Archaeology

Latest research

1. Biogeochemical evidence for targeted landscape use in ancient foragers of Malawi

   • Alex Bertacchi
   • Andrew Zipkin
   • Jessica C. Thompson

   in Communications Earth & Environment

   Article Open access 17 October 2025

   

2. Reassessing the Evidence for the Composite Bow in Ancient Eurasia

   • Gabriel Šaffa

   in Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

   Article Open access 16 October 2025

   

3. Microstructural evolution of Jin Zhuan from the Ming and Qing dynasties at the Yuanhetang kiln site

   • Yushen He
   • Yanhong Li
   • Yi Zhou

   in npj Heritage Science

   Article Open access 16 October 2025

   

4. Unravelling the composition and provenance of mud plasters in the Aurangabad Caves: a multifaceted analytical approach

   • M. R. Singh
   • Rajesh Ragde
   • Deepankar Banerjee

   in Discover Materials

   Article Open access 16 October 2025

   

5. Analysis of the Dispersion of Material Evidence from the Archaeological Context of the San José Galleon Shipwreck Sunk at a Depth of 600 Meters (Cartagena de Indias, Colombia)

   • Carlos Del Cairo Hurtado
   • Juliana Quintero Hernández
   • Carlos Andrés Reina Martínez

   in Journal of Maritime Archaeology

   Article 14 October 2025

   

6. Machine learning-based identification of ancient water management facilities in Liangzhu, China

   • Yiran Wang
   • Shaochun Dong
   • Tao Zhang

   in npj Heritage Science

   Article Open access 14 October 2025

   

7. Evaluation of resin impregnation for preserving organic residues in archaeological soils

   • Xuekai Qi
   • Chuyu Ming
   • Rui Wen

   in npj Heritage Science

   Article Open access 13 October 2025

   

8. The First Find of Yellow-Necked Mouse (Apodemus flavicollis, Muridae, Rodentia) on the Western Slope of the Middle Urals (Starik Rock Shelter, Late Holocene)

   • E. P. Izvarin
   • A. I. Ulitko
   • N. G. Smirnov

   in Doklady Biological Sciences

   Article 13 October 2025

   

9. Andean peoples hunted and gathered long after they embraced farming

   in Nature

   Article 13 October 2025

   

10. The Pietra Ollare of the medieval archaeological site of Monte Giove (Fano, Marche Region, Central Italy) unveils further constraints for the Alpine Valchiavenna soapstone trade

    • Patrizia Santi
    • Alberto Renzulli
    • Erika Valli

    in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

    Article Open access 11 October 2025

    

11. Sociological Significance of Ancient Fingerprints: A Review

    • Jasjeet Kaur
    • Gurvinder S. Sodhi

    in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section A: Physical Sciences

    Article 11 October 2025

    

12. Identification and implications of lithic artifacts starch residues from Fenghuangzui Neolithic site in Central China

    • Wentai Lou
    • Feng Wang
    • Yinghua Li

    in npj Heritage Science

    Article Open access 11 October 2025

    

13. A tale of two agricultural revolutions: crop introductions in the long 1st millennium ce southern Levant

    • Annette M. Hansen
    • Frits Heinrich
    • Daniel Fuks

    in Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

    Article Open access 10 October 2025

    

14. Portable muon beam could accelerate archaeology scans

    in Nature

    Article 10 October 2025

    

15. Mark Norell obituary: palaeontologist who showed that dinosaurs still walk among us — as birds

    • Michael J. Novacek

    in Nature

    Article 09 October 2025

    

16. Multi-proxy investigations of subsistence strategy during Bronze Age in Inner Mongolia, China

    • Xin Sun
    • Xue Shang
    • Qian Li

    in npj Heritage Science

    Article Open access 09 October 2025

    

17. Computer-based method to digitally reconstruct axially symmetric fragmented heritage: the case of a medieval bell

    • Luca Di Angelo
    • Paolo Di Stefano
    • Emanuele Guardiani

    in npj Heritage Science

    Article Open access 09 October 2025

    

18. Ancient mitogenomes from Neolithic, megalithic and medieval burials suggest complex genetic history of Kashmir valley, India

    • Aparna Dwivedi
    • Lomous Kumar
    • Niraj Rai

    in Scientific Reports

    Article Open access 09 October 2025

    

19. Pulsed thermographic analysis of Herculaneum papyri

    • Sofia Ceccarelli
    • Massimo Rippa
    • Graziano Ranocchia

    in Scientific Reports

    Article Open access 08 October 2025

    

20. A GIS approach to the spatial organization and social structure of the Jiaojia cemetery, eastern China

    • Ziqi Li
    • Qingwei Meng
    • Hao Wu

    in npj Heritage Science

    Article Open access 08 October 2025

    

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