La recolocación de monumentos dentro del juego de pelota como mecanismo de activación ritual durante el periodo Clásico maya by Octavio Quetzalcóatl Esparza Olguín, Rogelio Valencia Rivera

“…The monument relocation phenomenon during Prehispanic times in the Maya area, which includes engraved and plain elements, has been documented by various researchers since the realization of the very first archaeological excavations, such as those made during the last century at Tikal, Cobá, and La Milpa. …”
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Influence of Boundary Conditions on Cracking of Sanxingdui Moon Bay City Wall by Jin Qu, Jianlin Ma, Bai Yang

“…Maintaining the stability of the soil moisture content of the site is the main factor in the protection of the earthen archaeological site under the humid conditions of the museum above the site. …”
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Antigua zona minera de Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo (Córdoba) by Aitana Pérez Hurtado

“…It is an industrial archaeological site, which is of great interest both for Geography and Arqueology. …”
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L’état sanitaire des premiers aménagements de berge en bois antiques de Saint-Lupien à Rezé/Ratiatum (Loire-Atlantique) : l’apport de la xylo-entomologie by Magali Toriti, Aline Durand, Fabien Fohrer

“…The interpretation of the archaeological data, enhanced by this new type of analysis thus benefits from valuable insights into the selection and use of timber by the riverside communities in Roman times and to some extent reveals the condition of the supply forest.…”
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DSP: A tool for probabilistic sex diagnosis using worldwide variability in hip-bone measurements by Pascal Murail, Jaroslav Brůžek, Francis Houët, Eugénia Cunha

“…DSP is thus useful for both archaeological and forensic purposes. Its accuracy is close to 100%. …”
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The prehistoric origins of the domestic horse and horseback riding by Markku Niskanen

“…Chariotry began to spread together with DOM2 horses after 2000 BC, but its high archaeological visibility may have inflated its importance, since chariots are of limited practical use for herding and other daily tasks.…”
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More on mobility and sedentism: Changes in adaptation from Upper Paleolithic to Incipient Jomon, Tanegashima Island, southern Japan. by Kazuki Morisaki, Fumie Iizuka, Masami Izuho, Mark Aldenderfer

“…To elucidate the factors and processes of the emergence of sedentary societies, continuous accumulation of case studies based on robust evidence from across the world is required. Given abundant archaeological and geological evidence from the late Pleistocene to early Holocene, Tanegashima Island, situated in the southern Japanese Archipelago of the northwestern Pacific Rim, has significant potential to unravel factors and processes of sedentism. …”
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Antigua zona minera de Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo (Córdoba) by Aitana Pérez Hurtado

“…It is an industrial archaeological site, which is of great interest both for Geography and Arqueology. …”
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Evidence for the Paleoethnobotany of the Neanderthal: A Review of the Literature by Gerhard P. Shipley, Kelly Kindscher

“…., starch, pollen, phytoliths, and seeds) in soil and dental calculus, dental and tool wear, coprolites, and genetics, for Neanderthal’s nutritional, medicinal, and ritual use of plants, which includes 61 different taxa from 26 different plant families found at 17 different archaeological sites. Further, we updated and standardized botanical nomenclature from many sources published over many decades to provide a more stable foundation for future work.…”
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Comparaison de deux « populations » de la deuxième moitié du Ve millénaire avant notre ère : approche anthropométrique by Aude Civetta, Aurore Schmitt, Bérangère Saliba-serre, Jean-Luc Gisclon, Gilles Loison

“…Recently, some phenotypic features of Middle Neolithic populations, observed on series from old archaeological excavations, have been challenged. In order to characterize skeleton size and shape variability of Middle Neolithic individuals, we studied the osteological series from the necropolis of pontcharaud 2; this site is dated from the second half of the 5th millenium and located in the “Massif central”.Concerning the skull dimensions, differences between sexes are weak. …”
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Articulating (ultimate) commitments: historical, factual and systematic considerations by D. F. M. Strauss

“… Acknowledging that religion forms a constitutive part of human life is recently confirmed by Göbekli Tepe, an archaeological site in Turkey, from which it appears that religion is basic to all the other cultural developments within human society. …”
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A sedimentary ancient DNA perspective on human and carnivore persistence through the Late Pleistocene in El Mirón Cave, Spain by Pere Gelabert, Victoria Oberreiter, Lawrence Guy Straus, Manuel Ramón González Morales, Susanna Sawyer, Ana B. Marín-Arroyo, Jeanne Marie Geiling, Florian Exler, Florian Brueck, Stefan Franz, Fernanda Tenorio Cano, Sophie Szedlacsek, Evelyn Zelger, Michelle Hämmerle, Brina Zagorc, Alejandro Llanos-Lizcano, Olivia Cheronet, José-Miguel Tejero, Thomas Rattei, Stephan M. Kraemer, Ron Pinhasi

“…We recover and analyse sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) data from the lower archaeological stratigraphic sequence of El Mirón Cave (Cantabria, Spain), encompassing the (1) Late Mousterian period, associated with Neanderthals, and (2) the Gravettian (c. 31.5 cal kya), Solutrean (c. 24.5–22 cal kya), and Initial Magdalenian (d. 21–20.5 cal kya) periods, associated with anatomically modern humans. …”
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Research on glass imitation jade culture in the ancient Chinese Silk Road by Sai Huang, Ziyi Wang, Junyi Zhu

“…Through systematic archaeological excavations and historical text analysis, this study delves into the unique phenomenon of glass imitation jade on the ancient Silk Road in China, providing detailed exposition on the formation, characteristics, and profound impact of this cultural practice. …”
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β-Tricalcium Phosphate Interferes with the Assessment of Crystallinity in Burned Skeletal Remains by Giampaolo Piga, Ana Amarante, Calil Makhoul, Eugénia Cunha, Assumpció Malgosa, Stefano Enzo, David Gonçalves

“…This is an important warning for tracking heat-induced changes in human bone, in terms of physicochemical properties related to structure, which is expected to impact in forensic, bioanthropological, and archaeological contexts.…”
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DISCOVERING AND RESEARCH OF SA HUYNH CULTURE (1909 - 2019) by Lâm Thị Mỹ Dung

“…This was the first announcement, opening a series of excavations and archaeological research in later years in Ducpho district (Quangngai). …”
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Investigating Geotourism Capabilities of Geomorphosites in Saymarreh Region Using Pralong Method by Mojtaba Yamani, Samad Azimirad, Sajad Bagheri, Seyed Shakari

“…The Landforms of region, due to high capability in the education of earth science and characteristics such as beauty and being historical, archaeological, cultural and sport attractions, have a high potential in the field of tourism. …”
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Les piles intra muros de l’aqueduc du Gier, rue Roger-Radisson à Lyon by Éric Bertrand

“…Road works carried out in 2018 on the site of the arches of the Gier aqueduct, on rue Roger-Radisson in Lyon, required the implementation of an emergency archaeological operation. The excavations conducted around the last pier (no. 10), partially preserved in the foundations of a house, revealed the unusual design of this structure. …”
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Political and socioeconomic implications of Classic Maya lithic artifacts from the Main Plaza of Aguateca, Guatemala by Kazuo Aoyama

“…First, combined with the results of analysis of 10,845 lithic artifacts collected in the Palace Group, the elite residential area along the Causeway, and other parts of the site by the Aguateca Archaeological Project First Phase, the data on obsidian artifacts indicate a skewed distribution, suggesting that the rulers of Aguateca controlled the main access to obsidian in the city while the procurement and distribution of obsidian polyhedral cores may have been administered by the royal court of the Aguateca dynasty as part of its political economy. …”
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Note sur l’Étude paléopathologique des individus inhumés dans l’ancien monastère des prêtres Lóios de Arraiolos (Portugal) by Paula Tavares

“…The results obtained are discussed according to the archaeological context, the states of preservation and the data relative to the way of life of this population.…”
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Une schola monumentale découverte boulevard Frédéric-Latouche à Augustodunum/Autun (Saône-et-Loire) by Yannick Labaune, Antoine Louis, Véronique Brunet-Gaston, Anne Delor-Ahü, Jean-Pierre Garcia, Antony Hostein, Michel Kasprzyk

“…In 2011, an archaeological evaluation was carried out in the centre of the Roman city of Augustodunum (Autun) on a plot of over 1 ha. …”
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