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Intensified exploitation of animal products in the Mediterranean Copper Age: isotopic evidence from Scaba ’e Arriu (Sardinia)
In this paper, dietary patterns are reconstructed across two phases represented at the Copper Age of Scaba ’e Arriu (Sardinia, Italy) via isotopic...
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Surviving punishment by body reduction in a hierarchical society: A bioarcheological study of two punitive amputation cases in Eastern Zhou Dynasty (771–256 BCE) with references to the penal and medical systems of ancient China
Limb amputation is a surgical procedure used during a medical operation or to manage trauma. Besides its therapeutic potential, amputation is a cruel...
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Absence of evidence or evidence of absence? The microarchaeology of an ‘empty’ square enclosure of the Late Iron Age La Tène Culture
Archaeological features without macro-finds (i.e. finds visible with the naked eye) represent a common phenomenon that poses considerable...
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Divergence, diet, and disease: the identification of group identity, landscape use, health, and mobility in the fifth- to sixth-century AD burial community of Echt, the Netherlands
This study aims to better understand the development of group identity, mobility, and health in the Early Medieval Meuse Valley. This is achieved by...
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Cavity detection using a pseudo-3D electric resistivity tomography at the Palaeolithic/Neolithic site of Scaloria Cave, Apulia, Italy: integrated assessment of synthetic and field data sets
A pseudo-3D electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) survey has been carried out to detect cavities at the Neolithic/Palaeolithic site of Grotta...
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Bronze alloying recipes at Anyang during the Shang Dynasty
We present a detailed analysis of the chemical alloying data (Cu, Sn, Pb) on the bronzes recovered from the Late Shang capital at Yinxu, revealing a...
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Unraveling the Olmec rubber balls from El Manatí, Mexico: a technological and compositional analysis
This work presents an analysis towards a description of the manufacturing technique of the Olmec rubber balls found at the offerings at El Manatí....
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Metal Artifacts in the Volga-Ural Yamna Culture Burial Rituals as an Indicator of the Social Significance of the Buried Person
The paper focuses on the role of metal artifacts in the Volga-Ural Yamna culture burial ritual. In the course of study 394 burials from 281 kurgans...
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Metrology in Egyptian Architecture of the XVIII Dynasty, in Thebes
Within the framework of the Conservation and Restoration of the Architectural Heritage, the purpose of the present study is the applied metrology in...
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Technology, subsistence, and mobility of Middle to Late Holocene hunter-gatherers in the southern Pampas: new archaeological data from Las Toscas shallow lake (Argentina)
Despite a long history of hunter-gatherer occupation in the Pampas region starting at the end of the Pleistocene, the known archaeological record is...
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The evolution of the concept of "martialism" in axis age and its historical influence on Chinese Wushu
The research uses the "long-term" historical method of the French Annales school, combs the concept of "Whu" in the axis age and the thought of...
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Step Wells of Jodhpur, Western Rajasthan, India: Implication for Hydro-geosites and Hydro-geotourism
Geodiversity is defined as the variety of geological, geomorphological, pedological and hydrogeological phenomena (IUCN
2022 ). Step wells in India...
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Mithraism under the microscope: new revelations about rituals through micromorphology, histotaphonomy and zooarchaeology
This paper is the first to use an innovative multi-proxy approach to obtain insights into hitherto unknown Mithraic cult practices. Using soil...
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Cinnabar traditions across the ancient Central Andes: insights from the National Museum of the American Indian collections
The extraction and processing of cinnabar (HgS) to create red pigment have a deep history across the Andes. From paint used to decorate the bodies of...
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New insights in the investigation of trepanations from the Carpathian Basin
The aim of this study is to describe four new cases of trepanation from the Great Hungarian Plain and complement two other previously published cases...
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The quest for red rice beer: transregional interactions and development of competitive feasting in Neolithic China
The Neolithic cultures in China during the fourth millennium BC experienced increased transregional interactions, characterized by artifacts with...
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Were metalworkers itinerant? Interdisciplinary analysis of a metalworker’s burial at the Krivoe Ozero late Bronze Age cemetery (southern Trans-Urals, Russia)
Diagnosing the mobility of individuals involved in metal production helps to understand practices of metallurgy and related social processes in the...
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Isotopic reconstruction of the subsistence strategy for a Central Italian Bronze Age community (Pastena cave, 2nd millennium BCE)
The Pastena cave is located in central Italy, and its best-preserved sector is Grotticella W2, which is dated radiometrically to the Early-Middle...
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Communication and interaction between Central and Northern China: the archaeometallurgy perspective of the gold artefacts from Rui State
A certain number of gold artefacts have been unearthed from the Liujiawa site and Jiezihe site belonging to the late Rui State, from the late era of...
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A changing perspective: the impact of landscape evolution on rock art viewsheds
Arnhem Land, which has one of the longest records of human activity on the Australian continent, also holds one of the most important assemblages of...
