This paper deals with the use of satellite QuickBird images to find traces of past human activity in the ancient territory of Hierapolis (Turkey). This is one of the most important archaeological sites in Turkey, and in 1988 it was inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage list. Although over the years the archaeological site of Hierapolis has been excavated, restored and well documented, up to no...

This paper considers the results of an examination painted pottery from prehistoric sites Prmor’ye region (Southern Russian Far East) in northwestern part Sea Japan basin. Red-painted and black-painted ceramic wares occur here only remains Yankovskaya archaeological culture dated to 1st mil. BCE. Red painting appears as a colored surface coating, black is represented by very simple drawn patter...

Abstract Archaeological and palaeontological excavations frequently produce large quantities of highly fragmentary bone. These bones can help to answer questions regarding past environments human animal lifeways via a number analytical techniques but this potential is limited by the inability distinguish individual animals generate sufficiently samples. Using stable carbon nitrogen isotope valu...

This paper presents the application of five analytical methods to analyze ceramic fragments excavated in archaeological sites Sambaqui do Bacanga (SB), da Panaquatira (SP), and Rabo de Porco (RP) located on Brazilian Amazon coast. It is a region that evidence one oldest productions Americas. Characterization ceramics from three led identification production processes, technological acquisition ...

Metal artworks are subjected to corrosion and oxidation processes due to reactive agents present in the air, water and in the ground that these objects have been in contact with for hundreds of years. This is the case for archaeological metals that are recovered from excavation sites, as well as artefacts exposed to polluted air. Stabilization of the conservation state of these objects needs pr...

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) has recently gained a wide acceptance in the archaeological community as a method to quickly and accurately locate buried archaeological features, artifacts, and important cultural and geological strata in the near-surface. The GPR method has now become one of the primary tools for geophysical feature identification primarily because of its three-dimensional abili...

BACKGROUND The southern Levant (Israel, Palestinian Authority and Jordan) has been continuously and extensively populated by succeeding phases of human cultures for the past 15,000 years. The long human impact on the ancient landscape has had great ecological consequences, and has caused continuous and accelerating damage to the natural environment. The rich zooarchaeological data gathered at t...

Since 2007, the Silvretta Archaeological Project in the high Alps on the Swiss-Austrian border has been investigating the prehistoric origins of alpine pasture economy. In an area of about 540 km2 more than 20 well-preserved archaeological sites associated with alpine pastoralism have been recorded, the earliest of them dating to the Iron Age (Reitmaier (ed.), 2012; Walser and Lambers, 2012). A...