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Sacred Landscapes and Deep Time: Mobility, Memory, and Monasticism on Crowland Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Duncan W. Wright, Hugh Willmott
Excavation of a postulated early Medieval hermitage near Crowland, England, identified a site with a long and complex chronological sequence. During the Neolithic or Early Bronze Age, a monumental ...
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The Final Bronze/Early Iron Age in the Old Zerafshan Delta, Uzbekistan: Pilot Investigations at Kimirek-kum-1 Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Sören Stark, Lynne М. Rouse, Sirojiddin J. Mirzaakhmedov, Zachary Silvia, Sydney А. Hunter, Tomáš Bek, Husniddin Rakhmanov, Narges Bayani
The transition between the Final Bronze and Early Iron Age remains one of the least understood periods in the archaeology of southern Central Asia. In this paper, we introduce the newly discovered ...
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Challenging Classifications? Interpreting a “Difficult” Enclosure at Inchnadamph in Northwestern Scotland Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Rory McDonald, Kirsty Millican
This paper explores some challenges of archaeological interpretation and classification through an enclosure at Inchnadamph in Sutherland, northwestern Scotland, a site that has proven difficult to...
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Out of Context: “Backdirt” Privatization and Contested Space in East Jerusalem Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Elisabeth Sawerthal
Within the social, religious, and political context of present-day Jerusalem, soil is meaningful and marketable. This is evident in the Temple Mount Sifting Project, an archaeological tourist ventu...
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It’s All in the Backfill: Scrap Heaps, Explosives, and Nausea. Stirring the Soil of a Former WWII Military Base Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Anke S. Weber
Within an archaeology of the contemporary, sites and material remains of the Second World War have in recent years been set more prominently on the agenda of European heritage archaeology. This art...
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Backdirt as a Means of Deconstruction of Archaeological Procedure: The Case Study of Tel Burnat, The Occupied Palestinian Territories Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Chemi Shiff
This paper will examine the case study of Tel Burnat, located to the north of Nablus in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, to demonstrate how the concept of backdirt may be employed to deconstru...
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Holding Ground: Reconsidering the Sensitivity of Backdirt in the Context of NAGPRA Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Krystiana L. Krupa, Jayne-Leigh Thomas, Rebecca Hawkins, Julie Olds, Scott Willard
In the United States, many archaeological excavations focus on precontact era Native American sites, and for the majority of American archaeology’s existence, these have included a vast number of b...
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Stratagems and Back Spoils: Utilizing Backdirt in the Management of Archaeological Earthen Heritage Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Ashley Lingle, Jerrod Seifert
Preservation strategies at earthen archaeological sites are challenging to develop and maintain in the long term. Environmental fluctuations, anthropogenic interference, and pedological composition...
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Outro: A Practice of Backdirt Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Allison Mickel
Published in Journal of Field Archaeology (Vol. 49, No. 3, 2024)
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Settlement Organization and Distribution in Bronze Age Sardinia: Utilizing Cumulative Viewshed Analysis and Spatial Statistics in the Sulcis Plain Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Miriam Rothenberg, Thomas P. Leppard, Elic Weitzel, Elizabeth A. Murphy
Nuraghi are ubiquitous in the Bronze Age Sardinian landscape, but the reasons for their distribution and wider function remain poorly understood. Here, we evaluate the argument that these megalithi...
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Introduction: How do we Think about Backdirt? Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Allison Mickel, Christina Luke
Published in Journal of Field Archaeology (Vol. 49, No. 2, 2024)
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Backdirting: Theorizing Backdirt through Time, Place, and Process Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Jordi A. Rivera Prince, Amanda Brock Morales
Backdirts, as the byproducts of excavation, are necessary but often overlooked parts of archaeological practice. However, current definitions of backdirt essentialize dynamic matter into a static b...
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Theorizing Backdirt: Between Contemporary Archaeology and a Meta-Critique Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Daniel Carvalho
This article intends to explore the theoretical dimensions of backdirt in archaeology. Often ignored and viewed as mere refuse material of archaeological practices, these by-products of excavation ...
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The Social Construction of Backdirt in Chaco Archaeology Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Kelsey E. Hanson, Samantha G. Fladd, Sarah E. Oas, Katelyn J. Bishop
Archaeologists routinely create backdirt during excavation, but it is rarely acknowledged and remains surprisingly undertheorized. In this paper, we treat backdirt as a uniquely archaeological prod...
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A Symmetrical Archaeology Approach to Previously Excavated Sites: or, How I Learned to Appreciate Antiquarian Backdirt Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Kathryn Howley
Inspired by the author’s experience of working at Sanam Temple, a 1st millennium b.c. site in northern Sudan previously excavated at the beginning of the 20th century a.d., this paper attempts to r...
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Backdirt Ecopoetics Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Kevin Pijpers
In this paper, I take an ecopoetic standpoint by attending to those practices that distinguish between dirt and backdirt on field sites. Fabricating this distinction features ongoing and intermitte...
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Monumental and Long-Lasting or Temporary and Performative? How did Neolithic Rondels Function? Radiocarbon Dating and Bayesian Chronological Modeling of the Rondel at Nowe Objezierze (Northwestern Poland) Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Lech Czerniak, Alex Bayliss, Tomasz Goslar, Monika Badura, Kristýna Budilová, Lenka Lisá, Arkadiusz Marciniak, Agnieszka Matuszewska, Anna Pędziszewska, Joanna Święty-Musznicka
Radiocarbon dating and Bayesian chronology modeling have provided precise dating for the rondel at Nowe Objezierze (northwestern Poland). This monument, located in the farthest reaches of the “Danu...
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JFA’s Foray into the Photo Essay: Archaeologists In-Place in the Anthropocene Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Christina Luke
Published in Journal of Field Archaeology (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2024)
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Fieldwork in an Increasingly Variable Climate: The Kites in Context Project 2023 Field Season Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Austin Chad Hill, Yorke M. Rowan, Ali Atallah Al-Hajj, Jennifer Feng, Joseph Harris, Blair Heidkamp, Morag M. Kersel, Megan Nishida, Amelie Schmücker
Archaeologists commonly include climatic data in their analyses of living in the past, but rarely do current weather conditions achieve mention in our professional considerations. The Kites in Cont...
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Forensic Traceable Liquid for Deterring Trafficking in Cultural Property: Pilot Implementation in Iraq Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Alesia Koush
This paper introduces and evaluates forensic traceable liquid technology as a potential deterrent for trafficking in cultural property, earlier employed in the UK to reduce heritage crime and recen...
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Temporal Analysis of Looting Activity in Tūwāneh (Southern Jordan) Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Kamil Kopij, Paweł Ćwiąkała, Edyta Puniach, Grzegorz Sochacki, Łukasz Miszk, Jarosław Bodzek
Looting is a worldwide issue that occurs not only in conflict zones or areas with weak governmental control. Although national and international agencies are addressing the problem, we are far from...
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High-Resolution Spatial Analysis of Archaeobotanical Remains from a Kitchen Context in Imperial Late Antique (ca. a.d. 600) Dhiban, Jordan Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Alan Farahani, Melissa Kutner, Danielle Steen Fatkin, Benjamin W. Porter
Archaeological plant remains are key data in the identification of the material consequences of imperial interventions in past local lifeways. In this paper, the spatial and stratigraphic analysis ...
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Ice Patches and Obsidian Quarries: Integrating Research Through Collaborative Archaeology in Tahltan Territory Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Duncan McLaren, Brendan Gray, Rosemary Loring, Ts̱ēmā Igharas, Rolf Mathewes, Lesli Louie, Megan Doxsey-Whitfield, Genevieve Hill, Kendrick Marr
This article presents the results of archaeological survey of ice patches in the vicinity of the vast obsidian quarries and artifact scatters found near Goat Mountain and the Kitsu Plateau in Mount...
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The Role of the Field Architect in the Digital Age: Integrating Human and Electronic Recording at the Villa Arianna in Roman Stabiae Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Joseph C. Williams, Thomas Howe, Adan Ramos, Gabriel Maslen
Digital recording technologies such as lidar and photogrammetry bring higher efficiency to archaeological recording, as well as the allure of automation. How do the promises of the digital age impa...
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Household Labor Practices and Dryland Agroforestry in Upland Kula, Maui Island Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Michael J. Kolb, Patty J. Conte, Valerie Curtis, Jim Hayden
The relationship between agricultural systems and the development of complex societies in ancient Hawai`i has been debated for decades. To contribute to this debate, we examine a terrace complex re...
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Settlement Chronology and Subsistence Patterns in Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur, Mexico Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Christopher S. Jazwa, Amira F. Ainis, Ryan B. Anderson, Karim Bulhusen Muñoz, Emmanuel Reyes Estrada, Harumi Fujita
Cabo Pulmo National Park (CPNP), within the East Cape of Baja California Sur, Mexico, is the location of a highly productive rocky reef ecosystem that was likely attractive to people throughout the...
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Women in the Lab, Men in the Field? Correlations between Gender and Research Topics at Three Major Archaeology Conferences Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Yichun Chen, Ben Marwick
Rising interest in gender equality in society has resulted in greater scrutiny of gender inequality in academic communities. Analysis of authorship of peer-reviewed publications shows that archaeol...
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In Search of a Borderland: Material Culture Patterns on the Southern Limits of the North American Southwest Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-10-31 John Philip Carpenter, Guadalupe Sánchez, Rommel Tapia-Carrasco, Andrew R. Krug, Edson Cupa, Dakota Larrick, Carlos Eduardo Hernández, Robin R. Singleton, Matthew C. Pailes
Recent research conducted in southern Sonora, Mexico provides an opportunity to revisit debates about interaction between Mesoamerica and the North American Southwest (NAS). In the borderland betwe...
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Furrows Without Ridges: Evidence for an Agricultural Field at Angel Mounds (12Vg1), Southwestern Indiana, USA Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Edward W. Herrmann, Rebecca A. Hawkins, Christina M. Friberg, Jayne-Leigh Thomas, Jack Rossen, August G. Costa
Evidence of precontact agricultural practices demonstrating how and where crops were grown is often scant because of poor preservation and modern land use practices. As a result, relatively few sit...
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Towards an Integrated Approach to Studying the Stratified Ceramics from Dandanakan/Daş Rabat, Turkmenistan (9th–12th Centuries a.d.) Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Carmen Ting, Martina Rugiadi, Paul Wordsworth
This study draws on archaeological, stylistic, and technological evidence to explore ceramic and brick production of the medieval Islamic period in the southern Karakum region in Turkmenistan, home...
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Evaluating Systematic Use of Ground Penetrating Radar and Auger Surveys to Determine Activity Areas at Three Open Air Sites in Central Alaska Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Briana N. Doering, Ken L. Hladek, Molly A. Herron, Joshua D. Reuther, Julie A. Esdale, Charles E. Holmes, Gerad M. Smith
This study explores various testing techniques’ ability to identify activity areas across deeply stratified, open air archaeological sites. To determine the efficacy of different site testing techn...
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Settlement Discontinuities in Southwestern Arabia during the Middle and Late Holocene: The Bayḥān (Yemen) Region Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Jean-François Breton, Brigitte Coque-Delhuille, Christopher Edens
Recent research has produced an increasingly nuanced but still incomplete understanding of Neolithic through Iron Age communities in southwestern Arabia. Present evidence indicates that foraging co...
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Statement of Retraction: Pastoral Paleoclimate Palimpsests of the South-Central Andes: High-Altitude Herder Dwellings in the 2nd Millennium a.d. Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-08-24
Published in Journal of Field Archaeology (Vol. 48, No. 8, 2023)
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Craftmanship, Operation, and the Configuration of Social Space: The Case of the Middle Neolithic Pottery Workshop Site of Imvrou Pigadi, Thessaly, Greece Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Evita Kalogiropoulou, Niki Saridaki, Dimitris Roussos, Nina Kyparissi-Apostolika
ABSTRACT This paper examines, in parallel, two key archaeological material groups: the kilns and the ceramics from the exceptional tell site of Imvrou Pigadi, the first known and systematically excavated Middle Neolithic pottery workshop in Thessaly. The study forms an all-encompassing, material-based, and scientifically integrated framework based on macroscopic and microscopic analyses, including
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Long Bones and Antlers for Artifact Production in the Final Late Bronze Age Settlement of Thessaloniki Toumba (Northern Greece, 1210–1040 cal b.c.) Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Konstantinos Chondros, Rozalia Christidou, Sevasti Triantaphyllou, Stelios Andreou
ABSTRACT We present two significant patterns of osseous artifact production during the Final Late Bronze Age at the settlement mound of Thessaloniki Toumba in the northeastern Thermaic Gulf region in northern Greece and compare with data published from the same and neighboring regions. One pattern is the use of long bone fractures for shaping awls. The other is the production of pins from deer antlers
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Mineralogy and Sourcing of a Stone Bead Industry Found in Communal Cemeteries Associated with Eastern Africa's First Pastoralists, ca. 5000 b.p. Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Carla E. Klehm, Mark A. Helper, Elisabeth Hildebrand, Emmanuel Ndiema, Katherine M. Grillo
ABSTRACT This article describes the mineralogy and sources for a spectacular stone bead industry associated with the first pastoralists in eastern Africa ca. 5000–4000 cal b.p. Around Lake Turkana, northwest Kenya, early pastoralists constructed at least seven mortuary monuments with platforms, pillars, cairns, and stone circles. Three sites—Lothagam North, Manemanya, and Jarigole—have yielded assemblages
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In-Field Obsidian XRF Analysis of Sites in the Lion Mountain Area and Gallinas Mountains of West-Central New Mexico Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Jonathan M. Schaefer, Suzanne L. Eckert, Deborah L. Huntley, Jeffrey R. Ferguson
ABSTRACT The Gallinas Mountains of west-central New Mexico were home to agriculturalists between ca. a.d. 850 and 1450. Ongoing research of the Lion Mountain Archaeology Project (LMAP) has allowed for in-field analysis of surface obsidian artifacts via portable handheld energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (ED-XRF). Influenced by principles of preservation archaeology and the archaeological
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Niche Construction of Ban-nong ban-eoh in Southwestern Korea: Archaeobotanical Data from the Early Iron to Three Kingdoms Periods Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Hyunsoo Lee, Younghun Kim, Gyoung-Ah Lee
ABSTRACT This paper examines the traditional ecological knowledge that existed for generations along the southern coast in Korea with an example from the site of Gungokri. Traditional subsistence along the Korean coast and islands is known as half-farming and half-fishing, Ban-nong ban-eoh in Korean, and we argue that this strategy applies to over 500 years of history at the site. Our data from 150
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Revisiting the Acheulean at Namib IV in the Namib Desert, Namibia Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-06-04 George M. Leader, Rachel Bynoe, Ted Marks, Abi Stone, Kaarina Efraim, Dominic Stratford, Eugene Marais
ABSTRACT Namib IV (S23° 44.829’, E14° 19.720’) is frequently cited, as it is one of few Earlier Stone Age sites in the Sand Sea of the Namib Desert. The site was first investigated in 1978 by Myra Shackley, who described 582 artifacts on the surface of a pan as representing an Acheulean butchery site. Descriptions of the artifacts, their number, and area were inconsistently reported. Recently rediscovered
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The Geoarchaeology of Source Bordering Sand Sheets on the Ceja Mesa Escarpment, New Mexico: Sand Sheet Dynamics and Site Formation Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-06-01 David M. Rachal
ABSTRACT Source bordering sand sheets form downwind of sandy stream beds on the Ceja Mesa escarpment in north-central New Mexico. Archaic archaeological sites are often buried in this type of deposit. A stratigraphic sequence from one site was examined using soil morphology, radiocarbon and optical dating, soil characterization, and stable isotope analyses of soil organic matter and carbonate. This
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Pyramid Schemes: Resurrecting Tikal through the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Lynn Meskell
ABSTRACT Carved out of the jungle by American big business, Penn Museum’s project at Tikal to restore massive pyramids and showcase Maya civilization was a direct outgrowth of government, military, and corporate connections. The story of Pennsylvania in the Petén is about American involvement in developing tourism, infrastructure, research stations, training, and the making of Guatemalan heritage citizens
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Multi-Period Ore Exploitation in Upper Silesia, Central Europe Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Ireneusz Malik, Marcin Bohr, Małgorzata Wistuba, Thomas Raab, Alexander Bonhage, Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart, Alexandra Raab, Beata Woskowicz-Ślęzak
ABSTRACT We studied the abandoned mining field in southern Poland using high-resolution lidar images to distinguish the number of mining shaft remains and their morphological diversity. We identified 13,864 remains of mining shafts of various sizes (2–30 m in diameter) and diverse levels of denudation. This allowed us to select 13 mining shafts for detailed study. The radiocarbon dating of charcoal
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Equality in the Periphery of Lamanai: Assessing a Maya Community in the 10th and 11th Centuries a.d. Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Alec McLellan, Helen R. Haines
ABSTRACT This paper explores the spatial distribution of the built environment in the 10th and 11th centuries a.d. in the periphery of Lamanai, a Precolumbian Maya site in northern Belize. Analysis of structures, labor investments, and ceramic distributions indicates that the periphery was characterized by a small, monumental core between Lamanai and Ka’kabish, known as Coco Chan, which radiated outwards
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Museum “Diaspora” Collections for Archaeological Research: Edo-Period Shogun Family’s Funerary Lanterns Outside Japan Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Yoko Nishimura
ABSTRACT This paper advocates using museum collections for archaeological research by offering a new approach to generate questions on the sociocultural lives of ancient people. I define “diaspora” collections as historical and archaeological artifacts excavated in a homeland site but currently stored in museums that are outside the homeland country. Of particular importance in this approach is the
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Island Colonization and Human-Environment Interactions on the Edges of the Tropics: Archaeology of the Taíno Frontier (Northern Bahamas) Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-03-01 William F. Keegan, David W. Steadman, Michelle LeFebvre, Neill Wallis, Lindsay Bloch, Nancy Albury, Janet Franklin, Emily Kracht
ABSTRACT Variability across frontiers and boundaries challenges the resilience of expanding populations. Here, we contribute to a broader understanding of global patterns of island colonization and expose the diversity of lifeways experienced across the Taíno culture area by exploring Lucayan settlement of the small subtropical islands of the northern Bahama archipelago. The results of this first comprehensive
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Domesticated Forest Landscapes in Central Scandinavia during the Iron Age: Resource Colonization for Iron and Subsistence Strategies based on Livestock Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Ove Eriksson
ABSTRACT This study explores how resource colonization for iron in central Sweden during the early Iron Age may have affected the use of forest landscapes. Slag heap volume at iron production sites was used to estimate the amount of forest resources required for charcoal production. Forest resources required for livestock grazing and fodder were estimated from literature sources. To produce charcoal
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Radiocarbon Dating of Late Bronze Age Burials from the Great Urals (Steppe Trans-Urals and Northern Kazakhstan) and Bayesian Modeling Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Finn A. Schreiber, Olga N. Korochkova, Igor K. Novikov, Emma R. Usmanova
ABSTRACT In the last two decades, the Bronze Age chronology of the Great Urals was revolutionized by the first large-scale radiocarbon dating programs. Since then, the chronology of the Bronze Age in this area has been under discussion. In this paper, we present 23 new AMS dates from Late Bronze Age sites in the steppe and forest steppe areas of the southern Trans-Urals and northwestern Kazakhstan
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Overlapping Histories: A Stratigraphical Approach to the Walls of Theban Tomb 123 (Luxor, Egypt) Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Lucas Gheco, Marcos Gastaldi, María Bernarda Marconetto, Jose Roberto Pellini
ABSTRACT Currently, the walls of the Theban Tomb 123 (Luxor, Egypt) are the result and evidence of diverse histories developed over a span of 3400 years. They encapsulate, as overlapping layers, material and intangible transformations that reveal multiple uses, meanings, and ontologies which converged in the necropolis of Thebes. At this tomb, originally built for a scribe named Amenemhet, a detailed
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Animal Economy in Hellenistic Greece: A Zooarchaeological Study from Pherae (Thessaly) Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Dimitris Filioglou, Canan Çakırlar
ABSTRACT The scale of animal husbandry in ancient Greece has been debated for decades. To contribute to this debate, we examined faunal assemblages from Pherae in central Greece using non-destructive zooarchaeological methods. The results show that Pherae was involved in a caprine-oriented husbandry. The limited mobility of domesticated animals, indicated by mortality profiles, suggests that small-scale
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Hidden Cycles of Time in the Layout of Mesoamerican Ballcourts Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Aurelio López Corral
ABSTRACT Thousands of ballcourts are known throughout Mesoamerica, as they are usually a main component of public architecture at mostly high-ranking archaeological sites. These buildings appear in different designs and layouts and were deeply tied to politics, religion, sacred belief, ritual, ceremonies, and sport. Considering that the construction of public buildings followed well-established architectural
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Archaeological Correlates of the Rosetta Stone’s Great Revolt in the Nile Delta: Destruction at Tell Timai Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Jay E. Silverstein, Robert J. Littman
ABSTRACT A stratum at Tell Timai shows extensive evidence of violent destruction dating to the early 2nd century b.c. Burning, rapid abandonment of objects in a house, destruction of a kiln complex, weaponry, and unburied bodies spread over a wide area in North Tell Timai indicate the city of Thmouis was subject to an episode of warfare. The destruction at Thmouis parallels an account of the destruction
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Encounters with the Archaeological Archive Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Chloë Ward
ABSTRACT The archival encounter is an often-neglected consideration in the use of archaeological archives and field records. However, this encounter can have significant impacts on the interpretation of archaeological evidence and the way that knowledge is produced. This is particularly apparent when exploring fundamental differences between the materiality of archaeological evidence in the field and
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A Techno-Functional Analysis of Acheulean Backed Knives from Wonderboom, South Africa Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-12-18 Matthew V. Caruana, Matt G. Lotter, Marlize Lombard
ABSTRACT We present the first techno-functional examination of backed knives from the southern African Acheulean. Our results suggest that they were opportunistically produced, although they demonstrate a unique ergonomic design that may have increased their efficiency in subsistence activities. Moreover, the frequency of backed knives at Wonderboom may be associated with possible meat harvesting at
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Minimally Invasive High-Resolution Investigation of Site Form and Disturbance at Rat Island (AhGx-7), Cootes Paradise, Ontario Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Beatrice Fletcher, Aubrey Cannon, Scott Martin, Eduard Reinhardt
ABSTRACT This paper presents a reinvestigation of archaeological material at Rat Island (AhGx-7), a proposed Princess Point period site in Cootes Paradise, Ontario, Canada. Applying a minimally invasive coring and augering strategy paired with soil properties and high-resolution multi-element chemical evaluation, we established that a low rise on the landscape, previously attributed to Princess Point
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Funding in the “Field:” An Analysis of Demographics and Methods in National Science Foundation Archaeology Grants (1955–2020) Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Laura E. Heath-Stout, Catherine L. Jalbert
ABSTRACT Since Gero’s (1985) germinal article on gender inequities in archaeology, feminist archaeologists have theorized that research processes are gendered: fieldwork is masculine-coded, and lab and museum work are feminine-coded. Goldstein and colleagues (2018) revealed that while more men submit grant applications to the National Science Foundation (NSF) overall, both men and women submit more
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Women in Antiquity: An Analysis of Gender and Publishing in a Global Archaeology Journal Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Emily Hanscam, Robert Witcher
ABSTRACT Studies of archaeology publishing demonstrate a persistent imbalance in the ratio of male and female authors. We present an analysis of the world archaeology journal Antiquity using submissions and editorial decisions data (2015–2020). We identify a recurrent ratio of one female for every two male authors across measures including all listed authors, solo and first-named authors, and team
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An Elite Bronze Age Double-Horse Burial from Western Ukraine and the Chariot Package Dissemination Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Przemysław Makarowicz, Vasyl Ilchyshyn, Edyta Pasicka, Daniel Makowiecki
ABSTRACT The origin and dissemination of paired horse burials and the implications of adopting wheeled vehicle technology on Bronze Age European societies has not been extensively studied. To address this, we present the chronological, artifactual, DNA, contextual, and zooarchaeological analytical results from a Bronze Age double-horse burial in a barrow from Husiatyn, Podolia Upland, western Ukraine
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Bovid Bone Accumulation in Late Middle Palaeolithic Poland Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Andrzej Wiśniewski, Jarosław Wilczyński, Bogusław Przybylski, Magdalena Ciombor, Krzysztof Stefaniak
ABSTRACT The hunting activities of Neanderthals inhabiting the European Lowlands during the Weichsel glaciation are poorly understood due to the scarcity of faunal remains. This work concerns the puzzling accumulation of mammalian remains at the Middle Palaeolithic site Haller Av. in Wrocław, southwestern Poland. The site yielded lithic artifacts in two levels and numerous bone remains typical for
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Cultural Landscapes of Resilience and Vulnerability: The Selin Farm Site, Northeastern Honduras Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Leslie A. Reeder-Myers, Whitney A. Goodwin, Alejandro J. Figueroa, Alejandra I. Domic, Juan Carlos Fernandez-Diaz
ABSTRACT Research at the Selin Farm site in northeastern Honduras examined changing cultural landscapes in a region whose prehistory is poorly understood. Low-impact field methods and radiocarbon dates reveal how this cultural landscape changed in response to shifting priorities among its inhabitants from a.d. 300–1000. We found evidence for rapid accumulation of deposits beginning around a.d. 600
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Last Glacial Maximum Microblade Production at Shizitan 29 and its Implications for North China Pressure Technology Journal of Field Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Stefano Grimaldi, Fabio Santaniello, David J. Cohen, Jinming Shi, Yanhua Song
ABSTRACT A techno-functional approach applied to the lithics of the Late Upper Palaeolithic Shizitan 29 site allows the identification of previously unrecognized technical features of microblade pressure production and new behavioral understanding of its evolution beginning ca. 26,000 cal b.p. These technical features may relate to the evolution of so-called boat-shaped cores, including the development