Benchmarking the identification of a single degraded protein to explore optimal search strategies for ancient proteins by Rodriguez Palomo, Ismael, Nair, Bharath, Chiang, Yun, Dekker, Joannes, Dartigues, Benjamin, Mackie, Meaghan, Evans, Miranda, Macleod, Ruairidh, Olsen, Jesper V., Collins, Matthew J.

“…We target BLG since it is one of the most robust and ubiquitous proteins in the archaeological record. We tested different reference database choices, a targeted dairy protein one, and the whole bovine proteome and the three digestion options (tryptic-, semi-tryptic- and non-specific searches), in order to evaluate the effects of search space and the identification of peptides. …”
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L’archéogéographie : pour une reconnaissance du passé dans l’espace by Dominique Guillaud

“…This approach, experimented in the Pasemah region, in the highlands of Sumatra, shows the complementary nature of data supplied by the oral tradition and by archaeology concerning the history of settlement. It also provides important landmarks for the understanding of present-day territoriality, which is always deeply rooted in time.…”
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Luigi Foscolo Benedetto 1920 – Albert Thibaudet 1922 by Peter-Michael Wetherill

“…The works of Luigi Foscolo Benedetto and Albert Thibaudet confront divergent contemporary voices, the vague echos and precise texts of science and criticism, archaeology and history: texts as libido and texts as objective knowledge, the status of the reader. …”
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L’agglomération de Chilleurs-aux-Bois (Loiret) durant l’Antiquité tardive by Laurent Fournier, Thomas Guillemard

“…Chilleurs-aux-Bois has experienced, between 2006 and 2013, six preventive archaeology investigations, widely contributing to improve our knowledge of this antique agglomeration situated along the road from Orleans to Reims. …”
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Vous avez dit paléogénomique ? by Céline Bon, Marie-Claude Marsolier-Kergoat

“…We explain its contributions to different disciplines (study of evolution, archaeology, etc.) and then describe some of the past or current studies we have participated in or are currently conducting.…”
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Hominin presence in Eurasia by at least 1.95 million years ago by Sabrina C. Curran, Virgil Drăgușin, Briana Pobiner, Michael Pante, John Hellstrom, Jon Woodhead, Roman Croitor, Adrian Doboș, Samantha E. Gogol, Vasile Ersek, Trevor L. Keevil, Alexandru Petculescu, Aurelian Popescu, Chris Robinson, Lars Werdelin, Claire E. Terhune

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Taphonomy as a Methodological Approach for the Study of Dog Domestication: Application to the Prehistoric Site of Peña Moñuz (Guadalajara, Spain) by Idoia Claver, Verónica Estaca-Gómez, Gonzalo J. Linares-Matás, Jesús Alberto Arenas-Esteban, José Yravedra

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Chronological Classification of Ancient Mortars Employing Spectroscopy and Spectrometry Techniques: Sagunto (Valencia, Spain) Case by M. Ramacciotti, S. Rubio, G. Gallello, M. Lezzerini, S. Columbu, E. Hernandez, A. Morales-Rubio, A. Pastor, M. de la Guardia

“…Forty-two mortar samples, from two archaeological excavations located in Sagunto (Valencian Community, Spain), were analysed by both portable energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (pED-XRF) and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) to determine major and minor elements and traces including rare earth elements (REEs). …”
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Recensión de / Review of: Miguel Carrero Pazos. Arqueología computacional del territorio. Métodos y técnicas para estudiar decisiones humanas en paisajes pretéritos. Archaeopress.... by Marcos Llobera

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Le paysage rural italien dans les archives d’Emilio Sereni : problèmes et méthodologie pour une recherche by Federico Ferretti

“…What is the relevance of this corpus for an “archaeology” of the Serenian concept of landscape? What is the role of the Italian and French geographers that he reads, in the construction of his agricultural landscapes? …”
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Proto-maya y lingüística diacrónica. Una (breve y necesaria) introducción by José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente

“…The co-operation with archaeology and history seems to be specially productive and successful, as it will be show here. …”
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Unpacking the ‘explorer’ narrative and its impacts on African palaeoanthropology by Rebecca R. Ackermann, Keneiloe Molopyane, Sheela Athreya

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Le bâtiment routier du col de Montgenèvre (Hautes-Alpes) : fouille archéologique et patrimonialisation d’une traversée alpine by Philippe Leveau, Patrick Reynaud

“…In 2010, a preventive archaeology operation uncovered the southwest corner of a building from the Roman era that was set around a courtyard portico. …”
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« Entrer dans l’immobilité » : les défunts en position assise du second âge du Fer by Valérie Delattre, Laure Pecqueur

“…The discovery of buried deceased in an atypical position is a standard feature in funerary archaeology and can refer to a kind of banishment, relegation, symbolic punishment. …”
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« Au fracas de la foudre, les animaux intelligents s’éveillèrent » by Agnès Bouvier

“…I now dedicate myself to my friend doctor Pouchet’s bulky book on spontaneous generations. » This interlacing of archaeology and science is precisely what I will examine in my paper, through the genetic study of a passage of Salammbô (chapter III) where Flaubert rewrites the Phoenician cosmogony in the light of modern spontaneism.…”
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L’exposition préhistorique de la Galerie de l’Histoire du travail en 1867. Organisation, réception et impacts by Charlotte Quiblier

“…Organised by key figures in the nascent field of social science and linked to other major events in the structuring of this science, it played an important role in the construction and institutionalisation of prehistoric archaeology.…”
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The use of underground storage organs in the Early Neolithic (Linearbandkeramik and Blicquy/Villeneuve-Saint-Germain) in the Paris Basin: the contribution of starch grain analyses by Clarissa Cagnato, Caroline Hamon, Aurélie Salavert, Michelle Elliott

“…Underground storage organs are poorly preserved in the archaeological record, and as a result their contribution to the diet of ancient societies is poorly understood. …”
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Prehispanic Settlement and Mobility in the Sama Valley, Tacna by Sarah I. Baitzel, Arturo F. Rivera Infante

“…Nestled between archaeological hotspots in southern Peru and northern Chile, the Sama Valley has only recently become the focus of intensive archaeological research, providing valuable context for the regional culture history and elucidating diachronic processes dating from the Archaic to the colonial period. …”
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La evolución de la memoria de la Guerra Civil en el espacio urbano de Bilbao: una mirada comparativa by Jesús Alonso Carballés

“…Our work is an attempt to develop an «archaeology of memory» which will allow us to study in a chronological fashion the traces left by these politics in the urban spaces of Bilbao, from the erection of the statute of General Mola in June 1937 to the construction of the memorial monument in honor of the victims of Frankism. …”
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Preface by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…One of the rewarding aspects of research of this kind is that thanks to modern information systems it is theoretically possible to gather virtually all the extant fragments of information on a specific subject — such as medicine — from the written sources of antiquity. Archaeology and modern science then often supplement the written information to ensure an optimal overview. …”
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