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2025, Arqueología

Resumen El crecimiento demográfico frecuentemente es vinculado con el incremento en la representación taxonómica de especies de pequeño tamaño en contextos arqueológicos de Pampa y Patagonia del Holoceno tardío. En el noroeste de Chubut y... more

2025, communications earth & environment

Bioarchaeology not only provides insights into human, animal, and environmental ecology, but also generates huge amounts of stable and radiogenic isotope data that are not well recognised by other disciplines. Here, we present potential avenues for the integration and interpretation of archaeological isotope data into environmental studies. We emphasise the large spatio-temporal scales on which isotope patterns can be observed, for example using isoscapes, the limitations and potential pitfalls that come with isotope data from archaeological research, and future cross-disciplinary collaborations between bioarchaeology and other palaeo-disciplines. Archaeology, Environmental changes and Geo

2025

Palombo, M.R., Anzidei, A.P. & Arnoldus-Huyzendveld, A., 2003 La Polledrara di Cecanibbio: one of the richest Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) antiquus sites of the late Middle Pleistocene in Italy in: Reumer, J.W.F., De Vos, J. & Mol, D. (eds.)... more

2025, Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana

At Neumark Nord 1 (NN1) (northern margin of Geiseltal, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany) a stratigraphical succession documents the environmental evolution of a small endorheic basin during various Middle to Late Pleistocene glacial-interglacial climatic cycles. Although the age of the main lacustrine fossiliferous layers (Lower, Middle and Upper Gyttja) remains controversial (MIS 5e or MIS 7), the elephant bones collected during more than ten years (1985)(1986)(1987)(1988)(1989)(1990)(1991)(1992)(1993)(1994)(1995)(1996) in the deposits of NN1 basin represent one of the most outstanding samples of straight-tusked elephants in Europe. Herein we analyze the structural characteristics (age, body size, and gender) of the richest NN1 Palaeoloxodon sample (counting more than 50 individuals), found in the area exposed during the "second regression phase" (Middle Gyttja, 6.1 level), whose time of deposition has been estimated at about 250 years. The results obtained enhance our knowledge on body size, ontogenetic growth, sexual dimorphism, and morphological variation of European straight-tusked elephants, highlighting that the dimensional gap between males and females may have been increased by the different rate in epiphyseal fusion of limb bones. At the same time, the present results give little information on the averaged structure of Palaeoloxodon populations. Although taphonomic signatures indicate that the sample mostly includes animals that died in situ, the extremely low number of young individuals, the high number of adult and old elephants and the presence of adult males in the bone assemblage, make this population different in structure from that of most living elephant populations. The mortality profile inferred for the NN1 sample from 6.1 level differs from both the catastrophic and attritional profiles known for extant elephants. The factors causing the peculiar composition of this elephant assemblage are difficult to ascertain, though protracted phases of reduced rainfall may have affected the skeletal input during the "second regression phase". Nonetheless, it remains unclear to what extent (if any) the averaged structure of the NN1 population differed from that of the extant elephants.

2025, Antiquity

Domesticated cattle were brought to Ireland during the Neolithic. By the early medieval period, 4000 years later, these animals were central to social and economic status in Irish communities and the landscape was organised around cattle husbandry to a degree unattested elsewhere in Europe. How this socio-economic importance developed is unclear. Here, using isotope data spanning six millennia, the authors identify a culturally driven shift towards the creation and management of open pastures, which began in the Iron Age, eventually supplanting woodland grazing. Cattle continued to dominate the economy until the later medieval period when a shift to participate in silver-based trade led to a reassessment of Ireland's unique human-cattle relationship.

2025, Scientific Reports

Domestic dogs are frequently encountered in Indigenous archaeological sites on the Northwest Coast of North America. Although dogs depended on human communities for care and provisioning, archaeologists lack information about the specific foods dogs consumed. Previous research has used stable isotope analysis of dog diets for insight into human subsistence (‘canine surrogacy’ model) and identified considerable use of marine resources. Here, we use zooarchaeological data to develop and apply a Bayesian mixing model (MixSIAR) to estimate dietary composition from 14 domestic dogs and 13 potential prey taxa from four archaeological sites (2,900–300 BP) in Tseshaht First Nation territory on western Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Two candidate models that best match zooarchaeological data indicate dogs predominantly consumed salmon and forage fish (35–65%), followed by nearshore fish (4–40%), and marine mammals (2–30%). We compared these isotopic data to dogs across the North...

2025, Archaeometry

Strontium (Sr) isotope ratios (87Sr/86Sr) measured in human skeletal material can increase one's understanding of the residential behaviour and resource‐acquisition strategies of past populations. The paper maps bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr variation in 183 plant and soil samples across Cambodia. Bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr, as measured in plants, differs significantly between four major geological units. The data set will support future investigations of skeletal material from Cambodian archaeological sites. Baseline 87Sr/86Sr data should be applied judiciously to skeletal populations, and in concert with other lines of evidence, to identify potential geographical outliers rather than to ascribe specific locations from which individuals may have moved.

2025, Comparative Analysis of the Nebelivka Temple Complex of the Trypillia Culture and the Structures of the Artificial Mound of Tell Qaramel in Syria

This article presents a comparative analysis of the Nebelivka temple complex of the Trypillia culture (4000-3900 BCE) and the structures of the artificial mound of Tell Qaramel (circa 9130-8800 BCE) located in present-day Syria. Despite the geographical distance and chronological disparity between the sites, the monuments exhibit significant parallels in architecture, symbolism, and presumed ritual practices.

2025, Asian Journal of Dairy and Food Research, Volume 44 Issue 3 (June 2025)

Background: In zootechnics, the utilization of local breeds adapted to harsh environmental conditions is a practical strategy for improving performance, particularly in breeding and animal improvement projects. This morphometric study of local Algerian cattle breeds highlights the main characteristics of the two breeds studied. Methods: The study focused on 60 male cattle, including 30 Setifien and 30 Guelmoise breeds, aged between 24 and 36 months. For each subject, nine biometric measurements were taken prior to slaughter: wither height (W H), thoracic circumference (TC), abdominal circumference (AC), scapulo-Ischial length (SIL), head length (HL), bizygomatic width (BIW), hip width (HIW), cannon circumference (CC) and cannon length (CL). Post-slaughter, the carcass weight (CW) of each animal was also recorded. Data analysis included univariate, bivariate and multivariate statistical methods. Result: The morpho-biometric comparison between the two studied breeds revealed that the Setifien breed has higher average values for all parameters compared to the Guelmoise breed. The Guelmoise breed is smaller in size (W H=113 cm), while the Setifien breed is larger (W H=121 cm), exhibiting values higher than those of African rustic breeds. Strong correlations were observed between carcass weight and most parameters, supporting the use of linear regression equations to estimate carcass weight from biometric measurements.

2025, Alzahra University

The most prominent manifestation of animal motifs in the history of art in the Ancient Near East up to the flourishing period of Safavid art can be observed in visual arts and crafts. The widespread use and remarkable similarities of animal motifs in the Kashan carpets and the Shahnameh of Tahmasp during the Safavid period reinforce the hypothesis that the natural world may have been conceived as a powerful source of political legitimacy for the Safavid rulers.
This article aims to present a mythological interpretation of animal motifs in Kashan carpets and the Shahnameh of Tahmasp in order to gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between authority and legitimacy within the Safavid political system, and its connection to the art and culture of this period. The central research questions are as follows:
What relationship can be established between mythological notions of power and the depiction of animal motifs in Kashan carpets and the Shahnameh of Tahmasp during the Safavid era? What thematic and visual similarities exist between the animal motifs of the Kashan carpets and those in the Shahnameh of Tahmasp, considering their contemporaneity, and do how they differ?
This study applies a qualitative, historical-analytical method with a comparative approach. The findings reveal that the Safavid rulers attempted to reinterpret and recontextualize animal myths by incorporating them into various art forms such as manuscript illumination and carpet weaving, thereby embedding them within the structures of political power.
Accordingly, the use of similar animal motifs in the Kashan carpets and the Shahnameh of Tahmasp can be seen as a deliberate engagement with mythological narratives to produce and reproduce essentialist notions of Safavid political legitimacy. The considerable similarities in the use of animal motifs in these works suggest that the Safavids, through symbolic mythological imagery, endeavored to reflect the worldview of political power discourse within Iranian art and culture

2025, Уфимский археологический вестник

Аннотация. Статья посвящена обсуждению результатов повторного исследования археозоологических коллекций поселений Синташта и Аркаим. Основное внимание было уделено анализу патологических и модификационных изменений на костях домашнего скота. Подавляющая часть выявленных изменений на костях скота из обоих поселений имеет возрастной характер. Большая часть патологических изменений типична для каждого конкретного вида домашнего скота и непригодна для каких-либо конкретных реконструкций особенностей животноводства. Часть патологий на костях крупного и мелкого рогатого скота может косвенно указывать на стойловое содержание. Патологический анализ не выявил достоверных свидетельств рабочего использования быков и лошадей. Анализ модификационных изменений костей позволил выявить маркеры остеофагии, что свидетельствует об использовании площади обоих поселений для содержания скота. Другими результатами анализа следов воздействия на кости является выявление специфичной системы фрагментации костей и предположительно свидетельств варки на костях. Сопутствующим результатом пересмотра старых материалов стало получение данных о возрасте скота на основании степени стертости жевательной поверхности зубов. На обоих поселениях основными возрастными группами крупного рогатого скота являются молодые взрослые и старые животные. У мелкого рогатого скота основной возрастной группой являются животные в возрасте 4-6 лет.

2025, Universitat de Barcelona

En el presente trabajo se exponen los resultados experimentales realizados sobre la medula ósea de huesos largos sobre muestras modernas de vaca (Bos taurus) sometida a diferentes temperaturas de cocción. El trabajo compila los análisis posibles para reconocer el tratamiento térmico sobre este tipo de material en especies de tamaño medio a grande en contextos arqueológicos, e incluye el análisis de variables estándar y de coloración. Los resultados obtenidos proponen diferentes criterios tafonómicos que pueden ser aplicados en el registro arqueológico para observar el procesamiento de este recurso por parte de las sociedades cazadores-recolectoras del paleolítico. El uso de estos parámetros permite diferenciar algunos tipos de tratamientos y características tafonómicas de los huesos usados para la explotación de grasas.

2025, Antiquity

During the Early Neolithic in the Near East, particularly from the mid ninth millennium cal BC onwards, human iconography became more widespread. Explanations for this development, however, remain elusive. This article presents a unique assemblage of flint artefacts from the Middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (eighth millennium BC) site of Kharaysin in Jordan. Contextual, morphological, statistical and use-wear analyses of these artefacts suggest that they are not tools but rather human figurines. Their close association with burial contexts suggests that they were manufactured and discarded during mortuary rituals and remembrance ceremonies that included the extraction, manipulation and redeposition of human remains.

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y XX): patrones de ocupación histórica en la IV Región, Chile.

2025, BAR

From shepherds to farmers at Arslantepe (Eastern Turkey)
during Early Bronze Age II and III, from 2750 to 2000 BCE
It was the largest site in the plain starting from at least
the fourth millennium BCE and maintained the role of
the dominant centre of its region for the entire time of
its existence. Arslantepe became a powerful political
and economic centre during the fourth millennium.
Crucial processes of formation and development of early
hierarchical and politically centralised societies have
been evidenced in connection with the Mesopotamian
world and Uruk culture-bearing communities (Frangipane
2012a; 2018), followed by phenomena of radical collapse
and far-reaching changes.
The site was inhabited continuously (Table 5.1) since
at least the sixth millennium BCE until the destruction,
according to the Neo-Hittites, of the Neo-Hittite city of
Malitiya or, according to Neo-Assyrian and Urartian
sources, until the destruction of Melid, Meliddu, or
Giovanni Siracusano
M.A.I.A.O. (Missione Archeologica Italiana in Anatolia Orientale)
Abstract: At the end of the fourth millennium BCE, fires devastated the monumental buildings
that symbolised centuries of Arslantepe’s centralised power. Groups of nomadic or seminomadic
shepherds linked to the Kura Arax cultures from Transcaucasia settled on its ruins.
Their settlements were seasonal (EBA I, VI B1 period, 3200–2900 BCE), and their livestock was
based mainly on herds of caprines. These were probably the same ones that ensured the supplies
managed by the centralised power prior to the collapse. During EBA I, the settlement acquired
increasingly permanent characteristics while keeping traces of their pastoral traditions, such as the
almost complete absence of pigs. In this period (VI B2 period, 2900–2800 BCE), together with
the strengthening of agriculture, a period of strong instability and conflict began, which led to the
devastating fires that put an end to EBA I. Gradually, after a brief period of abandonment, a new
history of the site was initiated in EBA II (period VIC, 2750-2500) by small groups of shepherds,
perhaps originating from remote valleys around the Malatya plain. Judging from archaeological
evidence, they were isolated groups who had few social contacts.
Their livestock had a composition similar to that by then widespread throughout Anatolia, based
mainly on breeding sheep and goats, followed by cattle. Still, the small size of the domestic
animals was a sign of rather backward breeding techniques. During the second half of the third
millennium, there was a progressive new sedentarisation of the population. From this moment on
(EBA III, VID period), the village would expand, but it retained the same housing characteristics
for centuries without significant interruption. Breeding practices reflect this long period of stability,
and alongside sheep and goats, cattle breeding increased and consolidated while the presence of
pigs remained negligible. Agriculture underwent noteworthy development, as did cattle breeding.
Cattle, which nomadic populations used above all as pack animals and for milk and meat, played
an important role in agriculture, testifying to the demand for an animal workforce to expand
crops. The best soils were sown with naked wheat (Triticum aestivum) instead of forage crops
based on barley as in the previous periods. It, therefore, became necessary to pay greater attention
to the management and grazing of those herds that were led towards poorer, marginal pastures.

2025, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Personal ornaments are commonly linked to the emergence of symbolic behaviour. Although their presence in Africa dates back to the Middle Stone Age, evidence of ornament manufacturing in 2 Eurasia are sporadically observed in Middle Palaeolithic contexts, and wide diffusion have been until now well documented only since the Upper Palaeolithic. Nevertheless, little is known during the period between ca.50,000 and 40,000 years ago (kya), when modern humans colonized Eurasia replacing existing hominin populations such as the Neandertals, and a variety of so called "transitional" and/or early Upper Palaeolithic cultures emerged. Here we present shell ornaments from the Uluzzian site of Grotta del Cavallo in Italy, southern Europe. Our results show evidence of local production of shell beads for ornamental purposes as well as a trend toward tusk bead standardization over time. The temporal interval of the layers of interest (45-40 kya) makes Cavallo the earliest known shell ornament making context in Europe.

2025, Ta-Mery 14

Sinds maart 2018 vindt er onder leiding van de auteur een veldwerkproject plaats in de Thebaanse necropool, een UNESCO werelderfgoedsite op de westelijke oever van de Nijl vlakbij het huidige Luxor. De focus van het veldwerk van de "Leiden University Mission to the Theban Necropolis" ligt op Thebaanse tombe 45, een prachtig gedecoreerd graf dat dateert uit de 18 e dynastie, rond 1400 v.Chr. (afb. 1). 1 Dit veldwerk vormt het uitgangspunt voor een onderzoeksproject naar grafhergebruik in het Oude Egypte. Er vond in maart 2018 een kort opstartseizoen plaats in TT45, gevolgd door drie veldwerkseizoenen in november 2018, februari-maart 2019, en januari-maart 2020. In deze bijdrage leest u hoe wij met een team specialisten TT45 onderzoeken, documenteren, conserveren en restaureren, en hoe wij daarbij de nieuwste technieken op het gebied van digitale documentatie en publicatie toepassen en verder ontwikkelen. TT45 is een bijzonder interessant geval van grafhergebruik: in de 18 e dynastie, rond 1400 v.Chr. (Amenhotep II), werd het graf aangelegd en deels gedecoreerd met beschilderd pleisterwerk voor ene Djehoeti en zijn familie. Djehoeti was beheerder van het landgoed van een hogepriester van Amon (Meri, de grafeigenaar van TT95), en hij Afb. 1 Thebaanse tombe 45. © TT45 Project, Matjaž Kač čič čnik.

2025, PLOS ONE

Prevailing models of agricultural origins tend to envision that economic hardship drove the transition from foraging to farming economies. Growing human populations and the depletion of high-ranked animal resources forced humans into increasingly intensive and dependent relationships with plant foods. Current evidence from the Andean Altiplano (High Plateau, 3800 masl) identifies the Terminal Archaic Period represents a process of economic sustainability rather than one of food insecurity and hardship, as many prevalent agricultural origins models would suggest.

2025, Socio-ecological Studies in Natural Protected Areas

Hunting is an activity that mankind has developed since its emergence as a species. At present, there is a conjunction between local knowledge with respect to hunters' prey, such as the habitat they occupy, breeding seasons, and even eating habits. Added to this is the social and cultural part of the hunt, represented by the types of hunting that can be practiced, the age to start hunting, the links that can be established between hunters, the hunting rituals performed pre-and post hunting, and the legends and myths around the activity.

2025

Snap traps were set and monitored in two native Hawaiian rain forests on Maui, Hawai'i, to determine the relative abundances, distributions, and diets of rodents. Black rats (R. rattus), Polynesian rats (R. exulans), and mice (Mus musculus) were abundant throughout the mesic to wet forest habitat in both areas from 1600 to 2000 m elevation during both summer and winter trapping periods. Invertebrates, particularly insect larvae, were the most frequently found and abundant food item in the stomachs of both rat species. Consumption of these prey by rats was higher in winter than in summer. Black rats ate more fruits, seeds, and other vegetation than did Polynesian rats. More information about the life history, ecology, and behavior of rats in native Hawaiian forests is needed to document their impact on endemic ecosystems and to develop effective control techniques.

2025, Cronache Ceretane

The paper aims to summarize the key milestones regarding the presence of the National Research Council (CNR) in Caere, from the 1980s to the present, and its contribution to the knowledge and enhancement of the history of the city and its territory. The projects conducted by the CNR over more than 40 years in the Caere's territory are not limited to the examples presented in this overview. This retrospective aims to outline the historical context in which the CNR's investigations in Caere began, through collaboration and synergy between various institutions involved in knowledge and preservation, such as Superintendencies, Universities, etc. This synergy was often enhanced by the versatility and diverse expertise of the key figures involved, allowing for inter-institutional collaboration.

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bronzkor, késő vaskor (kelta)
Szegedi Móra Ferenc Múzeum, 2011

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Római kor
BTM Aquincum Múzeum, 2005

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Római kor
BTM Aquincum Múzeum, 2004

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Római kor
BTM Aquincum Múzeum, 2004

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Konferencia: Történeti állatok - állati történetek. BTM Vármúzeum, 2025.05.14.

2025

Veterinary pathology specialists deal with a wide range of challenges in order to practice and provide useful results from analyzing deceased animals. The large number of species is certainly a first step that makes education in Veterinary Pathology so exciting. Knowing animal diseases is the basis of what we understand from comparative pathology and its contribution to public and environmental health. Recently a new search for veterinary pathology work is asked in situations that death of animals is linked to crime, or a crime scene investigation is taking place. Law Enforcement asks for Expert Witness Testimony to analyze cause of death of one, or even several animals that can be involved in a crime scene investigation. Different from a routine necropsy, forensic necropsies usually have medico-legal interest and this changes completely the scenario. For this purpose, postmortem examination requires additional and rigorous documentation of all steps taken from the crime scene, gross and microscopically detected lesions in the bodies and collected samples that will be analyzed in special laboratories. Criminal actions in which animals might be involved, either as a victim, a testimony or a perpetrator need a correct interpretation.

2025

Работа посвящена представлению и обсуждению новых стандартов и требований к публикации результатов археозоологических исследований. Одним из основных требований к современным археозоологическим исследованиям является обеспечение свободного доступа ко всем данным исследования и оформление данных в международно-признанных стандартах, что позволит использовать данные исследования другими специалистами в настоящем и будущем времени.

2025, ALLA SCOPERTA DEL MONDO. Archeologi, Esploratori, Grandi Viaggiatori, Geologi, Naturalisti, Paletnologi. Vol. 1: EUROPA – ASIA [DISCOVERING THE WORLD. Archaeologists, Explorers, Great Travelers, Geologists, Naturalists, Palethnologists. Vol. 1: EUROPE - ASIA]. AMAZON KDP

1. LUIGI PIGORINI, 1842-1925 [Il "padre" dell'etnologia italiana: Luigi Pigorini, grande studioso di scienze antropologiche e fondatore del Museo Nazionale di Preistoria ed Etnografia]. The "father" of Italian ethnology: Luigi Pigorini,... more

1. LUIGI PIGORINI, 1842-1925 [Il "padre" dell'etnologia italiana: Luigi Pigorini, grande studioso di scienze antropologiche e fondatore del Museo Nazionale di Preistoria ed Etnografia].
The "father" of Italian ethnology: Luigi Pigorini, great scholar of anthropological sciences and founder of the National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography]

2025, L’âge du Bronze en France (2500 à 800 avant notre ère) Synthèses thématiques (Ed. C. Marcigny, C. Mordant). Recherche archéologiques 29 : 157-163.

2025, SAGA 40 / RAAP rapport 6266

From 2022 to 2024, we reviewed parts of the documentation of the former municipal archaeological service of the municipality of Heerlen (NL). The results of this study are presented in two volumes, of which this is the second. This volume... more

2025

El siguiente trabajo expone los resultados del análisis de isótopos estables de carbono y nitrógeno (δ13Cco, δ15N y δ13Cap) de una muestra de 20 individuos humanos adultos procedentes de diferentes sectores del sitio Los Amarillos (Período de Desarrollos Regionales e Inca, Quebrada de Humahuaca, Jujuy, Argentina). El principal objetivo consistió en determinar los recursos predominantes en las dietas, considerando la información isotópica regional para recursos vegetales y animales. En segundo lugar, se evaluó la variabilidad interna de la muestra, considerando la procedencia espacial de los individuos. Nuestros resultados indican una dieta equilibrada entre recursos cárnicos procedentes de cotas por debajo de los 3.900 m s.n.m. y vegetales bajo la vía fotosintética C4 (maíz y amaranto). Asimismo, si se considera la información contextual de lasinhumaciones, los patrones dietarios presentan una escasa diferencia.This paper presents the results of stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes a...

2025, Cuicuilco

Archaeologists from El Proyecto Arqueológico Mensabak have discovered Maya sites dating to the Late Preclassic (400 b. c.-250 a. d.) and Protohistoric (1350-1650 a. d.) periods near the lakeshores at Mensabak, Chiapas, Mexico. This area was important for Maya occupation
before the rise of Palenque and after this site collapsed in the Classic period (400-750 a. d.). Maya people, some following the Tulijá river to its origin place, came to Mensabak to perform communal rituals at shrines in the ritual landscape, such as at the Mirador (Chakaktun) mountain and cliffs
with rock art. Commoner and elite populations collectively established settlements at Mensabak and developed the sanctuaries, natural resources, and regional trade that attracted populations to the area. This article outlines the importance of ritual landscapes and the input of commoner
populations in the creation of sites and shrines across time in Maya civilization in Chiapas.

2025

Les savoirs sont un principe de structuration des groupes et des sociétés. Cette intervention propose d’aborder la manière dont cet invariant anthropologique se concrétise en Égypte ancienne à travers le cas du microcosme social et savant dont le scribe du roi Iouny d’Assiout semble être le centre à l’époque ramesside.
Les sources pour saisir ce petit monde relèvent de la monumentalité non-royale et ont pu être rassemblées par K. Kitchen (cf. KRI, I, 350,12-360,2) et proviennent essentiellement des fouilles de la nécropole d’Assiout : elles nous renseignent sur le profil de Iouny, un scribe du roi dont la carrière dans l’administration royale l’a conduit jusqu’à Memphis, et un prêtre-lecteur en chef spécialisé dans l’art médical comme l’indiquent son titre de « directeur des prêtres-ouâbou de Sekhmet » et de « maître des secrets du coffre de Bastet ».
Ses cercles sociaux sont documentés par la présence des noms et titres de personnes tierces sur ses monuments et la chapelle de son père Amenhotep, un médecin. D’autres monuments peuvent aider à compléter le tableau. Il sera ainsi question d’établir la prosopographie de Iouny, en restituant ces cercles, tant familiaux que professionnels voire savants. À rebours de l’hypothèse de K. Kitchen, nous pensons que Iouny était une sorte de patron pour plusieurs médecins, vraisemblablement en raison de son statut de savant.
Enfin, les monuments de Iouny rendent compte de la présence de textes et de motifs des plus singuliers, à l’image d’un « hymne à Abydos », présent sur le linteau de sa chapelle. Comment comprendre la présence d’un texte aussi peu attesté, ostensiblement mis en évidence dans le dispositif de la chapelle ? Nous proposons d’y voir un moyen de construire une forme charisme savant (reprise de la notion de charisme formulée par M. Weber), par l’exposition du capital symbolique dans le champ monumental.

2025, Archäologische Nachrichten Schleswig-Holstein

2025, Српско археолошко друштво, XLVII годишњи скуп, Ниш 30. мај – 01. јун 2024

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A Neolithic cattle molar from Stonehenge’s ditch, dated to 3350–2920 BC, provides a window into animal husbandry and cultural practises through sequential multi-isotope analysis. Strontium, lead, carbon, and oxygen isotopes reveal a six-month period in the cow’s second year, suggesting mobility from Welsh woodlands to Wessex grasslands or foddering with Welsh resources. Lead spikes indicate metabolic stress, likely calving, though draught labour is a speculative alternative. Evidence from Kilshane, Ireland, supports cattle haulage in the Neolithic, enriching a thought experiment: could this cow have hauled bluestones to Stonehenge? The mandible’s curation for 55–270 years underscores its ritual significance, tied to Stonehenge’s Welsh connections. This paper blends isotopic insights with imaginative inquiry, illuminating Neolithic labour and monument construction.

2025, Catena

Recent archaeological research has revealed a significant intensification of agricultural practices in prehistoric China. Traditional historical perspectives suggest that the Han Dynasty also saw notable advancements in agriculture, though supporting evidence from archaeological science, along with comparative studies of farmland management practices between these two critical periods, remains limited. Here, we analyzed carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes from common millets (Panicum miliaceum) and foxtail millets (Setaria italica) recovered from four Han Dynasty tombs (Longzaocun, 2002CSX, 2008XJG, and Sanyaocun) and one Late Neolithic site (Ziweitianyuan) in the Guanzhong Basin, Central China. Our results integrate previously published millet isotope data spanning the Late Neolithic to Han Dynasty, reveal a long-term trajectory of agricultural management practices in the Guanzhong Basin under changing climatic conditions from about 3625 BCE to AD 220. Compared to the Late Neolithic period, the δ 13 C values of common and foxtail millets in the Han capital and its surrounding areas decreased by 3.4 ‰ and 3.8 ‰, respectively, while the δ 15 N values increased by 6.5 ‰ and 2.7 ‰, indicating an intensification of fertilization strategies. Combined with historical records, this study provides direct evidence of how farmland management in the Han Dynasty maintained soil fertility and agricultural productivity in response to the progressively arid and cold climate of the Holocene, thereby deepening our understanding of soil memory. ☆ This article is part of a special issue entitled: 'Soil Memory' published in Catena.

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In May 2023 North Wind Resource Consulting conducted a Phase I Archaeological survey on a 5.89 acre tract located at 541 West Blount Avenue in South Knoxville, Tennessee. The project area is the former location of several sand and gravel companies, with the earliest company located in the project area circa 1920. The Phase I Archaeological survey consisted of the excavation of Shovel Test Pits (STPs) and the excavation of four test trenches. The Phase I Archaeological survey revealed a heavily disturbed area with no potential for intact precontact archaeological sites. Additionally, all buildings in the project area were removed prior to the North Wind field survey. However, two historic subsurface features were identified in the project area and associated with the 1920-1969 Knox Gravel and Sand Company. These features included an underground conveyor belt and an underground stream culvert. These features were documented in the field. Additional features included a modern barge loader and modern concrete platforms situated adjacent to the Tennessee River. There are several features on the property that may be historic in age, upon consultation with the Tennessee Division of Archaeology (TDOA), it was determined that there was not sufficient evidence to call the resource an archaeological site according to TDOA guidelines. The project area does not have any of the original buildings or any of the original equipment associated with the early 20 th century Knox Sand and Gravel Company with the exception of an underground conveyor belt. Based on the absence of the original buildings and above ground equipment, any research potential was exhausted during the Phase I Archaeological survey. As a result, TVA has recommended the area as a "non-site" cultural resource (NSCR). Non-site cultural resources are not eligible for listing in the NRHP.