Portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometer (pXRF) has been recently adopted by the Soil
Science community for uses in both field and laboratory, obtaining the total content of …

Namibia is one of the southern African countries hosting the richest rock art heritage, with
thousands of rock paintings. Although numerous studies investigated their distribution, style …

The present work represents the first attempt using an archaeometric approach to
characterize the potential chert outcrops and retrace the provenance of the chert raw …

It is little secret that most archaeologists are uneasy with statistics. Thankfully, in the modern
world, quantitative analysis has been made immensely easier by statistical software …

The Carson site in northwest Mississippi is a monumental Mississippian center with
evidence of large and small earthen mounds, an extensive palisaded village, and a bundle …

In archaeology, the use of pottery was traditionally associated with increasing sedentism
among food-producing societies. However, these assumptions have long since been …

Given the importance of the Levant in understanding the origins and dispersals of modern
humans, there has been great interest in archaeological evidence to support population …

Siliceous sandstone (including quartzites), petrified wood, and agates located in Alabama
and Mississippi were utilized as a toolstone resource during every recognized cultural …

Economics–the socially instituted ways of managing how people value, make, exchange,
and consume goods–is a major part of human culture. Yet there is comparatively little study …

Sedimentary chert from the eastern North Island and Marlborough region of the South
Island, New Zealand (collectively referred to here as the Eastern Chert Province, ECP), was …