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Allan / Archaeological Survey of Alberta Occasional Paper 43 (2024) 1-7. The Enigma of Alberta's Obsidian Over 500 archaeological sites in western Canada have yielded obsidian artifacts, including arrowheads and spear tips. Archaeological Survey of Alberta occasional paper no. Alberta Archaeological Review. Alberta.Ca.

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2025 In a new study published in Australian Archaeology 1 , Ana Paula Motta and colleagues, in partnership with the Balanggarra Aboriginal Corporation, have proposed that these figures represent a distinct rock art style they call the Linear Naturalistic Figures (LNF). "We The Archaeology of Rock Art in Western Arnhem Land, Australia.

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APRIL 14, 2025

Long before pharaohs ruled and scribes recorded human affairs, the seeds of economic disparity had already taken hold. In a sweeping new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1 , an international team analyzed the size of more than 47,000 houses across 1,100 archaeological sites.

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APRIL 14, 2025

A sweeping archaeological analysis 1 led by Gary Feinman of the Field Museum of Natural History offers a strikingly different view. In fact, some large and politically complex societies maintained surprisingly modest levels of economic disparity. ” In this way, archaeology provides a counter-narrative to modern fatalism.

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Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1 , the study draws on data from over 47,000 houses spanning nearly 3,000 archaeological sites and 10,000 years of human history. ” Reading Inequality in Clay and Stone Archaeologists often lack direct records of economic systems in ancient societies. 1 Lawrence, D.,

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While economic aspects of these interactions are well-documented, the social and cultural dimensions remain less understood. Near Eastern Archaeology , 84(3), 172–181. Archaeopress Archaeology. ​ Further Reading and Related Studies Al-Jahwari, N. S., & Douglas, K. link] Frenez, D., & Tosi, M. Al-Jahwari, N.

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Credit: PLOS ONE (2025). “This is the first time we’ve been able to document half a millennium of continuous, large-scale production of mollusk-based purple dye in a single place,” said Golan Shalvi, lead author of the study and director of excavations at the University of Haifa’s Zinman Institute of Archaeology.

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