ABSTRACT Fish traps and fish weirs built by Indigenous people in the Barwon‐Darling River system of Murray Darling Basin (MDB), south‐eastern Australia, are an important component their traditional social, spiritual economic systems. The celebrated Brewarrina stone ( Ngunnhu ) on Barwon largest best documented Basin. However, there has been minimal research many other this system. This paper fo...

This metagenomics investigation of three closely adjacent sampling sites from an archaeological excavation a pre-industrial coal mining exploration shaft provides detailed information on the composition local soil bacterial communities. The observed significant differences between samples, reflected in 16S r-RNA analyses, were consistent with archaeologically situation distinguishing seam, rapi...

This article shifts discussion of the medieval in South Asia away from conversations about ‘what’ took place towards ‘how’ it is studied. Following a brief review what defines Asian medieval, this starts with premise that entire period has not been studied archaeologically and there great deal potential doing so. explored reference to recent work Central India, which investigated particular set...

In this paper, we present findings from a field inspection of the Knossos aqueduct undertaken in 2019. A key contribution our fieldwork was architectural identification Roman channel underlying nineteenth-century wall Ottoman-Egyptian supplying Iraklio. While reuse nineteenth century known historical reports, structural overlap has never been identified or documented archaeologically, until now...

Abstract This study describes an effective protocol for naturalistic archaeological weapons experiments that improves cross-validation with controlled and allows testing of multiple hypotheses. Stone-tipped atlatl darts arrows were launched by skilled users against fresh carcasses, high-speed cameras radar guns capturing details ballistic performance, impacts to bone stone armatures, other vari...

The relationship between residence, gender and mobility is central to the study of early social complexity. And yet, until recently, it was deemed as archaeologically intractable. recent combination strontium data genomics with other methods has opened up entirely new possibilities for archaeological human mobility, but these advances are not without problems. Theoretical framing, empirical acc...

Abstract This study examines artifact production using lithic, animal bone, and shell materials at the lowland Maya site of Ceibal, Guatemala, to explore emergence societal role early crafting specialists. During Middle Preclassic period (1000–350 b.c. ), ancient society went through a critical transition sedentary settlements, including development large-scale monumental construction endeavors...

Abstract Chemical compositional data sets of archaeological artefacts are often analysed using standard statistical procedures. Adopting a different approach, we examine the major element oxides found in Parthian and Sasanian glazed pottery by identifying statistically important ratios conjunction with expert knowledge scientist during, rather than after, identification process. This results me...

After several field campaigns between 2007 and 2018 in the northwestern region of Dominican Republic, more than 300 archaeological sites have been registered revisited. While these were identified through scatter surface material culture, others show terrain modifications form anthropogenic mounds levelled areas. Researchers gathered valuable information regarding features’ functionality constr...

• We review the state of research on human-environment interaction in Holocene China. demonstrate benefits a multidisciplinary, regionally focused approach. conclude datasets must be local and specific, integrate data multiple scales. China is large, well-documented, critical for understanding social-natural systems. This paper reviews recent archaeological Holocene, taking continental as its g...