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Structural Characterization of Charcoal Exposed to High and Low pH: Implications for 14C Sample Preparation and Charcoal Preservation
(University of Arizona, 2008)
Chemical and structural similarities between poorly preserved charcoal and its contaminants, as well as low radiocarbon concentrations in old samples, complicate 14C age determinations. Here, we characterize 4 fossil ...
An Early Case of Color Symbolism: Ochre Use by Modern Humans in Qafzeh Cave
(University of Chicago Press, 2003)
Prehistoric archaeology provides the temporal depth necessary for understanding the evolution of the unique human ability to construct and use complex symbol systems. The longstanding focus on language, a symbol system ...
Khipu Archives: Duplicate Accounts and Identity Labels in the Inka Knotted String Records
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2005)
Accounts from the Spanish chronicles regarding Inka record-keeping practices by means of the knotted string devices called khipu ("knot") indicate that these accounts were compiled in a system of "checks and balances." ...
Ahead of the Game: Middle and Upper Palaeolithic Hunting Behaviors in the Southern Caucasus
(University of Chicago Press, 2006)
Over the past several decades a variety of models have been proposed to explain perceived behavioral and cognitive differences between Neanderthals and modern humans. A key element in many of these models and one often ...
Guest Editorial: East to West—Agricultural Origins and Dispersal into Europe
(University of Chicago Press, 2004)
Review of The Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture by Jacques Cauvin, translated by Trevor Watkins (New Studies in Archaeology).
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2001)
When, almost a century ago, Raphael Pumpelly put forward the ‘oasis theory’ for the origins of farming in the Near East, his was one of the first in a long series of explanations which looked to environment and ecology as ...
The Neolithic Settlement of Highland SW Iran: New Evidence from the Mamasani District
(British Institute of Persian Studies, 2006)
Since November 2002, the Mamasani Archaeological Project, a collaborative research initiative between the Iranian Centre for Archaeological Research (ICAR) and the University of Sydney, has been conducting fieldwork in ...
The Impact of Radiocarbon Dating on Old World Archaeology: Past Achievements and Future Expectations
(University of Arizona, 2000)
Pastoral Nomads of the Second and Third Millennia AD on the Upper Tigris River, Turkey: Archaeological Evidence from the Hirbemerdon Tepe Survey
(Boston University, 2009)
The importance of non-sedentary pastoralist groups in the social and political history of Mesopotamia has long been appreciated from the perspective of ancient texts and ethnohistorical sources, but empirical evidence from ...
Rhetorical Indios: Propagandists and Their Publics in the Spanish Philippines
(Cambridge University Press, 2007)
Censorship notwithstanding, the final half-century of Spanish rule in the Philippines was a time of efflorescence in colonial print culture. Between the advent of typo-lithography in 1858 and the successive occurrence, in ...