Journal of Archaeological Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Archaeological Science is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Mosaic pattern of sustained rice domestication and its environmental and cultural implications in Neolithic East China84
Experimental assessment of the impact of food processing on δ15N values in dietary meat – Implications for paleodietary reconstruction64
Cranial suture obliteration patterns as an ageing method for dog crania36
Material characterization uncovers sophisticated mould-making techniques of the middle-Shang period (14th-13th BCE)34
Applying a mask R-CNN machine learning algorithm for segmenting electron microscope images of ceramic bronze-casting moulds34
Earliest Neolithic occupation and maritime adaptation on the West Pacific coast25
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Coupled archaeological and ecological analyses reveal ancient cultivation and land use in Nuchatlaht (Nuu-chah-nulth) territories, Pacific Northwest25
Modelling diffusion of innovation curves using radiocarbon data24
Pollen analysis of neolithic adhesives and comparative experimental archaeology: Insights from La Marmotta (Lake Bracciano, Rome)23
Tin isotopes reveal changing patterns of tin trade, connectivity and consumption from Anatolia and Central Asia at Kültepe22
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Cultural influences on the castration age of cattle in the northern Baltic Sea region during the medieval and post-medieval periods21
Identification of age at death in red deer (Cervus elaphus) through the upper dentition: Eruption pattern, wear stage and crown heights21
In a nutshell: Using structural and chemical changes to establish the charring conditions of archaeological hazelnut shells20
Experiments suggest rockfall an improbable cause for bone surface modification on 24,000-year-old bone at Bluefish Caves, Canada20
Time of occurrence and width of accentuated lines in the enamel of primary incisors from mediaeval skeletal remains from north-central Poland: A further contribution to the explanation of early childh20
Earthen architecture in the Mesoamerican classic period: A micromorphological approach to its manufacture process20
A new method for the energetics analysis of polygonal masonry in Samnite hillforts (Italy)19
Architecture, wealth and status in Classic Maya urbanism revealed by airborne lidar mapping19
Population dynamics in the Middle Ages in Central Europe: Reconstruction based on age-at-death distributions of skeletal samples19
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Multiregional Pb isotopic linear patterns and diagenesis: Isotopes from ancient animal enamel show Native American “foreign war trophies” are local ancestors19
Dunes, death, and datasets: Modelling funerary monument construction in remote arid landscapes using spaceborne stereo imagery18
The relationship between inclusion/void orientation and speed in wheel-thrown pots17
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A Bayesian networks approach to infer social changes from burials in northeastern Taiwan during the European colonization period17
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Reconstructing feast provisioning at Halaf Domuztepe: Evidence from radiogenic strontium analyses15
Model for ancient Greek and Roman coinage production15
Experimental taphonomy of fish bone from warm and cold water species: Testing the effects of amino acid composition on collagen breakdown in modern fish bone using thermal maturation experiments14
Overkill and the North American archaeological record—not guilty by association? A comment on Wolfe and Broughton (2020)14
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A quantitative approach to magnetometer survey data: The case of the Late Bronze Age site of Březnice14
Archaeological investigation of burials preluded by ground penetrating radar and geospatial technologies13
A method for defining dispersed community territories13
The preservation of ancient DNA in archaeological fish bone13
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Age estimation of archeological populations using secondary dentin analysis13
Discriminating dietary behaviour between wild and domestic goats using dental microwear texture: first results from a modern reference set and early Neolithic goat exploitation in the southern Levant13
Temporal and spatial patterns of domestic horse utilisation in northern China during the pre-Qin period13
Forensic toxicology backdates the use of coca plant (Erythroxylum spp.) in Europe to the early 1600s13
Trace element ratios in tooth enamel as palaeodietary indicators of seaweed consumption and coastal grazing, and their broader applicability13
Assessing the predictive taxonomic power of the bony labyrinth 3D shape in horses, donkeys and their F1-hybrids12
Exotic glass types and the intensity of recycling in the northwest Quarter of Gerasa (Jerash, Jordan)12
Classification of Bovidae fossils from Gladysvale, South Africa using elastic shape analysis12
Shanidar et ses fleurs? Reflections on the palynology of the Neanderthal ‘Flower Burial’ hypothesis12
Bayesian mixing models as a tool to explore Bronze Age bitumen trade from Tell Lashkir (Erbil, Iraq)11
Unraveling Neolithic sharp-blunt cranial trauma: Experimental approach through synthetic analogues11
Deciphering ancient ‘recipes’ from charred cereal fragments: An integrated methodological approach using experimental, ethnographic and archaeological evidence11
Crafting illusions: Human-made composite coating used to simulate amber beads in prehistoric Iberia11
Micro-photogrammetry and traceology: new on-site documentation approaches using portable digital microscopes11
Combining ancient DNA and radiocarbon dating data to increase chronological accuracy11
A safely green treatment of bio-deteriorated painted archaeological papyri by Wasabi11
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A burning question – Using an intelligent grey literature search engine to change our views on early medieval burial practices in the Netherlands11
Permanent signatures of birth and nursing initiation are chemically recorded in teeth11
Visions of light: New reconstruction techniques of photometric data and visual perception inside Etruscan painted tombs10
The archaeometry of ochre sensu lato: A review10
A large-scale Sr and Nd isotope baseline for archaeological provenance in Silk Road regions and its application to plant-ash glass10
Measuring allometry in dimensions of western North American Clovis points10
Sorting the flock: Quantitative identification of sheep and goat from isolated third lower molars and mandibles through geometric morphometrics10
A deep variational convolutional Autoencoder for unsupervised features extraction of ceramic profiles. A case study from central Italy10
New chronology of the deposits from the inner chambers of the Guanyindong cave, southwestern China10
ATR-FTIR to distinguish Holocene fumier facies. A perspective from bone diagenesis at El Mirador cave (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)10
Multiple luminescence dating on heated materials at the nanzuo archaeological site, central Chinese Loess Plateau10
Portable ED-XRF as a tool for optimizing sampling strategy: The case study of a Hellenistic amphora assemblage from Paphos (Cyprus)10
Corrigendum to “Ancient DNA analysis of a nineteenth century tobacco pipe from a Maryland slave quarter” [J. Archaeol. Sci. 105 (2019) 11–18]9
Multi-proxy investigations of Bronze Age diet and environment in the hyper-arid eastern Tarim Basin (Lop Nur), northwest China9
Antlers far and wide: Biomolecular identification of Scandinavian hair combs from Ribe, Denmark, 720–900 CE9
Locating submerged prehistoric settlements: A new underwater survey method using water-jet coring and micro-geoarchaeological techniques9
Neolithic to Bronze Age economy and animal management revealed using analyses lipid residues of pottery vessels and faunal remains at El Portalón de Cueva Mayor (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)9
Unravelling ancient drilling techniques: A case of pottery repair in the Early European Neolithic9
Zooarchaeological and ancient DNA identification of a non-local gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA9
Argaric craftswomen: Sex-based division of labor in the Bronze Age southeastern Iberia9
Understanding Roman Gold Coinage Inside Out9
Hormones and bile acids as biomarkers for the characterization of animal management in prehistoric sheepfold caves: El Mirador case (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain)9
Multi-proxy analyses reveal regional cremation practices and social status at the Late Bronze Age site of Herstal, Belgium9
87Sr/86Sr isotope ratios in trees as an archaeological tracer: Limitations of linking plant-biomass and bedrock Sr isotope signatures9
Trade, recycling and mixing in local metal management strategies of the later Bronze Age south Carpathian Basin: Lead isotope and chemical analyses of hoarded metalwork9
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Ancient DNA sequence quality is independent of fish bone weight9
A new method for examining maritime mobility of direct crossings with contrary prevailing winds in the Mediterranean during antiquity9
An FTIR-based model for the diagenetic alteration of archaeological bones9
Provenancing wood used in the Norse Greenlandic settlements: A biogeochemical study using hydrogen, oxygen, and strontium isotopes9
Integration of animal husbandry and millet agriculture in Bronze Age East-central Eurasia revealed by faunal stable isotopes at the Jirentai Goukou site, Xinjiang8
Ancient mitochondrial genome reveals matrilineal genetic inheritance of Chinese goats8
Manuring and land exploitation in the Central Plains of late Longshan (2200–1900 BCE) China: Implications of stable isotopes of archaeobotanical remains8
A multi-analytical approach reveals flexible compound adhesive technology at Steenbokfontein Cave, Western Cape8
Sickle gloss texture analysis elucidates long-term change in plant harvesting during the transition to agriculture8
Moated site object detection using time series satellite imagery and an improved deep learning model in northeast Thailand8
Multi-stage experiments in Bronze Age spear combat: insights on wear formation, trauma, and combat contexts8
Drinking in the dark. A new method to distinguish use-alteration from natural alteration on Neolithic pots and evidence of acid liquid storage in karstic cave contexts8
Revealing primary forming techniques in wheel-made ceramics with X-ray microCT8
Ancient DNA confirms crossbreeding of domestic South American camelids in two pre-conquest archaeological sites8
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Speiss at Amarna (Egypt, c. 1353–1336 BCE) – Exotic anachronism or cherished commodity?8
Ancient parasite analysis: Exploring infectious diseases in past societies8
A large-scale environmental strontium isotope baseline map of Portugal for archaeological and paleoecological provenance studies8
Caution! Contents were hot: Novel biomarkers to detect the heating of fatty acids in residues from pottery use8
Deep learning-based detection of qanat underground water distribution systems using HEXAGON spy satellite imagery8
Utilising ancient DNA to understand crop population dynamics across a millennium: A case study of archaeological barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) from Gran Canaria, Spain7
A new algorithm for using Pb isotopes to determine the provenance of bullion in ancient Greek coinage7
The mosaic tesserae in the industrial Byzantine wine press, Yavne, Israel: A natural unusually hard chalk or a chemically transformed chalk?7
Micro-computed tomography imaging and segmentation of the archaeological textiles from Valmarinniemi7
Unsupervised clustering of Roman potsherds via Variational Autoencoders7
The Salcombe metal cargoes: New light on the provenance and circulation of tin and copper in Later Bronze Age Europe provided by trace elements and isotopes7
Genomic sex identification of ancient pinnipeds using the dog genome7
Applications of deep learning to decorated ceramic typology and classification: A case study using Tusayan White Ware from Northeast Arizona7
A new archaeobotanical proxy for plant food processing: Archaeological starch spherulites at the submerged 23,000-year-old site of Ohalo II7
Sex estimation based on the analysis of enamel peptides: False assignments due to AMELY deletion7
Experimental approach to evaluate the effect of growing conditions on cereal grain size and its relevance for interpreting archaeological cereal grain assemblages7
Provenance study of the variscite artifacts of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia and approach to routes of pre-Hispanic exchange7
Two independent methods for dating rock art: Age determination of paint and oxalate layers at Eagle Cave, TX7
Theoretical and observed C/N ratios in human bone collagen7
The Path to Porcelain: Innovation in Experimental White Stoneware from Luoyang7
Is it hot enough? A multi-proxy approach shows variations in cremation conditions during the Metal Ages in Belgium7
The archaeology of overburden: Method within the madness at Švédův Stůl, Czech Republic6
More on overkill, the associational critique, and the North American megafaunal record: A reply to Grayson et al. (2021)6
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Inter-visibility between settlements in pre-Hispanic Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. The relation between hierarchy and control of distant communications6
Anemia, cribra cranii and elemental composition using portable X-ray fluorescence: A study in individuals from the Coimbra Identified Osteological Collections6
aDNA, ethnography, and facial approximations of the Teouma Lapita burials (c. 3000BP)6
High performance mass spectrometry reveals possible kerogen substructures in persistent ancient human brain6
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How is forgery of ancient silver identified? A reply to Elsayed-Ali (2021)6
A Middle Palaeolithic incised bear bone from the Dziadowa Skała Cave, Poland: the oldest marked object north of the Carpathian Mountains6
Multiscale pollen-based reconstructions of anthropogenic land-cover change in Karula Upland, south Estonia6
A very curious larder – Insects from post-medieval Skálholt, Iceland, and their implications for interpreting activity areas6
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ATR-FTIR pre-screening analyses for determining radiocarbon datable bone samples from the Kings' Valley, Egypt6
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Mapping the walls: High-resolution cartography applied to the analysis of prehistoric cave art in the Grotte du Mammouth (Domme, Dordogne, France)6
New insights on the origin of fired steatite beads in China6
Deep learning artificial neural networks for non-destructive archaeological site dating5
‘Why so high?’ Examining discrepancies between the Sr biosphere map and archaeological tooth data from the Peak District, England5
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Archaeology of the invisible: The scent of Kha and Merit5
Non-destructive analysis of a Late Bronze Age hoard from the Velem-Szent Vid hillfort5
Interpreting gaps: A geoarchaeological point of view on the Gravettian record of Ach and Lone valleys (Swabian Jura, SW Germany)5
The application of Local Indicators for Categorical Data (LICD) to explore spatial dependence in archaeological spaces5
Use of thermogravimetric analysis to estimate collagen and hydroxyapatite contents in archaeological bone5
Iron Age hunting and herding in coastal eastern Africa: ZooMS identification of domesticates and wild bovids at Panga ya Saidi, Kenya5
Early transhumance recorded by the microfossils of sheep coprolites in the Tongtian Cave, China5
Plant resource diversity in the ethnobotanical record of precolonial Puerto Rico: Evidence from microbotanical remains5
Patterns on the landscape: Untangling pottery surface assemblages5
The identification of bird eggshell by scanning electron microscopy5
Ancient DNA refines taxonomic classification of Roman equids north of the Alps, elaborated with osteomorphology and geometric morphometrics5
Past human decision-making based on stone tool performance: Experiments to test the influence of raw material variability and edge angle design on tool function5
Cinnabar for Roman Ephesus: Material quality, processing and provenance5
Identification of archaeological barley grains using geometric morphometrics and experimental charring5
An ethnographic framework for identifying dog sledding in the archaeological record5
Dogs and wolves on the northern plains: A look from beyond the site in Alberta5
The influence of taphonomy on histological and isotopic analyses of treated and untreated buried modern human bone5
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Can transport costs explain the near absence of marmot bones at shoreline archaeological sites on Vancouver Island? Finding input values for central place modelling with biological scaling5
Studying seriality in material culture by geometric morphometrics–gold wild boars from the Arzhan-2 barrow, Tuva5
Origins and manufacture of the glass mosaic tesserae from the great Umayyad Mosque in Damascus5
Isotopic evidence of millet consumption in the Middle Bronze Age of East-Central Europe5
Compositional analysis below the production region level: A case study of porcelain production at Dehua, Fujian, China5
Skeletal manifestations of anemia in the sternum in a modern clinical sample: An initial investigation5
The 12th century bronze doors of Bonanno di Pisa in Monreale and Pisa: Materials and manufacture4
Testing the feasibility of fiber identification for fine cordage artifacts from the Paisley Caves, Oregon4
Earliest arrival of millet in the South China coast dating back to 5,500 years ago4
Use of psychoactive and stimulant plants on the south coast of Peru from the Early Intermediate to Late Intermediate Period4
A pregnant ancient egyptian mummy from the 1st century BC4
Archaeological significance and chemical characterization of the obsidian source in Kirigamine, central Japan: Methodology for provenance analysis of obsidian artefacts using XRF and LA–ICP–MS4
Mapping the Iron Age in Southern Africa: Magnetometry at two Iron Age villages in Western Zambia4
New chronology evidence of prehistoric human activities indicated by pottery luminescence dating in the humid subtropical mountains of South China4
Sheep and goats taxonomic abundance trends in 1st millennium CE southern Italy: Multilevel bayesian modelling of NISP datasets4
Testing the efficiency of Bronze Age axes: An interdisciplinary experiment4
Diversity and structure of soil fungal communities unveil the building history of a burial mound of ancient Japan (Tobiotsuka Kofun, Okayama Prefecture)4
Corrigendum to “Domesticating details: 3D geometric morphometrics for the zooarchaeological discrimination of wild, domestic and proto-domestic sheep (Ovis aries) and goat (Capra hircus) populations” 4
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The role of environmental factors in the spatiotemporal distribution of millet in Late Neolithic to Bronze Ages sites in the Tibetan plateau and surrounding regions4
Human origins in Southern African palaeo-wetlands? Strong claims from weak evidence4
Wear of Teeth in Sheep (WoTiS) - A tool for determining the rate of mandibular tooth wear in sheep4
Drivers of land cover and plant compositional changes in Northeast China since the mid-Holocene: Climate versus human activities4
Reconstructing infant mortality in Iberian Iron Age populations from tooth histology4
Examining the thermal synthesis conditions of Maya blue: Insights into colors, stability and clay-dye interactions4
A formal test using agent-based models of the circumscription theory for the evolution of social complexity4
Analyzing historic human-suid relationships through dental microwear texture and geometric morphometric analyses of archaeological suid teeth in the Ryukyu Islands4
Leave no stone unturned: Exploring the metaproteome of beerstone for the identification of archaeological beer production4
Could carbohydrates from food-animals have supported a balanced diet for Neanderthals?4
Expanding on incremental dentin methodology to investigate childhood and infant feeding practices on Taumako (southeast Solomon Islands)4
On the past and future of discussing, teaching, and learning the hows and whys of archaeological systematics4
On interdisciplinarity in the humanities: A comment on Fanta et al. (2020) on the bias in dating obtained from historical sources4
Production perspectives of a high-status polychrome jewellery set from the Hunnic period (mid-5th century AD) Carpathian Basin4
Robin Torrence, we salute you3
Are crucible steel ingots isotopically homogenous? AMS radiocarbon measurements on ingots from Telangana, India3
Doubts on ancient bone “microbiota” studies: A comment on Kazarina et al. (2019)3
The hand and footprints at Qiusang in Tibet: Recommendations for dating rock art by U–Th3
Provenance study of oyster shells by LA-ICP-MS3
End-to-end Bayesian analysis for summarizing sets of radiocarbon dates3
On Liangzhu Culture Tremolite-Tempered Pottery: Social complexity, logistical networks and cross-craft interaction in Neolithic China3
Architectural technology and labour organisation at the late Neolithic Liangzhu City, Yangtze Delta region, China3
Crop management and agricultural responses at Early Bronze IV Tell Abu en-Ni'aj, Jordan3
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Between grooves and pits: Trephic modifications resulting from air-scribe cleaning of archaeological bone3
Preservation of brain material in the archaeological record: A case study in the New Zealand colonial context3
Hydrogen isotope measurements of bone and dental tissues from archaeological human and animal samples and their use as climatic and diet proxies3
Chasing the elusive viscacha in Precolumbian textiles at the intersection of art and science3
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Patterns in pottery use reveal different adaptive strategies between lower and higher altitude regions on the Tibetan Plateau: Chemical evidence from pottery residues3
Proteomic analysis of archaeological ceramics from Tell Khaiber, southern Iraq3
Soil, fertilizer and plant density: Exploring the influence of environmental factors to stable nitrogen and carbon isotope composition in cereal grain3
Diagenesis of juvenile skeletal remains: A multimodal and multiscale approach to examine the post-mortem decay of children's bones3
Identifying intentional flake production at the dawn of technology: A technological and 3D geometric morphometric study3
Climate-driven early agricultural origins and development in the Nile Delta, Egypt3
Dating (early) modern hearths on a decadal to multi-annual timescale using OSL signals from heated sedimentary quartz3
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Ancient Olmec tar trade revealed by combined biomarker and chemometric analysis3
The economic and institutional determinants of trade expansion in Bronze Age Greater Mesopotamia3
Characterization of pottery foodcrusts through lipid and proteomic analyses: A case study from the Xiawan site in Yixing city, East China3
Using ZooMS to assess archaeozoological insights and unravel human subsistence behaviour at La Viña rock shelter (northern Iberia)3
AMELY deletion is not detected in systematically sampled reference populations: A Reply to Štamfelj3
Stressful times for women - Reply to Edinborough et al. (2021)3
Putting South-West England on the (strontium isotope) map: A possible origin for highly radiogenic 87Sr/86Sr values from southern Britain3
Measuring potential coastal sailing mobility with the loose-footed square sail3
Geographic and seasonal variation in δ13C values of C3 plant arabidopsis: Archaeological implications3
Neanderthal hunting grounds: The case of Teixoneres Cave (Spain) and Pié Lombard rockshelter (France)2
Revisiting the bleeding effect in historical cobalt porcelain pigments: Mechanism, influence and technical responses2
Mixed Sources of Pb and Sn in late bronze age European tin ingots provide insights into production processes2
Evaluating the efficacy of collagen isolation using stable isotope analysis and infrared spectroscopy2
The oldest dress of the Netherlands? Recovering a now-vanished, colour pattern from an Early Iron Age fabric in an elite burial2
Palaeogeographic reconstruction of the Main Harbour of the ancient city of Delos (Greece)2
Millet bread and pulse dough from early Iron Age South India: Charred food lumps as culinary indicators2
Mapping lateral stratigraphy at Palaeolithic surface sites: A case study from Dhofar, Oman2
The archaeology of orality: Dating Tasmanian Aboriginal oral traditions to the Late Pleistocene2
Food and diet of the pre-Columbian mound builders of the Patos Lagoon region in southern Brazil with stable isotope analysis2
Wood procurement in Norse Greenland (11th to 15th c. AD)2
Topological insights into the diachrony of ancient road networks: Exploratory predictive modelling in the Andean highlands2
Geometric morphometrics sheds new light on the identification and domestication status of ‘new glume wheat’ at Neolithic Çatalhöyük2
Understanding mammal resource choices and subsistence strategies during the Holocene Climate Optimum: Integration of evidence from palaeodistribution modelling, animal bones and archaeological remains2
Diet of Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens from macrowear analysis of mandibular molars2
n-Alkanes and their carbon isotopes (δ13C) reveal seasonal foddering and long-term corralling of pastoralist livestock in eastern Mongolia2
Revealing the face of Ramesses II through computed tomography, digital 3D facial reconstruction and computer-generated Imagery2
Insights into past land-use and vegetation change in the Llanos de Moxos (Bolivia) using fungal non-pollen palynomorphs2
Palaeopathology and amino acid δ13C analysis: Investigating pre-Columbian individuals with tuberculosis at Pica 8, northern Chile (1050-500 BP)2
NOthing goes to WAste (NOWA): A protocol to optimise sampling of ancient teeth2
Beyond Least Cost Paths: Circuit theory, maritime mobility and patterns of urbanism in the Roman Adriatic2
A new archaeological method to reveal the arrival of cereal farming: Development of a new method to extract and date of carbonised material in pottery and its application to the Japanese archaeologica2
Visual sensing on marine robotics for the 3D documentation of Underwater Cultural Heritage: A review2
A method for constructing demographic profiles of Capra aegagrus/C. hircus using logarithm size index scaling2
The strength of parthood ties. Modelling spatial units and fragmented objects with the TSAR method — Topological Study of Archaeological Refitting2
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