop Plateau, Kenya. It...
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Underground Cities of Koramaz Valley
In Cappadocia, as in many different parts of the world, there are numerous underground defense structures. The volcanic tuff, which is easy to...
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Composition and Probable Sources of Stone Material of the Phanagoria Acropolis
This paper presents the results of studies of the stone foundations of three buildings of the Acropolis in the ancient Greek city of Phanagoria (the...
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Kariandusi, Kenya
Kariandusi (0.45°S, 36.28°E) was one of the first early archaeological sites known in East Africa, discovered by Louis Leakey’s second expedition of...
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Kapthurin Formation, Kenya
The Kapthurin Formation is a Middle-Late Pleistocene sedimentary sequence that crops out west of Lake Baringo, just north of the Equator in the Rift...
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Kesem-Kebena-Dulecha Study Area, Ethiopia
In 1988 and 1989, the Paleoanthropological Inventory of Ethiopia (PIE) field expedition discovered numerous localities of prehistoric significance...
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Fejej (FJ-1), Ethiopia
The Fejej study area (4.479°N, 36.364°E) is situated in south-southwestern Ethiopia in the Omo-Turkana basin, about 10 km north of the Kenyan border...
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Trade and the Recycling of Stones in Medieval Cologne
The vita of Archbishop Heribert of Cologne reports that after the collapse of the monastery church in Cologne-Deutz in 1000 AD, the Archbishop “hired...
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Lomekwi 3, West Turkana, Kenya
The Nachukui Formation is located on the western shore of Lake Turkana in Kenya, between the present-day lakeshore and the Murua Rith and Labur...
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Melka Wakena, Ethiopia
The Melka Wakena site complex is one of the few Acheulian-bearing sites documented in the high elevation setting in eastern Africa. It consists of...
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Hadar, Ethiopia
The Hadar Research Project area (HRP) is a c. 100 km2 area in the Afar region in northeastern Ethiopia. Best known for its Pliocene (3.45–2.9 Ma)...
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Makuyuni, Tanzania
Makuyuni is an important study area on the eastern side of Lake Manyara in northern Tanzania which has yielded hominin remains, paleontological finds...
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Peninj (West Lake Natron), Tanzania
Peninj is located on the western shore of Lake Natron, in northern Tanzania. This sequence became known through the discovery of the first...
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Raw Material Characteristics of Stone Tools from the Early Neolithic Settlement of the Barabinsk Forest-Steppe
The study of the raw material base for producing stone tools in the Neolithic Barabinsk forest-steppe is relevant due to the lack of sources of raw...
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Kilombe Volcano, Kenya
Kilombe is an extinct volcano lying on the western flank of the Rift Valley in Kenya, immediately south of the Equator. Over the period it has been...
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Herto, Ethiopia
The Herto study area (geologically identified as the Herto Member of the Bouri Formation), lies in the Middle Awash, Afar Rift of Ethiopia (10.27° N;...
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The History of Teotihuacan Through the Eyes of Women Scholars
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, more than 60 women have dedicated their research to the ancient city of Teotihuacan, located in Central...