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“Of herds and societies—Seasonal aspects of Vinča culture herding and land use practices revealed using sequential stable isotope analysis of animal teeth”
New article published by Rosalind E. Gillis, Jelena Bulatović, Kristina Penezić, Miloš Spasić, Nenad N. Tasićc and Cheryl A. Makarewicz in PLOS ONE. Late Neolithic Vinča communities, spread over much of central and northern Balkans during the late sixth to mid-fifth millennium BC and characterised by unusually large and densely population centres, would have required…
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“Unravelling the Taphonomic Stories of Bird Bones from the Middle Pleistocene Layer VIII of Grotte Vaufrey, France”
New article published by Anna Rufà and Véronique Laroulandie in Quaternary. In recent years, several studies have significantly changed our knowledge concerning the use of birds by Neanderthals. However, what remains to be clarified is the geographical and chronological variability of this human behaviour. The present case study provides new information on this topic/debate. The…
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“Soils in ancient irrigated agricultural terraces in the Atacama Desert, Chile”
New article published by Jonathan A. Sandor, Gary Huckleberry, Frances M. Hayashida, César Parcero-Oubiña, Diego Salazar, Andrés Troncoso, Cruz Ferro-Vázquez in Geoarchaeology. The Atacama Desert is among the driest places on Earth, yet ancient agricultural systems are present in the region. Here, we present a study of terraced agricultural soils in the high-altitude eastern margin of…
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“Landscape-scale perspectives on Stone Age behavioural change from the Tankwa Karoo, South Africa”
New article published by Emily Hallinan in Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa. Southern Africa is an ecologically highly varied region, yet many generalisations about past human behaviour are drawn from rock shelter sites in coastal and montane Fynbos Biome environments. The Tankwa Karoo region offers the opportunity to extend our archaeological knowledge from the well-researched…
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ICArEHB at FIC.A – Festival Internacional de Ciência
Starting tomorrow ICArEHB will be at FIC.A – Festival Internacional de Ciência, that will take place from the 12th to the 17th October, at the Marquês de Pombal Palace and Gardens in Oeiras. We will have a stand, talks, workshops and many interesting and engaging activities with our Researchers and PhD Students, so make sure…
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“A worked bone assemblage from 120,000–90,000 year old deposits at Contrebandiers Cave, Atlantic Coast, Morocco”
New article published by Emily Y. Hallett, Curtis W. Marean, Teresa E.Steele, Esteban Álvarez-Fernández, Zenobia Jacobs, Jacopo Niccolò Cerasoni, Vera Aldeias, Eleanor M.L.Scerri, Deborah I.Olszewski, Mohamed Abdeljalil El Hajraoui, Harold L. Dibble in iScience. The emergence of Homo sapiens in Pleistocene Africa is associated with a profound reconfiguration of technology. Symbolic expression and personal ornamentation, new tool…
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ICArEHB in European Researchers’ Night 2021,
On September 24, MAR Shopping Algarve (Loulé) will host, for the first time, the European Researchers’ Night (NEI), which will take place between 10:00 AM and 10 PM. ICArEHB will participate in the exhibition among other institutions and researchers from the University of Algarve. This year’s initiative will feature activities that aim to raise awareness…
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“Neanderthal palaeoecology in the late Middle Palaeolithic of western Iberia: a stable isotope analysis of ungulate teeth from Lapa do Picareiro (Portugal)”
New article published by Milena Carvalho, Emily Lena Jones, M. Grace Ellis, João Cascalheira, Nuno Bicho, David Meiggs, Michael Benedetti, Lukas Friedl and Jonathan Haws in Journal of Quaternary Science. Adaptation to Late Pleistocene climate change is an oft-cited potential contributor to Neanderthal disappearance in Eurasia. Accordingly, research on Neanderthal behaviour – including subsistence strategies, mobility, lithic technology, raw material procurement and demography…
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“Complexity in the Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition in Peninsular Southern Europe and application of refugium concepts”
New article published by Milena Carvalho and Nuno Bicho in Journal of Quaternary Science. During the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in the Balkan, Italian and Iberian peninsulas of southern Europe, late Neanderthal and early Anatomically Modern Human (AMH) populations may have overlapped in some capacity. Many of the hypotheses and models for the transition interval…
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“Testing the reliability of CT scan-based dental wear magnitude scoring”
New article published by Ricardo Miguel Godinho and Célia Gonçalves in American Journal of Physical Anthropology. Digital models are now frequently used in biological anthropology (bioanthropology) research. Despite several studies validating this type of research, none has examined if the assessment of dental wear magnitude based on Computerized Tomography (CT) scans is reliable. Thus, this study…