A5020021956- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Archaeology and Historical Studies
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- Ancient Near East History
- Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
- Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Oral microbiology and periodontitis research
- Archaeological Research and Protection
- Endodontics and Root Canal Treatments
- Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Dental Erosion and Treatment
- Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
- Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Dermatological diseases and infestations
- Biblical Studies and Interpretation
- Building materials and conservation
- African history and culture analysis
- Islamic Studies and History
- Philosophical Ethics and Theory
Kiel University
2024
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2022-2024
University of Haifa
2021-2024
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
2020-2024
Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie
2022
Leiden University
2019-2020
University of Tübingen
2020
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
2016-2018
Weizmann Institute of Science
2012-2014
Bar-Ilan University
2013-2014
In this paper, we investigate the microarchaeological traces and archaeological visibility of shellfish cooking activities through a series experimental procedures with direct roasting using wood-fueled fires controlled heating in muffle furnace. An interdisciplinary geoarchaeological approach, combining micromorphology, FTIR (in transmission ATR collection modes), TGA XRD, was used to establish baseline on mineralogical transformation heated shells from aragonite calcite diagnostic...
<ns3:p>Background Dental calculus is increasingly used by researchers to study dietary patterns in past populations. The benefits of using dental for this purpose have been clearly demonstrated, with harbouring a wealth microremains and biomarkers health diet. Previous studies demonstrated some the limitations biases how methods processing may overlook, or even remove, important information contained within mineralised matrix. However, there are many factors that impossible account *in vivo*...
Ancient cooking installations yield important evidence for technology and human diet. A installation termed the Philistine pebble hearth is associated with arrival of Philistines at beginning Iron Age in southern Levant (ca. early/mid-12th century b.c.). These have been studied using traditional methods, focusing on a description form style relation to pottery period. Here we present study an experimental approach. We prepared three sets hearths pebbles' thermal behavior their volume. The...
Archaeological and palaeoenvironmental evidence from the Armenian Highlands wider southern Caucasus region emphasises significance of Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage 3 (c. 57–29 ka) as a crucial period for understanding hominin behaviours amidst environmental fluctuations. Ararat-1 cave, situated in Ararat Depression, Republic Armenia, presents potential resolving emerging key debates regarding land use adaptations during this interval, due to its well-preserved lithic artefacts faunal...
Abstract The open-air Epipalaeolithic (Geometric Kebaran) site of Neve David (Mount Carmel, Israel) has played an important role in reconstructing scenarios sedentarization the Levant since its initial excavation 1980s, and been seen as heralding later Natufian socioeconomic adaptations. However, little was known about site’s formation processes spatial organization, hindering testing this view. Employing new field data from David, we present a combined macro- microscopic analyses temporal...
Animal dung is still considered a secondary by-product of domestication, even though growing body evidence showing that humans recognized its properties as fuel and fertilizer utilized prior to-and alongside-the process animal domestication.In this paper, we review the advancements made in identification over last decades suggest multi-proxy workflow for fast screening field laboratory more refined post-excavation analysis.In addition, provide global synthesis used resource, both from...
The study of fossil parasites can provide insight into the antiquity host–parasite relationships and origins evolution these paleoparasites. Here, a coprolite (fossilized feces) from 1.2-million-yr-old paleontological site Haro River Quarry in northwestern Pakistan was analyzed for Micromorphological thin sectioning Fourier-transform infrared spectrometry (FTIR) analysis confirms belonged to bone-eating carnivore, likely extinct giant short-faced hyena (Pachycrocuta brevirostris)....
Abstract More than a century of study the Philistines has revealed abundant remains their material culture. Concurrently, our understanding origins, developmental processes, and socio-political matrix this fascinating culture undergone major changes. Among other facets, Philistine technology been discussed, but in opinion, broad view its importance for is still lacking. The more twenty years excavation at Tell es-Safi/Gath, one central sites Iron Age Philistia, offer an opportunity to review...
Pebble stone installations are commonly found at various Early Bronze Age sites in the southern Levant. However, their function is often assumed or unknown. Thirteen circular pebble were scattered throughout a residential neighbourhood dating to III Tell es-Safi/Gath. Five such recently studied by implementing an integrated micro-archaeological approach which all micro- and macro-artefacts analysed using analytical techniques. Based on analysis of ash-micro remains identified sediments,...
Dung has been an important material used by humans since at least the early Neolithic Period. It accumulated within domesticated animal enclosures and it was as fuel fertiliser well construction material. While formers were studied in details, to date, use of dung a received less attention. Here, we present geo-ethnoarchaeological pilot study aimed understanding archaeological formation processes outdoor dung-plastered floors possibility identify markers. We two house terrace rural village...
Widespread ethnographic evidence exists for the addition of animal dung to clay during process ceramic production. However, conclusive tempering in archaeological ceramics is relatively rare. The aim this study ascertain whether, and under which conditions, pottery identifiable. To answer these questions, we assessed whether a combination micro-particle analysis loose sediment thin-section petrography can reveal paste by focusing on faecal spherulites, ash pseudomorphs, phytoliths...
This study presents the geoarchaeological and geochronological aspects of Shovakh Cave first comparative context to nearby Amud (~ 500 m downstream), providing an exceptional opportunity explore range human behaviours within a small geographic area. Sediment samples from two newly excavated areas at rear entrance cave were analysed using infrared spectroscopy, micromorphology phytolith analysis dated through uranium-thorium luminescence techniques. The shows carnivore activity low artefact...
Numerous and extensive ‘Stone Walled Sites’ have been identified in southern African Iron Age landscapes. Appearing from around 1200 CE, showing considerable variability size form, these settlements are named after the dry-stone wall structures that characterize them. Stone Sites were occupied by various Bantu-speaking agropastoral communities. In this paper we test use of pXRF (portable X-ray fluorescence analysis) to generate a ‘supplementary’ archaeological record where evident...
Adaptative mechanisms used by coastal urban Middle Bronze Age (MBA) settlements in the southern Levant are regularly studied from point of view maritime connectivity. Here we look into adaptive MBA Tel Dor investigating utilization geogenic (rock, soil, sediment) resources for construction — materials wall foundations, mudbrick superstructure and plaster pottery making. The composition fabric archaeological were compared to those local natural sediments two boreholes. results show that...
Abstract Tell Kamid el-Loz (Lebanon) was an important Bronze Age urban center that dominated one of the central crossroads Ancient Near East, connecting Egypt and Levant with northern Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Syria, as well interior Mediterranean coast. However, by early Iron Age, site had shrunk to a small rural settlement. Later, in III / Persian-Hellenistic, only enigmatic pits large cemetery remained. In this paper, we analyzed plant micro-remains from dental calculus 15 individuals (3...
The Late Chalcolithic period in the southern Levant saw notable changes almost every aspect of daily life. Some most significant shifts during this time seem to have been anchored subsistence economy and involved food its cooking, processing, storage, serving, handling with vessels tools. paper offers a comprehensive overview analysis one utensil that is likely caught up these developments—the spoon. While spoons first appeared region Pottery Neolithic period, witnessed rise their frequency...
Abstract Pottery kilns are a common feature in the archaeological record of different periods. However, these pyrotechnological installations still seldom target interdisciplinary investigations. To fill this gap our knowledge, an updraft kiln firing experiment was run at Campus Galli open-air museum (southern Germany) by team consisting experimental archaeologists, material scientists, geoarchaeologists, and palaeobotanists. The entire process from preparation raw materials to opening...
Abstract Pyrotechnology has always been a core topic in the archaeological debate concerning phases of deep cultural transformations, such as Chalcolithic period Near East (c. 6000–3500 BC). However, previous studies on pyrotechnological installations, pottery kilns, pertaining to this period, have often mainly descriptive, with limited use archaeometric investigations. This work presents multi-method investigation kiln recently discovered Bora Plain (part larger Peshdar Plain, Iraqi...
While it is debated when exactly humans began regularly to cook their food (Sandgathe and Berna 2017), clear that once they did, never looked back. Cooking raw improves its nutrient values by enabling more complete digestion, kills bacteria, sometimes helps preserve the food. But above all, cooking makes many products taste much better. The combination of such practical benefits, which are essential for our wellbeing, with communal social aspects eating, what cuisine so central in culture...