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    • Critical evaluation of in situ analyses for the characterisation of red pigments in rock paintings: A case study from El Castillo, Spain 

      Dayet, Laure; d'Errico, Francesco; Garcia Diez, Marcos; Zilhão, João (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Paint technology, namely paint preparation and application procedures, is an important aspect of painting traditions. With the expansion of archaeometric studies and in situ non-destructive analytical methods, a renewal ...

    • Cro-Magnon personal ornaments revisited 

      Baker, Jack; Rigaud, Solange; Vanhaeren, Marian; d'Errico, Francesco (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      The Cro-Magnon rock-shelter hosted the first discovered and certainly one of the most important Gravettian burial sites in Europe. However, the copious ornament collection found among the human skeletons was not analysed ...

    • The cryptic case of Otomys sloggetti (Sloggett’s vlei rat): Interpreting murid molar morphology in the fossil record 

      Matthews, Thalassa; Nel, Turid Hillestad (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Vlei rats (Family: Muridae; Subfamily: Otomyinae) have a widespread distribution in southern Africa. They are favoured prey of barn and spotted eagle owls, and frequently become associated with archaeological deposits when ...

    • Cultural diversity on the fringe of the Empire. Review of Ted Kaizer (ed.): Religion, Society, and Culture at Dura-Europos (2016). 

      Meyer, Jørgen Christian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

    • The Demise, Dissolution and Elimination of Religions 

      Stausberg, Michael (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Abstract While it is generally acknowledged that religions can “die” or go “extinct,” little research has been dedicated to the problem of the demise of religions. This text reviews earlier research on this topic and ...

    • Den pro-sionistiske vendingen: Norske sosialdemokrater, Holocaust og sivilisasjonen, 1942–1947 

      Gjerde, Åsmund Borgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Det er allment akseptert i forskningen at støtte til Israel på den europeiske venstresiden i den tidlige etterkrigstiden var et resultat av bevisstheten om nazistenes folkemord mot jøder. Men hva betyr det? Denne artikkelen ...

    • Den teosofiske losjen ‘Klippen’: Alternativ religiøsitet på Leirvik i Stord på 1920-talet 

      Natvig, Richard Johan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      In May 1922, a new theosophical lodge was founded in Leirvik, a small town on the west coast of Norway, by local members of the Norwegian Theosophical Society. The lodge was headed by the at the time famous Ole Olvik, ...

    • Diachronic change within the Still Bay at Blombos Cave, South Africa 

      Archer, Will; Gunz, Philipp; Van Niekerk, Karen Loise; Henshilwood, Christopher; McPherron, Shannon P. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-07-02)
      Characteristically shaped bifacial points are stone artefacts with which the Middle Stone Age Still Bay techno-complex in Southern Africa is identified. Traditional approaches such as chaîne opératoire and two-dimensional ...

    • Dialog, interessekamp og integrasjon: Islamsk Råd Norge og det norske samfunnet siden 1993 

      Elgvin, Olav (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

    • Distal tephra reveal new MIS 5e Kos eruptions: Implications for the chronology and volcanic evolution histories in the Eastern Mediterranean region 

      Zhang, Shuang; Blockley, Simon; Armitage, Simon James; Satow, Chris; Manning, Christina; Barzilai, Omry; Boaretto, Elisabetta; White, Dustin; Timms, Rhys (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      The Kos Plateau Tuff (KPT), was an enormous caldera forming eruption originating from a vent within the Kos/Nisyros/Yali volcanic complex, occurring at 161 ka. It is the largest recognised Late Quaternary eruption in the ...

    • Documenting archaeological thin sections in high-resolution: A comparison of methods and discussion of applications 

      Haaland, Magnus Mathisen; Czechowski, Matthias; Carpentier, Frank; Lejay, Mathieu; Vandermeulen, Bruno (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-01)
      Optical thin section observations represent the core empirical basis for most micromorphological interpretations at archaeological sites. These observations, which often vary in size and shape, are usually documented through ...

    • Does a Mamluk Sultan Hold Religious Authority? Quranic Exegesis and ḥadīṯ Scholarship in Late Mamluk Courtly maǧālis 

      Mauder, Christian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      The article critically reexamines the notion of Mamluk rulers being uninterested in religious affairs and the authority a supreme religious status could bestow. It shows that, with the late Mamluk ruler Qāniṣawh al-Ġawrī ...

    • The Earliest Footprint of a Messianic Queen: Sarah the Ashkenazi in Amsterdam 

      van der Haven, Alexander (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      A record from 1 November 1655 of a donation to a certain Sarah from Poland is probably the first documented historical appearance of Sarah the Ashkenazi, future wife of messiah Sabbatai Tsevi. Individually recorded donations ...

    • Earliest human burial in Africa 

      Martinon-Torres, Maria; d'Errico, Francesco; Santos, Elena; Alvaro Gallo, Ana; Amano, Noel; Archer, William; Armitage, Simon James; Arsuaga, Juan luis; Bermudez de Castro, Jose María; Blinkhorn, James; Crowther, Alison; Douka, Katerina; Dubernet, Stéphan; Faulkner, Patrick; Fernández-Colón, Pilar; Kourampas, Nikos; González García, Jorge; Larreina, David; Le Bourdonnec, François-Xavier; MacLeod, George; Martín-Francés, Laura; Massilani, Diyendo; Mercader, Julio; Miller, Jennifer M.; Ndiema, Emmanuel; Notario, Belén; Marti, Africa Pitarch; Prendergast, Mary E.; Queffelec, Alain; Rigaud, Solange; Roberts, Patrick; Shoaee, Mohammad Javad; Shipton, Ceri; Simpson, Ian; Boivin, Nicole; Petraglia, Michael D. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The origin and evolution of hominin mortuary practices are topics of intense interest and debate1,2,3. Human burials dated to the Middle Stone Age (MSA) are exceedingly rare in Africa and unknown in East Africa1,2,3,4,5,6. ...

    • Early anthropogenic use of hematite on Aurignacian ivory personal ornaments from Hohle Fels and Vogelherd caves, Germany 

      Velliky, Elizabeth; Schmidt, Patrick; Ludovic, Bellot-Gurlet; Sibylle, Wolf; Conard, Nicholas J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The Aurignacian (ca. 43–35 ka) of southwestern Germany is well known for yielding some of the oldest artifacts related to symbolic behaviors, including examples of figurative art, musical instruments, and personal ornaments. ...

    • Early Christianity in East Africa and Red Sea/Indian Ocean Commerce 

      Seland, Eivind Heldaas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-11-18)
      The ancient East African kingdom of Aksum gradually adopted Christianity from the early- to mid-fourth-century reign of Ezana onwards. The well-known narrative of the late Roman church-historian Rufinus relates a top-down ...

    • Early human impacts and ecosystem reorganization in southern-central Africa 

      Thompson, Jessica; Wright, David K.; Ivory, Sarah J; Choi, Jeong-Heon; Nightingale, Sheila; Mackay, Alex; Schilt, Flora; Otarola-Castillo, Erik; Mercader, Julio; Forman, Steven L.; Pietsch, Timothy; Cohen, Andrew S.; Arrowsmith, J. Ramon; Welling, Menno; Davis, Jacob; Schiery, Benjamin; Kaliba, Potiphar; Malijani, Oris; Blome, Margaret W.; O'Driscoll, Corey A.; Mentzer, Susan M.; Miller, Christopher E.; Heo, Seoyoung; Choi, Jungyu; Tembo, Joseph; Mapemba, Fredrick; Simengwa, Davie; Gomani-Chindebvu, Elizabeth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-05-05)
      Modern Homo sapiens engage in substantial ecosystem modification, but it is difficult to detect the origins or early consequences of these behaviors. Archaeological, geochronological, geomorphological, and paleoenvironmental ...

    • Ecclesiastical reform in historiographical context 

      Melve, Leidulf (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-05-26)
      The article initially discusses recent approaches to ecclesiastical reform and the Investiture Contest. In particular, it discusses the extent to which recent scholarship's concern with “power,” “local units,” “social ...

    • An ecological niche shift for Neanderthal populations in Western Europe 70,000 years ago 

      Banks, William E.; Moncel, Marie-Helene; Raynal, J.P.; Cobos, MC; Romero-Alvarez, D; woillez, M-N; Faivre, Jean-Philippe; Gravina, Brad; d'Errico, Francesco; Locht, Jean-Luc; Santos, Frédéric (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Middle Paleolithic Neanderthal populations occupied Eurasia for at least 250,000 years prior to the arrival of anatomically modern humans. While a considerable body of archaeological research has focused on Neanderthal ...

    • The effect of formation processes on the frequency of palaeolithic cave sites in semiarid zones: Insights from Kazakhstan 

      Varis, Aristeidis; Miller, Christopher; Cuthbertson, Patrick; Namen, Abay; Taimagambetov, Zhaken; Iovita, Radu (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Central Asian caves with Palaeolithic deposits are few, but they provide a rich record of human fossils and cultural assemblages that has been used to model Late Pleistocene hominin dispersals. However, previous research ...