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Excess protein enabled dog domestication during severe Ice Age winters

Maria Lahtinen, David Clinnick, Kristiina Mannermaa, J. Sakari Salonen et al. • Scientific Reports (2021)

Abstract Dogs (Canis familiaris) are the first animals to be domesticated by humans and the only ones domesticated by mobile hunter-gatherers. Wolves and humans were both persistent, pack hunters of large prey. They were species competing o...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-78214-4

Characterization of Ancient Tripitaka

Y. X. Gong, L. Geng, D. C. Gong • The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences (2015)

Tripitaka is the world’s most comprehensive version of Buddhist sutra. There are limited numbers of Tripitaka currently preserved, most of them present various patterns of degradation. As little is known about the materials and crafts used...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-5-W7-159-2015

Agricultural Transformations and Their Influential Factors Revealed by Archaeobotanical Evidence in Holocene Jiangsu Province, Eastern China

Haiming Li, Haiming Li, Haiming Li, Zhen Liu et al. • Frontiers in Earth Science (2021)

The development and adoption of agriculture has been investigated for decades, and remains a central topic within archaeology. However, most previous studies focus on the crop’s domestication centers, leading to gaps in knowledge, particula...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/feart.2021.661684

Palaeoenvironments and hominin evolutionary dynamics in southeast Asia

Anne-Marie Bacon, Nicolas Bourgon, Elise Dufour, Fabrice Demeter et al. • Scientific Reports (2023)

Abstract Secure environmental contexts are crucial for hominin interpretation and comparison. The discovery of a Denisovan individual and associated fauna at Tam Ngu Hao 2 (Cobra) Cave, Laos, dating back to 164–131 ka, allows for environmen...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-43011-2

New femoral evidence from the Afar reveal the early evolution of habitual squatting behaviors in the genus Theropithecus

Laurent Pallas, Laurent Pallas, Laurent Pallas, Masato Nakatsukasa et al. • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (2025)

IntroductionThe femoral anatomy of fossil Theropithecus is poorly known, although it provides critical data for inferring squatting behaviors, a characteristic trait of extant Theropithecus gelada.MethodsHere, we describe and provide functi...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2025.1593646

To the question of agriculture in the Ananyino cultural and historical region

Chizhevsky Andrei A., Ponomarenko Elena V., Orudzhov Eduard I. • Поволжская археология (2025)

The issue of agriculture in the Ananyino cultural and historical region is one of the most acute in modern archaeology of the Volga region in the Early Iron Age. Since the end of the XIX century and up to the 80s of the XX century, it was c...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.24852/pa2025.1.51.35.42

The Archaeology of Animals

Simon Davis • Routledge eBooks (2012)

Ever since the discovery of fossil remains of extinct animals associated with flint implements, bones and other animal remains have been providing invaluable information to the archaeologist. In the last 20 years many archaeologists and zoo...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203060131

Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology

Hisao Mabuchi, Edward V. Sayre, Pamela B. Vandiver, James R. Druzik et al. • Studies in Conservation (1991)

the purpose of this meeting is to present new and current research which: shares an empirical methodology of observation and measurement; concerns interdisciplinary studies of art, archaeology, architecture, ancient technology, and conserva...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/1506337

Archaeology of Ancient Australia

Peter Dixon Hiscock • Routledge eBooks (2007)

This book is an introduction to the archaeology of Australia from prehistoric times to the eighteenth century AD. It is the only up-to-date textbook on the subject and is designed for undergraduate courses, based on the author's considerabl...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203448359

Science-Based Dating in Archaeology

M. J. AITKEN • Routledge eBooks (2014)

Archaeologists and archaeology students have long since needed an authoritative account of the techniques now available to them, designed to be understood by non-scientists. This book fills the gap and it offers a two-tier approach to the s...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315836645

Analysis of Chemical Composition of Non-Ferrous Metal Items from the Ananyino Burial Ground

Saprykina Irina А., Kuz’minykh Sergei V., Pelgunova Lubov А. • Поволжская археология (2016)

The article presents results of an analysis conducted by the authors in order to study chemical composition of items from non-ferrous metals found on the Ananyino burial ground. A number of research methods, including OES, XRF and TXRF was ...

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