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Fresh data on Science are presented in the report 'Living archaeology: artefacts of specific nest site fidelity in wild chimpanzees.' According to the authors of a study from Cambridge, United [...]

According to the authors of a study from Cordoba, Spain, 'A geoarchaeological study of some lithic assemblages found in late Middle Pleistocene and beginning Upper Pleistocene alluvial terraces system has [...]

'Driven to the brink of extinction during the nineteenth century commercial fur and oil trade, northern elephant seal (NES, Mirounga angustirostris) populations now exceed 100 000 animals in the northeast [...]

'Ancient Egyptians had by the New Kingdom developed many basket making and matting techniques. These techniques were not only used for making all types and sizes of baskets and mats, [...]

A report, 'Comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography to characterize hydrocarbon mixtures in lithic materials,' is newly published data in Journal of Chromatography a. According to recent research published in the Journal [...]

According to a study from Arcavacata di Rende, Italy, 'The present study focuses on the compositional characterisation of Roman, proto-Byzantine and Medieval mortars, sampled in the archaeological site of Kyme [...]

'An ornamented artefact made of antler, found in the environs of Swidwin (Pomerania, NW Poland), was subject to structural and environmental analysis. Radiocarbon dating (10 700 +/- 60 BP or [...]

'Palaeoecological analysis of peat deposits from a small bog at Lingarden, southern Sweden, have been used to examine the nature and timing of vegetation changes and anthropogenic activity associated with [...]

'Portable X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF) apparatus of the last generation was tested to determine its potential for routine provenance determination of clay cuneiform tablets, which cannot be analyzed by ''classical'' intrusive [...]

'A wide range of existing mineralogical and geochemical methodologies such as optical microscopy, X-ray diffraction, manual scanning electron microscopy, ICP-MS and INAA have been utilised in the analysis of ancient [...]

According to a study from Denmark, 'The niche construction model postulates that human bio-social evolution is composed of three inheritance domains, genetic, cultural and ecological, linked by feedback selection. This [...]

'The Cretan School of iconography is the last great flowering of the traditional Byzantine painting manner, which is however influenced by different schools and western art. Despite their historical significance, [...]

'This study was aimed at individuating characteristics related to the pottery's firing technique of Classical Roman producers, through the low field single-sided NMR relaxometry. The approach is based on a [...]

'The prehistoric establishment and expansion of permanent settlements on the Northern Channel Islands of southern California generally follows a pattern predicted by the population ecology model, the ideal free distribution [...]

'Sum probability analysis of 1275 radiometric ages from 608 archaeological sites across northern and central Australia demonstrates a changing archaeological signature that can be closely correlated with climate variability over [...]

Current study results from the report, 'The microscopic (optical and SEM) examination of dental calculus deposits (DCD). Potential interest in forensic anthropology of a bio-archaeological method,' have been published. 'This [...]

A report, 'Ancient mitochondrial DNA analysis reveals complexity of indigenous North American turkey domestication,' is newly published data in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States [...]

'During the analysis of wood charcoal remains from archaeological sites, it is common to find different microorganisms and different forms of degradation present in the plant tissue. However, one may [...]

'The provenance of Early Bronze Age and early Middle Bronze Age pottery produced between 2100 and 1970 B.C. and excavated from Kaman-Kalehoyuk. Turkey was studied using mineralogical methods, including heavy [...]

According to a study from Nottingham, the United Kingdom, 'Examination of a selection of shell and bone from archaeological assemblages excavated at Niah Cave and Gua Sireh, both of which [...]

A new study, 'Characterization of nucleotide misincorporation patterns in the iceman's mitochondrial DNA,' is now available. According to recent research from Camerino, Italy, 'The degradation of DNA represents one of [...]

'Over the past quarter century, multielement chemical analysis has become a common means for attributing the provenance of archaeological materials. The Coso Volcanic Field (CVF) in California, USA, contains at [...]

"To obtain more knowledge of the origin and genetic diversity of domestic horses in China, this study provides a comprehensive analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) D-loop sequence diversity from nine [...]

'Some archaeological excavations require the accurate determination of the provenance of finds (three-dimensional location and orientation) for a subsequent spatial analysis. The traditional manual measurement using a grid reference is [...]

'Reviewing archaeological research in the Willandra Lakes area over the past forty years shows a number of methodological and conceptual problems. One of these is the use of ethnographic models [...]