Radiocarbon dated trends and central Mediterranean prehistory

EW Parkinson, TR McLaughlin, C Esposito… - Journal of world …, 2021 - Springer
This paper reviews the evidence for long term trends in anthropogenic activity and
population dynamics across the Holocene in the central Mediterranean and the chronology …

Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age Trade in archaeological perspective: A review of interpretative and empirical developments

SC Murray - Journal of Archaeological Research, 2023 - Springer
Abstract In the Bronze Age Mediterranean, trade was a key mechanism that defined the era's
political, social, and economic dynamism. This paper reviews recent methodological and …

New AMS 14C dates track the arrival and spread of broomcorn millet cultivation and agricultural change in prehistoric Europe

D Filipović, J Meadows, MD Corso, W Kirleis… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) is not one of the founder crops domesticated in
Southwest Asia in the early Holocene, but was domesticated in northeast China by 6000 bc …

Was There a 3.2 ka Crisis in Europe? A critical comparison of climatic, environmental, and archaeological evidence for radical change during the bronze age–iron age …

B Molloy - Journal of Archaeological Research, 2023 - Springer
The globalizing connections that defined the European Bronze Age in the second
millennium BC either ended or abruptly changed in the decades around 1200 BC. The …

Best practices for selecting samples, analyzing data, and publishing results in isotope archaeology

P Vaiglova, NA Lazar, EA Stroud, E Loftus… - Quaternary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Isotopic analysis has become one of the most popular arenas of archaeological science, in
part due to its versatility to uncover intriguing insights from a range of organic and inorganic …

Mapping human mobility during the third and second millennia BC in present-day Denmark

KM Frei, S Bergerbrant, KG Sjögren, ML Jørkov… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
We present results of the largest multidisciplinary human mobility investigation to date of
skeletal remains from present-day Denmark encompassing the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC …

A strontium isoscape of Italy for provenance studies

F Lugli, A Cipriani, L Bruno, F Ronchetti, C Cavazzuti… - Chemical …, 2022 - Elsevier
We present a novel database of biological and geological 87 Sr/86 Sr values (n= 1920) from
Italy, using literature data and newly analysed samples, for provenance purposes. We …

Human mobility in a Bronze Age Vatya 'urnfield'and the life history of a high-status woman

C Cavazzuti, T Hajdu, F Lugli, A Sperduti, M Vicze… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
In this study, we present osteological and strontium isotope data of 29 individuals (26
cremations and 3 inhumations) from Szigetszentmiklós-Ürgehegy, one of the largest Middle …

Who were the Hyksos? Challenging traditional narratives using strontium isotope (87Sr/86Sr) analysis of human remains from ancient Egypt

C Stantis, A Kharobi, N Maaranen, GM Nowell… - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
A foreign dynasty, known as the Hyksos, ruled parts of Egypt between c. 1638–1530 BCE.
Their origins are thought to be rooted in the Near East, which is supported by architectural …

A sexual division of labour at the start of agriculture? A multi-proxy comparison through grave good stone tool technological and use-wear analysis

A Masclans, C Hamon, C Jeunesse, P Bickle - PLoS One, 2021 - journals.plos.org
This work demonstrates the importance of integrating sexual division of labour into the
research of the transition to the Neolithic and its social implications. During the spread of the …