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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. ...
Machine Learning for the Built Heritage Archaeological Study
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2021-02)
The presence of artificial intelligence in our lives is increasing and being applied to fields such as medicine, engineering, telecommunications, remote sensing and 3D visualization. Nevertheless, it has never been used ...
Social archaeology of food in early medieval rural Iberia (5th-9th c. AD)
(2020-12-16)
This thesis draws a social history of food in early medieval rural Iberia based on the comparison of dietary patterns in Madrid-Toledo, the Basque Country and Catalonia between 5th and 9th c. as revealed by carbon and ...
Historical Mapping vs. Archaeology: Rethinking Fort Sancti Spiritus (1527–1529)
(Springer, 2022-12-06)
The first cartographic representations of the Paraná delta have been used to characterize the elements that comprised the archaeological site of Fort Sancti Spiritus, an iconic place in the beginnings of the colonization ...
The intrusive nature of the Châtelperronian in the Iberian Peninsula
(Public Library Science, 2022)
Multiple factors have been proposed to explain the disappearance of Neandertals between ca. 50 and 40 kyr BP. Central to these discussions has been the identification of new techno-cultural complexes that overlap with the ...