Coprolites are a highly informative but still underutilized proxy for understanding past
environments, palaeodiets, and ancient human health. Here we provide a critical review of …

Livestock dung is a valuable material for reconstructing human and animal inter-relations
and activity within open areas and built environments. This paper examines the identification …

The study of ancient human dental calculus (mineralized dental plaque, also known as
tartar) is becoming increasingly important in osteoarchaeology, human palaeoecology and …

Over the last few decades a variety of geoarchaeological methods and ethnoarchaeological
and experimental approaches have demonstrated the fundamental importance of animal …

The availability and accessibility of digital data are increasingly significant in the creation of
archaeological knowledge with, for example, multiple datasets being brought together to …

This paper engages with repeated calls within archaeology for a re-envisioning of the
excavation report, contextualized by the transformation of scholarly communication taking …

Abstract The Northern Iberian Plateau during the Early Iron Age witnessed the proliferation
of villages, showcasing well-preserved earthen architectural remains that offer valuable …

Roundhouses are ubiquitous features of Iron Age landscapes across North West Europe, yet
the way they were used internally is not well understood. We demonstrate how spatial …

The retouching and resharpening of lithic tools during their production and maintenance
leads to the production of large numbers of small flakes and chips known as microdebitage …

In archaeology, the study of past plant processing activities in domestic spaces has hitherto
relied greatly on the observed distribution of macrobotanical and artefactual remains …