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Burial taphonomy and megalithic ritual practices in Iberia: the Panoría cemetery
Our ability to build precise narratives regarding megalithic funerary rituals largely depends on an accurate understanding of bone assemblage...
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Resha** Egyptian funerary ritual in colonized Nubia? Organic characterization of unguents from mortuary contexts of the New Kingdom (c. 1550–1070 BCE)
Samples taken from the canopic jars of Djehutyhotep, chief of Tehkhet (Debeira), Lower Nubia, and local versions of Egyptian canopic jars from Sai,...
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Ingestible identity: pigs in pagan ritual in Aelia Capitolina (Roman Jerusalem) between the Second Temple period and early Christianity
Faunal remains recovered during excavations beneath Wilson’s Arch in Jerusalem reveal the dietary and ritual uses of animals in the Late Roman colony...
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Ritual practices and social organisation at the Middle Yayoi culture settlement site of Maenakanishi, eastern Japan
Combined archaeobotanical and archaeological data from Middle Yayoi (fourth century bce –first century ce ) cultural layers of the Maenakanishi site...
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Correction to: Ritual practices and social organisation at the Middle Yayoi culture settlement site of Maenakanishi, eastern Japan
The article “Ritual practices and social organisation at the Middle Yayoi culture settlement site of Maenakanishi, eastern Japan”, written by Christian...
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Animal bones in old graves: a zooarchaeological and contextual study on faunal remains and new dated evidence for the ritual re-use of old cemetery sites in Southern and Western Finland
Animal remains from twelve Iron Age (ca. 500 BC–1200/1300AD) sites from Southern and Western Finland, showing a mixture of finds and features typical...
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Plant remains preserved in products of metal corrosion: source of evidence on ancient plant materials and environment from burial contexts
By-products of metal corrosion, when coming into contact with organic matter, have the capacity to preserve it from decay. A pilot study was...
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A question of rite—pearl millet consumption at Nok culture sites, Nigeria (second/first millennium BC)
The Nok culture in central Nigeria, dated 1500–1 cal bc , is known for its famous terracotta sculptures. We here present a study on > 11,000 botanical...
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Use of LA-ICP-MS to evaluate mercury exposure or diagenesis in Inca and non-Inca mummies from northern Chile
We tested the hair of seven mummies housed at the Museo Regional de Iquique, northern Chile, to investigate evidence of mercury exposure in the...
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Risks beyond the ditch: Copper Age tannery from the settlement of Kamianets-Podilskyi (Tatarysky), Ukraine
The evolution of Neolithic to Bronze Age settlement organization in Central Europe has revealed ditches as an important component of settlement...
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On the traces of lost identities: chronological, anthropological and taphonomic analyses of the Late Neolithic/Early Eneolithic fragmented and commingled human remains from the Farneto rock shelter (Bologna, northern Italy)
The present study examines the prehistoric human skeletal remains retrieved starting from the 1920s in the deposit of the Farneto rock shelter,...
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Offerings, feasting, and psychopomps in the north-east of the Iberian Peninsula: the role of animals in the Bòbila Madurell (Sant Quirze del Vallès, Barcelona) funerary ritual (late fifth millennium–early fourth millennium cal BC)
This study focuses on the role of faunal remains in funerary rituals in the Middle Neolithic necropolis of Bòbila Madurell (Sant Quirze del Vallès,...
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Squeezing mind out of metal: combining textual evidence with scientific data for metallurgy in early dynastic China
Since one of the aims of modern archaeometallurgy is to understand the processes carried out by ancient metalworkers, then ideally, we need to go...
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Tracking kelp-type seaweed fuel in the archaeological record through Raman spectroscopy of charred particles: examples from the Atacama Desert coast
The use of seaweed as fuel has been mentioned in ethnographic and historical sources of different coastal regions. Nevertheless, the archaeological...
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Interpersonal violence in the Middle Kingdom of Egypt: evidence of craniofacial traumas from the tomb of Pwinre (TT39) (fifteenth century BC), Luxor
Skull 39-S1, from the tomb of Pwinre (TT39) the second prophet of Amun during the Middle Kingdom, was macroscopically and radiologically analysed....
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A bolt from the blue: investigations of a singular Bronze Age grave from the Chalcolithic site Ruginoasa (north-eastern Romania)
The article presents the context and multiple investigations of an unexpected discovery, made during the 2020 excavations, from the Ruginoasa- Dealul...
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Technology, life histories and circulation of gold objects during the Middle Period (AD 400–1000): A perspective from the Atacama Desert, Chile
Studies of archaeological goldwork in the Americas are increasingly revealing a rich variety of context-specific ways in which gold items were...
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From bodies in hammock bundles to commingled burnt remains: an archaeothanatological case study of a two-stage burial cycle at Toca do Alto da Serra do Capim (Middle-Late Holocene, Northeastern Brazil)
Two contrasting deposits of human remains, a semi-articulated skeleton in a plant funerary container and numerous burnt commingled human remains,...
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Live on the land and fed by the sea: diverse subsistence economies in the Neolithic Dawenkou Period in Shandong Peninsula, China
The Dawenkou Culture, centered in Shandong, is a typical Neolithic period featured by its unique local customs and influential inter-regional...
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Influence of the Roman road network on the biological proximity of Italic Abruzzo populations through mean measure of divergence analysis
Since the tenth century BC, the Abruzzo region has hosted different Italic populations. According to historical sources, they originated from an...
