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Mesolithic hearth-pits and formation processes: a geoarchaeological investigation of sediments from El Arenal de la Virgen site (SE Iberia)
(Springer, 2023-07)
Hearth-pits are some of the most common archaeological features documented in open-air Mesolithic sites, especially in coversand areas of NW Europe. However, very few geoarchaeological studies have addressed their formation, ...
Unraveling Early Holocene occupation patterns at El Arenal de la Virgen (Alicante, Spain) open-air site: an integrated palimpsest analysis
(Springer, 2023-08)
Palimpsests are ubiquitous in the open-air archaeological record. Yet, integrated intra-site research strategies of palimpsest
dissection to infer occupational histories, spatial behavioural patterns and site formation ...
Urban Green Infrastructure Accessibility: Investigating Environmental Justice in a European and Global Green Capital
(MDPI, 2023-08-02)
Access to green spaces offers numerous benefits to citizens and is key to achieving environmental justice. This article explores accessibility to green infrastructure (GI) in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, the European and Global ...
Desarrollo y evolución diacrónica de los usos del suelo del Anillo Verde de Vitoria-Gasteiz (País Vasco)
(Ministerio de Transportes, Movilidad y Agenda Urbana, 2023)
El anillo verde se configura como un concepto de gran implantación dentro del urbanismo de ciudades de diverso tamaño y ubicación. Hoy en día se encuentra de gran actualidad puesto que son muchas las ciudades que lo han ...
The Evolution and Changing Ecology of the African Hominid Oral Microbiome
(National Academy of Sciences, 2021-05-18)
The oral microbiome plays key roles in human biology, health, and disease, but little is known about the global diversity, variation, or evolution of this microbial community. To better understand the evolution and changing ...
Archaeometric evidence for the earliest exploitation of lignite from the bronze age Eastern Mediterranean
(Nature Research, 2021-12-17)
[EN] This paper presents the earliest evidence for the exploitation of lignite (brown coal) in Europe and sheds new light on the use of combustion fuel sources in the 2nd millennium BCE Eastern Mediterranean. We applied ...
Identifying the chaîne opératoire of club-rush (Bolboschoenus glaucus (Lam.) S.G.Sm) tuber exploitation during the Early Natufian in the Black Desert (northeastern Jordan)
(Elsevier, 2023-02)
Club-rush (Bolboschoenus spp. (Asch.) Palla) is one of the most common edible wild plant taxa found at Epipaleolithic and Neolithic sites in southwest Asia. At the Early Natufian site of Shubayqa 1 (Black Desert, Jordan) ...
European Cities in the Energy Transition: A Preliminary Analysis of 27 Cities
(MDPI, 2020-03-12)
Nowadays, there is a wide scientific consensus about the unsustainability of the current energy system and at the same time, social awareness about climate change and the IPCC’s goals is increasing in Europe. Amongst ...
A Non-Invasive In Situ Spectroscopic Analysis of Cinnabar Minerals to Assist Provenance Studies of Archaeological Pigments
(MDPI, 2023-01-23)
This study presents a non-invasive in situ methodology based on the use of portable elemental (energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, EDXRF) and molecular (Raman spectroscopy) spectroscopic-based instrumentation ...
Ancient DNA evidence for the ecological globalization of cod fishing in medieval and post-medieval Europe
(Royal Society, 2022-10)
Understanding the historical emergence and growth of long-range fisheries can provide fundamental insights into the timing of ecological impacts and the development of coastal communities during the last millennium. ...