Recently added articles from Antiquity:
Large-scale storage of grain surplus in the sixth millennium BC: the silos of Tel Tsaf.(Research)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Introduction Silos for the storage of grain have been an essential aspect of all agricultural communities throughout the ages. Harvested crops need to be kept for at least a year until the next harvest. When the amount of stored grain is larger than that necessary for the ...
Pavlov VI: an upper Palaeolithic living unit.(Research)(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Introduction One of the characteristics of the Danubian Gravettian (Pavlovian) period is that its sites are found in clusters (Gamble 1999; Roebroeks et al. 2000; Svoboda & Sedlackova 2004). These may be intensive occupations, resulting from repeated human activities at one ...
Editorial.(death of Alan Vince)(preserving historic sites)(Edinburgh University's archaeological studies)(Editorial)
Jun 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * The G20 meeting in London raised expectations of large-scale government investment designed to get the global economy moving--and let's hope it does. Meanwhile the priority is to save existing jobs, create new ones and ...
Multiple uses for Australian backed artefacts.(Research)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Introduction In Australia, backed artefacts, called microliths or backed bladelets in many parts of the world, have been employed by archaeologists to demonstrate culture change. We know they appeared in the archaeological record of north-eastern Australia in the late ...
Extraordinary early Magdalenian finds from El Miron Cave, Cantabria (Spain).(Research)(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... Introduction Cantabrian Spain has long been known for its Upper Palaeolithic cave art, portable art objects and 'utilitarian' but decorated artefacts made of bone or antler. Classic works published before the Spanish Civil War (e.g. Alcalde del Rio et al. 1911; Breuil & ...