Comparisons between methods for analyzing dental calculus samples from El Mirador cave (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences - Tập 11 - Trang 6305-6314 - 2019
Ana Bucchi, Aitor Burguet-Coca, Isabel Expósito, Francisco Javier Aceituno Bocanegra, Marina Lozano
Microremains entrapped in dental calculus are being used as a source of information to address a number of archeological questions. However, current laboratory procedures may affect the recovery of microremains and this issue has not been thoroughly investigated. This study involved the analysis of dental calculus from five Chalcolithic individuals from El Mirador cave (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)...... hiện toàn bộ
Preliminary archaeometallurgical studies on copper extraction from polymetallic ore sources in Meymand, south central Iranian desertArchaeological and Anthropological Sciences - Tập 9 - Trang 1515-1528 - 2016
Mohammadamin Emami, Torsten Kowald, Reinhard Trettin
The occurrences of polymetallic sulphide and arsenide deposits (Cu, Cu + Fe + As, Cu + Au + Fe, Cu + Zn) in Meymand, central Iran, make this region as one of the most important areas for studying the beginning of metallurgy on the Iranian plateau. This research focuses on preliminary studies of smelting slags used for metallurgical purposes in the Meymand area. The slags were studied using XRD, in...... hiện toàn bộ
Diversified pottery use across 5th and 4th millennium cal BC Neolithic coastal communities along the Strait of GibraltarArchaeological and Anthropological Sciences - Tập 15 - Trang 1-19 - 2023
Adrià Breu-Barcons, Eduardo Vijande-Vila, Jesús Cantillo-Duarte, Pau Comes, Carl Heron, Joan Villanueva, José Ramos-Muñóz
The region around the Strait of Gibraltar offered Neolithic societies a bridge connecting Iberia and North Africa. Using the sea for access to additional resources, Neolithic groups in the area developed close links with this territory as evidenced by its burial rites and storage practices. Nonetheless, the role pottery and its contents may have had in the labour activities of these groups is not ...... hiện toàn bộ
Morphometric analysis and detection of invisible archaeological elements by spectral treatment of digital imagesArchaeological and Anthropological Sciences - Tập 10 - Trang 647-656 - 2016
Aroa Gutiérrez Alonso, Mercedes Farjas Abadía, José Antonio Domínguez Gómez
The aim of this paper is to describe the creation of a method to apply digital image treatment, consisting of a combination of filters and algorhythms, to prehistoric rock carvings, to enhance the information obtained from them. In the experimental phase a study was made of a laboratory piece and two highly valuable pieces of cave art from the Tamanart Valley in Morocco and the Casares Cave in Gua...... hiện toàn bộ
Use-wear analysis of a specific mobile toolkit from the Middle Paleolithic site of Abric Romaní (Barcelona, Spain): a case study from level MArchaeological and Anthropological Sciences - Tập 12 - Trang 1-25 - 2020
Juan Ignacio Martín-Viveros, Andreu Ollé, M. Gema Chacón, Francesca Romagnoli, Bruno Gómez de Soler, Manuel Vaquero, Palmira Saladié, Josep Vallverdú, Eudald Carbonell
A use-wear analysis was carried out on a specific mobile toolkit belonging to level M of the Middle Paleolithic site of Abric Romaní (Barcelona, Spain), which is dated to MIS 3, between 51 and 55 Ka BP. In an environment rich in local and regional chert sources and in a technological context marked by expedient behavior, a set of flakes, which also included debordant elements with asymmetric trans...... hiện toàn bộ
Construction and use of rock-cut cisterns: a chronological OSL approach in the arid Negev Highlands, IsraelArchaeological and Anthropological Sciences - Tập 13 - Trang 1-21 - 2021
Andrea Junge, Zachary C. Dunseth, Ruth Shahack-Gross, Israel Finkelstein, Markus Fuchs
The Negev Highlands (Israel) are characterized by a rich settlement history over the last millennia. To sustain life in this arid environment, measures to collect and store water were introduced. Two types of installations to collect and store runoff water were built in the region: open reservoirs, and more elaborate subterranean rock-cut cisterns. This article focuses on the latter. Based on a fe...... hiện toàn bộ