Where styles collide: the Western Carpathians in the Early Iron Age in the light of pottery analysis by Joanna A. Markiewicz

“…At the same time, due to the scarcity of archaeological data, consisting mostly of relatively poor pottery assemblages from settlements, these mountainous areas escape unambiguous cultural classifications. …”
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Le site du Carreau du Temple (Paris) entre “ marais ” et “ marécages ” : indices géoarchéologiques et paléo-environnementaux by Jérôme Brenot, Isabelle Caillot, Erwan Messager, Cristiano Nicosia, Aline Emery-Barbier

“…This result agrees with the archaeological remains identified at the site and confirms the pedo-sedimentary observations made in several places along the paleo-channel, and in particular in the Marais. …”
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L’ensemble monumental du Pâtis à Vieillevigne (Loire-Atlantique) : un nouvel exemple de complexe sur cour laténien en Gaule by Yann Dufay-Garel, Marie Grall, Sandrine Paradis-Grenouillet, Rémy Wassong

“…They define a parcel of land to the west, extending beyond the limits of the excavated area.Little is known about the archaeological environment of the Vieillevigne monumental complex. …”
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Aides à la navigation, pratique de la navigation et construction des paysages maritimes en Atlantique du Nord-Est : quelques éléments de réflexion by Pascal Arnaud

“…Ongoing studies, only a few results of which have been published to date, reveal that these navigation aids are extremely numerous in the Mediterranean area, but also that the archaeological traces they have left are often very subtle. …”
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Alimentation d’une population historique by Estelle Herrscher

“…An additional objective is to analyze the data according to different biological, archaeological and chronological criteria.The archaeological site of Saint-Laurent is located in Isère, France, in the Northern Alps, in a suburb of the city of Grenoble. …”
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L’aqueduc du Gier : nouvelles données sur le pont-siphon de Beaunant à Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon (Métropole de Lyon) by David Baldassari, François Blondel, Stéphane Gaillot

“…However, care had to be exercised respecting the strength of this pier, which limited archaeological exploration to two trenches located to the north and south below the level of the first opus reticulatum revealed by the removal of the topsoil. …”
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Une cave à amphores, une statue en pierre et une tête coupée de la fin de l’âge du Fer à Châteaumeillant (Cher) by Sophie Krausz, Caroline Millereux, Marion Bouchet, Fabienne Olmer

“…Well 512 and cellar 437 constitute an exceptional archaeological ensemble, unprecedented in a La Tène period habitat. …”
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High-resolution isotope dietary analysis of Mesolithic and Neolithic humans from Franchthi Cave, Greece. by Valentina Martinoia, Anastasia Papathanasiou, Sahra Talamo, Rebecca MacDonald, Michael P Richards

“…In many parts of Europe there is clear evidence from archaeological and isotopic studies for a diet change between the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods. …”
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La recolocación de monumentos dentro del juego de pelota como mecanismo de activación ritual durante el periodo Clásico maya by Octavio Quetzalcóatl Esparza Olguín, Rogelio Valencia Rivera

“…The monument relocation phenomenon during Prehispanic times in the Maya area, which includes engraved and plain elements, has been documented by various researchers since the realization of the very first archaeological excavations, such as those made during the last century at Tikal, Cobá, and La Milpa. …”
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Des céréales et du lait au Sahara et au Sahel, de l’épipaléolithique à l’âge des métaux by Christian Dupuy

“…This article proposes a synthesis and reflections on this subject from the known archaeological remains.It remains difficult to recognize the use of wild cereals as food resources from 20 000 BC (time of appearance of the stone grinding equipment in the Libyan desert). …”
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Influence of Boundary Conditions on Cracking of Sanxingdui Moon Bay City Wall by Jin Qu, Jianlin Ma, Bai Yang

“…Maintaining the stability of the soil moisture content of the site is the main factor in the protection of the earthen archaeological site under the humid conditions of the museum above the site. …”
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Antigua zona minera de Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo (Córdoba) by Aitana Pérez Hurtado

“…It is an industrial archaeological site, which is of great interest both for Geography and Arqueology. …”
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L’état sanitaire des premiers aménagements de berge en bois antiques de Saint-Lupien à Rezé/Ratiatum (Loire-Atlantique) : l’apport de la xylo-entomologie by Magali Toriti, Aline Durand, Fabien Fohrer

“…The interpretation of the archaeological data, enhanced by this new type of analysis thus benefits from valuable insights into the selection and use of timber by the riverside communities in Roman times and to some extent reveals the condition of the supply forest.…”
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DSP: A tool for probabilistic sex diagnosis using worldwide variability in hip-bone measurements by Pascal Murail, Jaroslav Brůžek, Francis Houët, Eugénia Cunha

“…DSP is thus useful for both archaeological and forensic purposes. Its accuracy is close to 100%. …”
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The prehistoric origins of the domestic horse and horseback riding by Markku Niskanen

“…Chariotry began to spread together with DOM2 horses after 2000 BC, but its high archaeological visibility may have inflated its importance, since chariots are of limited practical use for herding and other daily tasks.…”
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More on mobility and sedentism: Changes in adaptation from Upper Paleolithic to Incipient Jomon, Tanegashima Island, southern Japan. by Kazuki Morisaki, Fumie Iizuka, Masami Izuho, Mark Aldenderfer

“…To elucidate the factors and processes of the emergence of sedentary societies, continuous accumulation of case studies based on robust evidence from across the world is required. Given abundant archaeological and geological evidence from the late Pleistocene to early Holocene, Tanegashima Island, situated in the southern Japanese Archipelago of the northwestern Pacific Rim, has significant potential to unravel factors and processes of sedentism. …”
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Antigua zona minera de Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo (Córdoba) by Aitana Pérez Hurtado

“…It is an industrial archaeological site, which is of great interest both for Geography and Arqueology. …”
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Evidence for the Paleoethnobotany of the Neanderthal: A Review of the Literature by Gerhard P. Shipley, Kelly Kindscher

“…., starch, pollen, phytoliths, and seeds) in soil and dental calculus, dental and tool wear, coprolites, and genetics, for Neanderthal’s nutritional, medicinal, and ritual use of plants, which includes 61 different taxa from 26 different plant families found at 17 different archaeological sites. Further, we updated and standardized botanical nomenclature from many sources published over many decades to provide a more stable foundation for future work.…”
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Quelques granges médiévales en Île-de-France et régions voisines by Jean-Yves Dufour, Claude de Mecquenem

“…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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Comparaison de deux « populations » de la deuxième moitié du Ve millénaire avant notre ère : approche anthropométrique by Aude Civetta, Aurore Schmitt, Bérangère Saliba-serre, Jean-Luc Gisclon, Gilles Loison

“…Recently, some phenotypic features of Middle Neolithic populations, observed on series from old archaeological excavations, have been challenged. In order to characterize skeleton size and shape variability of Middle Neolithic individuals, we studied the osteological series from the necropolis of pontcharaud 2; this site is dated from the second half of the 5th millenium and located in the “Massif central”.Concerning the skull dimensions, differences between sexes are weak. …”
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