Journal of Archaeological Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Archaeological Science is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Frozen motion: Contextualizing wheel rut data within and beyond the Pompeiian street grid95
Experimental assessment of the impact of food processing on δ15N values in dietary meat – Implications for paleodietary reconstruction74
Bulk-bone ancient metagenomics reveals the transport of South Asian fish across the Himalayas in the 8th century CE42
Mosaic pattern of sustained rice domestication and its environmental and cultural implications in Neolithic East China41
Multi-proxy investigations of Bronze Age diet and environment in the hyper-arid eastern Tarim Basin (Lop Nur), northwest China34
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Pollen analysis of neolithic adhesives and comparative experimental archaeology: Insights from La Marmotta (Lake Bracciano, Rome)28
Micro-photogrammetry and traceology: new on-site documentation approaches using portable digital microscopes28
Reconstructing feast provisioning at Halaf Domuztepe: Evidence from radiogenic strontium analyses27
A burning question – Using an intelligent grey literature search engine to change our views on early medieval burial practices in the Netherlands26
Measuring allometry in dimensions of western North American Clovis points26
Multi-proxy analyses reveal regional cremation practices and social status at the Late Bronze Age site of Herstal, Belgium25
Cultural influences on the castration age of cattle in the northern Baltic Sea region during the medieval and post-medieval periods25
Assessing the predictive taxonomic power of the bony labyrinth 3D shape in horses, donkeys and their F1-hybrids24
The archaeometry of ochre sensu lato: A review22
Ancient DNA sequence quality is independent of fish bone weight22
The relationship between inclusion/void orientation and speed in wheel-thrown pots21
Age estimation of archeological populations using secondary dentin analysis20
Earliest Neolithic occupation and maritime adaptation on the West Pacific coast20
Identification of age at death in red deer (Cervus elaphus) through the upper dentition: Eruption pattern, wear stage and crown heights19
ATR-FTIR to distinguish Holocene fumier facies. A perspective from bone diagenesis at El Mirador cave (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)19
Modelling diffusion of innovation curves using radiocarbon data18
Trade, recycling and mixing in local metal management strategies of the later Bronze Age south Carpathian Basin: Lead isotope and chemical analyses of hoarded metalwork18
Classification of Bovidae fossils from Gladysvale, South Africa using elastic shape analysis18
New chronology of the deposits from the inner chambers of the Guanyindong cave, southwestern China18
Unravelling ancient drilling techniques: A case of pottery repair in the Early European Neolithic18
Crafting illusions: Human-made composite coating used to simulate amber beads in prehistoric Iberia18
Deciphering ancient ‘recipes’ from charred cereal fragments: An integrated methodological approach using experimental, ethnographic and archaeological evidence17
Model for ancient Greek and Roman coinage production17
Moated site object detection using time series satellite imagery and an improved deep learning model in northeast Thailand15
Deep learning-based detection of qanat underground water distribution systems using HEXAGON spy satellite imagery15
A new method for the energetics analysis of polygonal masonry in Samnite hillforts (Italy)14
Earthen architecture in the Mesoamerican classic period: A micromorphological approach to its manufacture process14
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In a nutshell: Using structural and chemical changes to establish the charring conditions of archaeological hazelnut shells14
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Experiments suggest rockfall an improbable cause for bone surface modification on 24,000-year-old bone at Bluefish Caves, Canada14
Tin isotopes reveal changing patterns of tin trade, connectivity and consumption from Anatolia and Central Asia at Kültepe14
Architecture, wealth and status in Classic Maya urbanism revealed by airborne lidar mapping13
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Multiregional Pb isotopic linear patterns and diagenesis: Isotopes from ancient animal enamel show Native American “foreign war trophies” are local ancestors13
A Bayesian networks approach to infer social changes from burials in northeastern Taiwan during the European colonization period13
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Dunes, death, and datasets: Modelling funerary monument construction in remote arid landscapes using spaceborne stereo imagery13
Cranial suture obliteration patterns as an ageing method for dog crania12
Overkill and the North American archaeological record—not guilty by association? A comment on Wolfe and Broughton (2020)12
An FTIR-based model for the diagenetic alteration of archaeological bones12
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Discriminating dietary behaviour between wild and domestic goats using dental microwear texture: first results from a modern reference set and early Neolithic goat exploitation in the southern Levant12
Sorting the flock: Quantitative identification of sheep and goat from isolated third lower molars and mandibles through geometric morphometrics12
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Developments in chemical and biological detection of organic additives in Chinese historic mortar: A review11
Temporal and spatial patterns of domestic horse utilisation in northern China during the pre-Qin period11
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Shanidar et ses fleurs? Reflections on the palynology of the Neanderthal ‘Flower Burial’ hypothesis11
Bayesian mixing models as a tool to explore Bronze Age bitumen trade from Tell Lashkir (Erbil, Iraq)11
Archaeological investigation of burials preluded by ground penetrating radar and geospatial technologies11
Forensic toxicology backdates the use of coca plant (Erythroxylum spp.) in Europe to the early 1600s11
Understanding Roman Gold Coinage Inside Out11
Implementation of Red Ochre in Sinopia: Non-invasive characterization of the invisible frescos beneath Roman and Byzantine mosaics in Judea11
Applying a mask R-CNN machine learning algorithm for segmenting electron microscope images of ceramic bronze-casting moulds11
A method for defining dispersed community territories11
Antlers far and wide: Biomolecular identification of Scandinavian hair combs from Ribe, Denmark, 720–900 CE11
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A safely green treatment of bio-deteriorated painted archaeological papyri by Wasabi10
Multiple luminescence dating on heated materials at the nanzuo archaeological site, central Chinese Loess Plateau10
Portable ED-XRF as a tool for optimizing sampling strategy: The case study of a Hellenistic amphora assemblage from Paphos (Cyprus)10
Exotic glass types and the intensity of recycling in the northwest Quarter of Gerasa (Jerash, Jordan)10
Permanent signatures of birth and nursing initiation are chemically recorded in teeth10
A new method for examining maritime mobility of direct crossings with contrary prevailing winds in the Mediterranean during antiquity10
Trace element ratios in tooth enamel as palaeodietary indicators of seaweed consumption and coastal grazing, and their broader applicability10
Time of occurrence and width of accentuated lines in the enamel of primary incisors from mediaeval skeletal remains from north-central Poland: A further contribution to the explanation of early childh10
Visions of light: New reconstruction techniques of photometric data and visual perception inside Etruscan painted tombs10
Locating submerged prehistoric settlements: A new underwater survey method using water-jet coring and micro-geoarchaeological techniques10
A large-scale Sr and Nd isotope baseline for archaeological provenance in Silk Road regions and its application to plant-ash glass9
Population dynamics in the Middle Ages in Central Europe: Reconstruction based on age-at-death distributions of skeletal samples9
Provenancing wood used in the Norse Greenlandic settlements: A biogeochemical study using hydrogen, oxygen, and strontium isotopes9
87Sr/86Sr isotope ratios in trees as an archaeological tracer: Limitations of linking plant-biomass and bedrock Sr isotope signatures9
Corrigendum to “Ancient DNA analysis of a nineteenth century tobacco pipe from a Maryland slave quarter” [J. Archaeol. Sci. 105 (2019) 11–18]9
Integration of animal husbandry and millet agriculture in Bronze Age East-central Eurasia revealed by faunal stable isotopes at the Jirentai Goukou site, Xinjiang9
Zooarchaeological and ancient DNA identification of a non-local gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA9
Hormones and bile acids as biomarkers for the characterization of animal management in prehistoric sheepfold caves: El Mirador case (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain)9
Coupled archaeological and ecological analyses reveal ancient cultivation and land use in Nuchatlaht (Nuu-chah-nulth) territories, Pacific Northwest9
Neolithic to Bronze Age economy and animal management revealed using analyses lipid residues of pottery vessels and faunal remains at El Portalón de Cueva Mayor (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)9
Ancient mitochondrial genome reveals matrilineal genetic inheritance of Chinese goats9
Unraveling Neolithic sharp-blunt cranial trauma: Experimental approach through synthetic analogues9
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Material characterization uncovers sophisticated mould-making techniques of the middle-Shang period (14th-13th BCE)9
A deep variational convolutional Autoencoder for unsupervised features extraction of ceramic profiles. A case study from central Italy9
Combining ancient DNA and radiocarbon dating data to increase chronological accuracy9
Speiss at Amarna (Egypt, c. 1353–1336 BCE) – Exotic anachronism or cherished commodity?9
Applications of deep learning to decorated ceramic typology and classification: A case study using Tusayan White Ware from Northeast Arizona8
The Path to Porcelain: Innovation in Experimental White Stoneware from Luoyang8
Experimental approach to evaluate the effect of growing conditions on cereal grain size and its relevance for interpreting archaeological cereal grain assemblages8
Is it hot enough? A multi-proxy approach shows variations in cremation conditions during the Metal Ages in Belgium8
Multi-stage experiments in Bronze Age spear combat: insights on wear formation, trauma, and combat contexts8
Revealing primary forming techniques in wheel-made ceramics with X-ray microCT8
Southeast Asian mainland archaeological science 1964–2034: Multiscalar relations between individuals, communities and neighbouring populations during the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages (early-3rd mil8
Origins of medieval lead glass ornaments in Central Europe in the light of lead isotopic analysis of finds from Wrocław and Sypniewo (Poland)8
The mosaic tesserae in the industrial Byzantine wine press, Yavne, Israel: A natural unusually hard chalk or a chemically transformed chalk?8
Testing the feasibility of fiber identification for fine cordage artifacts from the Paisley Caves, Oregon8
Drinking in the dark. A new method to distinguish use-alteration from natural alteration on Neolithic pots and evidence of acid liquid storage in karstic cave contexts8
Ancient DNA confirms crossbreeding of domestic South American camelids in two pre-conquest archaeological sites8
Current methods and theory in quantitative zooarchaeology8
The Salcombe metal cargoes: New light on the provenance and circulation of tin and copper in Later Bronze Age Europe provided by trace elements and isotopes8
Origins and manufacture of the glass mosaic tesserae from the great Umayyad Mosque in Damascus8
Corrigendum to “Domesticating details: 3D geometric morphometrics for the zooarchaeological discrimination of wild, domestic and proto-domestic sheep (Ovis aries) and goat (Capra hircus) populations” 8
Sickle gloss texture analysis elucidates long-term change in plant harvesting during the transition to agriculture8
Ancient glass: From crystal ball to seeing clear8
More on overkill, the associational critique, and the North American megafaunal record: A reply to Grayson et al. (2021)7
Unsupervised clustering of Roman potsherds via Variational Autoencoders7
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Can transport costs explain the near absence of marmot bones at shoreline archaeological sites on Vancouver Island? Finding input values for central place modelling with biological scaling7
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High performance mass spectrometry reveals possible kerogen substructures in persistent ancient human brain7
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The identification of bird eggshell by scanning electron microscopy7
Archaeology of the invisible: The scent of Kha and Merit7
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A Middle Palaeolithic incised bear bone from the Dziadowa Skała Cave, Poland: the oldest marked object north of the Carpathian Mountains7
The archaeology of overburden: Method within the madness at Švédův Stůl, Czech Republic7
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Patterns on the landscape: Untangling pottery surface assemblages7
ATR-FTIR pre-screening analyses for determining radiocarbon datable bone samples from the Kings' Valley, Egypt7
Deep learning artificial neural networks for non-destructive archaeological site dating6
Micro-computed tomography imaging and segmentation of the archaeological textiles from Valmarinniemi6
Inter-visibility between settlements in pre-Hispanic Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. The relation between hierarchy and control of distant communications6
Ancient DNA refines taxonomic classification of Roman equids north of the Alps, elaborated with osteomorphology and geometric morphometrics6
Compositional analysis below the production region level: A case study of porcelain production at Dehua, Fujian, China6
Skeletal manifestations of anemia in the sternum in a modern clinical sample: An initial investigation6
Provenance study of the variscite artifacts of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia and approach to routes of pre-Hispanic exchange6
A large-scale environmental strontium isotope baseline map of Portugal for archaeological and paleoecological provenance studies6
Multiscale pollen-based reconstructions of anthropogenic land-cover change in Karula Upland, south Estonia6
‘Why so high?’ Examining discrepancies between the Sr biosphere map and archaeological tooth data from the Peak District, England6
Identification of archaeological barley grains using geometric morphometrics and experimental charring6
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Dogs and wolves on the northern plains: A look from beyond the site in Alberta6
How is forgery of ancient silver identified? A reply to Elsayed-Ali (2021)6
Early transhumance recorded by the microfossils of sheep coprolites in the Tongtian Cave, China6
A multi-analytical approach reveals flexible compound adhesive technology at Steenbokfontein Cave, Western Cape6
Testing the efficiency of Bronze Age axes: An interdisciplinary experiment6
Earliest arrival of millet in the South China coast dating back to 5,500 years ago6
A formal test using agent-based models of the circumscription theory for the evolution of social complexity5
Cinnabar for Roman Ephesus: Material quality, processing and provenance5
New chronology evidence of prehistoric human activities indicated by pottery luminescence dating in the humid subtropical mountains of South China5
An ethnographic framework for identifying dog sledding in the archaeological record5
Sex estimation based on the analysis of enamel peptides: False assignments due to AMELY deletion5
Anemia, cribra cranii and elemental composition using portable X-ray fluorescence: A study in individuals from the Coimbra Identified Osteological Collections5
Iron Age hunting and herding in coastal eastern Africa: ZooMS identification of domesticates and wild bovids at Panga ya Saidi, Kenya5
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Studying seriality in material culture by geometric morphometrics–gold wild boars from the Arzhan-2 barrow, Tuva5
Production perspectives of a high-status polychrome jewellery set from the Hunnic period (mid-5th century AD) Carpathian Basin5
Reconstructing infant mortality in Iberian Iron Age populations from tooth histology5
aDNA, ethnography, and facial approximations of the Teouma Lapita burials (c. 3000BP)5
Analyzing historic human-suid relationships through dental microwear texture and geometric morphometric analyses of archaeological suid teeth in the Ryukyu Islands5
A new archaeobotanical proxy for plant food processing: Archaeological starch spherulites at the submerged 23,000-year-old site of Ohalo II5
Ancient parasite analysis: Exploring infectious diseases in past societies5
The influence of taphonomy on histological and isotopic analyses of treated and untreated buried modern human bone5
Diversity and structure of soil fungal communities unveil the building history of a burial mound of ancient Japan (Tobiotsuka Kofun, Okayama Prefecture)5
Plant resource diversity in the ethnobotanical record of precolonial Puerto Rico: Evidence from microbotanical remains5
The 12th century bronze doors of Bonanno di Pisa in Monreale and Pisa: Materials and manufacture5
Manuring and land exploitation in the Central Plains of late Longshan (2200–1900 BCE) China: Implications of stable isotopes of archaeobotanical remains5
Examining the thermal synthesis conditions of Maya blue: Insights into colors, stability and clay-dye interactions5
Utilising ancient DNA to understand crop population dynamics across a millennium: A case study of archaeological barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) from Gran Canaria, Spain5
Leave no stone unturned: Exploring the metaproteome of beerstone for the identification of archaeological beer production5
New insights on the origin of fired steatite beads in China5
Sheep and goats taxonomic abundance trends in 1st millennium CE southern Italy: Multilevel bayesian modelling of NISP datasets5
Use of thermogravimetric analysis to estimate collagen and hydroxyapatite contents in archaeological bone5
Could carbohydrates from food-animals have supported a balanced diet for Neanderthals?4
Mapping lateral stratigraphy at Palaeolithic surface sites: A case study from Dhofar, Oman4
Subsistence shift and socio-economic response to cultural and climate changes among north-central Iberian megalithic groups4
A new algorithm for using Pb isotopes to determine the provenance of bullion in ancient Greek coinage4
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End-to-end Bayesian analysis for summarizing sets of radiocarbon dates4
Evidence for discrete ochre exploitation 35,000 years ago in West Africa4
Revisiting palaeolithic combustion features of Theopetra Cave: A diachronic use of dung and peat as fuel4
Preservation of brain material in the archaeological record: A case study in the New Zealand colonial context4
Development of a novel minimally invasive sampling and analysis technique using skin sampling tape strips for bioarchaeological proteomics4
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Theoretical and observed C/N ratios in human bone collagen4
Caution! Contents were hot: Novel biomarkers to detect the heating of fatty acids in residues from pottery use4
Topological insights into the diachrony of ancient road networks: Exploratory predictive modelling in the Andean highlands4
High-throughput microCT and ZooMS collagen fingerprinting of Scombrid bone from the Marquesas Islands4
A new archaeological method to reveal the arrival of cereal farming: Development of a new method to extract and date of carbonised material in pottery and its application to the Japanese archaeologica4
Between grooves and pits: Trephic modifications resulting from air-scribe cleaning of archaeological bone4
Doubts on ancient bone “microbiota” studies: A comment on Kazarina et al. (2019)4
The oldest dress of the Netherlands? Recovering a now-vanished, colour pattern from an Early Iron Age fabric in an elite burial4
Humans and climate as possible drivers of the morphology and function of the mandible of Suncus etruscus in Corsica4
Past human decision-making based on stone tool performance: Experiments to test the influence of raw material variability and edge angle design on tool function4
Violent death of a warrior in the destruction of Roca Vecchia, Apulia, Italy: Insights on hostilities and Aegean connections in the Bronze Age4
Diagenesis of juvenile skeletal remains: A multimodal and multiscale approach to examine the post-mortem decay of children's bones4
Using ZooMS to assess archaeozoological insights and unravel human subsistence behaviour at La Viña rock shelter (northern Iberia)4
On the past and future of discussing, teaching, and learning the hows and whys of archaeological systematics4
Dating (early) modern hearths on a decadal to multi-annual timescale using OSL signals from heated sedimentary quartz4
Millet bread and pulse dough from early Iron Age South India: Charred food lumps as culinary indicators3
Diet of Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens from macrowear analysis of mandibular molars3
Insights into past land-use and vegetation change in the Llanos de Moxos (Bolivia) using fungal non-pollen palynomorphs3
Wear of Teeth in Sheep (WoTiS) - A tool for determining the rate of mandibular tooth wear in sheep3
Hydrogen isotope measurements of bone and dental tissues from archaeological human and animal samples and their use as climatic and diet proxies3
Determination of cultural areas based on medieval pottery using an original divisive hierarchical clustering method with geographical constraint (MapClust)3
Human origins in Southern African palaeo-wetlands? Strong claims from weak evidence3
Drivers of land cover and plant compositional changes in Northeast China since the mid-Holocene: Climate versus human activities3
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Geochemical and mineralogical characterisation of vitrified waste material discovered in large quantities on Roman salt production sites along the southern North Sea coast3
The economic and institutional determinants of trade expansion in Bronze Age Greater Mesopotamia3
Architectural technology and labour organisation at the late Neolithic Liangzhu City, Yangtze Delta region, China3
Are crucible steel ingots isotopically homogenous? AMS radiocarbon measurements on ingots from Telangana, India3
Measuring potential coastal sailing mobility with the loose-footed square sail3
On interdisciplinarity in the humanities: A comment on Fanta et al. (2020) on the bias in dating obtained from historical sources3
Crop management and agricultural responses at Early Bronze IV Tell Abu en-Ni'aj, Jordan3
Putting South-West England on the (strontium isotope) map: A possible origin for highly radiogenic 87Sr/86Sr values from southern Britain3
Robin Torrence, we salute you3
Geographic and seasonal variation in δ13C values of C3 plant arabidopsis: Archaeological implications3
Beyond Least Cost Paths: Circuit theory, maritime mobility and patterns of urbanism in the Roman Adriatic3
Provenance study of oyster shells by LA-ICP-MS3
On Liangzhu Culture Tremolite-Tempered Pottery: Social complexity, logistical networks and cross-craft interaction in Neolithic China3
Visual sensing on marine robotics for the 3D documentation of Underwater Cultural Heritage: A review3
The strength of parthood ties. Modelling spatial units and fragmented objects with the TSAR method — Topological Study of Archaeological Refitting3
AMELY deletion is not detected in systematically sampled reference populations: A Reply to Štamfelj3
Stressful times for women - Reply to Edinborough et al. (2021)3
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Ancient Olmec tar trade revealed by combined biomarker and chemometric analysis3
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Food and diet of the pre-Columbian mound builders of the Patos Lagoon region in southern Brazil with stable isotope analysis3
Wood procurement in Norse Greenland (11th to 15th c. AD)3
New methods for old challenges: A sampling protocol for sequential stable isotope analysis (δ13C and δ15N) of dentine collagen in high-crowned teeth2
Tooth cementum annulation: Confounding difficulties remain when inferring life history parameters from archeological tooth samples2
NOthing goes to WAste (NOWA): A protocol to optimise sampling of ancient teeth2
n-Alkanes and their carbon isotopes (δ13C) reveal seasonal foddering and long-term corralling of pastoralist livestock in eastern Mongolia2
Proteomic analysis of archaeological ceramics from Tell Khaiber, southern Iraq2
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Comparative study of Bronze Age ceramic moulds reveals diachronic and spatial change in mould material processing in the Central Plain of China, c. 13th-3rd century BCE2
Virtual technical analysis of archaeological textiles by synchrotron microtomography2
The sedaDNA revolution and archaeology: Progress, challenges, and a research agenda2
Mapping the Iron Age in Southern Africa: Magnetometry at two Iron Age villages in Western Zambia2
The archaeology of orality: Dating Tasmanian Aboriginal oral traditions to the Late Pleistocene2
Patterns in pottery use reveal different adaptive strategies between lower and higher altitude regions on the Tibetan Plateau: Chemical evidence from pottery residues2
Revealing the face of Ramesses II through computed tomography, digital 3D facial reconstruction and computer-generated Imagery2
The earliest stamped hard pottery and high-firing technology dating back to 5000 BP: Evidence from two sites in southeastern China2
Hydraulicity of lime plasters from Teotihuacan, Mexico: a microchemical and microphysical approach2
Characterization of pottery foodcrusts through lipid and proteomic analyses: A case study from the Xiawan site in Yixing city, East China2
The hand and footprints at Qiusang in Tibet: Recommendations for dating rock art by U–Th2
Evaluating the efficacy of collagen isolation using stable isotope analysis and infrared spectroscopy2
Ancient DNA-based sex determination of bison hide moccasins indicates Promontory cave occupants selected female hides for footwear2
Some first observations on ant-nest morphology and micromorphology, the effects of wildfires, and their implications for the understanding of archaeological features2
From dots to dynamics: Searching the complexities of prehistoric mobility in the Lisbon Peninsula2
The role of environmental factors in the spatiotemporal distribution of millet in Late Neolithic to Bronze Ages sites in the Tibetan plateau and surrounding regions2
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