Parchment Glutamine Index (PQI): A novel method to estimate glutamine deamidation levels in parchment collagen obtained from low-quality MALDI-TOF data by Nair, Bharath, Palomo, Ismael Rodríguez, Markussen, Bo, Wiuf, Carsten, Fiddyment, Sarah, Collins, Matthew James

“…MALDIpqi() holds excellent potential for biocodicological and other archaeological studies involving collagen, such as bone, but we also foresee its application in the food and biomedical industry.   …”
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Figurines. Figuration and The Sense of Scale by Jaś Elsner

“…This volume concerns figurines as archaeologically-attested materials from literate cultures with surviving documents that have no direct links of contiguity, appropriation, or influence in relation to each other.…”
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Les bandages herniaires modernes : apports d’un nouvel exemple provenant du cimetière paroissial de Gradignan (Gironde) by Camille Bouffiès, Hélène Réveillas, Alejandra Balboa-Pont

“…A hernia truss dating from the 17th to the first half of the 19th century, discovered inside a grave in the parish cemetery of Gradignan (Gironde, SW France), adds to the small corpus of similar modern archaeological examples of this type of medical device uncovered in France to date. …”
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Cerro San Antonio (L1): A Palimpsest of the South-Central Andean Past (ca. 1500 BC - AD 1950) in the Middle Locumba Valley, Tacna, Peru by Matthew J. Sitek

“…The site is a true palimpsest of the local past, comprising 28 archaeological sectors that show evidence of occupation and use beginning in the Formative period (ca. 1500 BC - AD 500), continuing through the historical colonial-republican periods (ca. …”
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The theory of «pairs of cities» in Old Russian state genesis (using the example of the «pair» Chernihiv – Shestovitsa in Ukrainian historiography) by V. V. Kovelya, E. A. Shinakov

“…Each of them directly studied this topic in the context of the settlements under consideration, both on the basis of gradually expanding archaeological material and on the basis of new studies that arose in the process of studying such urban «couples». …”
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DONGNAI IN PROTOHISTORY: THE MEETING PLACE OF MANY STREAMS OF CULTURES by Lâm Thị Mỹ Dung

“…The factors of “Clement weather - Favorable terrain - Concord among the people” in the Southeast Region have long been cited by multiple researchers to explain the concentration and diversity of archaeological relics here. This study places the Southeast Region - Dongnai in the context of the area in early history (5th century BC to 1st-2nd century AD) to focus on several issues: the context of early history of Vietnam and mainland Southeast Asia,early historicresidential communities in Dongnai, andthe value of archaeological heritage in early history and sustainable development in Dongnai.…”
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Les premiers monastères d’Auvergne à la lumière de la documentation textuelle et archéologique (ve-xe siècle) : état de la question by Damien Martinez

“…By studying both the original texts, and the archaeological data available, we can today have a better understanding of the conditions in which early monasteries were established in this region. …”
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L’artisanat potier de grès et son implantation dans le Cher (xviie-milieu xixe siècle) : l’apport de la documentation écrite by Clément Rigault

“…The knowledge of the stoneware pottery craft, in the Cher’s department, suffers from a lack of archaeological and bibliographic data, especially about the count and the location of workshops.However, diversity of varied archival sources brings to be possible the realization of an accurate mapping of pottery sites and clay extraction sites. …”
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À propos des espaces d’enseignement et des salles de conférence dans le monde romain by Michèle Villetard

“…However we have to concede that the material nature of these borders is often difficult to identify, primarily because of the limits of our current archaeological knowledge.…”
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Dissemination and price of cotton in Mesopotamia during the 1st millennium BCE by Louise Quillien

“…The archaeological finds attest that cotton textiles appeared in Mesopotamia during the 1st millennium B.C. …”
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El mascarón arquitectónico preclásico de la Estructura 3 de Chacté, Guatemala by Carlos Morales-Aguilar, Daniel Salazar Lama, Ivan Šprajc, Richard D. Hansen

“…The site was also linked to the great center of El Mirador by a 4 km-long causeway. Archaeological excavations in Chacté focused on Structure 3, the eastern building of an E-Group complex, where an important Preclassic sculpture mask was found. …”
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Stations routières en Gaule romaine : architecture, équipements et fonctions by Fabien Colleoni

“…The subject, which is of interest to both political and economic history, warrants a new perspective in the light of recent archaeological data emerging for the period from the end of the Republican era to late Antiquity. …”
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Atteintes pathologiques de Nazlet Khater 2 et activité minière au début du Paléolithique supérieur en Egypte by Sébastien Villotte, Isabelle Crevecoeur

“…However, it is possible to discuss the relationship between bone remodelling and mining activity on the basis of the archaeological context of Nazlet Khater 4 and previous work on samples from mining populations.…”
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Paleogeomorphology Reconstruction of Della Landslide and the Formation of the Shimbar Dam Lake in Indica – Khuzestan province by siyamack sharafi, masoud sadeghirad, zahra javadi nia

“…The results showed that the main cause of the occurrence of landslides were tectonic processes in the region and based on archaeological evidence and the archaeological excavation of the canal, the landslides occurred before 2000 years ago. …”
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The Activities of the Coroplastic Studies Interest Group by Erica Angliker

“…The Coroplastic Studies Interest Group (CSIG) held a meeting at the 121st Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies in Washington, DC (January 3–6, 2020).…”
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In Search of Gendabelo, the Ethiopian “Market of the World”of the 15th and 16th Centuries by Amélie Chekroun, Ahmed Hassen Omer, Bertrand Hirsch

“…This article proposes a hypothesis of localization with the archaeological site of Asbari, based in particular on archaeological material (imported ceramics, glass, pearls, metal) collected during a visit in 2009 and with the help of the 19th c. …”
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New Finds of Terracottas from the Sanctuary of the Nymphs and Demos on the Hill of the Nymphs in Athens by Maria Dourou, Vassiliki D. Georgaka

“…The archaeological area encompassing the hills to the west of the Athenian Acropolis, namely the Hill of the Muses (Philopappos Hill), the Pnyx, and the Hill of the Nymphs, (Asteroskopeion Hill), comprises a rocky formation of some 700 acres. …”
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Clay Statues from Canosa by Kari Dodson, Violaine Jeammet

“…ll worthwhile to visit Canosa to get a sense of the archaeological contexts—the rock cut tombs within which the figures were found. …”
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Following the Research. Part II by Irina P. Zasetskay

“…This article is the second part of a critical review of the works from no. 2 (volume 18) of the Lower Volga Archaeological Bulletin, published in 2019 and dedicated to the anniversary of Prof. …”
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Le festin dahoméen. Femmes du palais, politiques internes et pratiques culinaires en Afrique de l’Ouest au XVIIIe-XIXe siècle by J. Cameron Monroe, Anneke Janzen

“…In this paper, faunal and ceramic evidence from two excavated contexts is marshaled to distinguish the archaeological signatures of feasting in Dahomey, highlighting the importance of private feasts in attempts to build political influence in the domestic zones of Dahomean royal palaces. …”
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