Showing papers in "Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports in 2020"

TL;DR: This article explored the first maritime westward expansion of crops across the Adriatic and the northern coast of the western Mediterranean, starting in Greece at c.6500 cal and following the coastline to the Andalusian region of Spain to c.4500 cal BC, the presence of the main cereal, pulse, oil and fibre crops are recorded from 122 sites.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an analysis of lidar data along Sacbe 1, the longest causeway in Mesoamerica connecting the sites of Coba and Yaxuna.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare digital elevation models from publicly available airplane Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data and unpiloted aerial vehicle (UAV or drone) images to analyze the quality, costs, and benefits of both.

TL;DR: 3D models used to create 3D models of the Tyler house and Eyrie house, both mid-19th century ruins, are compared to evaluate the user experience for non-specialists between two different but popular software options for SfM modeling used by archaeologists.

TL;DR: In this paper, Attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR) is used to pre-screen bioapatite alteration as it is relatively fast and minimally destructive.

TL;DR: This article performed a 3D morphometric analysis of 150 handaxes from five British Acheulean assemblages: Boxgrove, High Lodge, Hitchin, Swanscombe Middle Gravels, and Broom.

TL;DR: In this article, the main zooarchaeological results (main domesticates species representation, mortality profiles, osteometry, pathologies) of two major Iron Age sites in Languedoc were presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarized previously published zooarchaeological reports from Neolithic and Bronze Age sites in Gansu and Qinghai Provinces in order to synthesize the changing uses of domesticated taxa and the timing of the arrivals of new domesticates into northwest China.

TL;DR: In the case of Leang Sarru, a rockshelter in the Talaud Islands, North Sulawesi with an occupation history of c. 35,000 years, the plant remains were preserved on artefacts from 22,000-years ago as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the impact of sea spray and ocean-derived strontium on bioavailable storifera isotope ratios through the analysis of plant samples that were systematically collected along three 200m-long transects and a hilltop control location.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the mobile toolkit of sub-unit IIIb and IIIa of Teixoneres Cave, a Middle Paleolithic site where a clear differentiation between in-situ knapping activities in local quartz and the import of stone tools in other raw materials is documented.

TL;DR: Foy et al. as mentioned in this paper re-evaluate and expand the original chemical data and assumptions underpinning this controversial interpretation, and present an alternative explanation for the compositional pattern observed among the glass finds from the site and its wider environment.

TL;DR: In this article, a set of oak and pine tree-ring chronologies have been developed from living trees covering the past 500 and 800 years, respectively, and have served to confirm the provenance of the wood used in an 18th-century Spanish ship of the Royal Navy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the stitching technology of digital 3D microscopy (3D DM) has been combined with optical and scanning electron microscopy to characterize use-wear and residue distribution patterns in experimental chert tools.

TL;DR: In this paper, osteometry was used to identify llama (Lama glama) and alpaca (Vicugna pacos) species, and collagen was isolated from bones and isotopic (δ13C and δ15N) content was quantified.

TL;DR: In this paper, the use of the tip cross-sectional area (TSCA) metric was used to analyse relatively large samples of bone points that are ethno-historically associated with Kalahari San poisoned arrow hunting.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss and illustrate several major effects of elephant trampling, including bone scattering and re-positioning at death sites, the breakage of even the largest elements, and marking of bone surfaces.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors applied epifluorescence microscopy with blue-light excitation (400-440nm) and fluorescence spectroscopy to investigate autofluorescence of experimentally heated cow bone and found that upon heating, a shift in fluorescence color occurs before combustion or charring, lasting up to the moment of calcination.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present patterns of flint acquisition and exploitation, observed through a large-scale study of the lithic assemblages from the Middle Pleistocene Acheulo-Yabrudian Qesem Cave (Israel).

TL;DR: In this article, a multidisciplinary integrated analytic methodology was applied, including lithic technology, taxonomic analysis of faunal remains, taphonomy, use-wear analysis and spatial analysis by means of a GIS platform.

TL;DR: In this article, UAV-based survey strategies have not been widely incorporated in Central Asian archaeological research, and subsequently have not impacted interpretative processes in ways comparable to other regions.

TL;DR: In this article, the use of macroscopic, petrographic, and EDXRF analysis was used to characterize source material from five quartzitic outcrops belonging to the Mozambique Belt adjacent to Oldupai Gorge.

TL;DR: It is proposed that only large fossil samples allow a good evaluation of taxonomic diversity and therefore of the prey body mass representation, and this evaluation of modern samples leads to the incorporation of molariforms of Octodontidae and teeth of Chiroptera in the categories of modifications by digestion.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate whether functional constraints played a role in the global non-invention of the ceramic arrowhead, and show that the former performs significantly worse than the latter in terms of target penetrability and overall durability.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the early agriculture development focusing on the case of the digging sticks assemblage of the Early Neolithic waterlogged site of la Draga (Spain).

TL;DR: In this paper, osteometric and stable isotope evidence of Sami reindeer offerings is presented, and it has been shown that re-indeer domestication and intensification of reindeers he...

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report the results of plant processing experiments with modern unretouched flakes made of red jasper and show that splitting plants with the help of a specific hand and arm movement resulted in a series of use-wear traces that included large crescent break micro-scars.

TL;DR: This case study represents an innovative application of outline-based methods in geometric morphometry to answer the anthropological questions of craft specialization by investigating ceramic standardization by analyzing outlines of ceramic vessels.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the potential of low altitude remote sensing (multispectral and thermal infrared imaging) for the study of complex archaeological zones through the study case of an Iron Age hillfort in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula.

TL;DR: In this paper, a combination of laser scanning confocal (LSCM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) micrographs is used for visual characterisation of wear on quartzite and evaluate the potential of both techniques.