Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

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The global impact of the bow and arrow

Projectile weapons allowed humans to occupy diverse ecologies around the world.

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Open for submissions

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Ongoing

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Rethinking Persistent Places

Persistent place is a term used by archaeologists to describe places that are used, occupied, or revisited by humans over a long period of time.

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Ongoing

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Technological Complexity and Archaeological Interpretation in the Deep Past

Complexity has been both an integral but also heavily debated concept within anthropology and archaeology since the disciplines'...

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30 June 2025

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1. Ethnoarchaeological Inductive Predictive Model: A Field Test in the Italian Alps

   • Enrico Croce
   • Francesco Carrer
   • Diego E. Angelucci

   Research Open access 08 May 2025 Article: 43

   
2. From the Masthead to the Map: an Experimental and Digital Approach to Viking Age Seafaring Itineraries

   • Greer Jarrett

   Research Open access 08 May 2025 Article: 42

   
3. Uncovering Hidden Dynamics of Past Kinship and Exchange Relations on Papua New Guinea’s South Coast (650–300 cal BP) Through Scanning Electron Microscopy Automated Mineralogy Analyses of Pottery Sherds

   • Robert Skelly
   • Barbara Etschmann
   • Teppsy Beni

   Research Open access 15 April 2025 Article: 41

   
4. Late Mid-Pleistocene hominin fire control inferred from sooty speleothem analysis

   • Ségolène Vandevelde
   • Edwige Pons-Branchu
   • Kevin Bouchard

   Research 11 April 2025 Article: 40

   
5. The Role of Palaeolithic Cave-Art: Estimating Social Investment in Symbolic Expressions Through the Making Cost

   • Diego Garate

   Research Open access 04 April 2025 Article: 39

   

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