Blar i Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and the History of Religions på tidsskrift "PLOS ONE"
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A 115,000-year-old expedient bone technology at Lingjing, Henan, China
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Activities attested since at least 2.6 Myr, such as stone knapping, marrow extraction, and woodworking may have allowed early hominins to recognize the technological potential of discarded skeletal remains and equipped ... -
Critical evaluation of in situ analyses for the characterisation of red pigments in rock paintings: A case study from El Castillo, Spain
(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 ... -
Food security in Roman Palmyra (Syria) in light of paleoclimatological evidence and its historical implications
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Food security in ancient urban centers is often discussed but rarely formally modelled. Despite its location in an inhospitable desert where food production is a constant challenge ancient Palmyra grew from a small oasis ... -
High-resolution sediment analysis reveals Middle Bronze Age byre-houses at the site of Oppeano (Verona province, NE Italy)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-08-31)High-resolution sediment analysis allowed us to identify two Middle Bronze Age (MBA 1, 1650–1550 cal a BCE) byre-houses at the waterlogged site of Oppeano “4D”, south of Verona (Veneto region, NE Italy). The site lies in ... -
Multiproxy analysis of Upper Palaeolithic lustrous gravels supports their anthropogenic use
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Upper Palaeolithic sites in southwestern France attributed to the Upper Gravettian and the Solutrean yielded sub spherical gravels with a highly shiny appearance that have intrigued researchers since the 1930s. In this ... -
Neural correlates of perceiving and interpreting engraved prehistoric patterns as human production: Effect of archaeological expertise
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-08-03)It has been suggested that engraved abstract patterns dating from the Middle and Lower Palaeolithic served as means of representation and communication. Identifying the brain regions involved in visual processing of these ... -
The oldest Homo erectus buried lithic horizon from the Eastern Saharan Africa. EDAR 7 - an Acheulean assemblage with Kombewa method from the Eastern Desert, Sudan
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Although essential for reconstructing hominin behaviour during the Early Palaeolithic, only a handful of Acheulean sites have been dated in the Eastern Sahara region. This is due to the scarcity of sites for this time ... -
A Palaeolithic bird figurine from the Lingjing site, Henan, China
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-06-10)The recent identification of cave paintings dated to 42–40 ka BP in Borneo and Sulawesi highlights the antiquity of painted representations in this region. However, no instances of three-dimensional portable art, well ... -
Provenance, modification and use of manganese-rich rocks at Le Moustier (Dordogne, France)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-07-17)The use of colouring materials by Neanderthals has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years. Here we present a taphonomic, technological, chemical-mineralogical and functional analysis of fifty-four manganese ... -
Quantitative methods demonstrate that environment alone is an insufficient predictor of present-day language distributions in New Guinea
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Environmental parameters constrain the distributions of plant and animal species. A key question is to what extent does environment influence human behavior. Decreasing linguistic diversity from the equator towards the ... -
The spread of the cult of Asclepius in the context of the Roman army benefited from the presence of physicians: A spatial proximity analysis
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The article applies a GIS based approach to the study of the spread of the cult of Asclepius, the Greco-Roman healing god, during the Roman period. It explores the role of soldiers and physicians in the spatial dissemination ...