Globally speaking, the characteristic narrative of Neolithisation involves ceramics, a necessary adjunct to cooking and associated with increased sedentism, storage and transportation. However, the situation in Northeast India suggests the inverse; that the transition to agriculture can occur without ceramics. Northeast India now represents an increasingly anomalous zone; there is not a single ...

Aranbaltza is an archaeological complex formed by at least three open-air sites. Between 2014 and 2015 a test excavation carried out in Aranbaltza III revealed the presence of a sand and clay sedimentary sequence formed in floodplain environments, within which six sedimentary units have been identified. This sequence was formed between 137-50 ka, and includes several archaeological horizons, at...

This paper examines the role of geospatial technologies in the development of non-invasive archaeological research methods and relates this development to the expansion of an innovative sub-discipline: ‘conflict archaeology’. Archaeology is predicated on the principle that human behaviour leaves behind physical evidence that is patterned, recoverable and interpretable; while warfare and conflic...

The online dissemination of datasets is becoming common practice within the archaeology domain. Since the legacy database schemas involved are often created on a per-site basis, cross searching or reusing this data remains difficult. Employing an integrating ontology, such as the CIDOC CRM, is one step towards resolving these issues. However, this has tended to require computing specialists wit...

This paper presents an approach to utilising computer game technologies and methodologies to support explorative learning. This approach has particular relevance to subjects such as archaeology and geography which contain a significant fieldwork component. A detailed case study, the LAVA project, is presented and the design decisions taken discussed. LAVA was motivated by the need to provide su...

Here we present the results of a targeted drilling campaign that facilitated geochronological study with coarse sampling resolution inside new cave site, Simons Cave, on west coast southern Africa. A combination radiocarbon (14C) dating and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) was used as range-finder. Results confirmed preservation Holocene late Pleistocene sediments up to 133 ± 35 ka, over...

Increasingly, electromagnetic induction methods (EMI) are being used within the area of archaeological prospecting for mapping soil structures or for studying paleo-landscapes. Recent hardware developments have made fast data acquisition, combined with precise positioning, possible, thus providing interesting possibilities for archaeological prospecting. However, it is commonly assumed that the...