Showing papers in "Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports in 2021"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors cast doubt on the effectiveness of Clovis fluted points as a hunting tool for large game, including proboscideans, concluding that their penetration depth into a carcass would have been relatively limited, which would have rendered them unlikely to reach the well-protected vital organs of a proboscidan and inflict lethal wounds.

TL;DR: This study indicates that the computer vision approach opens new perspectives in the objective selection of the most suitable VT for archaeological prospection by benchmarking VTs using objective metrics.

TL;DR: In this article, a functional analysis of two biface assemblages originating from the Late Lower Paleolithic sites of Revadim and Jaljulia (Israel) is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, a case study of pottery from the late Neolithic (5200-4800 BCE) from the site of Gradiste-Iđjos (Serbia) with experimental pit firings, likely one of the mostly frequently employed firing techniques used in prehistoric periods.

TL;DR: In this paper, a study of multiple proxies in herbivore coprolites from the South-Central Andes is presented, which includes Late Holocene samples from Los Viscos Archaeological Site in Catamarca, Argentina, of the last 2000 years.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the history of the exploitation and use of the most important ancient white marble sources located around the Mediterranean Sea and on its islands, focusing on the spread and trade networks of white marble quarried from these sources starting from the Neolithic till the Byzantine periods.

TL;DR: In this paper, the results of a joint interdisciplinary research project between The Science and Technology in Archaeology and Culture Research Center (STARC) of the Cyprus Institute in Cyprus and Survey and the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture of the University of Catania in Italy were presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, the use of pottery during the early phases of the Neolithic in the Northwestern Mediterranean, through analysis of organic residues absorbed in the pots of the Pendimoun rock-shelter (Impresso-Cardial complex) in South-eastern France, was explored.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focused on the functional analysis of Swifterbant pottery (c 5000-3800 cal BC) in the Lower Rhine-Meuse area (the Netherlands) and examined pottery use across the transition to agriculture.

TL;DR: In this paper, the long-debated mammoth bone core and flake were re-analyzed from a full zooarchaeological and taphonomic perspective and it was shown that humans were more likely responsible for the bone modifications and support the hypothesis that a proboscidean bone technology may have been present in eastern Beringia (Alaska/Yukon Territory) sometime between ca. 28,000 and 16,000 years BP.

TL;DR: In this paper, the characteristics of lime mortar at the ancient sites of Aigai and Nysa located in Western Anatolia were investigated to elicit the technology applied in hydraulic mortar production.

TL;DR: In this article, seventeen ochre sources from five geological zones in north-central Namibia and 41 archaeological ochres pieces discovered in the stratigraphic sequence of the Later Stone Age site of Leopard Cave, Erongo Mountains - Namibia, were analysed by ICP-OES and ICPMS/MS.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a mobile spectrophotometer over the entire UV-visible-NIR energy range of the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris.

TL;DR: Agarwal et al. as mentioned in this paper report the earliest archaeobotanical evidence (seeds and fruits) for the introduction of fruit cultivation in Iberia during the 1st millennium cal. BC when arboriculture spread after commercial encounters with oriental seafarers.

TL;DR: This work shows the development of an algorithm, based on Machine Learning techniques, that suggests which actions to undertake in relation to thermo-hygrometric conditions to guarantee microclimate conditions that are favorable both for collections and architecture.

TL;DR: In this article, a portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) was used to identify the same region-level paste composition groups identified by INAA when using the same suite of elements.

TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that handaxes can be used as a shortcut in the reduction sequence, enabling the detachment of predetermined blanks with minimal preparatory steps.

TL;DR: This article analyzed DNA from reindeer bone samples dating to ca. 1200-1700 CE from Sami offering sites located in present-day Northern Finland as well as from samples originating from ancient dwelling sites in Southern Finland and Kola Peninsula, Russia.

TL;DR: In this paper, anthropogenic bone surface modifications (BSMs) on proboscidean bones are used to indicate how Paleolithic people utilized carcasses, thus providing evidence about the economic value of proboscidesans.

TL;DR: This work applies systematic microscopic techniques to the analysis of capuchin stone tools used for digging, cracking cashew nuts and seed processing to characterise their damage patterns combined with residue spatial distribution and micro-remains analysis and presents a standardized methodology for future primate archaeological use-wear studies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide new data about early basketry techniques based on remains found at the site of La Draga (Banyoles, Spain) and provide new information about the use of natural materials to make baskets and the techniques involved in their fabrication.

TL;DR: The doleritic bluestones of Stonehenge, sourced from the Mynydd Preseli in west Wales, have been previously classified into three geochemical groups on the basis of compatible element geochemistry (Bevins et al., 2014 ).

TL;DR: The functional study of ground stone artefacts and the analysis of charred plant remains together demonstrate that plant foods played a significant role in the diets of Aboriginal Australians through all occupation phases at the Pleistocene-aged archaeological site of Madjedbebe.

TL;DR: These findings increase the number of Early Stone Age bone tools and provide further evidence of their association with Paranthropus robustus, and suggest P. robustus had the cognitive capacities to develop this cultural adaptation and the manipulative abilities to implement it.

TL;DR: In this article, the remains of metal objects from the settlement of workers living and labouring at the Egyptian site of Giza in the reigns of Dynasty 4 Kings Khufu and Khafra (c. 2500-2450 BCE).

TL;DR: In this article, a solution of the latent problems regarding the discrimination of the marbles from Prokonnesos, Heraklea/Miletos, Paros, and Thasos is proposed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the impact that the salt extraction had on the vegetation and the environment throughout the millennia, presenting the first paleoecological data for the mining area, which have been obtained from a peat bog located near the mines.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of fire and soot as substances that participated in the dynamic process of rock art making by Late Holocene hunter-gatherers from the Limari River Basin (North-Central Chile).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present results of surveys undertaken using a ultra-compact, drone-deployed lidar at archaeological sites located in three different environments: 1) tropical forests at Kealakekua Bay State Historic Park, Hawai'i, 2) pinon-juniper forest on Mesa Verde's North Escarpment, Colorado, and 3) mixed deciduous-evergreen forest at Enfield Shaker Village, New Hampshire.

TL;DR: The outcome of the application of Space Syntax to the Roman town of Falerii Novi was a better understanding of city layout, especially with regards to intramural connections between central and peripherical areas as well as choice routes, providing a useful tool capable of increasing knowledge of the town’s structure.