New Research at Monte Negro, Oaxaca
Renewed research at Monte Negro, Oaxaca, produced the site's first complete map, GIS analyses and AMS radiocarbon dates confirming a brief occupation in the final centuries BC.
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Becoming post-Neolithic: Social Process and Transformation in Southern Italian Deathways
Statistical analysis of nearly 700 Neolithic burials from southern Italy suggests the transition to later periods came through local 'bricolage' rather than abrupt or external change.
Read articleThe particularity of Sanxingdui culture: a perspective from its absence
A study argues that Sanxingdui culture represented a theocratic civilisation, defined by three 'absences' relative to early Central Plains culture: bronze ritual objects and weapons, a writing system, and an elaborate burial tradition.
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Vesuvius Challenge virtually unrolls and reads a full Herculaneum scroll, PHerc. 1667
The Vesuvius Challenge succeeded in virtually unwrapping and deciphering PHerc. 1667, one of the papyri carbonised in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius roughly 2,000 years ago, without physically opening it.
Read articleFirst intact burials excavated at Göbekli Tepe reframe its 11,000-year-old mortuary record
A PLOS One study reports the first two intact burial contexts at Göbekli Tepe and argues that erosion and landslides carried some human remains into its monumental buildings, complicating decades of assumptions about deliberate deposition.
Read articleCalibration study audits confidence levels behind Indo-European reconstruction claims
A dataset deposited on Zenodo by Christos Papanikolaou presents a calibration study of Indo-European historical linguistics, asking which specific claims are supported by what kind of evidence rather than attempting to prove or refute reconstruction.
Read articleShould the Lithosphere Tell Our Stories?
A dialogue in The Historical Journal explores convergences between Western scientific frameworks and Indigenous knowledge systems, interpreting the lithosphere as a deep archive of human histories, cultural practices and cosmologies.
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