Journal of Archaeological Science

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Deep learning with geographical post-processing optimization: an integrated framework for detecting qanat activity states	29
Roads and rivers. The importance of regional transportation networks for early urbanization in central Italy (950-500 BC)	27
Frozen motion: Contextualizing wheel rut data within and beyond the Pompeiian street grid	27
Population dynamics in the Middle Ages in Central Europe: Reconstruction based on age-at-death distributions of skeletal samples	26
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 childh	26
Bioarchaeological signatures during the Plague of Justinian (541–750 CE) in Jerash (ancient Gerasa), Jordan	23
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Enhancing archaeological mobility studies: Bayesian-modelled isoscapes and high-resolution refinement of the bioavailable strontium baseline in southern Scandinavia	22
Volatile compounds reveal the composition of embalming materials used in Egyptian mummification	21
Multiple luminescence dating on heated materials at the nanzuo archaeological site, central Chinese Loess Plateau	21
Neolithic cordage-making implements at La Draga, Spain (5292-4729 cal BC): Analysis and experiment	20
Provenance study of the official architectural glazed tiles of Wudang Mountain in the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644 CE): Insights from Wulong Palace and Laojun Hall	20
Mobility patterning during the Neolithic and the Bronze Age in north-central Myanmar	20
Examining the thermal synthesis conditions of Maya blue: Insights into colors, stability and clay-dye interactions	19
Assemblage first: Using provenance methods to understand 38,000 years of ochre use at Gledswood Shelter 1, Woolgar Country (northwest Queensland), Australia	19
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Use of thermogravimetric analysis to estimate collagen and hydroxyapatite contents in archaeological bone	18
Semi-automatic detection of building stones and wall segments of archaeological ruins	18
A thousand years of Nubian supply of sub-Saharan ivory to the Southern Levant, ca. 1600–600 BCE	18
Assessing the impact of Nile water level fluctuations on the structural stability of the Philae temples in Aswan, Egypt	17
Ancient DNA confirms crossbreeding of domestic South American camelids in two pre-conquest archaeological sites	17

New chronology evidence of prehistoric human activities indicated by pottery luminescence dating in the humid subtropical mountains of South China	17
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Corrigendum to “Bridging the crafts: lead isotopes reveal the innovation of lead-glazed pottery in Warring States China” [J. Archaeol. Sci. 182 (2025)106354]	16
Current methods and theory in quantitative zooarchaeology	16
Revealing primary forming techniques in wheel-made ceramics with X-ray microCT	16
The identification of bird eggshell by scanning electron microscopy	16
Material flow analysis for archaeology: developing an account of medieval social metabolism using the excavation archive from Wharram Percy	15
Millet dominance and rice resilience at the Shang's eastern frontier: Climate, cultural interaction, and agricultural adaptation (1300–1046 BCE)	15
Low-cost seismic geophysical methods for the detection of karez: A case study on the Erbil Plain (Kurdistan Region of Iraq)	15
Phytoliths on Fire – Experimental production of heated phytoliths for analysis of archaeological sediments	14
Evidence for large-scale rice utilization in the Guanzhong region during the final Neolithic (ca. 4600-4000 B.P.): A case study of the Yangyuan site, Xi'an	14
Integration of animal husbandry and millet agriculture in Bronze Age East-central Eurasia revealed by faunal stable isotopes at the Jirentai Goukou site, Xinjiang	14
Palynology, landscape and land use: retrospect, prospect and research agendas	13
An ethnographic framework for identifying dog sledding in the archaeological record	13
Reconstructing infant mortality in Iberian Iron Age populations from tooth histology	13
A method for constructing demographic profiles of Capra aegagrus/C. hircus using logarithm size index scaling	13
Ancient DNA refines taxonomic classification of Roman equids north of the Alps, elaborated with osteomorphology and geometric morphometrics	13
Visual sensing on marine robotics for the 3D documentation of Underwater Cultural Heritage: A review	13
Introducing the Post-Glacial Land Adjustment Regenerator (GLARE) for simulating the Final Pleistocene/Holocene geographic change in North Europe	13
Palaeogeographic reconstruction of the Main Harbour of the ancient city of Delos (Greece)	13
The glaze is less opaque on the other side: The development of Egyptian and southern Levantine glazed ceramic production from the early Islamic to Crusader periods	13
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Hydrogen isotope measurements of bone and dental tissues from archaeological human and animal samples and their use as climatic and diet proxies	13
Could carbohydrates from food-animals have supported a balanced diet for Neanderthals?	13
Trauma or taphonomy? A forensic reassessment of perimortem cranial trauma in burials from the Phaleron cemetery (Archaic Athens, Greece)	12
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 archaeologica	12
Are crucible steel ingots isotopically homogenous? AMS radiocarbon measurements on ingots from Telangana, India	12
Identifying intentional flake production at the dawn of technology: A technological and 3D geometric morphometric study	12
Geochemical and mineralogical characterisation of vitrified waste material discovered in large quantities on Roman salt production sites along the southern North Sea coast	12
The last natron glass production in middle Egypt in the 8th to 9th century CE	12
Cattle domestication revisited: Middle Nile evidence suggests independent origins in Africa 10,000 years ago	12
Understanding mammal resource choices and subsistence strategies during the Holocene Climate Optimum: Integration of evidence from palaeodistribution modelling, animal bones and archaeological remains	11
The afterlife of Roman roads in England: insights from the fifteenth-century Gough map of Great Britain	11
Erratum to “Seasonality of birth and diet of pigs from stable isotope analyses of tooth enamel (δ18O, δ13C): A modern reference data set from Corsica, France” [J. Archaeol. Sci. 39 (7) (2012) 2023–203	11
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 BCE	11
Revolution and Resilience: A multianalytical approach to the study of diet, metabolic stress, and life experiences in Revolutionary Philadelphia	11
A method for constructing demographic profiles of Ovis orientalis/O. aries using Logarithm Size Index scaling	11
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Understanding the human settlement of the Pacific – Are we there yet?	11
Narrowing provenance for ancient Greek silver coins using Ag isotopes and Sb contents of potential ores	11
Botanical collections as an opportunity to explore nature through the time: An untargeted metabolomic study in historical and modern Nicotiana leaves	11
A comparative approach to GIS modelling of terrestrial mobility in archaeological sites. The iron age hillfort of Villasviejas del Tamuja as a study case	11
Identify the genus origin of animal glue used in Chinese historical mortars using a new DNA mini-barcoding method	11
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FTIR spectra combined with machine learning to reveal the amber trade during the Han dynasty (202 BCE–220 CE)	11
The historical ecology of subsistence and early commercial fisheries in mangrove systems in Brazil	11
Evidence of temporal changes in the marine 14C reservoir in the South Pacific and implications for improved dating resolution across a radiocarbon plateau (2600-2350 cal BP)	11
3D visualization of bioerosion in archaeological bone	10
Physicochemical analysis of grey pigments from pre-Columbian archaeological ceramics from the sites of Alto del Cardal and Nuevo Corinto (Costa Rica): First identification of fired bone mixtures in Ce	10
From archival historiography to 3D modelling: An accurate reconstruction of the Palaeolithic landscape in El Castillo Cave to explore the spatial dynamics of hand stencil dispersion	10

Multi-sensor drone survey of ancestral agricultural landscapes at Picuris Pueblo, New Mexico	10
'JSDNE': A novel R package for estimating age quantitatively with the auricular surface by Dirichlet normal energy	10
Past rainfall patterns in Southeast Asia revealed by microanalysis of δ18O values in human teeth	10
Material characterisation of the Neo-Assyrian writing boards from Nimrud	10
Early legume exploitation in Neolithic southern China: Starch residues evidence from the middle Yangtze River	10
Sacrificial pit or not? — Deposition history of Pit K4 at the Sanxingdui site	10
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Method for generating foodplant fitness landscapes: With a foodplant checklist for southern Africa and its application to Klasies River Main Site	10
Corrigendum to “Improved thermoluminescence dating for heterogeneous, multilayered, and overlapped architectures: A case study with the Oc Eo archaeological site in Vietnam” [J. Archaeol. Sci. 155 (20	10
Reliability and validity in determining the relative chronology between neighbouring scars on flint artefacts	10
An unexpected demographic regime: The western necropolis of the Greek colony of Himera (Sicily, Italy) (550-409 BCE)	10
Nets hidden in pottery:Resurrected fishing nets in the Jomon period, Japan	9
Evidence for a prolonged pre-domestication phase: 8000-year-old peach utilization and management in the Lower Yangtze	9
A multi-scalar reassessment of dietary isotopic variability in bioarchaeology: Differentiating secular and inter-individual variation	9
Life, death and environment at Lagore Crannog: Parasites, land-use and a royal residence in later prehistoric and early medieval Ireland	9
Morphological and dietary adaptations to different socio-economic systems in Chalcolithic dogs	9
The effects of resources and population expansion on female–male protein consumption among hunter-gatherers	9
Utilization and exchange of jade in western China during the late Longshan Era (2300∼1800 BC): Evidence from Lajia site, Minhe County, Qinghai Province	9
Preservation of bone organic fraction is not predictive of the preservation of bone inorganic fraction when assessing stable isotope analysis sample quality control measures	9
Tracking 4000 years of raptor diets through isotope analysis reveals urban scavenging with implications for conservation	9
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Points, patterns, and predictions in archaeological settlement data: site-environment relationships of Paracas and Nasca communities in the Peruvian Andes	9
Dating Celtic fields with luminescence	9
Introducing SourceXplorer, an open-source statistical tool for guided lithic sourcing	9
Dating dry-stone walls with rock surface luminescence: A case study from the Italian Alps	9
Applying habitat suitability modelling to establish the species identity of ambiguous animal depictions in archaeology: new insights into the wild bovids of ancient Egypt	9
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Estimating the scale-dependent influence of natural terrestrial corridors on the positioning of settlements: A multi-scale study of Roman forts in Wales	8
Zooarchaeological and ancient DNA identification of a non-local gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA	8
Visions of light: New reconstruction techniques of photometric data and visual perception inside Etruscan painted tombs	8
Experimental assessment of the impact of food processing on δ15N values in dietary meat – Implications for paleodietary reconstruction	8
Multi-site archaeobotanical analysis reveals wood-fuel supply, woodland impact and land use around Roman urban centres: The case of Barcino (Barcelona, NE Iberia)	8
Crafting excellence: reconstructing the mould technology of Shang period bronze ritual vessels at Anyang, China	8
Age estimation of archeological populations using secondary dentin analysis	8
Reassessing the role of Polynesian rats (Rattus exulans) in Rapa Nui (Easter Island) deforestation: Faunal evidence and ecological modeling	8
A new method for fingerprinting ochre sources using mineral magnetic measurements	8
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Ostrich eggshell bead size variation: The impacts of material and technology on bead diameter	8
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Moated site object detection using time series satellite imagery and an improved deep learning model in northeast Thailand	8
"Celts" up the Alps. Patterns of territorial mobility and funerary variability in Switzerland during the Late Iron Age	8
Human ecological impacts on islands: Exemplified by a dwarf deer (Cervidae: Mazama sp.) on Pedro Gonzalez Island, Pearl Island Archipelago, Pacific Panama (6.2–5.6 kya)	8
Modelling diffusion of innovation curves using radiocarbon data	7
Decoding hunter-gatherer-knowledge and selective choice of lithic raw materials during the Middle and Later Stone Age in Eswatini	7
Temporal and spatial patterns of domestic horse utilisation in northern China during the pre-Qin period	7
Beyond Pentelikon: Imported white marbles in Athenian sculptural workshops of the Roman period	7
Shifting tin imports into the broader Eastern Mediterranean region during the Bronze and Early Iron Ages (ca. 2000-900 BC)	7
Determination of burning environment and temperature by colour and magnetic susceptibility based on heating simulation experiments and its application in Sanxingdui site in Sichuan, China	7
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An FTIR-based model for the diagenetic alteration of archaeological bones	7
Micro-photogrammetry and traceology: new on-site documentation approaches using portable digital microscopes	7
Identification of age at death in red deer (Cervus elaphus) through the upper dentition: Eruption pattern, wear stage and crown heights	7
The advent of complex metallurgy	7
Tin isotopes reveal changing patterns of tin trade, connectivity and consumption from Anatolia and Central Asia at Kültepe	7
Shipwreck detection in bathymetry data using semi-automated methods: Combining machine learning and topographic inference approaches	7
Plant-ash glass in Natronland: A review of the use of plant-based fluxes in glassmaking from the 1st to the 9th century CE in Europe and the Mediterranean basin	7
Coupled archaeological and ecological analyses reveal ancient cultivation and land use in Nuchatlaht (Nuu-chah-nulth) territories, Pacific Northwest	7
Dunes, death, and datasets: Modelling funerary monument construction in remote arid landscapes using spaceborne stereo imagery	7
Seasonality and water source strategies in the Neolithic Near East (ca. 8,000–5,000 BCE): Insights from multi-proxy isotopic and elemental analyses	7
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 Levant	7
A generative model for exploring differences in mortality associated with stressor exposure risk in bioarchaeological contexts	6
New scientific evidence for the history and occupants of Tomb I (“Tomb of Persephone”) in the Great Tumulus at Vergina	6
The oldest dress of the Netherlands? Recovering a now-vanished, colour pattern from an Early Iron Age fabric in an elite burial	6
Early tobacco use by populations of the interfluvial coast of Antofagasta during the Archaic period (6000–3000 BP; northern Chile): A GC-MS study of dental calculus	6
Revisiting the context and geochronological ages of the Homo sapiens skeletal remains from Border Cave, South Africa	6
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Multi-stage experiments in Bronze Age spear combat: insights on wear formation, trauma, and combat contexts	6
Studying seriality in material culture by geometric morphometrics–gold wild boars from the Arzhan-2 barrow, Tuva	6
Testing the efficiency of Bronze Age axes: An interdisciplinary experiment	6
Bioarchaeological perspectives on the ancient Han-Xiongnu war: Insights from the Iron Age site of Bayanbulag	6
n-Alkanes and their carbon isotopes (δ13C) reveal seasonal foddering and long-term corralling of pastoralist livestock in eastern Mongolia	6
Putting South-West England on the (strontium isotope) map: A possible origin for highly radiogenic 87Sr/86Sr values from southern Britain	6
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Seafaring megaliths: A geoarchaeological approach to the Matarrubilla giant stone basin at Valencina (Spain)	6
Southeast Asian mainland archaeological science 1964–2034: Multiscalar relations between individuals, communities and neighbouring populations during the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages (early-3rd mil	6
Blurred boundaries: Exploring the complexity of the production system at the Luomaqiao kiln in Yuan-dynasty Jingdezhen	6
Utilising ancient DNA to understand crop population dynamics across a millennium: A case study of archaeological barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) from Gran Canaria, Spain	6
NOthing goes to WAste (NOWA): A protocol to optimise sampling of ancient teeth	6
Mixed Sources of Pb and Sn in late Bronze Age European tin ingots provide insights into production processes	6
Vitamin D deficiency, pregnancy, and childbirth in early medieval Milan	6

Written in ‘her’ bones: Cremation and identity in Roman Beirut	6
Early transhumance recorded by the microfossils of sheep coprolites in the Tongtian Cave, China	6
Faecal biomarkers as evidence of human presence in the caves of Kraków-Częstochowa Upland	6
aDNA, ethnography, and facial approximations of the Teouma Lapita burials (c. 3000BP)	6
From bones to sediments: Ancient human DNA from open-air archaeological sites	6
The 12th century bronze doors of Bonanno di Pisa in Monreale and Pisa: Materials and manufacture	6
A large-scale environmental strontium isotope baseline map of Portugal for archaeological and paleoecological provenance studies	6
Origins of medieval lead glass ornaments in Central Europe in the light of lead isotopic analysis of finds from Wrocław and Sypniewo (Poland)	6
Detecting baobab trees (Adansonia digitata) in drone imagery and evaluating their anthropogenic legacy in eastern Africa	5
The first identification of composite paints with proteinaceous binder in Upper Palaeolithic (31–23 ka) organic decorations	5
The role of salmon fishing in the adoption of pottery technology in subarctic Alaska	5
On the use of Machine Learning methods in rock art research with application to automatic painted rock art identification	5
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Population expansion as a main driver for the shift of agricultural strategies through the Yangshao culture (6.8-4.7 ka BP) in the west Central Plain of China	5
Geometric morphometric analysis sheds new light on silver bullion production systems of the Southern Song period	5
Sequential multi-isotope sampling through a Bos taurus tooth from Stonehenge, to assess comparative sources and incorporation times of strontium and lead	5
The sedaDNA revolution and archaeology: Progress, challenges, and a research agenda	5
Network analysis of jade artifacts in Liangzhu: Exploring the relationships between Liangzhu Ancient City, Fuquanshan, and Sidun	5
Translocation of sedimentary ancient DNA in archaeological cultural deposits: Mechanism and prospects	5
Ancient DNA unveils population dynamics and integration in Pingcheng, the first Northern Wei capital established by the Tuoba Xianbei	5
Enamel thickness per masticatory phases (ETMP): A new approach to assess the relationship between macrowear and enamel thickness in the human lower first molar	5
Network analysis in Tairona chiefdoms of the Río Frío basin, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia	5
Chinese whispers in clay: Copying error and cultural attraction in the experimental transmission chain of anthropomorphic figurines	5
Minding the gap: The via Amerina and the Middle Tiber Valley	5
Why is it so difficult to work on geochemical composition? Supervised geochemical composition data processing to study colouring iron oxide-rich rocks in archaeological contexts	5
A new approach to radiocarbon summarisation: Rigorous identification of variations/changepoints in the occurrence rate of radiocarbon samples using a Poisson process	5
Diet of Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens from macrowear analysis of mandibular molars	5
A bioavailable strontium isoscape of Angola with implications for the archaeology of the transatlantic slave trade	5
Traceological analyses of tool marks on western Iberian stelae and their replications: Stones and steel at the end of the Bronze Age	5
Automated detection and classification of multi-cell Phytoliths using Deep Learning-Based Algorithms	5
Social and emotional cognition in Pleistocene hominin evolution: The role of biocultural processes	5
Multi-purpose pots: Reconstructing early farmer behaviour at Lydenburg Heads site, South Africa, using organic residue analysis	5
The earliest evidence for deformation of livestock horns: The case of Predynastic sheep from Hierakonpolis, Egypt	5
Material characterization of forged bronzes from ancient China (c. 11th-2nd century BCE) reveals development of the non-mainstream metalworking technique in Chinese bronze production	5
Rethinking early hominin toolmaking through comparative primate models	5
Drone-based magnetometer prospection for archaeology	5
Searching for traces of human activity in earthen floor sequences: high-resolution geoarchaeological analyses at an Early Iron Age village in Central Iberia	5
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Virtual sampling: Archaeological implications of a new technique for elemental mapping of Mg/Ca ratios in marine mollusc shells	5
Dynamics of early agriculture – multivariate analysis of changes in crop cultivation and farming practices in the Rhineland (Germany) between the 6th and early 4th millennium BCE	5
A stable isotope perspective on archaeological agricultural variability and Neolithic experimentation in India	5
Archaeological obsidian sourcing: Looking from the first 60 years to the next	5
Pompeian pigments. A glimpse into ancient Roman colouring materials	5
Is the StW 53 cranium (Sterkfontein, South Africa) the earliest evidence of tool-assisted hominin modification? New data from a neotaphonomic experiment and the virtual reconstruction of its linear ma	5
As the water flows: A method for assessing river navigability in the past	5
Lead isotope analysis of lead-tin-glaze via on-site portable laser ablation sampling of 17-18th century Delftware (earthenware)	5
Refining near-infrared spectroscopy for collagen quantification: A new predictive model for archaeological bone	5
Interindividual variation in infant and child feeding behavior at Đurđevac-Sošice, medieval Croatia: Exploring life course through incremental analysis of dentin	5