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Open Archaeology

ISSN: 2300-6560

Editor-in-chief: Joakim Goldhahn

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Open Archaeology is a peer-reviewed, electronic-only journal that publishes original, high-quality research on all aspects of archaeology. The journal encompasses novel, interdisciplinary approaches to archaeological data including archaeological science, theory and interpretation as well as archaeological heritage management and promotion.

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Call for Papers

Can You See Me? Putting the 'Human' Back Into 'Human-Plant' Interactions
Coordinating Editors: María Martín-Seijo, Dawn Elise Mooney, Marian Berihuete Azorín and María Laura Ciampagna

Digital Religioscapes: Current Methodologies and Novelties in the Analysis of Sacr(aliz)ed Spaces
Coordinating Editors: Anaïs Lamesa, Asuman Lätzer-Lasar

Engaging the Public, Heritage and Educators through Material Culture Research
Coordinating Editors: Katherine Anne Wilson, Christina Antenhofer, Thomas Pickles

Completed Special Issues

Challenging Digital Archaeology
Coordinating Editors: Jeremy Huggett and Davide Tanasi

Advances in Arctic Archaeology (Part I, II)
Coordinating Editors: Peter Whitridge and Max Friesen

Aspects of non-professional metal detecting in Europe
Coordinating Editors: Pieterjan Deckers, Michael Lewis and Suzie Thomas

Understanding diversity in Neolithic Houses and Households
Coordinating Editors: Joanna Pyzel, Penny Bickle, Ben Chan, Lech Czerniak, Christina Tsoraki

Uncovering Historical Routes for Sustainable Mobility: Methods, Tools and Case Studies
Coordinating Editors: Cinzia Tavernari and Carlo Citter

Portable XRF in Archaeology and Museum Studies
Coordinating Editors: Davide Tanasi, Robert Tykot and Andrea Vianello

Exploring Advances in the Use of 3D Models of Objects in Archaeological Research
Coordinating Editor: Barry Molloy

From Line to Colour: Social Context and Visual Communication of Prehistoric Art
Coordinating Editors: Liliana Janik and Simon Kaner

The Danubian Provinces of the Roman Empiree
Coordinating Editor: Mateusz Żmudziński

Unlocking Sacred Landscapes: Digital Humanities and Ritual Space
Coordinating Editors: Giorgos Papantoniou, Apostolos Sarris, Christine E. Morris, Athanasios K. Vionis

Scientific Studies of Obsidian Sources and Trade
Coordinating Editors: Robert H. Tykot, Maria Clara Martinelli, Andrea Vianello

The Black Gold That Came from the Sea. Advances in the Studies of Obsidian Sources and Artifacts of the Central Mediterranean Area (Part I, II)
Coordinating Editors: Franco Italiano, Franco Foresta Martin, Maria Clara Martinelli

Archaeological Practice on Shifting Grounds
Coordinating Editors: Åsa Berggren, Antonia Davidsonach-Walther

Art, Creativity and Automation. Sharing 3D Visualization Practices in Archaeology
Coordinating Editors: Loes Opgenhaffen, Martina Revello Lami, Hayley Mickleburgh

At the Crossroads of the Mediterranean: Malta and the Central Mediterranean During the Roman Period
Coordinating Editors: David Cardona, Davide Tanasi, Robert Brown

Special Issue published in cooperation with the 1st Conference on the EARLY NEOLITHIC of EUROPE (Part I, II)
Coordinating Editors: Ferran Borrell, Ignacio Clemente, Miriam Cubas, Juan J. Ibáñez, Niccolò Mazzucco, Ariadna Nieto, Marta Portillo, Xavier Terradas & Silvia Valenzuela

Special Issue Published in Cooperation with Meso’2020 – Tenth International Conference on the Mesolithic in Europe
Coordinating Editors: Thomas Perrin, Benjamin Marquebielle, Sylvie Philibert, and Nicolas Valdeyron

What is New in the Neolithic? – A Special Issue Dedicated to Lech Czerniak
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Digital Methods and Typology
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Scales of Interaction in the Bronze and Iron Age Central Mediterranean
Coordinating Editors: Emily Holt, Davide Schirru

Archaeology of Migration: Moving Beyond Historical Paradigms
Coordinating Editors: Catharine Judson, Hagit Nol

Bricks Under the Scope: Microscopic and Macroscopic Approaches to the Study of Earthen Architecture
Coordinating Editors: Marta Lorenzon, Moritz Kinzel, Benjamín Cutillas-Victoria

Ancient Cultural Routes: Past Transportations Infrastructures as a Two-Way Interaction between Society and Environment
Coordinating Editors: Francesca Fulminante, Francesca Mazzilli, Franziska Engelbogen

Past Sounds: New Perspectives in the Field of Archaeoacoustics
Coordinating Editors: Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Neemias Santos da Rosa

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Volume 9 Issue 1

January 2023

The article presents the results of research on the habitation model, chronology, and pottery production of the Silesian-Greater Poland Tumulus Culture at Czeladź Wielka settlement (Góra county). The site of the Czeladź Wielka is the first published settlement of the Tumulus culture from the area, providing the first evidence for developing a model of habitation change between the Early and Late Bronze Age. The typochronological analyses allowed positioning the finds in the Middle Bronze Age, while radiocarbon dating placed the site between the late sixteenth and fifteenth century BC. Quantification of technological traits were used to define the general characteristics of Tumulus culture pottery in the region showing the preference for coarse, undecorated, or textile-impressed ceramics. Spatial analyses indicate the presence of a clustered settlement pattern characterized by discard of ceramic material in cultural layer. The findings suggest continuity of certain cultural traits from the preceding Únětice and the influence of contemporary Trzciniec cultural circle.

Open Access September 12, 2023

On Class and Elitism in Archaeology

Artur Ribeiro, Christos Giamakis

Article number: 20220309

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While archaeology is certainly a politically conscious discipline, with various members involved in political and activist movements, especially focusing on gender and race issues, little has been said, discussed, or done with regards to class and elitism. In fact, it seems that since the advent of postmodernity in the 1970s, class and elitism have become moot topics. The aim of this article is to reflect upon class-based discrimination and elitism in archaeology, first by tracing the changes they have undergone, especially during late capitalist times, and how class has become sublimated to fit the neoliberal agenda; second, the article focuses on several issues concerning class and elitism in the university context in general, and in archaeology in particular, and how these serve as barriers to those less wealthy and fortunate; third, this work highlights how these issues concerning class and elitism in archaeology then affect scientific discourse on one hand, which has become more technologically advanced, and consequently more expensive, and archaeological theory on the other, which in its hectic search for novelty has lost its capacity to truly contribute anything new to our understanding of past and present societies.

Open Access October 12, 2023

Archaeology of the Late Local Landscapes of the Hualfín Valley (Catamarca, Argentina): A Political Perspective from Cerro Colorado of La Ciénaga de Abajo

Federico Wynveldt, María Emilia Iucci, Juan Manuel Sallés, Juana Fuertes

Article number: 20220318

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As seen in many examples of imperial expansions throughout history, the Inkas applied a whole range of policies strategically adapted for the different local organizations, in every corner of their empire, and local groups, in turn, were reconfigured based on the new conditions. Starting from the investigation of a group of late local landscapes of the Hualfín Valley (Department of Belén, Catamarca) in the Northwestern Argentina, from a critical perspective of the sociopolitical definitions classically given to these societies, the aim of this study consists of describing the spatial, social, and temporal dimensions of these landscapes and advancing the discussion about how local groups socially and politically organized themselves, in immediately pre-Inka times and after the incorporation of their territories into the Inka state. To this end, a brief discussion on the Late and Inka periods in Northwestern Argentina and theoretical guidelines for landscape analysis are presented. Then, we address the analysis of one of the landscapes in particular: the Cerro Colorado de La Ciénaga de Abajo and its surroundings, and we briefly analyze the cases of Asampay, Palo Blanco, and Puerta de Corral Quemado, and the regional landscape network.

Review Article

Open Access February 20, 2023

The State of the Debate: Nuragic Metal Trade in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age

Valentina Matta, Helle Vandkilde

Article number: 20220280

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This study examines the role of the Nuragic metal trade in the Mediterranean setting, seeking to advance the debate on this subject. Published metal-related data are considered alongside current interpretations. Although Sardinia is geologically rich in metals, including copper and lead (silver), scholars have nonetheless disagreed about the role of these metals in shaping the political economy of Nuragic Sardinia and its interaction with the outside world (c. 1350–720 BC). Traditionally the island has been seen as passively relying on the agency of foreign merchants from the eastern Mediterranean region. Lately, however, a divergent view has credited Sardinia with a more active and autonomous role in the Mediterranean marketplace. This study provides an analytical review of the complexity of such opinions, alongside isotope-derived and other archaeometallurgical evidence. As a scaffold for future inquiries, key features based on theoretical and historical perspectives are pulled together to form an exploratory model of Sardinia’s changing geopolitical position in the interlinked world of the Mediterranean between the Bronze and Iron Ages. The time around 1200 BC is identified as a major historical threshold.

Open Access August 17, 2023

A Review of Malta’s Pre-Temple Neolithic Pottery Wares

Emma Richard-Trémeau, Catriona Brogan, John C. Betts, Maxine Anastasi, Nicholas C. Vella

Article number: 20220310

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Sites from the earliest known phases of Maltese prehistory often consist of scatters of sherds for the Għar Dalam and Skorba phases (6000–4800 BCE), and tomb contexts for the Żebbuġ phase (3800–3600 BCE). Neolithic studies are, therefore, heavily reliant on the study of pottery. Although traditional typological and seriation-based analyses of the pottery record have substantially enhanced our knowledge of Early Neolithic Malta, there is a growing appreciation of the need to go beyond these approaches to gain new insights. This study reviews the accessible literature on fabric studies on assemblages found in the Maltese Islands, presenting the state of knowledge for the pottery of the Għar Dalam, Skorba (Early Neolithic), and Żebbuġ (Late Neolithic) phases. Microphotographs of pottery wares were selected from a compilation produced for an ongoing project (the MaltaPot project) to illustrate the descriptions found in the literature. The advances made by archaeologists in studying the Maltese Neolithic pottery are reviewed, and suggestions for building on them are proposed, as archaeometric and petrographic techniques have not been applied systematically to Neolithic pottery from Malta.

Commentary Article

Open Access October 13, 2023

Paradise Found or Common Sense Lost? Göbekli Tepe’s Last Decade as a Pre-Farming Cult Centre

Edward B. Banning

Article number: 20220317

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The spectacular finds at Turkey’s Göbekli Tepe have fired the imaginations of archaeologists and the general public alike. Reflecting on developments at and about the site since the 2011 publication of a critique of the site’s dominant interpretation as a hunter-gatherer cult centre, this article shows that some elements of that critique, including assertions about roofing and a residential population, have gained traction, while others have fallen on deaf ears. Göbekli Tepe has also become the locus of discussion and speculation in disciplines ranging from astronomy and religion to psychology and architectural history, while also inspiring pseudoscientific claims that associate the site with the Garden of Eden, a supposed technologically sophisticated pre-Holocene civilization or extraterrestrial visitors.

The Mesolithic settlements on the left bank of the Danube in the Iron Gates have yielded numerous artefacts made of osseous materials. Products and sub-products of the chaîne opératoire are present, suggesting in situ manufacturing of the finished items. Among a restricted range of artefact types, the most characteristic ones are bevelled tools made of antler, pointed tools of bone, and boar tusk scrapers. Our research has focused on identifying both the manufacturing processes applied to the various raw materials and the marks left by use, which are key indicators of the function of the artefacts. We were also interested to know if a unitary technological scheme could be identified throughout the Iron Gates, or if there are features specific to individual sites. Our findings suggest that despite a general unitary pattern, it is nevertheless possible to identify elements that are characteristic of individual sites but whether these were the result of economic or cultural factors is more difficult to assess. The results of this combined approach suggest wood processing and hunting were among the main activities performed with osseous artefacts. Contrary to some previous interpretations, there is no evidence for their use in connection with plant cultivation.

Open Access July 15, 2023

Motorways of Prehistory? Boats, Rivers and Moving in Mesolithic Ireland

Martin Moucheron

Article number: 20220305

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This article presents a critical review of the way inland navigation is constructed in the archaeological literature as an essential component of mobility in Mesolithic Ireland, with a particular focus on boats and rivers. Against a scarce background of direct archaeological and environmental evidence, a content analysis of the academic discourse highlights a dominant processual approach structured around three themes: seafaring and pioneering “events”; boat technology and performance; broad generalisations about the land- and waterscape. It is argued that such a narrative could be usefully revisited by adopting a small-scale, high-resolution approach that would explore human and material agency and integrate analogy as a method.

Open Access July 19, 2023

Environment and Plant Use at La Tourasse (South-West France) at the Late Glacial–Holocene Transition

Aurélie Liard, Carmen María Martínez Varea, François Orange, Jean-Paul Huot, Benjamin Marquebielle, Auréade Henry

Article number: 20220292

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The aim of this study is to present new data on vegetation dynamics and plant collecting practices during the Late Glacial and the Early Holocene in southwestern France. La Tourasse cave is located in the Pyrenean piedmont plain, where the Azilian cultural complex was initially defined. The last excavations of the site took place in the 1980s and 1990s and the recovered materials are currently being studied or revisited from a multidisciplinary perspective. We present here the results of the charcoal analysis performed on La Tourasse’s Azilian (ca. 13000–11500 cal. BP) and Mesolithic (ca. 10500–9000 cal. BP) levels, complemented by the study of a small seed assemblage. Our results document the shift from an open landscape towards a forested environment, with the gradual passage from open vegetation dominated by shrubs of the Rose family ( Prunus spp.) to the mixed oak forest, which speaks in favor of the biochronological coherence of this sequence. However, marked differences in taxonomic richness and state of the wood from one level to another, unrelated to the prevailing environmental conditions, suggest variable behavior of humans toward wood that could be the result of differing mobility strategies, hearth functionalities, or taxonomic preferences.

Open Access July 20, 2023

Stylistic Study of the Late Mesolithic Industries in Western France: Combined Principal Coordinate Analysis and Use-Wear Analysis

Lola Hauguel-Bleuven, Jorge Calvo-Gómez, Gregor Marchand

Article number: 20220306

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The notion of style has been the subject of much research and theoretical development in prehistoric archaeology. This vast concept touches several fields, including the morphology of artefacts, technical gestures and their function. The lithic typology of arrowhead armatures was widely developed in the twentieth century for the study of the French Mesolithic and includes some of these aspects. The functional, technical, or aesthetic nature of the morphological characteristics of these artefacts has received little attention, while the mapping of types has been overvalued This article presents a new approach combining statistical analysis with the use-wear analysis of arrowhead from several Breton sites, dated to the Late Mesolithic.

This article studies the evolution of the Muslim community in China between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries from the perspective of mosque architecture. It analyses four medieval Chinese mosques with domed mihrab chambers: the Hangzhou Phoenix Mosque, the Songjiang Mosque, the Dingzhou Mosque, and the Qingyang Great North Mosque. The article focuses on the dome-roof of the mihrab chamber in these mosques, applying an art-historical approach to examine the construction methods, as well as the decorative details of the dome-roof. To explore the origin and function of the domes in these mosques, I compare them not only with local architecture but also architecture from Central Asia. Meanwhile, the historical text on building construction examines the links between the Muslim community and the transformation of the architecture. The appearance of the mosques’ roofs reflects the fact that the immigrant Muslims became local Muslims under the authority and conciliation of the Ming central administration.

The Strata Diocletiana was a military road in Late Roman Period Syria. It ran from Damascus to the Euphrates by way of Palmyra. The road was fortified and received its name during the reign of Diocletian (284–305 CE), following the Roman sack and subsequent garrisoning of Palmyra after the city’s failed revolt 272–273 CE. The Strata Diocletiana is only one of several attested routes between Palmyra and western Syria and one of two between Palmyra and Damascus. In this study, we seek to understand why this route was chosen for the new fortified road. We compare the location of Late Roman fortifications along the Strata Diocletiana to the modern distribution of water in the Syrian Desert and the theoretical least-cost paths between Palmyra and Damascus, and Palmyra and the fortress of Sura on the Euphrates. The argument is made that some parts of the Roman road network in the Syrian Desert were planned in order to control major water sources along the desert rim, but that the new military road between Damascus and Palmyra in the late third century CE was constructed with the aim of monitoring and controlling access to settled regions from the desert, in addition to ease and speed of communication. The conclusions have bearings not only on our understanding of the Late Roman defence and communication system, but also on nomad-settled interaction in Late Antiquity and the use of GIS methodologies in the reconstruction of ancient communication networks.

Sardinia was a hub of sea routes in the Final Bronze Age, c. 1200–850 BC, connecting the Aegean and the Levant in the East with the Iberian Atlantic façade in the West at its latitudinal extremes. Although situated some 1,200 nautical miles apart, bronze working techniques on the island, specific decorations, and implement typologies were clearly related to those in western Iberia, which was a pivotal node connecting the Atlantic and Mediterranean worlds. Without doubt, individuals have travelled between and beyond both regions, and transported objects alongside technological as well as theoretical information. Although serious challenges accompanied the multi-directional intensification of interactions, the local communities had innovative responses to them, managing to integrate new people and knowledge. The general aim of this contribution is to provide a theoretical framework with which to analyse the motivations and social mechanisms for cooperation and communication that facilitated technology transfer in an environment of dispersed, socially heterogeneous communities. The exchanges and interactions within this decentralised network must have been self-organised by individuals and communities, and encompassed all forms of entanglement. Consequently, practises of self-governance, hospitality, conflict management, and inter-group communication as well as shared symbols are of central interest.

Research into prehistoric buildings in northwest Europe has identified the ubiquitous use of turf. The study first introduces direct and proxy evidence for the material’s detection in the field, then analyses individual case studies to demonstrate how this locally available and renewable material shaped buildings and building practices. Turf, grown and sourced on or near a site, ties buildings to their landscape, while creating flexible shells that can shift as needed, metamorphosing built space and volume accordingly. Turf’s capacity to then compost and regrow embeds its buildings into a prehistoric circular economy that interweaves dwellings, people, animals, plants, soils, and nutrients into a holistic understanding of a “curated” rather than a “built” environment – an architecture borrowed from the soil to which it can return. The characteristics of turf blocks as a malleable and arguably metamorphosing building material call for a rethink of turf architecture, not resulting in static products but in ongoing circular processes. This new concept operates within an extended lifecycle of houses, not as in traditional approaches from birth (built) to death (abandoned), but within a cyclical, cradle-to-cradle approach. An experimental training project now translates this prehistoric cyclical model into modern sustainable turf building practice to demonstrate its potential for positive climate action today.

In this article, the potential of archaeoacoustics for understanding past communities is discussed by looking at a range of acoustic parameters. Our case study is the Urkosh rock art area in the Ongudai district, Republic of Altai (Russia). The rock art of this area dates possibly from the Upper Palaeolithic and definitely from the Early Bronze Age (second half of the third millennium BCE). There are important periods in the Early Iron Age (first half of the first millennium BCE) and the medieval era, after which there are later additions up to the present day. Major and minor sites were tested, as well as some with no art. The results obtained from the tests conducted using the impulse response method indicate high values for sound clarity not only in the rock art sites but also in at least one nearby panel without rock art. Although these results cannot explain why rock art was produced precisely in specific locations, they objectively describe the acoustic conditions under which particular intangible cultural practices were probably organised in them. In particular we focus on storytelling and music, cultural practices for which there is a wealth of information in the ethnographic sources written about the area.

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Editors:
Archaeological heritage preservation and management:
Francesco Gabellone, National Research Council, Italy
Veysel Apaydin, University College London, UK

Archaeological science:
Marian Berihuete, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Rebecca Crozier, University of Aberdeen, UK
Ben Edwards, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Richard Madgwick, Cardiff University, UK
Davide Tanasi, University of South Florida, USA

Theory and interpretation in archaeology:
Michał Pawleta, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Katarzyna Ślusarska, University of Szczecin, Poland
Christian Iaia, Independent Researcher, Italy
Marta Díaz-Guardamino Uribe, Durham University, UK

World Archaeology:
Manuel Fernández-Götz, University of Edinburgh, UK
Marianne Hem Eriksen, University of Oslo, Norway
Ioannis Georganas, Independent Researcher, Greece
Bisserka Gaydarska, University of Durham, UK
Tobias Richter, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Ruth Young, University of Leicester, UK

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Susan Alcock, Brown University, USA
Gilda Bartoloni, La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
László Bartosiewicz, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
Knut A. Bergsvik, University of Bergen, Norway
Wojciech Blajer, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Andrzej Buko, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Alberto Cazzella, La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Eric H. Cline, The George Washington University, USA
Israel Finkelstein, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Michael Galaty, Mississippi State University, USA
Cornelius Holtorf, Linnaeus University, Sweden
An Jiayao, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
Peter Jordan, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Donna Kurtz, University of Oxford, UK
Maria Lityńska-Zając, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Li Liu, Stanford University, USA
Daniel Makowiecki, The Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
Krzysztof Makowski, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Lima, Peru
Lynn Meskell, Stanford University, USA
Vito Messina, Università di Torino, Italy
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Publisher: De Gruyter Open Access
First published: May 9, 2014
Publication Frequency: 1 Issue per Year