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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 382) Peer-ReviewedFor two decades, stable isotope studies have documented palaeodietary transitions in the Sabana de Bogota region of north-west South America. Using traditional and Bayesian stable isotope mixing models, this article...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 382) Peer-ReviewedLESLIE NEWSON & PETER J. RICHERSON. 2021. A story of us: a new look at human evolution. New York: Oxford University Press; 978-0-19088-320-1 hardback $29.95. MARK W. MOFFETT. 2019. The human swarm: how our societies...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 382) Peer-ReviewedCHRISTIAN MADER. 2019. Sea shells in the mountains and llamas on the coast: the economy of the Paracas Culture (800 to 200 BC) in southern Peru. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz; 978-3-44711327-4 hardback 98 [euro]. This...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 382) Peer-ReviewedArchaeologists are increasingly publishing articles proclaiming the relevance of our field for contemporary global challenges, yet our research has little impact on other disciplines or on policy-making. Here, the author...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 382) Peer-ReviewedFrontispiece 2. Aerial view of the 2019 excavation of a Bronze Age round barrow, near Winterbourne Abbas in Dorset, south-west England. The Catsbarrow site was identified as part of mitigation works by the Dorset Visual...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 382) Peer-ReviewedFollowing two centuries of research at Karnak, our understanding of the origins and development of this famous ancient Egyptian temple complex remains limited. Recent archaeological excavation in the Ptah temple,...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 382) Peer-ReviewedFREDERICK H. HANSELMANN. 2019. Captain Kidd's lost ship: the wreck of the Quedagh Merchant. Gainesville: University of Florida Press; 978-0-81305-622-7 hardback $85. Frederick H. Flanselmann's riveting recent book...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 382) Peer-ReviewedI thank the four respondents for engaging with my remarks (Smith 2021) and for providing excellent insights into the question of relevance in archaeology. I find the diversity of examples refreshing and invigorating, and...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 382) Peer-ReviewedAcross Europe early medieval archaeologists have long recognised significant numbers of graves displaying evidence for the intentional post-burial disturbance of skeletons and artefacts. The practice of reopening and...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 382) Peer-ReviewedThe role and significance of fish and fishing in the ancient Near East has been little studied. A new assemblage of fish remains and fishing gear recovered from Bronze Age Bet Yerah on the Sea of Galilee, however, offers...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 382) Peer-ReviewedTIM FORSSMAN. 2020. Foragers in the middle Limpopo Valley: trade, place-making, and social complexity. Oxford: Archaeopress; 978-1-78969-686-8 eBook Open Access. With his book Foragers in the middle Limpopo Valley:...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 382) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Why is it that archaeology--a discipline that deals with human experience over the long term--is failing to achieve its potential in tackling global challenges? As Smith (2021) rightly argues, this issue...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 382) Peer-ReviewedRecent years have seen an increase in the number of volumes Antiquity receives from publishers based in the USA, presenting archaeology in North and South America, as well as farther afield. The range of these...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 382) Peer-ReviewedArchaeological research demonstrates that an agropastoral economy was established in Tibet during the second millennium BC, aided by the cultivation of barley introduced from South-western Asia. The exact cultural...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 382) Peer-ReviewedDeliberately deposited (or cached) objects are ubiquitous in the archaeological record, yet they are often classified under different categories, such as hoards, structured deposits, grave goods and cenotaph burials, and...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 382) Peer-ReviewedThis list includes all books received between 1 March 2021 and 30 April 2021. Those featuring at the beginning of New Book Chronicle have, however, not been duplicated in this list. The listing of a book in this...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 382) Peer-Reviewed
Enhancing archaeology's role in addressing grand challenges needs more reflection on known unknowns.
Identification of the relevance of archaeology has been a recurrent concern in the discipline since at least the 1930s (Clark 1939), and which has often played out in the pages of Antiquity. In British contexts, the... -
From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 382) Peer-ReviewedBurial mounds piled high with enemy corpses are well known in Mesopotamian inscriptions as symbols of victory, but no archaeological examples have so far been recovered. Archaeological investigations of a tall mound...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 382) Peer-ReviewedMichael Smith's debate piece (2021) provides some valuable perspectives on the question of why archaeology's relevance to global challenges has not been recognised. He laments that our burgeoning record of publications...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 95, Issue 382) Peer-ReviewedExtensively worked in antiquity, Skouriotissa remains the only active copper mine on the island of Cyprus. The modern, open-cast operation, however, has almost completely obliterated the earlier mining landscape. Here...