Regional response to drought during the formation and decline of Preclassic Maya societies

CE Ebert, NP May, BJ Culleton, JJ Awe… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
The earliest complex societies and a distinctive set of pan-regional social, political, and
economic institutions appeared in the southern Maya lowlands during the Preclassic period …

Northeastern North American Pleistocene megafauna chronologically overlapped minimally with Paleoindians

MT Boulanger, RL Lyman - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
It has long been argued that specialized big-game-hunting Paleoindians were responsible
for the extinction of three dozen large-bodied mammalian genera in North America. In …

The Aegean in the early 7th millennium BC: maritime networks and colonization

B Horejs, B Milić, F Ostmann, U Thanheiser… - Journal of World …, 2015 - Springer
Abstract The process of Near Eastern neolithization and its westward expansion from the
core zone in the Levant and upper Mesopotamia has been broadly discussed in recent …

An island-wide assessment of the chronology of settlement and land use on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) based on radiocarbon data

MA Mulrooney - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2013 - Elsevier
The archaeological landscape on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) contains a palimpsest of surface
archaeological features reflecting a long history of settlement and land use. The popular …

The times of their lives: Hunting history in the archaeology of Neolithic Europe

A Whittle - 2017 - torrossa.com
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Quantum theory of radiocarbon calibration

B Weninger, L Clare, O Jöris, R Jung… - World …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The calibration of radiocarbon measurements is based on a number of mathematical
assumptions that are rarely considered by users of the various available calibration …

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 …

An interdisciplinary approach to Iron Age Mediterranean chronology through combined archaeological and 14C-radiometric evidence from Sidon, Lebanon

C Doumet-Serhal, S Gimatzidis, B Weninger… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The construction of the Iron Age Mediterranean chronology began in the Levant based on
historical evidence and has been additionally supported in recent decades by means of …

Early Upper Paleolithic chronology in the Levant: new ABOx-SC accelerator mass spectrometry results from the Mughr el-Hamamah Site, Jordan

AJ Stutz, JJ Shea, JA Rech, JS Pigati, J Wilson… - Journal of Human …, 2015 - Elsevier
Methodological developments and new paleoanthropological data remain jointly central to
clarifying the timing and systemic interrelationships between the Middle-Upper Paleolithic …

Long-term rhythms in the development of Hawaiian social stratification

TS Dye - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2016 - Elsevier
The tempo plot, a statistical graphic designed for the archaeological study of rhythms of the
long term that embodies a theory of archaeological evidence for the occurrence of events, is …