History and archaeology topic list of research papers
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First hominin settlements out of Africa. Tempo and dispersal mode: Review and perspectives
Abstract Current discussions generally focus on “when” the first ‘Out of Africa’ hominin settlements occurred. We propose a short review of some of the assumptions underlying the ‘Out of Africa’ dispersal scenarios and their reappraisal in the light ...
2016 / Sandrine Prat -
Graven Images2015 / Nicholas J Wade
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Seeing the forest for the trees: Assessing technological variability in ancient metallurgical crucible assemblages
Abstract Metallurgical crucible remains have been found in many archaeological contexts and in varying degrees of preservation. The reconstruction of metallurgical activity through the study of these remains, by means of microscopy and chemical...
2015 / Frederik W. Rademakers, Thilo Rehren -
Meta-analysis in zooarchaeology expands perspectives on Indigenous fisheries of the Northwest Coast of North America
Abstract Fisheries are of fundamental importance to Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest of North America today and in the past but few archaeological analyses have documented geographic patterning in fisheries across the entire region. This...
2016 / Iain McKechnie, Madonna L. Moss -
Peer review report 2 On “Sensitivity of Summer Stream Temperatures to Climate Variability and Riparian Reforestation Strategies”2015 / Nick van de Giesen
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Options for Sustainability in Building and Energy: A South African Permaculture Case Study
Abstract Sustainability of human economies and the environments that we inhabit as part of a globalized society have been debated at least since the 1970s, and solutions to the currently destructive effects on the planet of our economies and...
2015 / Elizabeth May Kruger -
Semen Displacement as a Sperm Competition Strategy in Humans2015 / G. G. Gallup, R. L. Burch
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Using palynology to re-assess the Dead Sea laminated sediments – Indeed varves?
Abstract Lacustrine laminated sediments are often varves representing annual rhythmic deposition. The Dead Sea high-stand laminated sections consist of mm-scale alternating detrital and authigenic aragonite laminae. Previous studies assumed these...
2016 / Lourdes López-Merino, Suzanne A.G. Leroy, Amram Eshel, Valentina Epshtein, Reuven Belmaker, et al. -
Airborne laser scanning as a method for exploring long-term socio-ecological dynamics in Cambodia
Abstract Early Khmer societies developed extensive settlement complexes that were largely made of non-durable materials. These fragile urban areas perished many centuries ago, and thus a century and a half of scholarly research has focussed on the...
2016 / Damian Evans -
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Texts as a Model for a Truthful Approach to Reality
Abstract This paper proposes how academic teaching based on the use of texts can be fertile soil for educational processes in younger generations. For this purpose, the work recommends grounding university courses that make extensive use of texts in ...
2015 / Lucia Salvato -
Using Gabmap
Abstract Gabmap is a freely available, open-source web application that analyzes the data of language variation, e.g. varying words for the same concepts, varying pronunciations for the same words, or varying frequencies of syntactic constructions...
2015 / Therese Leinonen, Çağrı Çöltekin, John Nerbonne -
Space in 150 years: from Fantasy through fiction to fact and function2016 / D. Southwood
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Do peatlands or lakes provide the most comprehensive distal tephra records?
Abstract Despite the widespread application of tephra studies for dating and correlation of stratigraphic sequences (‘tephrochronology’), questions remain over the reliability and replicability of tephra records from lake sediments and peats,...
2016 / E.J. Watson, G.T. Swindles, I.T. Lawson, I.P. Savov -
A Carboniferous Fossil Forest in North Wales: Problems and Potentials Associated with Developing and Conserving a ‘Soft-Rock’ Site2016 / Barry A Thomas
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Editorial: Counting on Eyes2015 / Richard L Gregory
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Coupled ocean–land millennial-scale changes 1.26millionyears ago, recorded at Site U1385 off Portugal
Abstract While a growing body of evidence indicates that North Atlantic millennial-scale climate variability extends to the Early Pleistocene, its impact on terrestrial ecosystems has not been established. Here we present ultra-high resolution...
2015 / P.C. Tzedakis, V. Margari, D.A. Hodell -
Maintaining legacy data: Saving Belfast Harbour (UK) tide-gauge data (1901–2010)
Abstract Tide gauge data are identified as legacy data given the radical transition between observation method and required output format associated with tide gauges over the 20th-century. Observed water level variation through tide-gauge records is ...
2015 / Joanne Murdy, Julian Orford, James Bell -
Pb and Sr concentrations and isotopic compositions in prehistoric North American teeth: A methodological study
Abstract We present Pb and Sr isotopic compositions and elemental concentrations for dentin and enamel from 28 human teeth from 10 locations in the southwestern United States. These teeth represent Native American communities that were functioning...
2016 / F.Ö. Dudás, S.A. LeBlanc, S.W. Carter, S.A. Bowring -
Market instruments, biosecurity and place-based understandings of animal disease
Abstract Neoliberal approaches to managing animal disease use Market Instruments (MIs) to promote biosecurity citizenship amongst farmers. MIs create risk-based trading markets that make disease risks visible, and establish and reward appropriate...
2016 / Gareth Enticott -
A New Occupational/Industrial Coding System for 19th Century U.S. Heavy Industrial Workers2015 / R. Healey