Advanced geoscience techniques are essential to contextualize fossils, artefacts and other
archaeologically important material accurately and effectively. Their appropriate use will …

A guide to the systematic understanding of the geoarchaeological matrix Reconstructing
Archaeological Sites offers an important text that puts the focus on basic theoretical and …

Despite the major contributions provided over fifty years ago by AJ Arkell and JD Tothill to
our understanding of late Quaternary environments and prehistoric occupation near the …

Combustion features inform archaeologists about the prehistoric use of space, subsistence
behaviors, and tempo of site visitation. Their study in the field is difficult because burned …

The reliable determination of bioapatite crystallinity is of great practical interest, as a proxy to
the physico-chemical and microstructural properties, and ultimately, to the integrity of bone …

The onset of the Acheulean, marked by the emergence of large cutting tools (LCTs), is
considered a major technological advance in the Early Stone Age and a key turning point in …

In this study the diagenetic pathways of archaeological human bones are investigated
through Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy in attenuated total reflection mode (ATR …

Histological analysis is widely applied to archaeological and fossil bones in order to identify
diagenetic changes in bone microstructure. Diagenetic processes, affecting bones from the …

This contribution presents the environmental changes that occurred over the last ten
millennia in a vast region of North Africa, encompassing the Central Sahara, the Greater Nile …

In the last decade, prehistoric archaeology in central Sudan and Nubia has been
characterised by a regional approach and the use of proper stratigraphic methods in …