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To understand the initial occupation of inland areas of South America, the authors consider regional connections and spatial exploitation strategies of hunter-gatherers highlighted in a recent survey of Andean sites. Focusing on north-central Chile, artefacts and radiocarbon dates from three rock shelters suggest sporadic and brief occupation during the Terminal Pleistocene–Early Holocene. Co-occurrence of marine and montane resources, the authors argue, demonstrates a strategy of high mobility and local adaptation in early Andean occupation, using rock shelters as landmarks to navigate and learn new landscapes.</p></div></div><div id="close-abstract-5346"></div></div><div class="feed-image"><a href="https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.188"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_image_small/public/2025-02/Troncoso%20cave.jpg?itok=6TgvPv6O" width="600" height="300" alt="" /> </a></div> <div class="feed-details"> <h3 class="feed-title"><p>Terminal Pleistocene–Early Holocene human occupation in north-central Chile</p></h3> <div class="feed-author"><div class="js-view-dom-id-c9b764617bdc1957f6a24fbf37371203fbd0a894879d25aca2ccafac1b528e51"> <div class="view-content"> <div>Andrés Troncoso <em>et al.</em> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="feed-issue-details">Vol 99 Issue 403, 13-31  |  <span class="green">Read for free</span> | <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_16 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="https://antiquity.ac.uk/blog/terminal-pleistocene-early-holocene-human-occupation-north-central-chile" data-a2a-title="Terminal Pleistocene–Early Holocene human occupation in north-central Chile"><a class="a2a_dd addtoany_share" href="https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=https%3A%2F%2Fantiquity.ac.uk%2Fblog%2Fterminal-pleistocene-early-holocene-human-occupation-north-central-chile&title=Terminal%20Pleistocene%E2%80%93Early%20Holocene%20human%20occupation%20in%20north-central%20Chile"><img src="https://antiquity.ac.uk/sites/all/images/share-button.svg" alt="Share"></a></span> </div> <div class="feed-buttons"><div class="theme-button"><a id="view-abstract-5346">View abstract</a></div><div class="theme-button"><a href="https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.188">Access article</a></div></div> </div></div> <div class="feed-item article"><div class="feed-body" id="abstract-5347"><div class="feed-body-content"><div class="abstract"><p>Broad cultural similarities are apparent between Neolithic sites across the Middle Nile Valley, yet local variation may also be witnessed. The dearth of well-preserved skeletal assemblages in this region means that biological connections between populations, and thus potential modes for the transmission of material culture, are not well understood. Here, the authors compare dental morphological traits in five Neolithic cemeteries (<span>c</span>. 5600–3800 BC) and 14 time-successive sites to explore biological relatedness along the Middle Nile Valley. Their findings parallel the artefactual evidence, suggesting that the spread of the Nubian Neolithic may have been as nuanced as the populations who practised it.</p></div></div><div id="close-abstract-5347"></div></div><div class="feed-image"><a href="https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.199"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_image_small/public/2025-02/S0003598X24001996_figAb.png?itok=JDPifkq6" width="600" height="300" alt="" /> </a></div> <div class="feed-details"> <h3 class="feed-title"><p>Do cultural and biological variation correspond in the Middle Nile Valley Neolithic? Some insights from dental morphology</p></h3> <div class="feed-author"><div class="js-view-dom-id-9c7d690b2828cea93382e7a0d2beabc66ba5d98871c279599116fa0c507c748e"> <div class="view-content"> <div> Joel D. Irish & Jacek Kabaciński </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="feed-issue-details">Vol 99 Issue 403, 32-47  |  <span class="green">Read for free</span> | <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_16 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="https://antiquity.ac.uk/blog/do-cultural-and-biological-variation-correspond-middle-nile-valley-neolithic-some-insights" data-a2a-title="Do cultural and biological variation correspond in the Middle Nile Valley Neolithic? Some insights from dental morphology"><a class="a2a_dd addtoany_share" href="https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=https%3A%2F%2Fantiquity.ac.uk%2Fblog%2Fdo-cultural-and-biological-variation-correspond-middle-nile-valley-neolithic-some-insights&title=Do%20cultural%20and%20biological%20variation%20correspond%20in%20the%20Middle%20Nile%20Valley%20Neolithic%3F%20Some%20insights%20from%20dental%20morphology"><img src="https://antiquity.ac.uk/sites/all/images/share-button.svg" alt="Share"></a></span> </div> <div class="feed-buttons"><div class="theme-button"><a id="view-abstract-5347">View abstract</a></div><div class="theme-button"><a href="https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.199">Access article</a></div></div> </div></div> <div class="feed-item article"><div class="feed-body" id="abstract-5348"><div class="feed-body-content"><div class="abstract"><p>During the fourth millennium BC, public institutions developed at several large settlements across greater Mesopotamia. These are widely acknowledged as the first cities and states, yet surprisingly little is known about their emergence, functioning and demise. Here, the authors present new evidence of public institutions at the site of Shakhi Kora in the lower Sirwan/upper Diyala river valley of north-east Iraq. A sequence of four Late Chalcolithic institutional households precedes population dispersal and the apparent regional rejection of centralised social forms of organisation that were not then revisited for almost 1500 years.</p></div></div><div id="close-abstract-5348"></div></div><div class="feed-image"><a href="https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.189"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_image_small/public/2025-02/S0003598X24001893_figAb.png?itok=1ikeEv9I" width="600" height="300" alt="" /> </a></div> <div class="feed-details"> <h3 class="feed-title"><p>There and back again: local institutions, an Uruk expansion and the rejection of centralisation in the Sirwan/Upper Diyala region</p></h3> <div class="feed-author"><div class="js-view-dom-id-2fec42d3959aa8a1206baec253cf22ce168a80d9331d24e3c7e66aaecdfb9983"> <div class="view-content"> <div>Claudia Glatz <em>et al.</em> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="feed-issue-details">Vol 99 Issue 403, 48-63  |  <span class="green">Read for free</span> | <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_16 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="https://antiquity.ac.uk/blog/there-and-back-again-local-institutions-uruk-expansion-and-rejection-centralisation" data-a2a-title="There and back again: local institutions, an Uruk expansion and the rejection of centralisation in the Sirwan/Upper Diyala region"><a class="a2a_dd addtoany_share" href="https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=https%3A%2F%2Fantiquity.ac.uk%2Fblog%2Fthere-and-back-again-local-institutions-uruk-expansion-and-rejection-centralisation&title=There%20and%20back%20again%3A%20local%20institutions%2C%20an%20Uruk%20expansion%20and%20the%20rejection%20of%20centralisation%20in%20the%20Sirwan%2FUpper%20Diyala%20region"><img src="https://antiquity.ac.uk/sites/all/images/share-button.svg" alt="Share"></a></span> </div> <div class="feed-buttons"><div class="theme-button"><a id="view-abstract-5348">View abstract</a></div><div class="theme-button"><a href="https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.189">Access article</a></div></div> </div></div> <div class="feed-item article"><div class="feed-body" id="abstract-5349"><div class="feed-body-content"><div class="abstract"><p>Administrative innovations in South-west Asia during the fourth millennium BC, including the cylinder seals that were rolled on the earliest clay tablets, laid the foundations for proto-cuneiform script, one of the first writing systems. Seals were rich in iconography, but little research has focused on the potential influence of specific motifs on the development of the sign-based proto-cuneiform script. Here, the authors identify symbolic precursors to fundamental proto-cuneiform signs among late pre-literate seal motifs that describe the transportation of vessels and textiles, highlighting the synergy of early systems of clay-based communication.</p></div></div><div id="close-abstract-5349"></div></div><div class="feed-image"><a href="https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.165"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_image_small/public/2025-02/S0003598X24001650_figAb.png?itok=Vqoh8m-Y" width="600" height="300" alt="" /> </a></div> <div class="feed-details"> <h3 class="feed-title"><p>Seals and signs: tracing the origins of writing in ancient South-west Asia</p></h3> <div class="feed-author"><div class="js-view-dom-id-4e2df93b98bc5ecd4554e6eaa840792fd7e7f7c89c6b33add3fac14eac9caf30"> <div class="view-content"> <div> Kathryn Kelley, Mattia Cartolano & Silvia Ferrara </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="feed-issue-details">Vol 99 Issue 403, 64-82  |  <span class="green">Read for free</span> | <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_16 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="https://antiquity.ac.uk/blog/seals-and-signs-tracing-origins-writing-ancient-south-west-asia" data-a2a-title="Seals and signs: tracing the origins of writing in ancient South-west Asia"><a class="a2a_dd addtoany_share" href="https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=https%3A%2F%2Fantiquity.ac.uk%2Fblog%2Fseals-and-signs-tracing-origins-writing-ancient-south-west-asia&title=Seals%20and%20signs%3A%20tracing%20the%20origins%20of%20writing%20in%20ancient%20South-west%20Asia"><img src="https://antiquity.ac.uk/sites/all/images/share-button.svg" alt="Share"></a></span> </div> <div class="feed-buttons"><div class="theme-button"><a id="view-abstract-5349">View abstract</a></div><div class="theme-button"><a href="https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.165">Access article</a></div></div> </div></div> <div class="feed-item article"><div class="feed-body" id="abstract-5350"><div class="feed-body-content"><div class="abstract"><p>The emergence of early cities required new agricultural practices and archaeobotanical crop-processing models have been used to investigate the social and economic organisation of urban ‘consumer’ and non-urban ‘producer’ sites. Archaeobotanical work on the Indus Valley has previously identified various interpretations of labour and subsistence practices. Here, the authors analyse a large archaeobotanical assemblage from Harappa, Pakistan (3700–1300 BC), questioning some of the assumptions of traditional crop-processing models. The ubiquity of small weed seeds, typically removed during the early stages of crop processing, is argued to result from dung burning. This additional taphonomic consideration adds nuance to the understanding of Harappa's labour organisation and food supply with implications for crop-processing models in other contexts.</p></div></div><div id="close-abstract-5350"></div></div><div class="feed-image"><a href="https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.196"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_image_small/public/2025-02/Alpiom-Guedes%20Harappa%20grains.jpg?itok=7Q7ox726" width="600" height="300" alt="" /> </a></div> <div class="feed-details"> <h3 class="feed-title"><p>Taphonomy and labour at the Indus Valley site of Harappa (3700–1300 BC)</p></h3> <div class="feed-author"><div class="js-view-dom-id-5e5788be06f78099821e8a22ef3d934993e6c4d5f7148e91aa1ccea8dbeba71b"> <div class="view-content"> <div>Nathaniel James <em>et al.</em> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="feed-issue-details">Vol 99 Issue 403, 83-100  |  <span class="green">Read for free</span> | <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_16 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="https://antiquity.ac.uk/blog/taphonomy-and-labour-indus-valley-site-harappa-3700-1300-bc" data-a2a-title="Taphonomy and labour at the Indus Valley site of Harappa (3700–1300 BC)"><a class="a2a_dd addtoany_share" href="https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=https%3A%2F%2Fantiquity.ac.uk%2Fblog%2Ftaphonomy-and-labour-indus-valley-site-harappa-3700-1300-bc&title=Taphonomy%20and%20labour%20at%20the%20Indus%20Valley%20site%20of%20Harappa%20%283700%E2%80%931300%20BC%29"><img src="https://antiquity.ac.uk/sites/all/images/share-button.svg" alt="Share"></a></span> </div> <div class="feed-buttons"><div class="theme-button"><a id="view-abstract-5350">View abstract</a></div><div class="theme-button"><a href="https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.196">Access article</a></div></div> </div></div> <div class="feed-item article"><div class="feed-body" id="abstract-5351"><div class="feed-body-content"><div class="abstract"><p>Direct physical evidence for violent interpersonal conflict is seen only sporadically in the archaeological record for prehistoric Britain. Human remains from Charterhouse Warren, south-west England, therefore present a unique opportunity for the study of mass violence in the Early Bronze Age. At least 37 men, women and children were killed and butchered, their disarticulated remains thrown into a 15m-deep natural shaft in what is, most plausibly, interpreted as a single event. The authors examine the physical remains and debate the societal tensions that could motivate a level and scale of violence that is unprecedented in British prehistory.</p></div></div><div id="close-abstract-5351"></div></div><div class="feed-image"><a href="https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.180"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_image_small/public/2025-02/S0003598X24001807_figAb.png?itok=F_7ERnI7" width="600" height="300" alt="" /> </a></div> <div class="feed-details"> <h3 class="feed-title"><p>‘The darker angels of our nature’: Early Bronze Age butchered human remains from Charterhouse Warren, Somerset, UK</p></h3> <div class="feed-author"><div class="js-view-dom-id-9ca99e5deb91fd55d750aad92f8693684724da4716c9653ead4a5bdb23beace3"> <div class="view-content"> <div>Rick J. Schulting <em>et al.</em> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="feed-issue-details">Vol 99 Issue 403, 101-117  |  <span class="green">Read for free</span> | <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_16 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="https://antiquity.ac.uk/blog/darker-angels-our-nature-early-bronze-age-butchered-human-remains-charterhouse-warren-somerset" data-a2a-title="‘The darker angels of our nature’: Early Bronze Age butchered human remains from Charterhouse Warren, Somerset, UK"><a class="a2a_dd addtoany_share" href="https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=https%3A%2F%2Fantiquity.ac.uk%2Fblog%2Fdarker-angels-our-nature-early-bronze-age-butchered-human-remains-charterhouse-warren-somerset&title=%E2%80%98The%20darker%20angels%20of%20our%20nature%E2%80%99%3A%20Early%20Bronze%20Age%20butchered%20human%20remains%20from%20Charterhouse%20Warren%2C%20Somerset%2C%20UK"><img src="https://antiquity.ac.uk/sites/all/images/share-button.svg" alt="Share"></a></span> </div> <div class="feed-buttons"><div class="theme-button"><a id="view-abstract-5351">View abstract</a></div><div class="theme-button"><a href="https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.180">Access article</a></div></div> </div></div> <div class="feed-item article"><div class="feed-body" id="abstract-5352"><div class="feed-body-content"><div class="abstract"><p>Cuneiform tablets indicate the importance of textile manufacturing in the Bronze Age Old Assyrian Colony Period and Hittite Empire, yet the organic traces of this industry rarely survive. Two burnt textile fragments found at Beycesultan offer an unexpected insight into the Bronze Age textile industry in Anatolia. Here, the authors present the results of chromatographic and microscopic analyses that indicate one fragment was made from hemp using the nålbinding, or single-needle knitting, technique and was dyed with the woad or indigo plant, while the other was a natural tabby weave. Both add to our understanding of the diversity of textile production in the Bronze Age.</p></div></div><div id="close-abstract-5352"></div></div><div class="feed-image"><a href="https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.194"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_image_small/public/2025-02/Maner%20textiles%20Beycesultan.jpg?itok=uFJHUtRV" width="600" height="300" alt="" /> </a></div> <div class="feed-details"> <h3 class="feed-title"><p>Untwisting Beycesultan Höyük: the earliest evidence for nålbinding and indigo-dyed textiles in Anatolia</p></h3> <div class="feed-author"><div class="js-view-dom-id-1919480af666a373e23672a086b6f9e98cb11f03ce04c5068fc84ec6a12933dd"> <div class="view-content"> <div>Çiğdem Maner <em>et al.</em> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="feed-issue-details">Vol 99 Issue 403, 118-134  |  <span class="green">Read for free</span> | <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_16 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="https://antiquity.ac.uk/blog/untwisting-beycesultan-hoyuk-earliest-evidence-nalbinding-and-indigo-dyed-textiles-anatolia" data-a2a-title="Untwisting Beycesultan Höyük: the earliest evidence for nålbinding and indigo-dyed textiles in Anatolia"><a class="a2a_dd addtoany_share" href="https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=https%3A%2F%2Fantiquity.ac.uk%2Fblog%2Funtwisting-beycesultan-hoyuk-earliest-evidence-nalbinding-and-indigo-dyed-textiles-anatolia&title=Untwisting%20Beycesultan%20H%C3%B6y%C3%BCk%3A%20the%20earliest%20evidence%20for%20n%C3%A5lbinding%20and%20indigo-dyed%20textiles%20in%20Anatolia"><img src="https://antiquity.ac.uk/sites/all/images/share-button.svg" alt="Share"></a></span> </div> <div class="feed-buttons"><div class="theme-button"><a id="view-abstract-5352">View abstract</a></div><div class="theme-button"><a href="https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.194">Access article</a></div></div> </div></div> <div class="feed-item article"><div class="feed-body" id="abstract-5353"><div class="feed-body-content"><div class="abstract"><p>Textual sources from the Egyptian New Kingdom highlight a societal desire to preserve tombs for life after death, yet extensive architectural renovations and tomb robbing often followed the interment of elite individuals. Rather than posing a threat to conceptions of the afterlife, the author argues that these post-mortem activities were conducted with respect and the intention of forming connections. Using the identification of an unusual ritual structure from the Third Intermediate Period inside the reused Nineteenth Dynasty tomb of Paenmuaset (TT362) at Thebes (Luxor) as a basis, the author explores respect in ever-changing burial spaces as a key feature of tomb reuse.</p></div></div><div id="close-abstract-5353"></div></div><div class="feed-image"><a href="https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.159"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_image_small/public/2025-02/Lemos%20Thebes.jpg?itok=xbVz8AvW" width="600" height="300" alt="" /> </a></div> <div class="feed-details"> <h3 class="feed-title"><p>Making plundered spaces sacred again: fragmentation, reorganisation and respect in reused Theban tombs</p></h3> <div class="feed-author"><div class="js-view-dom-id-5a93cfdba77916774122d86cbb4afd1ae20160309014c19a7f27fa8e33e6ab3f"> <div class="view-content"> <div>Rennan Lemos </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="feed-issue-details">Vol 99 Issue 403, 135-149  |  <span class="green">Read for free</span> | <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_16 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="https://antiquity.ac.uk/blog/making-plundered-spaces-sacred-again-fragmentation-reorganisation-and-respect-reused-theban" data-a2a-title="Making plundered spaces sacred again: fragmentation, reorganisation and respect in reused Theban tombs"><a class="a2a_dd addtoany_share" href="https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=https%3A%2F%2Fantiquity.ac.uk%2Fblog%2Fmaking-plundered-spaces-sacred-again-fragmentation-reorganisation-and-respect-reused-theban&title=Making%20plundered%20spaces%20sacred%20again%3A%20fragmentation%2C%20reorganisation%20and%20respect%20in%20reused%20Theban%20tombs"><img src="https://antiquity.ac.uk/sites/all/images/share-button.svg" alt="Share"></a></span> </div> <div class="feed-buttons"><div class="theme-button"><a id="view-abstract-5353">View abstract</a></div><div class="theme-button"><a href="https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.159">Access article</a></div></div> </div></div> <div class="feed-item article"><div class="feed-body" id="abstract-5354"><div class="feed-body-content"><div class="abstract"><p>Recent research on the organisation and growth of large settlements (both urban and non-urban) has prompted a reassessment of factors driving population aggregation. Systematic aerial and ground survey of the South Caucasus mega-fortress Dmanisis Gora, described here, contributes to the understanding of large fortress settlements in the South Caucasus (<span>c</span>. 1500–500 BC) as part of this wider debate. Substantial defensive walls and stone architecture in the outer settlement contrast with low-intensity occupation, possibly by a seasonally mobile segment of the population. The exceptional size of Dmanisis Gora helps add new dimensions to population aggregation models in Eurasia and beyond.</p></div></div><div id="close-abstract-5354"></div></div><div class="feed-image"><a href="https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.197"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_image_small/public/2025-02/S0003598X24001972_figAb.png?itok=4v4wPUwt" width="600" height="300" alt="" /> </a></div> <div class="feed-details"> <h3 class="feed-title"><p>Mega-fortresses in the South Caucasus: new data from southern Georgia</p></h3> <div class="feed-author"><div class="js-view-dom-id-c60561ded0f5e3938722bc6685250cf49e149a27c1aa87395bf5bf5ca6782c21"> <div class="view-content"> <div>Nathaniel L. Erb-Satullo <em>et al.</em> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="feed-issue-details">Vol 99 Issue 403, 150-169  |  <span class="green">Read for free</span> | <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_16 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="https://antiquity.ac.uk/blog/mega-fortresses-south-caucasus-new-data-southern-georgia" data-a2a-title="Mega-fortresses in the South Caucasus: new data from southern Georgia"><a class="a2a_dd addtoany_share" href="https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=https%3A%2F%2Fantiquity.ac.uk%2Fblog%2Fmega-fortresses-south-caucasus-new-data-southern-georgia&title=Mega-fortresses%20in%20the%20South%20Caucasus%3A%20new%20data%20from%20southern%20Georgia"><img src="https://antiquity.ac.uk/sites/all/images/share-button.svg" alt="Share"></a></span> </div> <div class="feed-buttons"><div class="theme-button"><a id="view-abstract-5354">View abstract</a></div><div class="theme-button"><a href="https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.197">Access article</a></div></div> </div></div> <div class="feed-item article"><div class="feed-body" id="abstract-5355"><div class="feed-body-content"><div class="abstract"><p>Enclosed rectangular farmsteads from the Hallstatt period in Central Europe are often cast as the seats of high-status farmers, whose land and social standing could be inherited and consolidated. Excavations at Landshut-Hascherkeller in Bavaria reveal the developmental trajectory of one such site through the stratigraphic disentanglement of its numerous ditches. Here, the authors argue that the coalescence of two rectangular farmsteads into a larger settlement complex at Hascherkeller reflects the union of neighbouring families and the resultant massing of status. The article situates this process in a segmented social system that counterpoints the typified Hallstatt hierarchy, suggesting that two social structures coexisted in the Hallstatt culture.</p></div></div><div id="close-abstract-5355"></div></div><div class="feed-image"><a href="https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.195"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_image_small/public/2025-02/S0003598X24001959_figAb.png?itok=ktXRs8mu" width="600" height="300" alt="" /> </a></div> <div class="feed-details"> <h3 class="feed-title"><p>The Hascherkeller rectangular farmstead and its implications for Hallstatt social complexity</p></h3> <div class="feed-author"><div class="js-view-dom-id-4db96f33f7e3b7a0d2e093e41f9532de06f91677d1c8b5f451a7422c95bd7cfe"> <div class="view-content"> <div>Thomas Saile <em>et al.</em> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="feed-issue-details">Vol 99 Issue 403, 170-186  |  <span class="green">Read for free</span> | <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_16 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="https://antiquity.ac.uk/blog/hascherkeller-rectangular-farmstead-and-its-implications-hallstatt-social-complexity" data-a2a-title="The Hascherkeller rectangular farmstead and its implications for Hallstatt social complexity"><a class="a2a_dd addtoany_share" href="https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=https%3A%2F%2Fantiquity.ac.uk%2Fblog%2Fhascherkeller-rectangular-farmstead-and-its-implications-hallstatt-social-complexity&title=The%20Hascherkeller%20rectangular%20farmstead%20and%20its%20implications%20for%20Hallstatt%20social%20complexity"><img src="https://antiquity.ac.uk/sites/all/images/share-button.svg" alt="Share"></a></span> </div> <div class="feed-buttons"><div class="theme-button"><a id="view-abstract-5355">View abstract</a></div><div class="theme-button"><a href="https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.195">Access article</a></div></div> </div></div> <div class="feed-item article"><div class="feed-body" id="abstract-5356"><div class="feed-body-content"><div class="abstract"><p>Salt works along the Yucatan coasts of Mexico and Belize provide a record of salt production for inland trade during the height of Late Classic Maya civilisation (AD 550–800). At the Paynes Creek Salt Works in Belize, production focused on the creation of salt cakes by boiling brine in pots supported over fires in dedicated salt kitchens. Underwater excavations at the Early Classic (AD 250–550) site of Jay-yi Nah now indicate there was a longer and evolving tradition of salt making in the area, one that initially employed large, incurved bowls to meet local or down-the-line trade needs before inland demand for salt soared.</p></div></div><div id="close-abstract-5356"></div></div><div class="feed-image"><a href="https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.186"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_image_small/public/2025-02/McKillop%20Belize%20salt.jpg?itok=vO2BV_K9" width="600" height="300" alt="" /> </a></div> <div class="feed-details"> <h3 class="feed-title"><p>Earliest Ancient Maya salt production in southern Belize: excavations at Jay-yi Nah</p></h3> <div class="feed-author"><div class="js-view-dom-id-767bae8748138916912adf132042845681f5333808b2518e6e18915f7a109e75"> <div class="view-content"> <div> Heather McKillop & E. Cory Sills </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="feed-issue-details">Vol 99 Issue 403, 187-202  |  <span class="green">Read for free</span> | <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_16 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="https://antiquity.ac.uk/blog/earliest-ancient-maya-salt-production-southern-belize-excavations-jay-yi-nah" data-a2a-title="Earliest Ancient Maya salt production in southern Belize: excavations at Jay-yi Nah"><a class="a2a_dd addtoany_share" href="https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=https%3A%2F%2Fantiquity.ac.uk%2Fblog%2Fearliest-ancient-maya-salt-production-southern-belize-excavations-jay-yi-nah&title=Earliest%20Ancient%20Maya%20salt%20production%20in%20southern%20Belize%3A%20excavations%20at%20Jay-yi%20Nah"><img src="https://antiquity.ac.uk/sites/all/images/share-button.svg" alt="Share"></a></span> </div> <div class="feed-buttons"><div class="theme-button"><a id="view-abstract-5356">View abstract</a></div><div class="theme-button"><a href="https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.186">Access article</a></div></div> </div></div> <div class="feed-item article"><div class="feed-body" id="abstract-5357"><div class="feed-body-content"><div class="abstract"><p>At Ollantaytambo, in the Cusco region of Peru, the Inka (<span>c</span>. AD 1400–1532) built an elaborate anthropogenic landscape to facilitate intensive agriculture. After the 1532 Spanish invasion of the region, this landscape was reshaped by the introduction of new plants and animals, colonial land-management practices and demographic transformations. Here, the author employs botanical data from a derelict Inka-era reservoir to evaluate the timing and character of colonial transformations to the local agroecology. These transformations, they argue, tended towards agricultural deintensification, but this process did not begin until decades after the Spanish invasion.</p></div></div><div id="close-abstract-5357"></div></div><div class="feed-image"><a href="https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.200"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/teaser_image_small/public/2025-02/S0003598X2400200X_figAb.png?itok=y6y5es4e" width="600" height="300" alt="" /> </a></div> <div class="feed-details"> <h3 class="feed-title"><p>The structural transformation of Ollantaytambo's Inka ecology under Spanish rule</p></h3> <div class="feed-author"><div class="js-view-dom-id-72d1beac6f9fa26eb30c644751f2b26de8f7a50938b73d908b68c684f292262a"> <div class="view-content"> <div>R. 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Here, the authors focus on trees bearing incised markings and use an archaeological and ethnohistoric interpretive framework to explore the significance of such trees in Sámi landscapes. Intensive forestry is destroying culturally modified trees at an alarming rate, and their significance as the bearers of culture and history is being stripped from forest landscapes. 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