From hinterland granary fort to frontier mountain fortress: Initiation, construction, and expansion of the Diaoyucheng Fortress, Hechuan, China, in the wars during 1125–1279 by Wen Huang, Jiang Feng

“…Based on historical documents and data from re-analysis of archaeological report and field survey, this study explores its initiation, construction and transition, to build a coherent narrative for its transformation from a hinterland transport hub during the Song-Jin War (1125–1234) to a frontier stronghold during the Song-Mongol War (1235–1279), which experiences the establishment of Zhuanban Granary in the 1130s, the construction of Xinyuguan Fort in the 1160s–1170s, the transformation into a refuge in 1240, and the expansion into the Diaoyucheng Fortress in 1243–1279. …”
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Asymétries directionnelles et fluctuantes en période périnatale : étude exploratoire dans les populations du passé by Caroline Partiot, Dominique Castex, Mark Guillon, Camille Noûs, Bruno Maureille, Frédéric Santos

“…Our study was conducted to investigate the absence or presence of these two types of asymmetry in an archaeological corpus, using an exploratory approach with a view to adapting existing protocols to the specific features of this osteological material. …”
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Investigations sur une crise de mortalité à Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais, XVIIIe s.). Hypothèses d’interprétation by Dominique Castex, Hélène Réveillas

“…The simultaneity of the bone deposits, the contemporaneity of the different burial structures and the recurrence of the phenomenon lead us to believe that the site is the result of an abrupt peak in mortality. Historical, archaeological and anthropological arguments rule out the hypotheses of war or famine as the cause of this peak, leaving that of an epidemic. …”
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About the Medieval Bulgar-Tatar Architectural Tradition (in the case of Golden Horde Mausoleums) by Valeeva-Suleimanova G.F.

“…The sources for this analysis were architecture and construction techniques, drawings of plans and sections of buildings, materials from archaeological excavations, and descriptions from scientific expeditions of the 19th century. …”
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The Le Rozel footprints: snapshots of Neandertal groups in the Late Pleistocene. A combined morphometric and experimental approach by Jérémy Duveau

“…Because of the particular time scale that they represent and the information they provide, they make it possible to approach the size and composition of hominin groups in a different way from the methods used with the more common archaeological artefacts and osteological assemblages. …”
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Underwater paleontology inside cenotes reveals the Miocene-Pliocene fish diversity in the Yucatan Peninsula, southeast Mexico. by Kleyton M Cantalice, Hugo E Salgado-Garrido, Erick Sosa-Rodríguez, Kay Vilchis-Zapata, Gerardo González-Barba, Underwater Archaeological Atlas project

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Le regard des photographes commerciaux. Quelques clichés du fonds égyptien de la Collection Fouad Debbas à l’étude. by Yasmine Chemali, Anne-Hélène Perrot

“…Professional photographers sought to produce a large number of images – souvenirs of cities and archaeological sites – for these new travelers while a certain taste for the indigenous portrait developed at the same time. …”
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Les agglomérations de Nyon, Lausanne et Yverdon (Suisse) : trois exemples de l’ouest du plateau suisse entre Antiquité tardive et haut Moyen Âge by Clément Hervé

“…This contribution gives a first review of archaeological data on Late Antiquity and Early Middle Age of Nyon, Lausanne and Yverdon — three urban areas which illustrate different urban and territorial mutations which occured during those periods in the Western part of the “Plateau suisse”. …”
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Les aménagements portuaires antiques de Pont-Sainte-Maxence (Oise) : premier bilan by Denis Maréchal

“…Until 2014, there was no archaeological evidence of the existence of this city, which is located at the crossroads of a waterway and a major road (Lyon-Boulogne). …”
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Quelques granges modernes en Île-de-France et régions voisines by Jean-Yves Dufour

“…The archaeological observations made on nineteen barns over the last fifteen years, remind us the issues linked to these emblematic buildings of the cereal economy of the Paris Basin. …”
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La selección artificial en el origen del pensamiento evolutivo y en los procesos de domesticación en el mundo actual by Arturo Argueta Villamar, Ricardo Noguera Solano, Eduardo Corona-M.

“…New and recent analyses, obtained from archaeological, anthropological, ethnoecological and ethnobiological studies, show that domestication processes continue with great vigor today, based on traditional knowledge accumulated by millions of peasant and pastoral communities in the contemporary world. …”
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Kartal by János Gábor Tarbay

“… In 2019, a new Late Bronze Age (LBA) assemblage from Völgy-dűlő at Kartal (Pest County) was added to the number of bronze hoards excavated in the framework of community archaeological programmes in Hungary. This unique assemblage was deposited beneath two fragments of a pot, originally arranged regularly. …”
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Rennes/Condate, cité des Riédons : aux origines d’une ville-capitale by Gaétan Le Cloirec, Dominique Pouille, Françoise Labaune-Jean, Paul-André Besombes, Stéphane Jean, Thierry Lorho

“…Between 2012 and 2014, archaeological operations carried out in the Couvent des Jacobins (Dominican friary) and in the Place Sainte-Anne have again provided essential information about the processes of the foundation of Condate in the reign of Augustus. …”
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Connaissances médicales actuelles, cotation des enthésopathies : nouvelle méthode by Sébastien Villotte

“…Application of this scoring method on archaeological skeletons of known age, sex and activity would allow us to discuss the respective relevance of the use of fibrous and fibrocartilaginous entheses for the interpretation of behaviour and activities of past human populations.…”
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L’établissement rural du Haut-Empire de Gidy “ le Chêne de la Croix ” (Loiret) by Laure de Souris

“…Within the enclosures themselves, it is hard to specify the chronological links between the several archaeological structures, although the space appeared to be sectorized.Two buildings on poles with quadrangular plans were excavated; these were an attic and a dwelling building (?) …”
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La charpente de la nef de la cathédrale de Bourges by Frédéric Epaud

“…The original roof structure was in part reconstructed on all the sides, following a fire in 1559, and on the middle part of the great nave, between 1747 and 1754, due to the removal of the false transept and its spire. The archaeological survey of the structure remaining on the Gothic nave, and the dendrochronological analysis of its timber shows that the trees were felled over a period from 1230 to 1257, with two major felling campaigns between 1240 and 1244 and autumn-winter 1254-1255, just prior to the implementation and lifting of the structure in 1256 or soon after. …”
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You can(’t) take it with you: the anthropological analysis of the individuals from burials dated with coins (14th–15th centuries) from the mediaeval cemetery at Buftea by Știrbu, F., Vasile, G.

“…Following the preventive archaeological research carried out in 2020–2021 in the town of Buftea, the site Buftea – La Cârna/Mănești (Ilfov County) brought back into the attention of the scientific community a large mediaeval cemetery, previously discovered and studied by Aristide Ștefănescu between 1972–1982. …”

I normanni nel territorio dell’Albania del Sud. Il caso di Gurëzeza by Suela Xhyheri, Skënder Muçaj, Skënder Bushi

“…The purpose of this article is to gather historical and archaeological evidence on the Norman presence in Albania. …”
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First identification of a Neanderthal bone spear point through an interdisciplinary analysis at Abric Romaní (NE Iberian Peninsula) by Paula Mateo-Lomba, Andreu Ollé, Juan Luis Fernández-Marchena, Palmira Saladié, Juan Marín, M. Gema Chacón, Josep Vallverdú, Isabel Cáceres

“…This discovery highlights the flexibility and adaptability of Neanderthal technology, providing evidence of bone technology that is sometimes obscured in the archaeological record and offering valuable insights into their hunting strategies during the Middle Palaeolithic.…”
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Imported figured textiles from the Belorechensky burial ground in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum by Teplyakova A.N.

“…Research materials: The collection of archaeological materials from the Belorechensky burial ground (collection of the Oriental Department of the State Hermitage) including 22 figured textiles (52 inventory no.), textiles from collections of other institutions (Metropolitan Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, etc.). …”
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