Antiquity
SSCI-ISI SCOPUS (1927-2023)AHCI-ISI
1745-1744
0003-598X
Anh Quốc
Cơ quản chủ quản: Cambridge University Press , CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
Lĩnh vực:
ArcheologyArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
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European Middle and Upper Palaeolithic radiocarbon dates are often older than they look: problems with previous dates and some remediesFew events of European prehistory are more important than the transition from ancient to modern humans around 40 000 years ago, a period that unfortunately lies near the limit of radiocarbon dating. This paper shows that as many as 70 per cent of the oldest radiocarbon dates in the literature may be too young, due to contamination by modern carbon. Future dates can be made more secure — an... ...
Tập 85 Số 327 - Trang 235-249 - 2011
CORONA Satellite Photography and Ancient Road Networks: A Northern Mesopotamian Case StudyMiddle-eastern archaeologists are winning new information from declassified military photographs taken 25 years ago. This study shows how pictures of north-eastern Syria are revealing the routeways, and by inference the agricultural systems of Mesopotamia in the early Bronze Age.
Tập 77 Số 295 - Trang 102-115 - 2003
The potential of airborne lidar for detection of archaeological features under woodland canopiesThe development of lidar opens a new era in archaeological survey. Working with Forest Research, staff of the Unit for Landscape Modelling here explain the technique, and demonstrate its application to woodland, showing how it can be used to see through the trees. The article by Bewley et al. (pages 636-647 of this volume) shows the technique applied to the Stonehenge landscape.
Tập 79 Số 305 - Trang 648-660 - 2005
Pleistocene human occupation of the Solomon Islands, MelanesiaPleistocene dates from a rockshelter on Buka Island at the northern end of the Solomons Chain demonstrate human settlement by 28,000 b.p., some 25,000 years earlier than previously reported for this island group.
Tập 62 Số 237 - Trang 703-706 - 1988
Palaeoenvironmental evidence for human colonization of remote Oceanic islandsNot every first footstep on a virgin shore leaves enduring trace, nor every first human settlement an enduring deposit that chances to survive, and then chances to be observed archaeologically. Good environmental evidence from Mangaia Island, central East Polynesia, gives — it is contended — a fairer picture of the human invasion of remote Oceania than the short and sceptical chronology re... ...
Tập 68 Số 259 - Trang 310-321 - 1994
A wiggle-match date for Polynesian settlement of New ZealandDating initial colonisation and environmental impacts by Polynesians in New Zealand is controversial. A key horizon is provided by the Kaharoa Tephra, deposited from an eruption of Mt Tarawera, because just underneath this layer are the first signs of forest clearance which imply human settlement. The authors used a log of celery pine from within Kaharoa deposits to derive a new precise da... ...
Tập 77 Số 295 - Trang 116-125 - 2003
The Origins of Agriculture: a ReconsiderationIn recent years increasing attention has been focused on the economic aspects of the changes that took place in human groups in their evolution from 'Palaeolithic' to 'Neolithic' ways of life. Braidwood and Howe carried out valuable pioneer work in this field and it is appropriate to quote their view of the problem [I]. How are we to understand those great changes in mankind's way of life ... ...
Tập 43 Số 169 - Trang 31-41 - 1969
A Middle Palaeolithic burial of a modern human at Taramsa Hill, EgyptDiscussion about a possible African origin of modern humans is hampered by the lack of Late Pleistocene skeletal material from the Nile valley, the likely passage-way from East Africa to Asia and Europe. Here we report the discovery of a burial of an anatomically modern child from southern Egypt. Its clear relation with Middle Palaeolithic chert extraction activities and a series of OSL da... ...
Tập 72 Số 277 - Trang 475-484 - 1998