Pottery is one of the paramount materials found in archaeological excavations in Central Europe, and as such it has been used to track regional chronologies, stylistic trends, and distribution pattern...

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The new volume, Digging into Pottery Scientific Approaches to Archaeological Ceramic Analysis Around the World, will be officially launched at the upcoming IoA Ceramic Analysis Day.

The Great Pyramid of Giza, also known as the Pyramid of Khufu.Douwe C. van der Zee/Wikimedia Commons A journal has retracted a paper by two Italian scientists who claimed to have found hidden struc…

The EAA conference in Athens went ahead amid boycotts, protests and an unresolved crisis over Gaza and Israeli institutional participation. Nothing was resolved; archaeology continued. A short reflect...

This study evaluates whether archaeological ceramic typologies correspond to coherent technological practices by analyzing 334 rim sherds from the Middle Neolithic site of Penitenzeria (Calabria, I...

Ghent University has decided to provide "appropriate follow-up" to the remarks made by postdoctoral researcher Nathan Cofnas after the death of Cambridge professor Jason Arday. The sociologist was…

Research Technical Professional retraining and reskilling opportunity with a Daphne Jackson RTP Fellowship hosted by Durham University The Daphne Jackson Trust has launched a new fellowship for Resear...

“Devastation” across body of 14th century warrior indicates horrific demise from flying boulder

At last week’s HE debate, a host of Oxford-associated grandees made the usual points while the sector continued to melt down, says Andrew McRae

Ancient DNA can be preserved on materials from archaeological floor deposits such as bones, sediments and artifacts. Here, the authors investigate whether Palaeolithic wall art can preserve human DNA ...

Inequality declined in the Bronze Age city of Mohenjo-daro

The Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor (one post-doc research position) funded by the NCN SONATA BIS ...

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In Nuragic Sardinia, growing evidence indicates that during the Final Bronze Age, and continuing into the Early Iron Age, a reconfiguration of the Nuragic ideological framework took place, with formal...