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Showing papers in "Journal of Archaeological Science in 2006"


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the TCSA values of ethnographic North American stone projectile points to hypothetical Middle and Upper Paleolithic stone-tipped projectile points from Africa, the Levant, and Europe.

376 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the migration routes of the first anatomically modern populations colonizing the European territory at the beginning of the Upper Palaeolithic, of their degree of biological, linguistic, and cultural diversity, and of the nature of their contacts with local Neanderthals, and recorded the occurrence of 157 bead types at 98 European Aurignacian sites.

311 citations


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TL;DR: Two stone flakes partly covered in birch-bark-tar and a third without tar on it were discovered in fluvial gravel and clay in central Italy, in association with the bones of a young adult female Elephas (Palaeoloxondon) antiquus and several micromammals.

307 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, a large sample of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) limb elements were found to have been fractured by hammerstone percussion, and the results indicated that measures of bone fragmentation, which supposedly reflect processing intensity, are highly contingent on the research question being posed.

255 citations


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TL;DR: The history of the use of natron as a flux is traced from its beginnings in the glaze of Badarian steatite beads, through its use in glass production starting in the 1st millennium BC, until its apparent shortage during the 7th to 9th centuries AD, and its subsequent replacement by plant ash during the 9th century AD as mentioned in this paper.

227 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the structures and compositions of modern and fossil charcoal samples were compared in order to evaluate charcoal degradation processes in archaeological sites, and the results showed that the graphite-like phase of the fossil charcoal has much higher electrical resistivity, and its ESR properties show that it has markedly altered surface electronic states.

197 citations


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TL;DR: Preliminary usewear analysis and details of prehistoric use of stone tools for processing starchy food and other plants at Kuk Swamp indicate that both taro and yam species were processed on the wetland margin during the early and mid Holocene.

196 citations


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TL;DR: The data indicate that maize was the dietary staple for both humans and the majority of animals at this urban site of Conchopata in the Peruvian highlands, and Camelids at the site segregated into two groups according to δ 13 C values, reflecting two distinct animal management strategies.

182 citations


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TL;DR: The overall fatty acid composition and the stable carbon isotopic compositions of palmitic, stearic and oleic acids of the organic residues indicate that the studied Arbon Bleiche 3 sherds contain fat residues of plant and animal origin, most likely ruminant (bovine and ovine).

177 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, a detailed analysis of the distribution of dog burial practices over about the past 12,000-14,000 years is presented, showing that such practices directly reflect the domestic relationship between people and dogs, and speak rather directly to the timing of canid domestication.

173 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the soda to potash ratios (0.3-1.8) of the Salsola kali species were compared to those of other species of the Chenopodiaceae family.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors used oxygen and strontium isotopes to test the hypothesis that a group of burials in the Late Roman cemetery of Lankhills, Winchester, southern England, were migrants from the Danube region of central Europe.

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TL;DR: Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope measurements of human and faunal bone collagen from the Iron Age, Viking Age, and Late Medieval site of Newark Bay, Orkney, Scotland indicate the consumption of significant amounts of marine protein, which is very unusual for post-Mesolithic populations.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use population dynamics models to study the dispersal of the Neolithic in Europe from a localised area in the Near East, solving the two-dimensional reaction-diffusion equation on a spherical surface.

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TL;DR: A fuzzy viewshed approach, modified to account for target size, is suggested as a solution for assessing the level of visibility of cultural objects in past landscapes.

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TL;DR: The pre-Neolithic history of the Tibetan Plateau is virtually unknown as mentioned in this paper, but test excavations of Late Paleolithic sites, described here, provide preliminary evidence that the initial occupation of the plateau's extreme environments was by small groups of foragers probably traveling from lower elevation plateau margins.

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TL;DR: In this article, a crossbeam co-ordinate caliper has been used to locate and measure distances between morphologically homologous landmarks upon lithic nuclei via a single protocol.

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TL;DR: The range of isotope values for the adult human group as a whole is small, indicating that the diet is likely to have been consistent over time and across the population, although two individuals stand out as unusual amongst the 62 analysed.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented new phytolith evidence obtained from one of three sediment cores from a swamp at Munsa, Uganda, that appears to indicate the presence of bananas (Musa) at this site during the fourth millennium BC.

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TL;DR: This paper examined variation in Middle Paleolithic mobility strategies in the Levant from the perspective of core technology using a model linking expedient core reduction techniques and decreased mobility, and tested hypotheses about diachronic change, synchronic geographic variation and possible hominin behavioral differences in mobility strategies.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the potential and modalities of detailed spatial analysis of burnt artefacts and ecofacts, using recently obtained archaeological and experimental evidences, and conclude that such an analysis can offer interesting insights into the dynamics of Mesolithic hearths.

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TL;DR: Ugan et al. as discussed by the authors developed procurement and processing versions of an optimization model, termed the tech investment model, to formalize the conditions that favor investing time in the manufacture of more productive but more costly technologies.

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TL;DR: A series of tests on these same samples demonstrates that N-phenacylthiazolium bromide is largely ineffective, despite previously reported success using this compound as part of the DNA extraction process.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a quantitative and qualitative study of the manganese coatings that affect most of the bones recovered in the palaeontological site of Linares cave (NW of Iberian Peninsula) together with other taphonomic marks is presented.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the results of use-wear analysis of an Amudian lithic assemblage recently discovered at Qesem Cave, Israel, were presented, which indicated that butchering activities and plants collecting were carried out at the site.

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TL;DR: Investigation of change in subsistence during the transition to agriculture in the site of Jiahu, Henan Province, China, using stable isotopic analysis of collagen and apatite in human bones shows that collagen δ 13 C values were very low for almost all individuals, suggesting C 3 -based foods dominated their diets.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the landscape-scale taphonomic signal of carnivore modification to the surficial bone assemblage in Amboseli Park, Kenya as it was in 1975 and 2002-2004.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a sample of Folsom points from the Southern Plains of Texas and New Mexico is analyzed quantitatively in order to assess patterns of point resharpening in relation to distance to raw material source area and evaluate models of how re-sharpening was accomplished in terms of point design.

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TL;DR: Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analyses were performed on human and faunal remains from two Neolithic sites in Southern Germany; the LBK settlement at Herxheim and the middle Neolithic cemetery at Trebur as mentioned in this paper.

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TL;DR: Wear analysis indicates that Sangoan core-axes from site 8-B-11 at Sai Island, Sudan, were used while hafted by the Sangoans.