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Evidence of the intentional use of black henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) in the Roman Netherlands
Maaike Groot, Martijn van Haasteren & Laura I. Kooistra
Mediterranean Early Iron Age chronology: assessing radiocarbon dates from a stratified Geometric period deposit at Zagora (Andros), Greece
Rudolph Alagich et al.
Residue analysis suggests ritual use of tobacco at the ancient Mesoamerican city of Cotzumalhuapa, Guatemala
Adam Negrin, Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos et al.
Bodily boundaries transgressed: corporal alteration through ornamentation in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic at Boncuklu Tarla, Türkiye
Ergül Kodaş, Emma L Baysal, & Kazım Özkan
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Big enough to matter: on the frequency and chronology of giant handaxes in the British Lower Palaeolithic
Luke Dale et al.
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Bodily boundaries transgressed: corporal alteration through ornamentation in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic at Boncuklu Tarla, Türkiye
Ergül Kodaş et al.
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Continuity and climate change: the Neolithic coastal settlement of Habonim North, Israel
Roey Nickelsberg et al.
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Provisioning urbanism: a comparative urban-rural zooarchaeology of ancient Southwest Asia
Jane S. Gaastra et al.
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Trypillia mega-sites: a social levelling concept?
Robert Hofmann et al.
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Variation of millet grain size and cooking techniques across Asia between the late fourth and first millennia BC
Yufeng Sun et al.
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Aggrandisers and the first copper-base metallurgy in Southeast Asia
Charles Higham
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Mediterranean Early Iron Age chronology: assessing radiocarbon dates from a stratified Geometric period deposit at Zagora (Andros), Greece
Rudolph Alagich et al.
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Evidence of the intentional use of black henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) in the Roman Netherlands
Maaike Groot et al.
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Women of the Conversion Period: a biomolecular investigation of mobility in early medieval England
Helena Hamerow et al.
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Byzantine plate and Frankish mines: the provenance of silver in north-west European coinage during the Long Eighth Century (c. 660–820)
Jane Kershaw et al.
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Residue analysis suggests ritual use of tobacco at the ancient Mesoamerican city of Cotzumalhuapa, Guatemala
Adam Negrin et al.
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French historical and contemporary archaeology: a critical assessment
Elias Michaut
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Yeghegis-1 rockshelter site: new investigations into the late Chalcolithic of Armenia
Mariya Antonosyan et al.
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Unlocking archaeological data online via the PEPAdb (Prehistoric Europe's Personal Adornment Database) initiative for Open Science
Galo Romero-García et al.
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The Sacred Lake Project: preliminary findings from the Lusatian site of Papowo Biskupie, Poland
Jacek Gackowski et al.
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After the fall of the Egyptian Empire: review of the Third Intermediate Period settlement at Tell el-Retaba
Łukasz Jarmużek et al.
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Project Gallery

Chronology of hominin activity at Vindija Cave, Croatia: new dates recorded via standard and ultrafiltration AMS
Ivor Karavanić, Ines Krajcar Bronić, Andreja Sironić, Siniša Radović, Marko Banda & Fred H. Smith
Unlocking archaeological data online via the PEPAdb (Prehistoric Europe's Personal Adornment Database) initiative for Open Science
Galo Romero-García, Daniel Sánchez-Gómez, José Á. Garrido-Cordero, José M. Martínez-Blanes, Ana C. Sousa & Carlos P. Odriozola
Yeghegis-1 rockshelter site: new investigations into the late Chalcolithic of Armenia
Mariya Antonosyan et al.
Chronology of hominin activity at Vindija Cave, Croatia: new dates recorded via standard and ultrafiltration AMS
Ivor Karavanić, Ines Krajcar Bronić, Andreja Sironić, Siniša Radović, Marko Banda & Fred H. Smith
Contemporary archaeological perspectives on intersectional inequality in a welfare state in twentieth-century Finland
Oula Seitsonen, Tuuli Matila, Marika Hyttinen & Aleksi Kelloniemi
After the fall of the Egyptian Empire: review of the Third Intermediate Period settlement at Tell el-Retaba
Łukasz Jarmużek, Agnieszka Ryś-Jarmużek, Anna Wodzińska, Anna Gręzak, Claire Malleson & Sławomir Rzepka
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Personalised monuments and monumental personalities in the past and present of Bronze Age Cyprus
Pertev Basri

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Review by Rowan Flad
Life and afterlife in ancient China
Jessica Rawson
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Broken pots mending lives: the archaeology of Operation Nightingale
Richard Osgood
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Masters and apprentices at the Chapel of Hatshepsut: towards an archaeology of ancient Egyptian reliefs
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Redefining the timing and circumstances of the chicken's introduction to Europe and north-west Africa
Julia Best et al
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