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New articles in Journal of Archaeological Science available on ScienceDirect |
| | 1. | The Middle and Later Stone Age Faunal Remains from Diepkloof Rock Shelter, Western Cape, South Africa
Original Research Article
Available online 11 January 2013
Teresa E. Steele, Richard G. Klein
Highlights► Diepkloof has pre-Still Bay to post-Howiesons Poort and Later Stone Age material. ► The fauna is dominated by (mainly small) mammals, tortoises, and intertidal mollusks. ► As in other Late Pleistocene Western Cape samples, grazers are abundant. ► Small animals, especially at the base, potentially were accumulated by non-humans. ► Later Stone Age limpets and tortoises are generally smaller than Middle Stone Age ones
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| | 4. | Models of settlement hierarchy based on partial evidence
Original Research Article
Available online 9 January 2013
Andrew Bevan, Alan Wilson
Highlights► Prediction of Bronze Age Cretan settlement hierarchy from location-only data. ► Point process and spatial interaction models combined with Monte Carlo methods. ► Consideration of realistic travel times and multiple shortest paths. ► Model of the joint evolution of path and place hierarchies.
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| | 5. | Bioturbation and the upward movement of sediment particles and archaeological materials: Comments on Bueno et al
Available online 9 January 2013
Astolfo Gomes de Mello Araujo
Highlights► Bueno et al. show data from a Paleoindian site that suggests upward vertical movement of small archaeological pieces (< 2mm). ► The reasons advanced for this could be eolian activity coupled with bioturbation as a complementary mechanism. ► The literature on tropical bioturbation points to leaf-cutting (harvester) ants as playing a major role. ► Eolian activity was probably not a significant factor in this case.
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| | 6. | Characterization and source of Cucuteni black pigment (Romania): vibrational spectrometry and XRD study
Original Research Article
Available online 5 January 2013
Nicolae Buzgar, Andrei Ionuţ Apopei, Andrei Buzatu
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Highlights► We mention for the first time the source of the black pigment for Cucuteni culture. ► Raw material identified and analysed through XRD, AAS, FT-IR and Raman spectroscopy. ► Birnessite, goethite and quartz indentified in raw material. ► 127 ceramic shards from Cucuteni culture were analysed through Raman spectroscopy. ► Pyrolusite, jacobsite, hematite, quartz, black carbon, rutile and anatase.
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| | 7. | First molecular identification of a hafting adhesive in the Late Howiesons Poort at Diepkloof Rock Shelter (Western Cape, South Africa)
Original Research Article
Available online 5 January 2013
Armelle Charrié-Duhaut, Guillaume Porraz, Caroline R. Cartwright, Marina Igreja, Jacques Connan, Cedric Poggenpoel, Pierre-Jean Texier
Highlights► At Diepkloof, the hafting of tools using adhesive appears with the Howiesons Poort. ► The distribution of the adhesive residues shows a strictly lateralized hafting. ► The Late Howiesons Poort inhabitants of Diepkloof used oxidised resin ofPodocarpus. ► The adhesive at Diepkloof differs from other contemporaneous Howiesons Poort sites.
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