Background The heterocyclic compounds particularly pyridine displayed clinical and
biological implementation. Pyridine scaffolds have been detected in most relevant drug …

Archaeometallurgy is an interdisciplinary and international field of study that examines all
aspects of the production, use, and consumption of metals from∼ 8000 BCE to the present …

Sexual division of labor with females as gatherers and males as hunters is a major empirical
regularity of hunter-gatherer ethnography, suggesting an ancestral behavioral pattern. We …

Globalization is one of the most potent theoretical frameworks of the moment, for it provides
a means by which we can make sense of our socio-cultural connectivities, and the networks …

The term archaeomineralogy is relatively new. It was used by Mitchell (1985) for a brief
bibliography, by Rapp (2002, 2009) for books, and by Kostov et al.(2008) and Rapp (2008) …

The authors reconsider the origins of metallurgy in the Old World and offer us a new model
in which metallurgy began in c. eleventh/ninth millennium BC in Southwest Asia due to a …

Seventy-five intact Mimbres and Jornada pottery sherds from the American Southwest were
analyzed by portable XRF and instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA). Examination …

Christopher P. Thornton is a specialist in the ancient metallurgy of the Middle East,
combining anthropological theory with archaeometrical analysis to understand the …

We present unambiguous records of preindustrial atmospheric mercury (Hg) pollution,
derived from lake-sediment cores collected near Huancavelica, Peru, the largest Hg deposit …

2 1 Introduction agree on any single scheme for faunal successions, and, secondly, instead
of using presence-absence of species, Lartet used the relative abundance of species. How …