Geospatial Big Data and archaeology: Prospects and problems too great to ignore

MD McCoy - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2017 - Elsevier
As spatial technology has evolved and become integrated in to archaeology, we face a new
set of challenges posed by the sheer size and complexity of data we use and produce. In …

Colonisation and early peopling of the Colombian Amazon during the Late Pleistocene and the Early Holocene: new evidence from La Serranía La Lindosa

G Morcote-Ríos, FJ Aceituno, J Iriarte, M Robinson… - Quaternary …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent research carried out in the Serranía La Lindosa (Department of Guaviare) provides
archaeological evidence of the colonisation of the northwest Colombian Amazon during the …

Sedimentary unknowns constrain the current use of frequency analysis of radiocarbon data sets in forming regional models of demographic change

I Ward, P Larcombe - Geoarchaeology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Statistical manipulation of large radiometric data sets (big data) is increasingly applied to
those grand challenges in archaeology that relate to past human‐behavioural dynamics and …

Through a filter, darkly: population size estimation, systematic error, and random error in radiocarbon-supported demographic temporal frequency analysis

WA Brown - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Archaeologists are increasingly concerned that the non-linear relationship between the
calendric and radiocarbon timelines may introduce anomalous structures into radiocarbon …

Stable isotopes and paleodiet of the ancient inhabitants of Nueva Esperanza: A late Holocene site from Sabana de Bogotá (Colombia)

S Rivas, D Calderón, C Marulanda… - International Journal …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Stable isotope‐based dietary reconstructions of late Holocene agriculturalists from Sabana
de Bogotá (Colombia) are limited to the late Muisca period. Accordingly, the dietary patterns …

The Pre-Columbian peopling and population dispersals of South America

RC Sutter - Journal of Archaeological Research, 2021 - Springer
This paper summarizes the current archaeological, physiographic, demographic, molecular,
and bioarchaeological understanding of the initial peopling and subsequent population …

Dwelling the hill: traces of increasing sedentism in hunter-gatherers societies at Checua site, Colombia (9500-5052 cal BP)

S Archila, AM Groot, JP Ospina, M Mejía, C Zorro - Quaternary International, 2021 - Elsevier
The archaeological site of Checua is located on an isolated hill in the Checua river valley in
the Sabana de Bogotá, Northern South America. Archaeological data obtained at the site …

Landscapes variability and the early peopling of the inter-Andean Magdalena Valley, Colombia (South America)

CE Lopez - Quaternary International, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Magdalena River is the longest inter-Andean river in Northern South America.
We focus on the middlesection calling attention to the implication of a geoarchaeological …

Rate of natural population increase as a paleodemographic measure of growth

C McFadden, MF Oxenham - Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to provide a verifiable measure of population increase from age-at-
death data. It was anticipated that the D0-14/D ratio would be a good predictor of the rate of …

Paget's disease of bone: approach to its historical origins

LR Menéndez-Bueyes, MCS Fernández - Reumatología Clínica (English …, 2017 - Elsevier
Paget's disease of bone is the second most common bone disease after osteoporosis. It is
characterized by focal regions of highly exaggerated bone remodeling, with abnormalities in …