Thebes, located in Boeotia central Greece, is archaeologically and historically attested to have been an important centre ever since the Early Bronze Age. Regularly sustained glass working, testified by numerous finds burial settlement contexts, must taken place Mycenaean times. In current study, 35 samples of beads (30) vessels (5), dating roughly from 7th 1st cent. BCE (Archaic Hellenistic/Ea...

Abstract There have been few attempts to conduct highly controlled laboratory experiments isolate how wear propagates on metal artefacts with differing metallurgy during simulated use. This reflects a lack of appreciation for the underlying structure materials within production reference datasets metalwork analysis. Here, we present use drop tower (Instron CEAST 9350) reconstruct replica Bronze...

Indigenous land use and climate have shaped fire regimes in southeast Australia during the Holocene, although their relative influence remains unclear. The archaeologically attested mid-Holocene decline land-use intensity on Furneaux Group islands (FGI) to mainland Tasmanian SE presents a natural experiment identify roles of anthropogenic use. We reconstruct two key facets regional regimes, bio...

Norway is at the forefront of monitoring ice patches and glaciers for archaeological remains, thousands artifacts have been recovered over past two decades due to accelerating melting. The majority finds stem from lower latitudes country relatively little known about glacial archaeology Norway’s far north. We use historical maps high-resolution LiDAR derived elevation models monitor flow melt. ...

Abstract The transition from the late Swifterbant culture to first appearance of Funnelbeaker Westgroup raises numerous questions, cultural discontinuities gradual transitions. This process describes transformation a mesolithic hunter?gatherer societies fully neolithic society in Northwestern Europe. Early Neolithic this area marks technological and sociocultural zone, which we can identify. Al...

This paper describes some results of the research undertaken over Brown Bank area during recent (2018/2019) geoarchaeological surveys in North Sea which included seismic imaging, shallow (vibro)coring and dredging. It examines benefits simultaneous high-resolution (0.5 – 1 m) ultra-high-resolution (10–20 cm) survey techniques a staged approach to resolving submerged Holocene landscape highest p...

The Pepper Wreck is an early 17th Century nau da India, the first Portuguese Indiaman ever to be excavated by archaeologists, and it is believed to be the remains of the Nossa Senhora dos Mártires, lost on the Tagus River sandbar, Portugal, in 1606. The archaeological remains yielded enough information to allow a tentative reconstruction of the hull and rigging. A series of tests was performed ...

Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii), a foundation of coastal social-ecological systems, is in decline throughout much of its range. We assembled data on fish bones from 171 archaeological sites from Alaska, British Columbia, and Washington to provide proxy measures of past herring distribution and abundance. The dataset represents 435,777 fish bones, dating throughout the Holocene, but primarily ...

Fracture is one of the pathological signs most frequently encountered in archaeologically obtained bones. To expand the paleopathological knowledge on traumatic injuries, it is desirable to secure data on long bone fractures from as wide a geographic and temporal range as possible. We present, for the first time, evidence of long bone fractures in a 16th-18th century Joseon skeletal series (n=9...

ers, without committing ourselves one way or the other as to their effect on biological fitness. Nevertheless, the idea that some innovations will be less attractive to imitate and others more so, while some make only a marginal difference to existing options, seems a reasonable one. The specific aim of this article is to explore the consequences of innovations in small populations of the kind ...