How and why did people living in the Aegean region over 3,000 years ago construct their buildings in the manner that they did? By having access to digital building plans our understanding of building techniques used in the region during this era can be improved. The application of digital spatial analyses to determine what could be possible reasons why certain materials and dimensions were used...

Naviculocuneiform coalitions are among the least common types of tarsal coalition, a rare congenital anomaly characterized by incompletely separated tarsal bones. Only a handful of cases have been documented from the archaeological record, none of which have been recovered from north central Asia or date to earlier than about 2000 years B.P. Here, we present a case of nearly complete osseous co...

Currently, incomparable dating systems are used in archaeology, based on historical chronology, dendrochronology, and two types of radiocarbon dates: LSC AMS. But the latter suggest, as a rule, earlier dates. Contrary to this, intervals chronology dendrochronology quite comparable. And obtained by means Bayesian statistics AMS dates very close. The problem is also aggravated fact that use stand...

There are two models for the origins and timing of the Bronze Age in Southeast Asia. The first centres on the sites of Ban Chiang and Non Nok Tha in Northeast Thailand. It places the first evidence for bronze technology in about 2000 B.C., and identifies the origin by means of direct contact with specialists of the Seima Turbino metallurgical tradition of Central Eurasia. The second is based on...

The first advanced Bronze Age civilization of Europe was established by the Minoans about 5,000 years before present. Since Sir Arthur Evans exposed the Minoan civic centre of Knossos, archaeologists have speculated on the origin of the founders of the civilization. Evans proposed a North African origin; Cycladic, Balkan, Anatolian and Middle Eastern origins have also been proposed. Here we add...