Category: Archaeology
Mimbres society used insularity as a cultural strategy
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in ArchaeologyAnalysis of Mimbres Classic period communities examines insularity as strategic cultural practice emphasizing household autonomy and symbolic containment over monumentality.
Carbon black cave art in Dordogne was directly dated
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in ArchaeologyRadiocarbon dating reveals carbon black Paleolithic cave art at Font-de-Gaume in France’s Dordogne region, establishing chronological constraints on previously undocumented prehistoric artistic.
Tweefontein Nubian cores form part of a broader reduction continuum
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in Archaeology3D geometric morphometric analysis of Nubian Levallois cores at Tweefontein reveals prepared core technologies exist on a continuum rather than discrete categories, challenging traditional.
Mudbrick samples revealed seven plant species in Sudan
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in ArchaeologyArchaeobotanical analysis of mudbricks from Christian-period sites in Sudan reveals mixed subsistence practices combining cereal agriculture with wild plant exploitation and pastoral activity.
New dates refine the age of La Ferrassie 1
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in ArchaeologyPaleoproteomics and radiocarbon dating refine chronology of La Ferrassie 1 Neanderthal skeleton, placing it within the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition and Châtelperronian cultural complex.
New open-air sites show repeated Later Stone Age visits in the Karoo
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in ArchaeologyArchaeological survey in Wolwekraal Nature Reserve documents multiple late Holocene Later Stone Age sites along the Dorps River, revealing repeated occupational patterns in the arid Karoo region.
Aurignacian signs were deliberate and conventional
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in ArchaeologyResearch reveals that early modern humans 40,000 years ago used systematic geometric sign systems on Aurignacian artifacts, demonstrating proto-writing complexity comparable to later writing systems.
Human remains in Heaning Wood Bone Cave span three prehistoric phases
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in ArchaeologyHeaning Wood Bone Cave in Cumbria yielded the earliest human remains from northern Britain (9290–8925 cal BC) plus Neolithic and Bronze Age burials.
Poison traces found on 60,000-year-old Southern African microliths
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in ArchaeologyMicrochemical biomolecular analyses detected Amaryllidaceae alkaloids on backed microliths from Umhlatuzana, providing direct evidence of Boophone-derived arrow poisons at ~60 ka.
