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description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2016 CanadaElsevier BV SSHRCSSHRCAuthors: Alexis E. Dolphin; Mathew A. Teeter; Christine D. White; Fred J. Longstaffe;Alexis E. Dolphin; Mathew A. Teeter; Christine D. White; Fred J. Longstaffe;Abstract A fundamental research concern within contemporary bioarchaeology is the sensitive balance between the preservation of human remains and the use of destructive techniques to collect information. Here we describe one example of how multiple microspatial destructive/semi-destructive techniques may be carried out in sequence using only the enamel of a single tooth. With careful planning of both sample preparation strategies and sequencing of sampling methods, it is possible to produce multiple datasets, and yet to retain material for future analyses. In this case, enamel from the teeth of 27 individuals who lived during the early medieval period (AD 1170-1198) in Bergen, Norway, was subjected to histological, trace element (LA-ICP-MS), diagenetic (FTIR), and isotopic analyses (δ 18 O and δ 13 C, via micromill/multiprep/IRMS).
Scholarship@Western arrow_drop_down Journal of Archaeological Science ReportsArticle . 2016License: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu6 citations 6 popularity Average influence Average impulse Average Powered by BIP!more_vert Scholarship@Western arrow_drop_down Journal of Archaeological Science ReportsArticle . 2016License: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2017Elsevier BV EC | ADNABIOARC, SSHRCEC| ADNABIOARC ,SSHRCAuthors: Christopher Meiklejohn; Deborah C. Merrett; David Reich; Ron Pinhasi;Christopher Meiklejohn; Deborah C. Merrett; David Reich; Ron Pinhasi;Abstract We present the first set of radiocarbon dates derived from human skeletal material from Ganj Dareh, Iran. These new dates fully overlap with those on goat bone samples published by Zeder and Hesse (2000) and confirm the finding of the latter source that occupation of the site occurred within ca 200–300 years after 9000 bp (~ 10,100 cal. BP). In so doing we confirm the absence of a hiatus between the lower two levels (E and D), an idea derived from the initial dating of the site. We also provide the first full review of the 23 radiocarbon dates from the site published prior to the work of Zeder and Hesse (2000). Examination of the full date sequence emphasizes the complexity of the site stratigraphy and tight clustering of the dates from all levels, thereby clarifying the difficulty that the excavator had in separating levels.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu7 citations 7 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Average Powered by BIP!more_vert Journal of Archaeolo... arrow_drop_down Journal of Archaeological Science ReportsArticle . 2017License: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2020Elsevier BV SSHRCSSHRCAuthors: Brita Lorentzen; Sturt W. Manning; Deborah Cvikel;Brita Lorentzen; Sturt W. Manning; Deborah Cvikel;Abstract The 19th century was an era of increasing mechanization and globalization, which transformed maritime networks and shipbuilding in and beyond the Mediterranean. Shipwrecks offer valuable physical evidence of such maritime connectivity and evolving shipbuilding techniques but must be dated within a high-resolution timeframe to be synchronized with, and thereby enhance, historical records. We focus here on high-resolution dating of the Akko Tower Shipwreck, the remains of an Ottoman merchant brig found inside the harbor of Akko, Israel. We use dendrochronology, 14C wiggle-matching, and Bayesian chronological modeling to determine that the ship was likely constructed in the mid-1850s, and therefore called at Akko’s harbor after the town’s 1840 bombardment, a period of decline traditionally under-studied in Ottoman historical narratives. Using dendroprovenancing methods, we find that the ship’s hull used timbers from the Anatolian Black Sea region, although it was built in the French construction tradition, and used British metal rigging and fasteners, which reflect shifting Anglo-French influence and socioeconomic interconnections with the Ottoman Empire during the 19th century. The Akko Tower Shipwreck is the first shipwreck from Israel to be dendrochronologically dated and provenanced. Our results show how dendrochronology and Bayesian chronological modeling can be used successfully not only for high-precision dating, but also for untangling the shipbuilding processes and the socioeconomic networks that made ship construction possible. We also re-evaluate East Mediterranean oak sapwood datasets and develop an approximate new sapwood model that provides more robust estimates of felling dates for tree-ring analysis of this region’s oak wooden cultural heritage.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu7 citations 7 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!more_vert Journal of Archaeolo... arrow_drop_down Journal of Archaeological Science ReportsArticle . 2020License: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2019 ItalyElsevier BV SSHRCSSHRCAuthors: Geneviève Pothier Bouchard; Susan M. Mentzer; Julien Riel-Salvatore; Jamie Hodgkins; +4 AuthorsGeneviève Pothier Bouchard; Susan M. Mentzer; Julien Riel-Salvatore; Jamie Hodgkins; Christopher E. Miller; Fabio Negrino; Roy A. Wogelius; Michael Buckley;Abstract Faunal remains play an important role in helping reconstruct Palaeolithic hunter-gatherer subsistence and mobility strategies. However, differential bone preservation is an issue in southern European prehistoric sites, which often makes morphological identification impossible. Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) is a new, low-cost method that can improve NISP statistical significance in a replicable way by using diagnostic peptides of the dominant collagen protein as a fingerprint of animal (including hominin) species. It is also a powerful tool to assess collagen preservation for radiocarbon dating. This paper presents the proof of concept of a method for evaluating collagen preservation in a quick and minimally destructive way in the field prior to ZooMS analysis by using a portable Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer (FTIR) equipped with an attenuated total reflectance accessory (ATR). The method was tested on faunal assemblages from two north-western Italian sites: Riparo Bombrini and Arma Veirana. Both are important sites for understanding the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic of Liguria but are located in two distinct environmental contexts (coast vs. mountainous hinterland) that impacted collagen preservation. The relative abundance of collagen in powdered bone samples was evaluated by calculating the Amide I to phosphate ratio (CO/P) from spectra collected with two portable and three laboratory-based FTIR instruments. The bones were then analysed by ZooMS and the results were compared to evaluate the effectiveness of using FTIR as a screening technique. Results indicate that FTIR instruments are excellent tools to predict collagen preservation in fragmented archaeological bones, but a screening method should be first calibrated on the analysed faunal assemblage by conducting a test of the CO/P screening procedure with various measurement systems on a single FTIR instrument.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu22 citations 22 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!more_vert Journal of Archaeolo... arrow_drop_down Journal of Archaeological Science ReportsArticle . 2019License: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2021Elsevier BV SSHRCSSHRCAuthors: Jacinthe Vigeant; Eléa Gutierrez; Jean-François Hélie;Jacinthe Vigeant; Eléa Gutierrez; Jean-François Hélie;Abstract While the effect of HCl on bone collagen extraction and IRMS measurements have been addressed previously, the effects of the variation of HCl concentration on the measurement of δ15N analysis have never been reported. To this effect, “chunks” of four right rib shafts from one individual of the skeletal collection of Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce Cemetery (Canada, 1748–1878) were separated in 15 subsamples: three unacidified aliquots of different grain sizes (0–0.125 mm, 0.125 to 1 mm and >1 mm) and four aliquots that underwent three different HCl treatments (1%, 2% or 5%). Each aliquot was analyzed in duplicate or triplicate for δ15N depending on material availability. The unacidified samples show the largest δ15N variation (7.5 to 9.2‰) and the mean δ15N increase with HCl acid concentration, from 9.0‰ vs. AIR (1%) to 9.4‰ (5%). Also, we observe variations in δ15N from one analytical sequence to another while controls remain invariant. Therefore, we conclude that powdered samples (0–1 mm grain size) have to be thoroughly washed prior to analysis to remove soil contamination in trabecular bone, and that increases in δ15N in correlation with HCl concentration is likely the result of protein hydrolysis extent from 2 to 5% HCl solutions. Thus, unacidified >1 mm and samples acidified with 1% HCl provide the most reliable %N, C:N and δ15N values. The analytical sequences of the same sample producing different δ15N values, while control standards are invariant, remain unexplained. Replication of this study on cortical bones, while monitoring the impact on amino acids, would help to better understand acid pre-treatment effects on δ15N analysis for diet reconstruction.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2018Elsevier BV SSHRCSSHRCAuthors: Seiji Kadowaki; Edward B. Banning;Seiji Kadowaki; Edward B. Banning;Abstract Sickle elements of the Late Neolithic (LN) in the southern Levant are noteworthy for their typological distinctiveness and variations in outline form and retouching techniques. This study presents new data on the morphometric characteristics of LN sickle elements by using lithic assemblages from two LN farmsteads (Tabaqat al-Buma and al-Basatin) in Wadi Ziqlab, northern Jordan. We also present refitting analyses of lithics, employing a novel application of Harris matrices, to examine production technology of blanks, i.e., core-reduction technology. The morphometric analyses indicate that LN sickle elements from the two sites are characterized by moderately elongated forms and standardized width in comparison with other tool types and blanks. However, such forms were not predetermined during the blank production as our refitting analyses indicate no systematic blade production but a more generalized core-reduction technology for a wide variety of blank forms to be used for various tool types, including scrapers, denticulates/notches, and retouched flakes. Thus, production of sickle elements in LN Wadi Ziqlab involved creating standardized rectangular shapes from a wide variety of blank forms through selection, rather than predetermination, of suitable blank forms and subsequent high degrees of retouch. The rectangular forms and the standardized width are probably related to the morphological requirements for sickle elements to be aligned neatly in a haft. The achievement of desired shapes through retouch, instead of blade production, may have been a reasonable practice in a small-scale, domestic mode of lithic production, as indicated by contextual evidence of clustered lithic debitage on one of the cobble-paved floors at al-Basatin.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu1 citations 1 popularity Average influence Average impulse Average Powered by BIP!more_vert Journal of Archaeolo... arrow_drop_down Journal of Archaeological Science ReportsArticle . 2018License: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2017Elsevier BV SSHRCSSHRCTristan Carter; Zachary Batist; Kathryn Campeau; Yosef Garfinkel; Katharina Streit;Abstract This paper details the characterisation of 34 obsidian artefacts from Sha'ar Hagolan in the Jordan Valley, a major Pottery Neolithic Site of the southern Levantine Yarmukian culture (6400–6000 cal BCE). Employing an integrated approach that melds sourcing data from EDXRF spectroscopy with the artefacts’ techno-typological characteristics, we contrast Sha'ar Hagolan's lithic traditions with those of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic southern Levantine sites in the context of alleged socio-economic disruptions in the Pottery Neolithic. The results indicate that community's obsidian consumption habits largely followed deep-time regional traditions (with only the slightest decrease in relative quantities), i.e. the use of Cappadocian raw materials (Gollu Dag and Nenezi Dag) to make pressure blades, and occasional projectiles, with only a small proportion of eastern Anatolian products (Nemrut Dag). While the Sha'ar Hagolan material seems to embody continuity of southern Levantine cultural tradition, other broadly contemporary assemblages attest to the initiation of new procurement networks, and novel modes of consumption that reflect the increasing degree of cultural heterogeneity of the period. Finally, the distribution of obsidian across the site does not support the idea that social distinction at Sha'ar Hagolan was part-based on the preferential access to these exotic resources.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu7 citations 7 popularity Average influence Average impulse Average Powered by BIP!more_vert Journal of Archaeolo... arrow_drop_down Journal of Archaeological Science ReportsArticle . 2017License: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2016Elsevier BV SSHRCSSHRCAuthors: Camilla Speller; Dongya Y. Yang;Camilla Speller; Dongya Y. Yang;Abstract Accurate sex identification of archaeological turkey remains is important for deciphering hunting and husbandry practices in pre-contact North America, particularly in the Southwest United States and Mesoamerica where domestic turkeys were raised. Although the sexual dimorphism of turkeys means that relatively complete elements can be distinguished using osteometric approaches, sexing fragmentary or juvenile remains is challenging. Here, we propose a simple and highly-sensitive co-amplification approach which targets highly-repetitive DNA (hrDNA) sequences on the turkey W chromosome. This technique simultaneously co-amplifies both hrDNA and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) fragments: the amplification of the W chromosome identifies the heterogametic sex (females), while the mtDNA fragment acts as an internal positive control to monitor for false negative results. To demonstrate the sensitivity and accuracy of this technique, we applied it to 20 modern turkeys and 117 archaeological turkey bones from 25 sites (ca. AD700–1700), including 32 samples from Sand Canyon Pueblo (AD1250–1300). We amplified ancient DNA from 86% of the ancient remains, demonstrating the sensitivity of the technique for targeting nuclear DNA. The correspondence between morphological size and the genetic sex identification for 100% of the complete skeletal elements demonstrates the accuracy and robusticity of this approach. Although within the larger regional assemblage, more males than females were identified (61% vs 39%), the site-specific analysis at Sand Canyon Pueblo suggests that adult male and female turkeys were present in a relatively even ratio.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu11 citations 11 popularity Average influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!more_vert Journal of Archaeolo... arrow_drop_down Journal of Archaeological Science ReportsArticle . 2016License: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2018Elsevier BV SSHRCSSHRCRachel E. ten Bruggencate; S. Brooke Milne; Mostafa Fayek; Robert W. Park; Douglas R. Stenton; Anne C. Hamilton;Abstract The southern Baffin Island chert provenance project was initiated in 2007 to investigate the effects on Palaeo-Eskimo mobility and technological organization of the differential distribution of chert sources in this area of the eastern Arctic. Initial characterization of chert artifacts and sources by secondary ion mass spectrometry and inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) indicated exploitation of both local inland and exotic chert sources by Palaeo-Eskimo toolmakers. Subsequent reanalysis of chert artifacts by ICP-MS demonstrates that data acquired using these techniques cannot be directly compared. ICP-MS trace element data collected from two primary chert sources documented in 2013 showed promise for characterizing these sources. Subsequent reanalysis of source samples demonstrates that initial results were affected by contamination during sample preparation at an external laboratory and should not be used in future studies.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu8 citations 8 popularity Average influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!more_vert Journal of Archaeolo... arrow_drop_down Journal of Archaeological Science ReportsArticle . 2018License: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2016Elsevier BV SSHRCSSHRCAuthors: Iain McKechnie; Madonna L. Moss;Iain McKechnie; Madonna L. Moss;Abstract Fisheries are of fundamental importance to Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest of North America today and in the past but few archaeological analyses have documented geographic patterning in fisheries across the entire region. This paper adopts meta-analysis methods and GIS-based spatial visualizations to survey the single largest compilation of fine-screened zooarchaeological fisheries data reported to date, including 513,605 fish remains identified at 222 sites from Oregon to southeast Alaska. These systematically collected zooarchaeological data indicate the most ubiquitous and proportionally abundant fish taxa over the late Holocene and reveal previously undocumented spatial patterning, indicating where certain fish taxa are consistently found in high relative proportions. Rather than seeking to evaluate chronological and/or evolutionary change, this study explores the environmental and cultural basis for assessing variability in Indigenous fisheries over millennial time scales. Specifically, we observe Pacific herring and the Pacific salmons to be the two most ubiquitous and proportionally abundant fish taxa across the Northwest Coast followed by flatfishes, sculpins, rockfishes, greenlings, dogfish, and a host of other poorly known taxa that represent consistent fishing effort. We document geographic patterning in the abundance and ubiquity of a range of fish including greater abundance of salmons in northern portions of the study area and outline trends that could represent biogeographic ranges for northern anchovy, Pacific hake, and pollock, among others. We conclude that examining patterning in the ubiquity and rank-order abundance represented by archaeological fisheries data offers significant potential for linking regionally distinct cultural practices noted in the 18th and 19th centuries to much longer human and ecological histories over the Holocene.
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description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2016 CanadaElsevier BV SSHRCSSHRCAuthors: Alexis E. Dolphin; Mathew A. Teeter; Christine D. White; Fred J. Longstaffe;Alexis E. Dolphin; Mathew A. Teeter; Christine D. White; Fred J. Longstaffe;Abstract A fundamental research concern within contemporary bioarchaeology is the sensitive balance between the preservation of human remains and the use of destructive techniques to collect information. Here we describe one example of how multiple microspatial destructive/semi-destructive techniques may be carried out in sequence using only the enamel of a single tooth. With careful planning of both sample preparation strategies and sequencing of sampling methods, it is possible to produce multiple datasets, and yet to retain material for future analyses. In this case, enamel from the teeth of 27 individuals who lived during the early medieval period (AD 1170-1198) in Bergen, Norway, was subjected to histological, trace element (LA-ICP-MS), diagenetic (FTIR), and isotopic analyses (δ 18 O and δ 13 C, via micromill/multiprep/IRMS).
Scholarship@Western arrow_drop_down Journal of Archaeological Science ReportsArticle . 2016License: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu6 citations 6 popularity Average influence Average impulse Average Powered by BIP!more_vert Scholarship@Western arrow_drop_down Journal of Archaeological Science ReportsArticle . 2016License: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2017Elsevier BV EC | ADNABIOARC, SSHRCEC| ADNABIOARC ,SSHRCAuthors: Christopher Meiklejohn; Deborah C. Merrett; David Reich; Ron Pinhasi;Christopher Meiklejohn; Deborah C. Merrett; David Reich; Ron Pinhasi;Abstract We present the first set of radiocarbon dates derived from human skeletal material from Ganj Dareh, Iran. These new dates fully overlap with those on goat bone samples published by Zeder and Hesse (2000) and confirm the finding of the latter source that occupation of the site occurred within ca 200–300 years after 9000 bp (~ 10,100 cal. BP). In so doing we confirm the absence of a hiatus between the lower two levels (E and D), an idea derived from the initial dating of the site. We also provide the first full review of the 23 radiocarbon dates from the site published prior to the work of Zeder and Hesse (2000). Examination of the full date sequence emphasizes the complexity of the site stratigraphy and tight clustering of the dates from all levels, thereby clarifying the difficulty that the excavator had in separating levels.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu7 citations 7 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Average Powered by BIP!more_vert Journal of Archaeolo... arrow_drop_down Journal of Archaeological Science ReportsArticle . 2017License: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2020Elsevier BV SSHRCSSHRCAuthors: Brita Lorentzen; Sturt W. Manning; Deborah Cvikel;Brita Lorentzen; Sturt W. Manning; Deborah Cvikel;Abstract The 19th century was an era of increasing mechanization and globalization, which transformed maritime networks and shipbuilding in and beyond the Mediterranean. Shipwrecks offer valuable physical evidence of such maritime connectivity and evolving shipbuilding techniques but must be dated within a high-resolution timeframe to be synchronized with, and thereby enhance, historical records. We focus here on high-resolution dating of the Akko Tower Shipwreck, the remains of an Ottoman merchant brig found inside the harbor of Akko, Israel. We use dendrochronology, 14C wiggle-matching, and Bayesian chronological modeling to determine that the ship was likely constructed in the mid-1850s, and therefore called at Akko’s harbor after the town’s 1840 bombardment, a period of decline traditionally under-studied in Ottoman historical narratives. Using dendroprovenancing methods, we find that the ship’s hull used timbers from the Anatolian Black Sea region, although it was built in the French construction tradition, and used British metal rigging and fasteners, which reflect shifting Anglo-French influence and socioeconomic interconnections with the Ottoman Empire during the 19th century. The Akko Tower Shipwreck is the first shipwreck from Israel to be dendrochronologically dated and provenanced. Our results show how dendrochronology and Bayesian chronological modeling can be used successfully not only for high-precision dating, but also for untangling the shipbuilding processes and the socioeconomic networks that made ship construction possible. We also re-evaluate East Mediterranean oak sapwood datasets and develop an approximate new sapwood model that provides more robust estimates of felling dates for tree-ring analysis of this region’s oak wooden cultural heritage.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu7 citations 7 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!more_vert Journal of Archaeolo... arrow_drop_down Journal of Archaeological Science ReportsArticle . 2020License: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2019 ItalyElsevier BV SSHRCSSHRCAuthors: Geneviève Pothier Bouchard; Susan M. Mentzer; Julien Riel-Salvatore; Jamie Hodgkins; +4 AuthorsGeneviève Pothier Bouchard; Susan M. Mentzer; Julien Riel-Salvatore; Jamie Hodgkins; Christopher E. Miller; Fabio Negrino; Roy A. Wogelius; Michael Buckley;Abstract Faunal remains play an important role in helping reconstruct Palaeolithic hunter-gatherer subsistence and mobility strategies. However, differential bone preservation is an issue in southern European prehistoric sites, which often makes morphological identification impossible. Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) is a new, low-cost method that can improve NISP statistical significance in a replicable way by using diagnostic peptides of the dominant collagen protein as a fingerprint of animal (including hominin) species. It is also a powerful tool to assess collagen preservation for radiocarbon dating. This paper presents the proof of concept of a method for evaluating collagen preservation in a quick and minimally destructive way in the field prior to ZooMS analysis by using a portable Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer (FTIR) equipped with an attenuated total reflectance accessory (ATR). The method was tested on faunal assemblages from two north-western Italian sites: Riparo Bombrini and Arma Veirana. Both are important sites for understanding the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic of Liguria but are located in two distinct environmental contexts (coast vs. mountainous hinterland) that impacted collagen preservation. The relative abundance of collagen in powdered bone samples was evaluated by calculating the Amide I to phosphate ratio (CO/P) from spectra collected with two portable and three laboratory-based FTIR instruments. The bones were then analysed by ZooMS and the results were compared to evaluate the effectiveness of using FTIR as a screening technique. Results indicate that FTIR instruments are excellent tools to predict collagen preservation in fragmented archaeological bones, but a screening method should be first calibrated on the analysed faunal assemblage by conducting a test of the CO/P screening procedure with various measurement systems on a single FTIR instrument.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu22 citations 22 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!more_vert Journal of Archaeolo... arrow_drop_down Journal of Archaeological Science ReportsArticle . 2019License: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2021Elsevier BV SSHRCSSHRCAuthors: Jacinthe Vigeant; Eléa Gutierrez; Jean-François Hélie;Jacinthe Vigeant; Eléa Gutierrez; Jean-François Hélie;Abstract While the effect of HCl on bone collagen extraction and IRMS measurements have been addressed previously, the effects of the variation of HCl concentration on the measurement of δ15N analysis have never been reported. To this effect, “chunks” of four right rib shafts from one individual of the skeletal collection of Sainte-Marie-de-Beauce Cemetery (Canada, 1748–1878) were separated in 15 subsamples: three unacidified aliquots of different grain sizes (0–0.125 mm, 0.125 to 1 mm and >1 mm) and four aliquots that underwent three different HCl treatments (1%, 2% or 5%). Each aliquot was analyzed in duplicate or triplicate for δ15N depending on material availability. The unacidified samples show the largest δ15N variation (7.5 to 9.2‰) and the mean δ15N increase with HCl acid concentration, from 9.0‰ vs. AIR (1%) to 9.4‰ (5%). Also, we observe variations in δ15N from one analytical sequence to another while controls remain invariant. Therefore, we conclude that powdered samples (0–1 mm grain size) have to be thoroughly washed prior to analysis to remove soil contamination in trabecular bone, and that increases in δ15N in correlation with HCl concentration is likely the result of protein hydrolysis extent from 2 to 5% HCl solutions. Thus, unacidified >1 mm and samples acidified with 1% HCl provide the most reliable %N, C:N and δ15N values. The analytical sequences of the same sample producing different δ15N values, while control standards are invariant, remain unexplained. Replication of this study on cortical bones, while monitoring the impact on amino acids, would help to better understand acid pre-treatment effects on δ15N analysis for diet reconstruction.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu0 citations 0 popularity Average influence Average impulse Average Powered by BIP!more_vert Journal of Archaeolo... arrow_drop_down Journal of Archaeological Science ReportsArticle . 2021License: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2018Elsevier BV SSHRCSSHRCAuthors: Seiji Kadowaki; Edward B. Banning;Seiji Kadowaki; Edward B. Banning;Abstract Sickle elements of the Late Neolithic (LN) in the southern Levant are noteworthy for their typological distinctiveness and variations in outline form and retouching techniques. This study presents new data on the morphometric characteristics of LN sickle elements by using lithic assemblages from two LN farmsteads (Tabaqat al-Buma and al-Basatin) in Wadi Ziqlab, northern Jordan. We also present refitting analyses of lithics, employing a novel application of Harris matrices, to examine production technology of blanks, i.e., core-reduction technology. The morphometric analyses indicate that LN sickle elements from the two sites are characterized by moderately elongated forms and standardized width in comparison with other tool types and blanks. However, such forms were not predetermined during the blank production as our refitting analyses indicate no systematic blade production but a more generalized core-reduction technology for a wide variety of blank forms to be used for various tool types, including scrapers, denticulates/notches, and retouched flakes. Thus, production of sickle elements in LN Wadi Ziqlab involved creating standardized rectangular shapes from a wide variety of blank forms through selection, rather than predetermination, of suitable blank forms and subsequent high degrees of retouch. The rectangular forms and the standardized width are probably related to the morphological requirements for sickle elements to be aligned neatly in a haft. The achievement of desired shapes through retouch, instead of blade production, may have been a reasonable practice in a small-scale, domestic mode of lithic production, as indicated by contextual evidence of clustered lithic debitage on one of the cobble-paved floors at al-Basatin.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu1 citations 1 popularity Average influence Average impulse Average Powered by BIP!more_vert Journal of Archaeolo... arrow_drop_down Journal of Archaeological Science ReportsArticle . 2018License: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2017Elsevier BV SSHRCSSHRCTristan Carter; Zachary Batist; Kathryn Campeau; Yosef Garfinkel; Katharina Streit;Abstract This paper details the characterisation of 34 obsidian artefacts from Sha'ar Hagolan in the Jordan Valley, a major Pottery Neolithic Site of the southern Levantine Yarmukian culture (6400–6000 cal BCE). Employing an integrated approach that melds sourcing data from EDXRF spectroscopy with the artefacts’ techno-typological characteristics, we contrast Sha'ar Hagolan's lithic traditions with those of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic southern Levantine sites in the context of alleged socio-economic disruptions in the Pottery Neolithic. The results indicate that community's obsidian consumption habits largely followed deep-time regional traditions (with only the slightest decrease in relative quantities), i.e. the use of Cappadocian raw materials (Gollu Dag and Nenezi Dag) to make pressure blades, and occasional projectiles, with only a small proportion of eastern Anatolian products (Nemrut Dag). While the Sha'ar Hagolan material seems to embody continuity of southern Levantine cultural tradition, other broadly contemporary assemblages attest to the initiation of new procurement networks, and novel modes of consumption that reflect the increasing degree of cultural heterogeneity of the period. Finally, the distribution of obsidian across the site does not support the idea that social distinction at Sha'ar Hagolan was part-based on the preferential access to these exotic resources.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu7 citations 7 popularity Average influence Average impulse Average Powered by BIP!more_vert Journal of Archaeolo... arrow_drop_down Journal of Archaeological Science ReportsArticle . 2017License: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2016Elsevier BV SSHRCSSHRCAuthors: Camilla Speller; Dongya Y. Yang;Camilla Speller; Dongya Y. Yang;Abstract Accurate sex identification of archaeological turkey remains is important for deciphering hunting and husbandry practices in pre-contact North America, particularly in the Southwest United States and Mesoamerica where domestic turkeys were raised. Although the sexual dimorphism of turkeys means that relatively complete elements can be distinguished using osteometric approaches, sexing fragmentary or juvenile remains is challenging. Here, we propose a simple and highly-sensitive co-amplification approach which targets highly-repetitive DNA (hrDNA) sequences on the turkey W chromosome. This technique simultaneously co-amplifies both hrDNA and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) fragments: the amplification of the W chromosome identifies the heterogametic sex (females), while the mtDNA fragment acts as an internal positive control to monitor for false negative results. To demonstrate the sensitivity and accuracy of this technique, we applied it to 20 modern turkeys and 117 archaeological turkey bones from 25 sites (ca. AD700–1700), including 32 samples from Sand Canyon Pueblo (AD1250–1300). We amplified ancient DNA from 86% of the ancient remains, demonstrating the sensitivity of the technique for targeting nuclear DNA. The correspondence between morphological size and the genetic sex identification for 100% of the complete skeletal elements demonstrates the accuracy and robusticity of this approach. Although within the larger regional assemblage, more males than females were identified (61% vs 39%), the site-specific analysis at Sand Canyon Pueblo suggests that adult male and female turkeys were present in a relatively even ratio.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu11 citations 11 popularity Average influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!more_vert Journal of Archaeolo... arrow_drop_down Journal of Archaeological Science ReportsArticle . 2016License: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2018Elsevier BV SSHRCSSHRCRachel E. ten Bruggencate; S. Brooke Milne; Mostafa Fayek; Robert W. Park; Douglas R. Stenton; Anne C. Hamilton;Abstract The southern Baffin Island chert provenance project was initiated in 2007 to investigate the effects on Palaeo-Eskimo mobility and technological organization of the differential distribution of chert sources in this area of the eastern Arctic. Initial characterization of chert artifacts and sources by secondary ion mass spectrometry and inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) indicated exploitation of both local inland and exotic chert sources by Palaeo-Eskimo toolmakers. Subsequent reanalysis of chert artifacts by ICP-MS demonstrates that data acquired using these techniques cannot be directly compared. ICP-MS trace element data collected from two primary chert sources documented in 2013 showed promise for characterizing these sources. Subsequent reanalysis of source samples demonstrates that initial results were affected by contamination during sample preparation at an external laboratory and should not be used in future studies.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu8 citations 8 popularity Average influence Average impulse Top 10% Powered by BIP!more_vert Journal of Archaeolo... arrow_drop_down Journal of Archaeological Science ReportsArticle . 2018License: Elsevier TDMData sources: Crossrefadd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2016Elsevier BV SSHRCSSHRCAuthors: Iain McKechnie; Madonna L. Moss;Iain McKechnie; Madonna L. Moss;Abstract Fisheries are of fundamental importance to Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest of North America today and in the past but few archaeological analyses have documented geographic patterning in fisheries across the entire region. This paper adopts meta-analysis methods and GIS-based spatial visualizations to survey the single largest compilation of fine-screened zooarchaeological fisheries data reported to date, including 513,605 fish remains identified at 222 sites from Oregon to southeast Alaska. These systematically collected zooarchaeological data indicate the most ubiquitous and proportionally abundant fish taxa over the late Holocene and reveal previously undocumented spatial patterning, indicating where certain fish taxa are consistently found in high relative proportions. Rather than seeking to evaluate chronological and/or evolutionary change, this study explores the environmental and cultural basis for assessing variability in Indigenous fisheries over millennial time scales. Specifically, we observe Pacific herring and the Pacific salmons to be the two most ubiquitous and proportionally abundant fish taxa across the Northwest Coast followed by flatfishes, sculpins, rockfishes, greenlings, dogfish, and a host of other poorly known taxa that represent consistent fishing effort. We document geographic patterning in the abundance and ubiquity of a range of fish including greater abundance of salmons in northern portions of the study area and outline trends that could represent biogeographic ranges for northern anchovy, Pacific hake, and pollock, among others. We conclude that examining patterning in the ubiquity and rank-order abundance represented by archaeological fisheries data offers significant potential for linking regionally distinct cultural practices noted in the 18th and 19th centuries to much longer human and ecological histories over the Holocene.
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