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  • Chapter 2 - Taming Fire

  • Robin Derricourt, University of New South Wales, Sydney
  • Book:
    Five Innovations That Changed Human History
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    01 November 2024
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    21 November 2024, pp 10-43

  • Summary

    The ability to create, manage and transport fire transformed dark into light, cold into warmth, formed a focus for the camps of hunter-gatherer groups and allowed management of landscapes to encourage browsing animals, while cooking expanded available foodstuffs and provided more energy for the brain. The taming of fire brought dramatic and long-lasting changes to human society, with immense impacts on personal, social and economic life.

Edom in Judah

Edom in Judah
  • Trade, Migration, and Kinship in the Late Iron Age Southern Levant
  • Andrew J. Danielson
  • Published online:
    20 November 2024
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    19 December 2024
  • During the late Iron Age (800–539 BCE) in the semi-arid southern Levant, small competing kingdoms navigated a tenuous position between their local populace and the external empires who dominated the region. For kingdoms such as Judah and Edom, this period was also one of opportunity due to their location at the intersection of lucrative trade networks connecting the Mediterranean and Arabian worlds. Such economic opportunity, together with subsistence practices rooted in mobility, resulted in a diverse and contested social landscape in the northeastern Negev borderland region between these two kingdoms. This Element explores the multifaceted interactions in this landscape. Insightful case studies highlight patterns of cross-cultural interaction and identity negotiation through the lenses of culinary practices, religion, language, and text. Ultimately, this analysis explores the lived realities of the region's inhabitants, migrants, and traders over multiple generations, emphasizing social diversity and entanglement as an integral feature of the region.

  • From Cultural Property to Cultural Heritage

  • Sophie Vigneron
  • Journal:
    International Journal of Cultural Property / Volume 31 / Issue 1 / February 2024
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    20 November 2024, pp. 1-3
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  • The Baptist Hospital in Gaza. Current ruins for future archaeologists?

  • Mazen Iwaisi
  • Journal:
    Archaeological Dialogues / Volume 30 / Issue 2 / December 2023
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    18 November 2024, pp. 95-101
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  • As a Palestinian archaeologist whose work is focused on the geopolitics of Palestinian archaeology practice and theory, I reflect in this provocation article on the current devastation of the Gaza Strip by Israel and how archaeology can be incorporated into Gaza’s current situation. Pertinent questions include the following: How should archaeologists treat the ruins of the Baptist Hospital or any ruins in Gaza? What should be done with all these ruins? When does democide become genocide? Is an ex situ analysis possible? Is there such a thing as archaeology without a place? What kind of ‘regime of truth’ does it establish? What ethical implications does this form of analysis have? What kind of accountability does it possess? In what ways does it shape our memories of events?

  • Novel dissolved organic 14C analyses method applied in a case study at a LILW waste repository

  • A Molnár, M Veres, T Varga, P Turza, A J T Jull, R Janovics, M Molnár
  • Journal:
    Radiocarbon / Volume 67 / Issue 1 / February 2025
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    18 November 2024, pp. 74-87
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    February 2025
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  • A routine chemical procedure was developed at the Ede Hertelendi Laboratory of Environmental Studies (HEKAL), in Debrecen which can measure the dissolved organic radiocarbon content of groundwater as well as the inorganic and total fraction. The typical background of this non-purgeable dissolved organic radiocarbon preparation is 0.73 ± 0.14 percent modern carbon (pMC), using a carbon contamination correction on fossil dissolved material (potassium hydrogen phthalate) samples.

  • Terminal Pleistocene–Early Holocene human occupation in north-central Chile

  • Andrés Troncoso, Daniel Pascual, Antonia Escudero, Mariela Pino, Daniel Hernández, Patricio López-Méndoza, Francisca Moya, Felipe Armstrong, Francisca Vera, Manuela Delgado, Diego Artigas, Pablo Larach, María Alejandra Chávez
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 99 / Issue 403 / February 2025
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    15 November 2024, pp. 13-31
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    February 2025
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  • While a clear human presence may be recognised in the Andes by 12 000–11 000 cal BP, most archaeological research has focused on occupation of the Andean highlands. To understand the initial occupation of inland areas of South America, the authors consider regional connections and spatial exploitation strategies of hunter-gatherers highlighted in a recent survey of Andean sites. Focusing on north-central Chile, artefacts and radiocarbon dates from three rock shelters suggest sporadic and brief occupation during the Terminal Pleistocene–Early Holocene. Co-occurrence of marine and montane resources, the authors argue, demonstrates a strategy of high mobility and local adaptation in early Andean occupation, using rock shelters as landmarks to navigate and learn new landscapes.

  • Evidence of Middle Palaeolithic human occupation in south-central Oman

  • Dominik Chlachula, Yamandú H. Hilbert, Roman Garba, Ash Parton, Lee Arnold, David Alsop, Mathieu Duval, Matthew Meredith-Williams
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 99 / Issue 404 / April 2025
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    15 November 2024, e9
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    April 2025
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  • Debate surrounds the early peopling of the Arabian Peninsula. The first evidence of the Levallois lithic technology in the Huqf area of south-eastern Arabia now extends the Middle Palaeolithic record of hominin activity into central Oman and helps to diversify the picture of Arabian prehistory.

  • Untwisting Beycesultan Höyük: the earliest evidence for nålbinding and indigo-dyed textiles in Anatolia

  • Çiğdem Maner, Eşref Abay, Recep Karadağ, Emine Torgan Güzel
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 99 / Issue 403 / February 2025
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    15 November 2024, pp. 118-134
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    February 2025
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  • Cuneiform tablets indicate the importance of textile manufacturing in the Bronze Age Old Assyrian Colony Period and Hittite Empire, yet the organic traces of this industry rarely survive. Two burnt textile fragments found at Beycesultan offer an unexpected insight into the Bronze Age textile industry in Anatolia. Here, the authors present the results of chromatographic and microscopic analyses that indicate one fragment was made from hemp using the nålbinding, or single-needle knitting, technique and was dyed with the woad or indigo plant, while the other was a natural tabby weave. Both add to our understanding of the diversity of textile production in the Bronze Age.

  • The Legal Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage A Perspective from the Republic of Cyprus

  • Andreas Giorgallis
  • Journal:
    International Journal of Cultural Property / Volume 31 / Issue 2 / May 2024
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    15 November 2024, pp. 227-248
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  • Cyprus, an island nation situated in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, counts among the states that elected not to adopt the 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage (henceforth: the 2001 UNESCO Convention), although recognizing its merits. With a coastline of 648 km, Cyprus’ seafloor holds an abundance of underwater cultural heritage. Despite that wealth, one searches in vain for a comprehensive study on the legal protection of its underwater cultural heritage. Instead, sporadic references to some of its provisions can be traced throughout the scholarly research surrounding the legal protection of underwater cultural heritage1 and maritime archaeology.2 Against this background, this article stands as the first thorough effort to reflect on Cyprus’ legal protection of its underwater cultural heritage.

The Roman Provinces, 300 BCE–300 CE
  • Using Coins as Sources
  • Andrew Burnett
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    14 November 2024
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    14 November 2024
  • Provincial coinage gives us a unique insight into the Roman world, reflecting the values and concerns of the elites of the many hundreds of cities in the Roman empire. Coins offer a very different perspective from written history, which usually represents the views of the senatorial class, and which was usually composed long after the events that are described. The coins, in contrast, provide evidence without hindsight, and uniquely allow a systematic examination across the whole Roman world. This volume makes it possible for instructors and students and scholars to deploy a complex set of material evidence on many historical topics. It includes over two hundred illustrations of coins with detailed captions, so providing a convenient sourcebook of the most important items, and covers topics such as the motivation for Roman conquest, the revolution of Augustus, the world of the Second Sophistic and the crisis of the third century.
Aegeomania

Aegeomania
  • Modern Reimaginings of the Aegean Bronze Age
  • Nicoletta Momigliano
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    14 November 2024
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    21 November 2024
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  • This Element provides an overview of Aegeomania: the fascination, sometimes bordering on the obsession, with the Aegean Bronze Age, which manifests itself in the uses of Aegean Bronze Age material culture to create something new in literature, the visual and performing arts, and many other cultural practices.  It discusses the role that Aegeomania can play in our understanding of the Aegean Bronze Age and illustrates this with examples from the 1870s to the present, which include, among many others, poems by Emma Lazarus, Salvatore Quasimodo, and Giorgos Seferis; novels by Kristmann Gudmundsson, Mary Renault, Don DeLillo, Zeruya Shalev, and Sally Rooney; Freudian psychoanalysis; sculptures by Henry Moore and Pablo Picasso; music by Harrison Birtwistle and the rock band Giant Squid; films by Robert Wise and Wolfang Petersen; elegant textiles and garments created by Josef Frank and Karl Lagerfeld. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

  • The decapitated woman of Puisserguier (Hérault, France): a case study of mortuary treatment

  • Jérôme Rouquet, Jérôme Hernandez, Romain Marsac, Mélanie Pruvost, Muriel Gandelin
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 99 / Issue 403 / February 2025
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    14 November 2024, e4
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    February 2025
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  • An exceptional Late Neolithic burial discovered at Puisserguier, southern France, contains a skeleton buried with its head deposited on its torso; the disposal of the rest of the body follows a standard pattern for individual burials of this period. The authors discuss the nature of this deposit in terms of its funerary status.

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