October 20, 2013

Elsevier Puts Out Virtual Special Issue for IAD

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Collaborating Organization and publisher Elsevier put out a special virtual issue for International Archaeology Day 2013.  Access it on their website.

Contents Include:

• 5,000 years old Egyptian iron beads made from hammered meteoritic iron
• Human digestive effects on a micromammalian skeleton
• The ‘Walking’ Megalithic Statues (Moai) of Easter Island
• Human intestinal parasites from a latrine in the 12th century Frankish castle of Saranda Kolones in Cyprus
• Environment and Collapse: Eastern Anatolian Obsidians at Urkesh (Tell Mozan, Syria) and the Third-Millennium Mesopotamian Urban Crisis
• Reassessing the age of Atapuerca-TD6 (Spain): New paleomagnetic results
• Human occupation in South America by 20,000 BC: the Toca da Tira Peia site, Piauí, Brazil
• Dating North America’s oldest petroglyphs, Winnemucca Lake subbasin, Nevada
• An ovarian teratoma of late Roman age
• Cultural dynamics and ceramic resource use at Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age Troy, northwestern Turkey

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