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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
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Frozen motion: Contextualizing wheel rut data within and beyond the Pompeiian street grid48
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Provenance study of the official architectural glazed tiles of Wudang Mountain in the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644 CE): Insights from Wulong Palace and Laojun Hall37
Population dynamics in the Middle Ages in Central Europe: Reconstruction based on age-at-death distributions of skeletal samples31
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87Sr/86Sr isotope ratios in trees as an archaeological tracer: Limitations of linking plant-biomass and bedrock Sr isotope signatures28
Measuring allometry in dimensions of western North American Clovis points27
Provenancing wood used in the Norse Greenlandic settlements: A biogeochemical study using hydrogen, oxygen, and strontium isotopes27
Multiple luminescence dating on heated materials at the nanzuo archaeological site, central Chinese Loess Plateau26
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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 childh24
Combining ancient DNA and radiocarbon dating data to increase chronological accuracy24
An ethnographic framework for identifying dog sledding in the archaeological record23
Integration of animal husbandry and millet agriculture in Bronze Age East-central Eurasia revealed by faunal stable isotopes at the Jirentai Goukou site, Xinjiang23
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Current methods and theory in quantitative zooarchaeology22
New chronology evidence of prehistoric human activities indicated by pottery luminescence dating in the humid subtropical mountains of South China21
Examining the thermal synthesis conditions of Maya blue: Insights into colors, stability and clay-dye interactions20
Assemblage first: Using provenance methods to understand 38,000 years of ochre use at Gledswood Shelter 1, Woolgar Country (northwest Queensland), Australia19
Reconstructing infant mortality in Iberian Iron Age populations from tooth histology19
Millet dominance and rice resilience at the Shang's eastern frontier: Climate, cultural interaction, and agricultural adaptation (1300–1046 BCE)18
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'an18
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 isotopes17
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 periods17
Revealing primary forming techniques in wheel-made ceramics with X-ray microCT16
Theoretical and observed C/N ratios in human bone collagen16
The identification of bird eggshell by scanning electron microscopy16
Ancient DNA refines taxonomic classification of Roman equids north of the Alps, elaborated with osteomorphology and geometric morphometrics16
Use of thermogravimetric analysis to estimate collagen and hydroxyapatite contents in archaeological bone16
Ancient DNA confirms crossbreeding of domestic South American camelids in two pre-conquest archaeological sites15
Could carbohydrates from food-animals have supported a balanced diet for Neanderthals?15
On the past and future of discussing, teaching, and learning the hows and whys of archaeological systematics15
Hydrogen isotope measurements of bone and dental tissues from archaeological human and animal samples and their use as climatic and diet proxies15
The tempo of the Iberian megalithic rituals in the European context: The cemetery of Panoría15
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 archaeologica15
Geochemical and mineralogical characterisation of vitrified waste material discovered in large quantities on Roman salt production sites along the southern North Sea coast15
Climate-driven early agricultural origins and development in the Nile Delta, Egypt14
Food and diet of the pre-Columbian mound builders of the Patos Lagoon region in southern Brazil with stable isotope analysis14
A method for constructing demographic profiles of Capra aegagrus/C. hircus using logarithm size index scaling14
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Are crucible steel ingots isotopically homogenous? AMS radiocarbon measurements on ingots from Telangana, India14
Palynology, landscape and land use: retrospect, prospect and research agendas14
Ancient DNA-based sex determination of bison hide moccasins indicates Promontory cave occupants selected female hides for footwear14
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Understanding mammal resource choices and subsistence strategies during the Holocene Climate Optimum: Integration of evidence from palaeodistribution modelling, animal bones and archaeological remains14
Identifying intentional flake production at the dawn of technology: A technological and 3D geometric morphometric study13
Erratum to “Seasonality of birth and diet of pigs from stable isotope analyses of tooth enamel (δ18O, δ13C): A modern reference data set from Corsica, France” [J. Archaeol. Sci. 39 (7) (2012) 2023–20313
Cattle domestication revisited: Middle Nile evidence suggests independent origins in Africa 10,000 years ago13
Visual sensing on marine robotics for the 3D documentation of Underwater Cultural Heritage: A review13
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Palaeogeographic reconstruction of the Main Harbour of the ancient city of Delos (Greece)13
End-to-end Bayesian analysis for summarizing sets of radiocarbon dates13
Narrowing provenance for ancient Greek silver coins using Ag isotopes and Sb contents of potential ores12
A method for constructing demographic profiles of Ovis orientalis/O. aries using Logarithm Size Index scaling12
3D visualization of bioerosion in archaeological bone12
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)12
Tooth cementum annulation: Confounding difficulties remain when inferring life history parameters from archeological tooth samples12
Lithic utility and risk: Examining mid to late Holocene stone points from Australia with a utility model12
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 BCE12
The afterlife of Roman roads in England: insights from the fifteenth-century Gough map of Great Britain12
Botanical collections as an opportunity to explore nature through the time: An untargeted metabolomic study in historical and modern Nicotiana leaves12
Dating dry-stone walls with rock surface luminescence: A case study from the Italian Alps11
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 Ce11
Inequality, networks, and the financing of Classic Maya political power11
The historical ecology of subsistence and early commercial fisheries in mangrove systems in Brazil11
Reliability and validity in determining the relative chronology between neighbouring scars on flint artefacts11
Introducing SourceXplorer, an open-source statistical tool for guided lithic sourcing11
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 dispersion11
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
A comparative approach to GIS modelling of terrestrial mobility in archaeological sites. The iron age hillfort of Villasviejas del Tamuja as a study case11
Utilization and exchange of jade in western China during the late Longshan Era (2300∼1800 BC): Evidence from Lajia site, Minhe County, Qinghai Province11
'JSDNE': A novel R package for estimating age quantitatively with the auricular surface by Dirichlet normal energy11
An unexpected demographic regime: The western necropolis of the Greek colony of Himera (Sicily, Italy) (550-409 BCE)11
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Preservation of bone organic fraction is not predictive of the preservation of bone inorganic fraction when assessing stable isotope analysis sample quality control measures10
Past rainfall patterns in Southeast Asia revealed by microanalysis of δ18O values in human teeth10
A multi-scalar reassessment of dietary isotopic variability in bioarchaeology: Differentiating secular and inter-individual variation10
Multi-sensor drone survey of ancestral agricultural landscapes at Picuris Pueblo, New Mexico10
Material characterisation of the Neo-Assyrian writing boards from Nimrud10
Method for generating foodplant fitness landscapes: With a foodplant checklist for southern Africa and its application to Klasies River Main Site10
Reconstructing the full temporal range of archaeological phenomena from sparse data10
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Nets hidden in pottery:Resurrected fishing nets in the Jomon period, Japan9
A filter for characterizing the ridge-drainage continuum in digital elevation models9
Applying habitat suitability modelling to establish the species identity of ambiguous animal depictions in archaeology: new insights into the wild bovids of ancient Egypt9
Estimating the scale-dependent influence of natural terrestrial corridors on the positioning of settlements: A multi-scale study of Roman forts in Wales9
Tracking 4000 years of raptor diets through isotope analysis reveals urban scavenging with implications for conservation9
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Dunes, death, and datasets: Modelling funerary monument construction in remote arid landscapes using spaceborne stereo imagery9
Human ecological impacts on islands: Exemplified by a dwarf deer (Cervidae: Mazama sp.) on Pedro Gonzalez Island, Pearl Island Archipelago, Pacific Panama (6.2–5.6 kya)9
What were the colors of the Parthenon? Investigation of the entablature's cornice blocks9
Micro-photogrammetry and traceology: new on-site documentation approaches using portable digital microscopes9
Life, death and environment at Lagore Crannog: Parasites, land-use and a royal residence in later prehistoric and early medieval Ireland9
A forgotten technology: The production of artificial millstones for windmills in Sistan, southeastern Iran9
Earthen architecture in the Mesoamerican classic period: A micromorphological approach to its manufacture process9
Morphological and dietary adaptations to different socio-economic systems in Chalcolithic dogs9
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
Tin isotopes reveal changing patterns of tin trade, connectivity and consumption from Anatolia and Central Asia at Kültepe8
A new method for fingerprinting ochre sources using mineral magnetic measurements8
Coupled archaeological and ecological analyses reveal ancient cultivation and land use in Nuchatlaht (Nuu-chah-nulth) territories, Pacific Northwest8
Temporal and spatial patterns of domestic horse utilisation in northern China during the pre-Qin period8
Experimental assessment of the impact of food processing on δ15N values in dietary meat – Implications for paleodietary reconstruction8
Modelling diffusion of innovation curves using radiocarbon data8
An FTIR-based model for the diagenetic alteration of archaeological bones8
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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 Levant8
Visions of light: New reconstruction techniques of photometric data and visual perception inside Etruscan painted tombs8
Hormones and bile acids as biomarkers for the characterization of animal management in prehistoric sheepfold caves: El Mirador case (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain)8
Moated site object detection using time series satellite imagery and an improved deep learning model in northeast Thailand8
Age estimation of archeological populations using secondary dentin analysis8
Identification of age at death in red deer (Cervus elaphus) through the upper dentition: Eruption pattern, wear stage and crown heights8
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Zooarchaeological and ancient DNA identification of a non-local gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA8
Permanent signatures of birth and nursing initiation are chemically recorded in teeth8
Early transhumance recorded by the microfossils of sheep coprolites in the Tongtian Cave, China7
Compositional analysis below the production region level: A case study of porcelain production at Dehua, Fujian, China7
aDNA, ethnography, and facial approximations of the Teouma Lapita burials (c. 3000BP)7
Anemia, cribra cranii and elemental composition using portable X-ray fluorescence: A study in individuals from the Coimbra Identified Osteological Collections7
Studying seriality in material culture by geometric morphometrics–gold wild boars from the Arzhan-2 barrow, Tuva7
Putting South-West England on the (strontium isotope) map: A possible origin for highly radiogenic 87Sr/86Sr values from southern Britain7
Multi-stage experiments in Bronze Age spear combat: insights on wear formation, trauma, and combat contexts7
Deep learning artificial neural networks for non-destructive archaeological site dating7
The 12th century bronze doors of Bonanno di Pisa in Monreale and Pisa: Materials and manufacture7
Southeast Asian mainland archaeological science 1964–2034: Multiscalar relations between individuals, communities and neighbouring populations during the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages (early-3rd mil7
Utilising ancient DNA to understand crop population dynamics across a millennium: A case study of archaeological barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) from Gran Canaria, Spain7
ATR-FTIR pre-screening analyses for determining radiocarbon datable bone samples from the Kings' Valley, Egypt7
Testing the efficiency of Bronze Age axes: An interdisciplinary experiment7
Analyzing historic human-suid relationships through dental microwear texture and geometric morphometric analyses of archaeological suid teeth in the Ryukyu Islands7
Bioarchaeological perspectives on the ancient Han-Xiongnu war: Insights from the Iron Age site of Bayanbulag7
Origins of medieval lead glass ornaments in Central Europe in the light of lead isotopic analysis of finds from Wrocław and Sypniewo (Poland)7
A large-scale environmental strontium isotope baseline map of Portugal for archaeological and paleoecological provenance studies7
Sickle gloss texture analysis elucidates long-term change in plant harvesting during the transition to agriculture7
High-precision U-series dating of the late Pleistocene – early Holocene rock paintings at Tiger Leaping Gorge, Jinsha River valley, southwestern China6
n-Alkanes and their carbon isotopes (δ13C) reveal seasonal foddering and long-term corralling of pastoralist livestock in eastern Mongolia6
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Diet of Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens from macrowear analysis of mandibular molars6
The oldest dress of the Netherlands? Recovering a now-vanished, colour pattern from an Early Iron Age fabric in an elite burial6
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NOthing goes to WAste (NOWA): A protocol to optimise sampling of ancient teeth6
The sedaDNA revolution and archaeology: Progress, challenges, and a research agenda6
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On interdisciplinarity in the humanities: A comment on Fanta et al. (2020) on the bias in dating obtained from historical sources6
Vitamin D deficiency, pregnancy, and childbirth in early medieval Milan6
New scientific evidence for the history and occupants of Tomb I (“Tomb of Persephone”) in the Great Tumulus at Vergina6
The chronology of archaeological assemblages based on an automatic Bayesian procedure: Eastern Iberia as study case6
The first identification of composite paints with proteinaceous binder in Upper Palaeolithic (31–23 ka) organic decorations6
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Archaeological obsidian sourcing: Looking from the first 60 years to the next6
Stressful times for women - Reply to Edinborough et al. (2021)6
Mixed Sources of Pb and Sn in late Bronze Age European tin ingots provide insights into production processes6
Written in ‘her’ bones: Cremation and identity in Roman Beirut6
Evidence for a mid-Holocene drowning from the Atacama Desert coast of Chile5
Chinese whispers in clay: Copying error and cultural attraction in the experimental transmission chain of anthropomorphic figurines5
Network analysis in Tairona chiefdoms of the Río Frío basin, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia5
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
Minding the gap: The via Amerina and the Middle Tiber Valley5
Accelerating the discovery of new Nasca geoglyphs using deep learning5
A bioavailable strontium isoscape of Angola with implications for the archaeology of the transatlantic slave trade5
On the use of Machine Learning methods in rock art research with application to automatic painted rock art identification5
Searching for traces of human activity in earthen floor sequences: high-resolution geoarchaeological analyses at an Early Iron Age village in Central Iberia5
Not a bathtub: A consideration of sea-level physics for archaeological models of human migration5
Virtual sampling: Archaeological implications of a new technique for elemental mapping of Mg/Ca ratios in marine mollusc shells5
Enamel thickness per masticatory phases (ETMP): A new approach to assess the relationship between macrowear and enamel thickness in the human lower first molar5
Automated detection and classification of multi-cell Phytoliths using Deep Learning-Based Algorithms5
Experiments with replicas of Early Upper Paleolithic edge-ground stone axes and adzes provide criteria for identifying tool functions5
The earliest evidence for deformation of livestock horns: The case of Predynastic sheep from Hierakonpolis, Egypt5
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A stable isotope perspective on archaeological agricultural variability and Neolithic experimentation in India5
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
Drone-based magnetometer prospection for archaeology5
Multi-purpose pots: Reconstructing early farmer behaviour at Lydenburg Heads site, South Africa, using organic residue analysis5
Pompeian pigments. A glimpse into ancient Roman colouring materials5
Modeling avian eggshell microstructure to predict ontogenetic age and reveal patterns of human-avifauna interaction5
First evidence of crucible steel production in Medieval Anatolia, Kubadabad: A trace for possible technology exchange between Anatolia and Southern Asia5
Direct dating of the earliest domesticated cattle and caprines in northwestern China reveals the history of pastoralism in the Gansu-Qinghai region5
Hydraulicity of lime plasters from Teotihuacan, Mexico: a microchemical and microphysical approach5
The West Tofts handaxe: A remarkably average, structurally flawed, utilitarian biface5
The role of salmon fishing in the adoption of pottery technology in subarctic Alaska5
Ancient DNA sequence quality is independent of fish bone weight4
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
Unraveling Neolithic sharp-blunt cranial trauma: Experimental approach through synthetic analogues4
Experimental investigation of histotaphonomic changes in human bone from whole-body donors demonstrates limited effects of early post-mortem change in bone4
Turning up the heat: Assessing the impact of charring regime on the morphology and stable isotopic values of cereal grains4
The earliest silver currency hoards in the Southern Levant: Metal trade in the transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age4
The adaptation of dryland crops to the climate in southern China4
Archaeological investigation of burials preluded by ground penetrating radar and geospatial technologies4
Is it hot enough? A multi-proxy approach shows variations in cremation conditions during the Metal Ages in Belgium4
Unsupervised clustering of Roman potsherds via Variational Autoencoders4
Provenance study of the variscite artifacts of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia and approach to routes of pre-Hispanic exchange4
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 scaling4
Towards a new history of bronze making: Explaining the selection of tin bronze alloying techniques across prehistoric N.E. Iberia (2100-200BC)4
Bayesian mixing models as a tool to explore Bronze Age bitumen trade from Tell Lashkir (Erbil, Iraq)4
Multi-proxy analyses reveal regional cremation practices and social status at the Late Bronze Age site of Herstal, Belgium4
All about wood ash: Long term fire experiments reveal unknown aspects of the formation and preservation of ash with critical implications on the emergence and use of fire in the past4
A computational linguistic methodology for assessing semiotic structure in prehistoric art and the meaning of southern Scandinavian Mesolithic ornamentation4
A Cumulative Interaction Path Analysis for Santo Domingo Tonaltepec, Mixteca Alta, Mexico4
Bioarchaeological insights into Late Eneolithic violence: Analysing a grave from the Sadowie cemetery, Poland4
Isotope and trace element compositions of silver-bearing ores in the Balkans as possible metal sources in antiquity4
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Deciphering the origins of Sanxingdui bronzes through petrographic and elemental analysis of casting cores4
Micro-computed tomography imaging and segmentation of the archaeological textiles from Valmarinniemi4
A new algorithm for using Pb isotopes to determine the provenance of bullion in ancient Greek coinage4
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
Experiments suggest rockfall an improbable cause for bone surface modification on 24,000-year-old bone at Bluefish Caves, Canada4
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
Magnetic detection of anthropogenic fires at Xiaodong Rockshelter, Southwest China4
Identifying habitual sled-pulling in dogs through the study of entheseal changes4
Estimating inter-individual Mahalanobis distances from mixed incomplete high-dimensional data: Application to human skeletal remains from 3rd to 1st millennia BC Southwest Germany4
Model for ancient Greek and Roman coinage production4
Classification of Bovidae fossils from Gladysvale, South Africa using elastic shape analysis4
Multi-proxy approaches in Archaeobotany: Botanical reconstruction of ancient gardens from a Mediterranean perspective4
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Searching for the earliest use of limestone as a flux in Chinese high-fired ceramic glazes—evidence from Sr isotopic analysis of Chinese northern porcelain3
Revisiting the bleeding effect in historical cobalt porcelain pigments: Mechanism, influence and technical responses3
Subsistence shift and socio-economic response to cultural and climate changes among north-central Iberian megalithic groups3
Sheep and goats taxonomic abundance trends in 1st millennium CE southern Italy: Multilevel bayesian modelling of NISP datasets3
Diagenesis of juvenile skeletal remains: A multimodal and multiscale approach to examine the post-mortem decay of children's bones3
Human diets, crop patterns, and settlement hierarchies in third millennium BC China: Bioarchaeological perspectives in Zhengluo region3
A stone in the hand is worth how many in the bush? Applying the marginal value theorem to understand optimal toolstone transportation, processing, and discard decisions3
Patterns of fish consumption by hunter-fisher-gatherer people from the Atlantic coast of Tierra del Fuego during the Holocene: Human-environmental interactions3
Evaluating the culinary significance of maize in the Araucanía, Southern Chile: Evidence from organic residue analysis of pre-colonial pottery3
Hammerscale and slag inclusions: New insights into metal supply during the early iron Age in Western Europe3
Lost at sea: Identifying the post-depositional alteration of amphorae in ancient shipwrecks3
Manure for millet: Grain δ15N values as indicators of prehistoric cropping intensity of Panicum miliaceum and Setaria italica3
Evaluating the efficacy of collagen isolation using stable isotope analysis and infrared spectroscopy3
Measuring potential coastal sailing mobility with the loose-footed square sail3
Archaeology of the invisible: The scent of Kha and Merit3
Art in red: New dates for paintings in the Cave of Altamira, Santillana del Mar, Spain3
Forensic toxicological analyses reveal the use of cannabis in Milano (Italy) in the 1600's3
Perceptible differences in material properties of Ag and its alloys with Cu–As: A comment on Eshel et al. (2021)3
Socioeconomic roles of Holocene marine shell beads reveal the daily life of composite objects from East Kalimantan, Borneo3
Shell proteins and microstructural analysis identify the origin of shell arts with species resolution in pearl oysters3
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Identification of laccol as a paint binder in Neolithic pottery from China3
Ancient DNA investigation of the domestication history of pigs in Northeast China3
Chasing the elusive viscacha in Precolumbian textiles at the intersection of art and science3
Caution! Contents were hot: Novel biomarkers to detect the heating of fatty acids in residues from pottery use3
The earliest stamped hard pottery and high-firing technology dating back to 5000 BP: Evidence from two sites in southeastern China3
Your horse is a donkey! Identifying domesticated equids from Western Iberia using collagen fingerprinting3
Gendered burial practices of early Bronze Age children align with peptide-based sex identification: A case study from Franzhausen I, Austria3
Exotic treasures or local innovation: Gold and silver beads of Han Dynasty excavated from Nanyang City, Henan Province, Central China3
Prey body size generates bias for human and avian agents: Cautions for interpreting small game assemblages3
Reconstructing the social, economic and demographic trends of Palmyra's elite from funerary data3
Unravelling the threads of connectivity: A mutual information approach to tracing material networks in the late Hellenistic and early Roman Mediterranean3
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