A5057515835- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Archaeology and Historical Studies
- Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts
- Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis
- Archaeological and Historical Studies
- Classical Antiquity Studies
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
- Ancient Near East History
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Archaeological and Geological Studies
- Mining Techniques and Economics
- Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications
- Food composition and properties
- Biblical Studies and Interpretation
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Mathematical and Theoretical Analysis
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology
- X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis
- Classical Studies and Legal History
- American Environmental and Regional History
- Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
University of Science and Technology Beijing
2023
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2018-2023
Brown University
2014-2019
University of California, Los Angeles
2013-2016
A synthetic history of human land use Humans began to leave lasting impacts on Earth's surface starting 10,000 8000 years ago. Through a collaboration with archaeologists around the globe, Stephens et al. compiled comprehensive picture trajectory worldwide during Holocene (see Perspective by Roberts). Hunter-gatherers, farmers, and pastoralists transformed face Earth earlier greater extent than has been widely appreciated, transformation that was essentially global 3000 before present....
Excavations of the Egyptian New Kingdom fortress in Jaffa (Tel Yafo, ancient Yapu), on southern side Tel Aviv, were renewed by Cultural Heritage Project from 2011 to 2014. This work is an outgrowth project's reappraisal Jacob Kaplan's excavations Ramesses Gate area 1955 1962. As only one excavated Canaan, its archaeological record provides a unique perspective resistance rule ca. 1460 1125 B.C.E., but especially during second half 12th century when was twice destroyed. Radiocarbon dates...
We investigated the ultrafast structural dynamics of cyclobutanone following photoexcitation at $\lambda=200$ nm using gas-phase megaelectronvolt electron diffraction. Our investigation complements simulation studies same process within this special issue. It provides information about both electronic state population and through well-separable inelastic elastic scattering signatures. observe depopulation photoexcited S$_2$ with n3s Rydberg character its signature a time constant $(0.29 \pm...
Tin bronze replaced arsenical copper as the preferred alloy in Levant for reasons that have long been debated. Found almost exclusively graves, these two types of alloys share nearly identical mechanical properties. The Bronze Age cemetery 'Enot Shuni has yielded first metals ever analysed from an uninterrupted stratigraphic sequence Levant, spanning earliest adoption tin Early (EB) IV through Middle (MB) II (c. 2300–1530 bc). SEM–EDS analysis artefacts, combined with a compositional...
Tophets are Phoenician and Punic sanctuaries where cremated infants children were buried. Many studies focus on the potentially sacrificial nature of these sites, but this article takes a different approach. Combining osteological analysis with consideration archaeological wider cultural context, authors explore short life-courses mortuary treatments 12 individuals in tophet at Neo-Punic site Zita, Tunisia. While evidence suggests life Zita was hard, systemic health problems may have...
This paper reviews recent archaeological research on human-environment interaction in the Holocene, taking continental China as its geographic focus.As is large, geographically diverse, and exceptionally archaeologically historically well-documented, here provides critical insight into functioning of socialnatural systems.Based a broad review field well advances discoveries, authors reflect themes including climate change adaptive systems theory, spatial temporal scale, anthropogenic...
Abstract Although Roman North Africa is known for its production of cereals, faunal evidence from the Neo‐Punic urban mound Zita in South East Tunisia shows that meat was an important part diet. Similarly to other African sites, sheep and goat contributed most consumption all time periods. The proportions cattle, sheep/goat, pig (the common sources influenced sites) are closer nearby site Meninx than Carthage. This research uses complete collection material one feature at analyse pre‐Roman...
The melting of pure or alloyed copper, tin and arsenical copper ingots recycled objects was a drain on the timber dung fuel resources many cultures. This paper suggests formulae grounded in thermodynamic principles an attempt to estimate energy requirements necessary melt alloys common both O ld N ew W orld cultures, with goal identifying consumption conservation patterns. It has been suggested that bronze metallurgy first adopted Levant during E arly B ronze A ge ( EB ) IV , at onset L ate...
Cultural ecological theory is applied to a spatially and temporally bounded archaeological data set document long-term paleoecological processes associated sociopolitical behaviors. Volumetric excavations, treating the material culture of an matrix similar core, can yield quantifiable frequencies surplus goods that provide multiproxy empirical lens into incremental changes in land use practices, natural resource consumption, and, this case, likely overexploitation. Archaeological methods are...