The appearance of the oldest pottery in the world is a major focus of Early Neolithic
archaeology. So far, most discoveries of early pottery have occurred in South China, North …

Conditioned by local ways of knowing and doing, Great Zimbabwe develops a new
interpretation of the famous World Heritage site of Great Zimbabwe. It combines …

Palaeolithic stone plaquettes are a type of mobiliary art featuring engravings and recovered
primarily from Magdalenian sites, where they can number from single finds to several …

Brazilian coastal archaeology is renowned for its numerous and large shellmounds
(sambaquis), which had been continuously occupied from at least 8000 to 1000 years cal …

The Siwa archaeological culture (ca. 3350 and 2650 cal yr BP) has often been associated
with the tribes referenced in textual sources as Qiang and Rong: prized captives commonly …

Mass spectrometry-based approaches have been successfully applied for identifying
ancient proteins in bones and other tissues. On the contrary, there are relatively few …

This contribution discusses the results of an integrated approach of use wear analysis,
spectroscopic analysis and experimental archaeology, applied for the investigation of the …

Post-firing treatments, produced by the interaction of an organic material with the hot surface
of a ceramic, are frequently described in ethnographic literature, but have rarely been …

Abstract The Late Mesolithic Ertebølle and Narva cultures (6th–5th/4th millennium BC) in the
southwest and eastern Baltic, respectively, shared similar vessel types, namely pointed …

Over three field seasons between 2007 and 2012, we excavated three caves—Mota,
Tuwatey, and Gulo—situated at an average elevation of 2,084 m above sea level in the cool …