CAMBRIDGE, England, June 17 -- Antiquity, a peer-reviewed journal of world archaeology, published research articles on the following topics in its April 2024 edition (Vol. 98, Issue 398). Here are excerpts: * * * Research Article: * Big enough to matter: on the frequency and chronology of giant handaxes in the British Lower Palaeolithic * Bodily boundaries transgressed: corporal alteration through ornamentation in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic at Boncuklu Tarla, Turkiye * Continuity and clima  more

CAMBRIDGE, England, June 17 -- Antiquity, a peer-reviewed journal of world archaeology, published research articles on the following topics in its June 2024 edition (Vol. 98, Issue 399). Here are excerpts: * * * Research Article: * Early Holocene exploitation of taro and yam among southern East Asian hunter-gatherers * Disarticulation, evisceration and excarnation: Neolithic mortuary practices at Dingsishan, southern China * Exploring the Baltinglass cursus complex: routes for the dead *  more

BASEL, Switzerland, June 17 -- Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, a peer-reviewed journal that says it covers archaeology, geology and geophysical prospection, geoarchaeology, geochronology, palaeoanthropology, archaeozoology and archaeobotany, published research articles on the following topics in its April 2024 edition (Vol. 16, Issue 4): * Identification of Neolithic diet by the morphology of the starch grains of dental calculus found in the Dehesilla Cave (Cadiz - South of the Ibe  more

BASEL, Switzerland, June 17 -- Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, a peer-reviewed journal that says it covers archaeology, geology and geophysical prospection, geoarchaeology, geochronology, palaeoanthropology, archaeozoology and archaeobotany, published research articles on the following topics in its July 2024 edition (Vol. 16, Issue 7): * Drawing in the depths: spatial organization patterns related to Magdalenian cave art * Tracing culinary practices in the western provinces of th  more

BASEL, Switzerland, June 17 -- Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, a peer-reviewed journal that says it covers archaeology, geology and geophysical prospection, geoarchaeology, geochronology, palaeoanthropology, archaeozoology and archaeobotany, published research articles on the following topics in its June 2024 edition (Vol. 16, Issue 6): * First asserted record of the house mouse in Morocco: application of a multidisciplinary approach to the site of Rirha (5th -1st c. BC) * Deciphe  more

BASEL, Switzerland, June 17 -- Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, a peer-reviewed journal that says it covers archaeology, geology and geophysical prospection, geoarchaeology, geochronology, palaeoanthropology, archaeozoology and archaeobotany, published research articles on the following topics in its May 2024 edition (Vol. 16, Issue 5): * What function(s) for Palaeolithic polyhedrons, spheroids and bolas? Cases from France and North Africa * Mycenaean 'gold-embroidery' and question  more