Articles

1. New evidence on the subsistence of Middle Paleolithic from Tongtian cave, Northwestern China

   • Qu Tongli
   • Yu Jianjun

   Research 13 May 2024 Article: 88

   

2. Using horse teeth to shape stone tools: an experimental approach to characterise use-wear traces

   • Cristian Micó
   • Felipe Cuartero
   • Ruth Blasco

   Research Open access 11 May 2024 Article: 87

   

3. Dietary changes seen through the isotope analysis of the La Tène burial site of Prosmyky (Bohemia, 4^th-3^rd century BCE)

   • Zdeněk Vytlačil
   • Alžběta Danielisová
   • Sylva Drtikolová Kaupová

   Research Open access 07 May 2024 Article: 86

   

4. What function(s) for Palaeolithic polyhedrons, spheroids and bolas? Cases from France and North Africa

   • Julia Cabanès
   • Antony Borel
   • Marie-Hélène Moncel

   Research 02 May 2024 Article: 85

   

5. Mycenaean ‘gold-embroidery’ and questions of craftsmanship: a combined archaeological, archaeometric and experimental approach

   • Nikolas Papadimitriou
   • Eleni Konstantinidi-Syvridi
   • Eleni Filippaki

   Research 30 April 2024 Article: 84

   

6. Carnelian beads from Manda, Unguja Ukuu and Kwa Mgogo: New insights on the stone bead trade between South Asia and East Africa, 7^th to 15^th Century CE

   • Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
   • Chapurukha M. Kusimba
   • Laure Dussubieux

   Research 29 April 2024 Article: 83

   

7. The conveyance of animal commodities in pre-contact northern Hispaniola: zooarchaeological research and isotopic niche space modelling at El Carril, Dominican Republic (ca. AD 1100–1500)

   • Gene T. Shev
   • Juan N. Almonte Milan
   • Corinne L. Hofman

   Research 27 April 2024 Article: 82

   

8. The habitat utilization and environmental resilience of Homo heidelbergensis in Europe

   • Attila J. Trájer

   Research Open access 27 April 2024 Article: 81

   

9. A site formation history of Obishir-5, the earliest Neolithic site in the Fergana Valley (Kyrgyzstan)

   • Greta Brancaleoni
   • Svetlana Shnaider
   • Maciej T. Krajcarz

   Research 23 April 2024 Article: 80

   

10. Living in the shore: changes in coastal resource intensification during the Mesolithic in northern Iberia

    • Rosa Arniz-Mateos
    • Asier García-Escárzaga
    • Igor Gutiérrez-Zugasti

    Research Open access 18 April 2024 Article: 79

    

11. The intersection of diet, class, and sex during the Eastern Zhou (770–221 BCE): Bioarchaeological evidence from the Dahan cemetery, China

    • Qian Zhang
    • Yanchang Liu
    • Yu Dong

    Research Open access 18 April 2024 Article: 78

    

12. Livestock management during times of transition. Exploring the relationship between animal size and diet from Roman to early medieval Augusta Raurica (Switzerland)

    • Idoia Grau-Sologestoa
    • Sabine Deschler-Erb
    • Claudia Gerling

    Research Open access 18 April 2024 Article: 77

    

13. Seasonal exploitation of intertidal resources at El Mazo (N Iberia) reveals optimized human subsistence strategies during the Mesolithic in Atlantic Europe

    • Asier García-Escárzaga
    • Igor Gutiérrez-Zugasti
    • Patrick Roberts

    Research Open access 18 April 2024 Article: 76

    

14. The Ornamental white marble use and reuse at the Ottoman palaces of Algiers’ Regency: New knowledge to a provenance study

    • Aicha Bibimoune
    • Samia Chergui
    • Walter Prochaska

    Research 16 April 2024 Article: 75

    

15. Production technique and multi-analytical characterization of a paint-plastered ceiling from the Late Antique villa of Negrar (Verona, Italy)

    • Simone Dilaria
    • Clelia Sbrolli
    • Monica Salvadori

    Research Open access 16 April 2024 Article: 74

    

16. Technical and economic history of western Han dynasty revealed by bronze mirrors from Zonglvcheng cemetery, Linzi, China

    • Jun Gao
    • Wenbin Dong
    • Quanyu Wang

    Research 11 April 2024 Article: 73

    

17. Structure and age of ancient walls from the city of Nan, northern Thailand

    • Prapawadee Srisunthon
    • Daniela Mueller
    • Frank Preusser

    Research Open access 10 April 2024 Article: 72

    

18. Potential scale of industrial outputs of the bronze bell casting industry in 500 BCE China

    • Kin Sum (Sammy) Li
    • Haiwang Liu
    • Haoran Jiang

    Research Open access 10 April 2024 Article: 71

    

19. Comparison of log-ratio and log₁₀ chemical elemental data analysis of Central Amazonian pottery and archaeological implications

    • Roberto Hazenfratz
    • Guilherme Z. Mongeló
    • Eduardo G. Neves

    Research 10 April 2024 Article: 70

    

20. Intensive exploitation of pheasants at the Early Holocene site of Xiaogao in Northern China

    • Yao Gao
    • Jianfeng Lang
    • Hua Wang

    Research 08 April 2024 Article: 69

    

21. Agricultural resilience and land-use from an Indus settlement in north-western India: Inferences from stable Carbon and Nitrogen isotopes of archaeobotanical remains

    • Shalini Sharma
    • Rajesh Agnihotri
    • Ranjan Bhattacharyya

    Research 08 April 2024 Article: 68

    

22. Being “elite” among Goths: multi-proxy analysis of a Roman period cremation princely grave from Czarnówko (Pomerania, North Poland)

    • Bogumiła Wolska
    • David Gonçalves
    • Zdzislaw Belka

    Research 08 April 2024 Article: 67

    

23. Multipurpose animal utilization underpinned early Bronze Age subsistence of an oasis in an arid area of northwestern China

    • Guoke Chen
    • Linyao Du
    • Guanghui Dong

    Research 05 April 2024 Article: 66

    

24. The Provenance of Copper Materials for bronze chariot-horses Unearthed from Yang’an Han Tomb in Qionglai, Sichuan Province revealed by the lead isotope analysis and trace elements analysis

    • Guofeng Wei
    • Ruixiang Zhang
    • Tao Yang

    Research 04 April 2024 Article: 65

    

25. Human-cattle interactions in PPNB and Early/Middle Bronze Age Cyprus: integrating zooarchaeological and stable isotope data

    • A. Spyrou
    • P. Roberts
    • J. Webb

    Research 04 April 2024 Article: 64

    

26. The pavement layers of the Southwest Church of Umm el-Jimal, Jordan: stratigraphy and archaeometric characterization

    • Khaled Al-Bashaireh
    • Ivan Stepanov

    Brief Report 03 April 2024 Article: 63

    

27. Identification of Neolithic diet by the morphology of the starch grains of dental calculus found in the Dehesilla Cave (Cadiz – South of the Iberian Peninsula)

    • António Pereira Coutinho
    • Margarida Moreira
    • Cláudia Umbelino

    Research Open access 27 March 2024 Article: 62

    

28. The technology of polychrome glazed ceramics in Ifriqiya: new data from the site of Chimtou

    • V. Occari
    • H. Möller
    • P. von Rummel

    Research Open access 23 March 2024 Article: 61

    

29. Non-metallic decorative inlays in La Tène jewellery - contribution of archaeometry to the understanding of production technologies

    • Zuzana Zlámalová Cílová
    • Viktoria Čisťakova
    • Hana Čižmářová

    Research Open access 23 March 2024 Article: 60

    

30. A multi-proxy geochemical and micromorphological study of the use of space and stratigraphy of a Viking-age house in Ribe, Denmark

    • Pernille L. K. Trant
    • Barbora Wouters
    • Søren M. Kristiansen

    Research Open access 23 March 2024 Article: 59

    

31. Multianalytical approach to the exceptional Late Roman shipwreck of Ses Fontanelles (Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain)

    • Miguel Ángel Cau-Ontiveros
    • Darío Bernal-Casasola
    • Enrique García Riaza

    Research Open access 21 March 2024 Article: 58

    

32. Trade dynamics between Carthage and Iberia at the end of the 3rd century BC: analytical characterisation of central mediterranean amphorae from Qart-Hadasht (Cartagena, Spain)

    • Benjamín Cutillas-Victoria
    • Miguel Martín Camino
    • Sebastián F. Ramallo Asensio

    Research Open access 21 March 2024 Article: 57

    

33. Materials science insights into Indigenous rock art painters and ochre pigment materiality at Babine Lake, Canada

    • Brandi L. MacDonald
    • Alexa Kuo
    • David Stalla

    Research 18 March 2024 Article: 56

    

34. 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

    • Yawei Zhou
    • Yanmei Liu
    • Qian Wang

    Research 16 March 2024 Article: 55

    

35. Risks beyond the ditch: Copper Age tannery from the settlement of Kamianets-Podilskyi (Tatarysky), Ukraine

    • Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka
    • Natalia Gerasimenko
    • Aleksandr Diachenko

    Research Open access 16 March 2024 Article: 54

    

36. Intensified exploitation of animal products in the Mediterranean Copper Age: isotopic evidence from Scaba ’e Arriu (Sardinia)

    • Luca Lai
    • Ornella Fonzo
    • Giuseppa Tanda

    Research Open access 12 March 2024 Article: 53

    

37. Standardization production of Qi Knives: A comprehensive analysis of the minting remains of knife money unearthed in ancient Linzi in the late Warring states period

    • Renjie Ma
    • Wenbin Dong
    • Jianfeng Cui

    Research 11 March 2024 Article: 52

    

38. Process and technical characteristics of traditional gilding technology on silver: experimental replication and analysis of silver gilded products

    • Yanbing Shao
    • Fengrui Jiang
    • Junchang Yang

    Research 09 March 2024 Article: 51

    

39. Revealing the manufacturing and corrosion characteristics of Chinese archaeological metal arrows by non-destructive neutron techniques

    • Fengyan Zhao
    • Manli Sun
    • Yanpeng Wang

    Research 07 March 2024 Article: 50

    

40. Biting into the truth: Connecting oral pathology and stable isotopes through the paradigmatic example of a hyper-specialized marine diet in Medieval Pontevedra (NW Iberia)

    • Clara Veiga-Rilo
    • Antonio Martínez Cortizas
    • Olalla López-Costas

    Research Open access 07 March 2024 Article: 49

    

41. Tackling early medieval circulation of glazed ware in Sharq al-Andalus using a multidisciplinary approach: El Tolmo de Minateda (Spain)

    • Elena Salinas Pleguezuelo
    • Victoria Amorós-Ruiz

    Research Open access 06 March 2024 Article: 48

    

42. Glass circulation in late Iron Age Southeast Asia: New Compositional and Isotopic Data of Beads found at Non Ban Jak in Northeast Thailand

    • Laure Dussubieux
    • Charles F. W. Higham
    • T. O. Pryce

    Research 01 March 2024 Article: 47

    

43. The role of individual decision-making in the manufacturing of bone retouchers

    • Eva Francesca Martellotta
    • Valerio Giuliano Zinnarello
    • Marco Peresani

    Research Open access 29 February 2024 Article: 46

    

44. Morphological and microstructural characterization of an ancient Chola bronze statuette by neutron-based non-invasive techniques

    • Francesco Cantini
    • Sara Creange
    • Francesco Grazzi

    Research 28 February 2024 Article: 45

    

45. Magnetic micro-archaeology: a method for conducting rock magnetic microfacies analysis on archaeological soil micromorphology samples, with a case study from El Salt, Alcoy, Spain

    • Ada Dinçkal
    • Angel Carrancho Alonso
    • Carolina Mallol

    Research Open access 24 February 2024 Article: 44

    

46. Identification and quantification of projectile impact marks on bone: new experimental insights using osseous points

    • Reuven Yeshurun
    • Luc Doyon
    • Keiko Kitagawa

    Research Open access 23 February 2024 Article: 43

    

47. Heterogeneous metal sources for mintage in the early Han empire, second century BCE: archaeometallurgical study of the Banliang coins from the Guanghuacun cemetery, Chengdu, Southwest China

    • Ding Ma
    • Ning Wang
    • Wugan Luo

    Research 22 February 2024 Article: 42

    

48. Investigating the Neolithic rubble layers of ‘Ain Ghazal, Jordan, using luminescence dating

    • Sahar al Khasawneh
    • Mohammad Alqudah
    • Ziedan Kafafi

    Research 21 February 2024 Article: 41

    

49. Pig domestication and human subsistence at the early Neolithic site of Guanjia (6100–5500 BC), Central China

    • Yue You
    • Xianglong Chen
    • Guangkuo Yuan

    Research 20 February 2024 Article: 40

    

50. Cultural versus demic diffusion in agricultural expansions according to three definitions of dispersal distances

    • Pere Bancells
    • Joaquim Fort

    Research Open access 19 February 2024 Article: 39