Journal of Archaeological Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Archaeological Science is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Population dynamics in the Middle Ages in Central Europe: Reconstruction based on age-at-death distributions of skeletal samples32
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Mobility patterning during the Neolithic and the Bronze Age in north-central Myanmar26
Frozen motion: Contextualizing wheel rut data within and beyond the Pompeiian street grid26
Roads and rivers. The importance of regional transportation networks for early urbanization in central Italy (950-500 BC)25
Deep learning with geographical post-processing optimization: an integrated framework for detecting qanat activity states22
Provenance study of the official architectural glazed tiles of Wudang Mountain in the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644 CE): Insights from Wulong Palace and Laojun Hall22
Enhancing archaeological mobility studies: Bayesian-modelled isoscapes and high-resolution refinement of the bioavailable strontium baseline in southern Scandinavia22
Bioarchaeological signatures during the Plague of Justinian (541–750 CE) in Jerash (ancient Gerasa), Jordan21
Volatile compounds reveal the composition of embalming materials used in Egyptian mummification21
Multiple luminescence dating on heated materials at the nanzuo archaeological site, central Chinese Loess Plateau21
Origins of early Imperial Roman fused mosaic glass21
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 childh21
Neolithic cordage-making implements at La Draga, Spain (5292-4729 cal BC): Analysis and experiment20
Evidence for large-scale rice utilization in the Guanzhong region during the final Neolithic (ca. 4600-4000 B.P.): A case study of the Yangyuan site, Xi'an19
A thousand years of Nubian supply of sub-Saharan ivory to the Southern Levant, ca. 1600–600 BCE19
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Use of thermogravimetric analysis to estimate collagen and hydroxyapatite contents in archaeological bone19
The glaze is less opaque on the other side: The development of Egyptian and southern Levantine glazed ceramic production from the early Islamic to Crusader periods18
Assessing the impact of Nile water level fluctuations on the structural stability of the Philae temples in Aswan, Egypt18
Millet dominance and rice resilience at the Shang's eastern frontier: Climate, cultural interaction, and agricultural adaptation (1300–1046 BCE)18
An ethnographic framework for identifying dog sledding in the archaeological record17
Corrigendum to “Bridging the crafts: lead isotopes reveal the innovation of lead-glazed pottery in Warring States China” [J. Archaeol. Sci. 182 (2025)106354]16
The identification of bird eggshell by scanning electron microscopy16
Reconstructing infant mortality in Iberian Iron Age populations from tooth histology16
Material flow analysis for archaeology: developing an account of medieval social metabolism using the excavation archive from Wharram Percy16
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New chronology evidence of prehistoric human activities indicated by pottery luminescence dating in the humid subtropical mountains of South China16
Low-cost seismic geophysical methods for the detection of karez: A case study on the Erbil Plain (Kurdistan Region of Iraq)16
Examining the thermal synthesis conditions of Maya blue: Insights into colors, stability and clay-dye interactions15
Phytoliths on Fire – Experimental production of heated phytoliths for analysis of archaeological sediments15
Integration of animal husbandry and millet agriculture in Bronze Age East-central Eurasia revealed by faunal stable isotopes at the Jirentai Goukou site, Xinjiang15
Current methods and theory in quantitative zooarchaeology15
Semi-automatic detection of building stones and wall segments of archaeological ruins15
Assemblage first: Using provenance methods to understand 38,000 years of ochre use at Gledswood Shelter 1, Woolgar Country (northwest Queensland), Australia15
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Revealing primary forming techniques in wheel-made ceramics with X-ray microCT14
Hydrogen isotope measurements of bone and dental tissues from archaeological human and animal samples and their use as climatic and diet proxies14
Defining local 87Sr/86Sr baselines using high-resolution bioavailable strontium isoscapes: Implications for short-range prehistoric mobility in southwestern Iberia14
Are crucible steel ingots isotopically homogenous? AMS radiocarbon measurements on ingots from Telangana, India13
Geochemical and mineralogical characterisation of vitrified waste material discovered in large quantities on Roman salt production sites along the southern North Sea coast13
Cattle domestication revisited: Middle Nile evidence suggests independent origins in Africa 10,000 years ago13
A method for constructing demographic profiles of Capra aegagrus/C. hircus using logarithm size index scaling13
Palaeogeographic reconstruction of the Main Harbour of the ancient city of Delos (Greece)13
Introducing the Post-Glacial Land Adjustment Regenerator (GLARE) for simulating the Final Pleistocene/Holocene geographic change in North Europe13
Could carbohydrates from food-animals have supported a balanced diet for Neanderthals?13
Identifying intentional flake production at the dawn of technology: A technological and 3D geometric morphometric study12
Iron in Greece in the second millennium B.C.E.12
The last natron glass production in middle Egypt in the 8th to 9th century CE12
Visual sensing on marine robotics for the 3D documentation of Underwater Cultural Heritage: A review12
Palynology, landscape and land use: retrospect, prospect and research agendas12
Theory and practice of artificial intelligence in archaeology12
How multi-scale terrain parameters shaped the route alignment of Qin Zhi Dao in China's Ziwuling Mountains12
Trauma or taphonomy? A forensic reassessment of perimortem cranial trauma in burials from the Phaleron cemetery (Archaic Athens, Greece)12
Understanding mammal resource choices and subsistence strategies during the Holocene Climate Optimum: Integration of evidence from palaeodistribution modelling, animal bones and archaeological remains12
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Revolution and Resilience: A multianalytical approach to the study of diet, metabolic stress, and life experiences in Revolutionary Philadelphia11
A method for constructing demographic profiles of Ovis orientalis/O. aries using Logarithm Size Index scaling11
Evidence of temporal changes in the marine 14C reservoir in the South Pacific and implications for improved dating resolution across a radiocarbon plateau (2600-2350 cal BP)11
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Ancient mitogenomes reveal the maternal diversity and genetic history of Ba state in the Western Zhou Dynasty11
Identify the genus origin of animal glue used in Chinese historical mortars using a new DNA mini-barcoding method11
Narrowing provenance for ancient Greek silver coins using Ag isotopes and Sb contents of potential ores11
A comparative approach to GIS modelling of terrestrial mobility in archaeological sites. The iron age hillfort of Villasviejas del Tamuja as a study case11
FTIR spectra combined with machine learning to reveal the amber trade during the Han dynasty (202 BCE–220 CE)11
The historical ecology of subsistence and early commercial fisheries in mangrove systems in Brazil11
Corrigendum to “Improved thermoluminescence dating for heterogeneous, multilayered, and overlapped architectures: A case study with the Oc Eo archaeological site in Vietnam” [J. Archaeol. Sci. 155 (2011
The afterlife of Roman roads in England: insights from the fifteenth-century Gough map of Great Britain11
Comparative study of Bronze Age ceramic moulds reveals diachronic and spatial change in mould material processing in the Central Plain of China, c. 13th-3rd century BCE11
3D visualization of bioerosion in archaeological bone11
Understanding the human settlement of the Pacific – Are we there yet?11
Botanical collections as an opportunity to explore nature through the time: An untargeted metabolomic study in historical and modern Nicotiana leaves11
Utilization and exchange of jade in western China during the late Longshan Era (2300∼1800 BC): Evidence from Lajia site, Minhe County, Qinghai Province11
Material characterisation of the Neo-Assyrian writing boards from Nimrud10
An unexpected demographic regime: The western necropolis of the Greek colony of Himera (Sicily, Italy) (550-409 BCE)10
Preservation of bone organic fraction is not predictive of the preservation of bone inorganic fraction when assessing stable isotope analysis sample quality control measures10
Method for generating foodplant fitness landscapes: With a foodplant checklist for southern Africa and its application to Klasies River Main Site10
Sacrificial pit or not? — Deposition history of Pit K4 at the Sanxingdui site10
From archival historiography to 3D modelling: An accurate reconstruction of the Palaeolithic landscape in El Castillo Cave to explore the spatial dynamics of hand stencil dispersion10
Introducing SourceXplorer, an open-source statistical tool for guided lithic sourcing10
Grand challenges for the quantitative study of past movement systems in the twenty-first century10
'JSDNE': A novel R package for estimating age quantitatively with the auricular surface by Dirichlet normal energy10
Evidence for a prolonged pre-domestication phase: 8000-year-old peach utilization and management in the Lower Yangtze10
Early legume exploitation in Neolithic southern China: Starch residues evidence from the middle Yangtze River10
Dating dry-stone walls with rock surface luminescence: A case study from the Italian Alps10
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Life, death and environment at Lagore Crannog: Parasites, land-use and a royal residence in later prehistoric and early medieval Ireland9
Dating Celtic fields with luminescence9
Physicochemical analysis of grey pigments from pre-Columbian archaeological ceramics from the sites of Alto del Cardal and Nuevo Corinto (Costa Rica): First identification of fired bone mixtures in Ce9
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Points, patterns, and predictions in archaeological settlement data: site-environment relationships of Paracas and Nasca communities in the Peruvian Andes9
Morphological and dietary adaptations to different socio-economic systems in Chalcolithic dogs9
Ostrich eggshell bead size variation: The impacts of material and technology on bead diameter9
Past rainfall patterns in Southeast Asia revealed by microanalysis of δ18O values in human teeth9
Multi-sensor drone survey of ancestral agricultural landscapes at Picuris Pueblo, New Mexico9
Applying habitat suitability modelling to establish the species identity of ambiguous animal depictions in archaeology: new insights into the wild bovids of ancient Egypt9
Tracking 4000 years of raptor diets through isotope analysis reveals urban scavenging with implications for conservation9
Nets hidden in pottery:Resurrected fishing nets in the Jomon period, Japan9
Next generation archaeological science: From the past to the future9
The effects of resources and population expansion on female–male protein consumption among hunter-gatherers9
Crafting excellence: reconstructing the mould technology of Shang period bronze ritual vessels at Anyang, China9
Reliability and validity in determining the relative chronology between neighbouring scars on flint artefacts9
A morphological and chemo-taxonomic approach to characterize starches from plants potentially available in the Eurasian Steppe during MIS 3 (60-25 ka BP)9
Multi-site archaeobotanical analysis reveals wood-fuel supply, woodland impact and land use around Roman urban centres: The case of Barcino (Barcelona, NE Iberia)9
Estimating the scale-dependent influence of natural terrestrial corridors on the positioning of settlements: A multi-scale study of Roman forts in Wales9
Experimental assessment of the impact of food processing on δ15N values in dietary meat – Implications for paleodietary reconstruction8
Decoding hunter-gatherer-knowledge and selective choice of lithic raw materials during the Middle and Later Stone Age in Eswatini8
Shifting tin imports into the broader Eastern Mediterranean region during the Bronze and Early Iron Ages (ca. 2000-900 BC)8
Moated site object detection using time series satellite imagery and an improved deep learning model in northeast Thailand8
Zooarchaeological and ancient DNA identification of a non-local gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA8
Temporal and spatial patterns of domestic horse utilisation in northern China during the pre-Qin period8
Reassessing the role of Polynesian rats (Rattus exulans) in Rapa Nui (Easter Island) deforestation: Faunal evidence and ecological modeling8
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Age estimation of archeological populations using secondary dentin analysis8
Seasonality and water source strategies in the Neolithic Near East (ca. 8,000–5,000 BCE): Insights from multi-proxy isotopic and elemental analyses8
Dunes, death, and datasets: Modelling funerary monument construction in remote arid landscapes using spaceborne stereo imagery8
Plant-ash glass in Natronland: A review of the use of plant-based fluxes in glassmaking from the 1st to the 9th century CE in Europe and the Mediterranean basin8
Beyond Pentelikon: Imported white marbles in Athenian sculptural workshops of the Roman period8
Exploratory VOC analysis of Roman burial soils using SPME-HS-GC-MS: methodological considerations and interpretive constraints8
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Visions of light: New reconstruction techniques of photometric data and visual perception inside Etruscan painted tombs8
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"Celts" up the Alps. Patterns of territorial mobility and funerary variability in Switzerland during the Late Iron Age8
Tin isotopes reveal changing patterns of tin trade, connectivity and consumption from Anatolia and Central Asia at Kültepe8
The advent of complex metallurgy8
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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 Levant7
A new method for fingerprinting ochre sources using mineral magnetic measurements7
Shipwreck detection in bathymetry data using semi-automated methods: Combining machine learning and topographic inference approaches7
Origins of medieval lead glass ornaments in Central Europe in the light of lead isotopic analysis of finds from Wrocław and Sypniewo (Poland)7
Blurred boundaries: Exploring the complexity of the production system at the Luomaqiao kiln in Yuan-dynasty Jingdezhen7
Seafaring megaliths: A geoarchaeological approach to the Matarrubilla giant stone basin at Valencina (Spain)7
Determination of burning environment and temperature by colour and magnetic susceptibility based on heating simulation experiments and its application in Sanxingdui site in Sichuan, China7
ITL dating resolves chronology of Quesang travertine hand- and footprints, Tibetan plateau7
An FTIR-based model for the diagenetic alteration of archaeological bones7
Studying seriality in material culture by geometric morphometrics–gold wild boars from the Arzhan-2 barrow, Tuva7
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Revisiting the context and geochronological ages of the Homo sapiens skeletal remains from Border Cave, South Africa7
Micro-photogrammetry and traceology: new on-site documentation approaches using portable digital microscopes7
Modelling diffusion of innovation curves using radiocarbon data7
Identification of age at death in red deer (Cervus elaphus) through the upper dentition: Eruption pattern, wear stage and crown heights7
The 12th century bronze doors of Bonanno di Pisa in Monreale and Pisa: Materials and manufacture7
aDNA, ethnography, and facial approximations of the Teouma Lapita burials (c. 3000BP)7
Multi-stage experiments in Bronze Age spear combat: insights on wear formation, trauma, and combat contexts7
Geometric morphometric analysis sheds new light on silver bullion production systems of the Southern Song period6
The oldest dress of the Netherlands? Recovering a now-vanished, colour pattern from an Early Iron Age fabric in an elite burial6
Walking through the landscape: A different approach to mobility through 87Sr/86Sr isoscapes6
Early transhumance recorded by the microfossils of sheep coprolites in the Tongtian Cave, China6
Southeast Asian mainland archaeological science 1964–2034: Multiscalar relations between individuals, communities and neighbouring populations during the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages (early-3rd mil6
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New scientific evidence for the history and occupants of Tomb I (“Tomb of Persephone”) in the Great Tumulus at Vergina6
As the water flows: A method for assessing river navigability in the past6
n-Alkanes and their carbon isotopes (δ13C) reveal seasonal foddering and long-term corralling of pastoralist livestock in eastern Mongolia6
Testing the efficiency of Bronze Age axes: An interdisciplinary experiment6
Faecal biomarkers as evidence of human presence in the caves of Kraków-Częstochowa Upland6
Protein evidence for animal sacrifice and shared ritual practices in Bronze Age Sanxingdui, Southwest China6
Putting South-West England on the (strontium isotope) map: A possible origin for highly radiogenic 87Sr/86Sr values from southern Britain6
Mixed Sources of Pb and Sn in late Bronze Age European tin ingots provide insights into production processes6
Diet of Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens from macrowear analysis of mandibular molars6
Social and emotional cognition in Pleistocene hominin evolution: The role of biocultural processes6
Combining elemental analysis and molecular techniques to characterize Ancient Egyptian mummification balms6
Utilising ancient DNA to understand crop population dynamics across a millennium: A case study of archaeological barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) from Gran Canaria, Spain6
From bones to sediments: Ancient human DNA from open-air archaeological sites6
Bioarchaeological perspectives on the ancient Han-Xiongnu war: Insights from the Iron Age site of Bayanbulag6
Early tobacco use by populations of the interfluvial coast of Antofagasta during the Archaic period (6000–3000 BP; northern Chile): A GC-MS study of dental calculus6
Network analysis in Tairona chiefdoms of the Río Frío basin, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia5
On the use of Machine Learning methods in rock art research with application to automatic painted rock art identification5
Automated detection and classification of multi-cell Phytoliths using Deep Learning-Based Algorithms5
Detecting baobab trees (Adansonia digitata) in drone imagery and evaluating their anthropogenic legacy in eastern Africa5
Refining near-infrared spectroscopy for collagen quantification: A new predictive model for archaeological bone5
Chinese whispers in clay: Copying error and cultural attraction in the experimental transmission chain of anthropomorphic figurines5
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A bioavailable strontium isoscape of Angola with implications for the archaeology of the transatlantic slave trade5
Dynamics of early agriculture – multivariate analysis of changes in crop cultivation and farming practices in the Rhineland (Germany) between the 6th and early 4th millennium BCE5
Is the StW 53 cranium (Sterkfontein, South Africa) the earliest evidence of tool-assisted hominin modification? New data from a neotaphonomic experiment and the virtual reconstruction of its linear ma5
Revisiting the Pb content threshold for copper provenance investigation in Early Bronze Age China5
Searching for reds and yellows at a Magdalenian open-air site: continuities and discontinuities at Pincevent (France) levels IV20 and IV05
Minding the gap: The via Amerina and the Middle Tiber Valley5
Interindividual variation in infant and child feeding behavior at Đurđevac-Sošice, medieval Croatia: Exploring life course through incremental analysis of dentin5
Material characterization of forged bronzes from ancient China (c. 11th-2nd century BCE) reveals development of the non-mainstream metalworking technique in Chinese bronze production5
Translocation of sedimentary ancient DNA in archaeological cultural deposits: Mechanism and prospects5
The first identification of composite paints with proteinaceous binder in Upper Palaeolithic (31–23 ka) organic decorations5
Follow the lead! Tracing the lead sources of Notre-Dame de Paris over the centuries using chemical and isotopic analyses5
Rethinking early hominin toolmaking through comparative primate models5
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The sedaDNA revolution and archaeology: Progress, challenges, and a research agenda5
Archaeological obsidian sourcing: Looking from the first 60 years to the next5
Vitamin D deficiency, pregnancy, and childbirth in early medieval Milan5
Traceological analyses of tool marks on western Iberian stelae and their replications: Stones and steel at the end of the Bronze Age5
A generative model for exploring differences in mortality associated with stressor exposure risk in bioarchaeological contexts5
Lead isotope analysis of lead-tin-glaze via on-site portable laser ablation sampling of 17-18th century Delftware (earthenware)5
Ancient DNA unveils population dynamics and integration in Pingcheng, the first Northern Wei capital established by the Tuoba Xianbei5
A new approach to radiocarbon summarisation: Rigorous identification of variations/changepoints in the occurrence rate of radiocarbon samples using a Poisson process5
Population expansion as a main driver for the shift of agricultural strategies through the Yangshao culture (6.8-4.7 ka BP) in the west Central Plain of China5
Enamel thickness per masticatory phases (ETMP): A new approach to assess the relationship between macrowear and enamel thickness in the human lower first molar5
Pompeian pigments. A glimpse into ancient Roman colouring materials5
Drone-based magnetometer prospection for archaeology5
Why is it so difficult to work on geochemical composition? Supervised geochemical composition data processing to study colouring iron oxide-rich rocks in archaeological contexts5
Sequential multi-isotope sampling through a Bos taurus tooth from Stonehenge, to assess comparative sources and incorporation times of strontium and lead5
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NOthing goes to WAste (NOWA): A protocol to optimise sampling of ancient teeth5
Fundamental uncertainties invalidate the precision of obsidian hydration dating: A Rapa Nui case study5
Written in ‘her’ bones: Cremation and identity in Roman Beirut5
Network analysis of jade artifacts in Liangzhu: Exploring the relationships between Liangzhu Ancient City, Fuquanshan, and Sidun5
Multi-purpose pots: Reconstructing early farmer behaviour at Lydenburg Heads site, South Africa, using organic residue analysis5
Magnetic detection of anthropogenic fires at Xiaodong Rockshelter, Southwest China4
Assembling the puzzle pieces: Integrating pottery and kiln analysis to reconstruct pyrotechnology at the Dinka Settlement Complex (Iraqi Kurdistan)4
Gender identities in the prehistoric societies of south-eastern Iberia: New insights from non-masticatory dental wear analysis and peptide-based sex identification4
The adaptation of dryland crops to the climate in southern China4
The Circulation of Pearls in the Eastern and Western Worlds During the Neolithic Age: New discoveries from the Xihetan site in the Hexi Corridor, China4
Virtual sampling: Archaeological implications of a new technique for elemental mapping of Mg/Ca ratios in marine mollusc shells4
The role of salmon fishing in the adoption of pottery technology in subarctic Alaska4
Direct dating of the earliest domesticated cattle and caprines in northwestern China reveals the history of pastoralism in the Gansu-Qinghai region4
Experimental investigation of histotaphonomic changes in human bone from whole-body donors demonstrates limited effects of early post-mortem change in bone4
Bayesian mixing models as a tool to explore Bronze Age bitumen trade from Tell Lashkir (Erbil, Iraq)4
Towards a new history of bronze making: Explaining the selection of tin bronze alloying techniques across prehistoric N.E. Iberia (2100-200BC)4
Archaeological investigation of burials preluded by ground penetrating radar and geospatial technologies4
Ancient DNA sequence quality is independent of fish bone weight4
New chronology of the deposits from the inner chambers of the Guanyindong cave, southwestern China4
Extensive woodland pasturing supported Pitted Ware Complex livestock management systems: Multi-stable isotope evidence from a Neolithic interaction zone4
Multiregional Pb isotopic linear patterns and diagenesis: Isotopes from ancient animal enamel show Native American “foreign war trophies” are local ancestors4
Unravelling ancient drilling techniques: A case of pottery repair in the Early European Neolithic4
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Diagenesis of prehistoric human burned bones in a sandy burial environment4
Strontium isotopes and concentrations in bioarchaeology – connecting diet and mobility4
Multi-isotopic insights into diet, mobility, and status in the Picene necropolis of Novilara, Italy (8th-7th centuries BCE)4
Organic residue analysis in China: an overview, progress and prospects4
A neglected intermediate path: Reconsidering the two-stage firing technology of Changsha kiln painted wares within the framework of multi-stage ceramic firing4
High-precision chronology and scientific analysis of Panchi mirrors reveal the state policy impact in early Imperial China4
Unraveling Neolithic sharp-blunt cranial trauma: Experimental approach through synthetic analogues4
Metaplasticity: Extending cognition through the distant human past4
Multimodal micro-area analysis deciphers Qing Dynasty guqin lacquer technology and acoustic design principles4
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Identifying habitual sled-pulling in dogs through the study of entheseal changes4
Turning up the heat: Assessing the impact of charring regime on the morphology and stable isotopic values of cereal grains4
Experiments suggest rockfall an improbable cause for bone surface modification on 24,000-year-old bone at Bluefish Caves, Canada4
Searching for traces of human activity in earthen floor sequences: high-resolution geoarchaeological analyses at an Early Iron Age village in Central Iberia4
Seeing the past in a new light: LED multi-spectral imaging as an interpretative aid for archaeological excavation4
The earliest evidence for deformation of livestock horns: The case of Predynastic sheep from Hierakonpolis, Egypt4
A Cumulative Interaction Path Analysis for Santo Domingo Tonaltepec, Mixteca Alta, Mexico4
Experiments with replicas of Early Upper Paleolithic edge-ground stone axes and adzes provide criteria for identifying tool functions4
Trade, recycling and mixing in local metal management strategies of the later Bronze Age south Carpathian Basin: Lead isotope and chemical analyses of hoarded metalwork4
High-performance 3D morphometrics via deep learning and tabular foundation models: a case study on complex cereal grain classification4
New tools for computational zooarchaeology: Automatic positioning and contour analysis of complete bone models4
Classification of Bovidae fossils from Gladysvale, South Africa using elastic shape analysis4
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