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An archaeometrical approach to the majolica pottery from Alcazar de Najera archaeological site
(Springer, 2019-05-22)
The city of Nájera, located in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, hosts an alcazar of Arab origin, which became the residence of the king of Pamplona-Nájera and later of the duke and duchess of Nájera. From this last ...
Combining Small-Vertebrate, Marine and Stable-Isotope Data to Reconstruct Past Environments
(Nature, 2015)
Three very different records are combined here to reconstruct the evolution of environments in
the Cantabrian Region during the Upper Pleistocene, covering ~35.000 years. Two of these records
come from Antoliñako Koba ...
Non-destructive Screening Methodology based on ED-XRF for the classification of Medieval and post-Medieval Archaeological Ceramics
(Elsevier, 2019-06)
Compositional analysis of ceramics plays a crucial role in Archaeology because following the proper methodology, it enables to obtain knowledge about past human behavior. In this regard, X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry ...
Hit and sunk: provenance and alterations of ceramics from seventeenth century Angra D shipwreck
(2020-07-21)
A set of 34 archaeological ceramics, including olive jars, transparent green lead glazed, tin-lead glazed and unglazed ceramics, from seventeenth century Angra D shipwreck found at Terceira Island (Azores Archipelago, ...
Updated Knowledge on Floods and Risk Management in the Middle Ebro River: the “Anthropocene” Context and River Resilience
(Universidad de La Rioja, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2021)
The floods of 2015 and 2018 in the Middle Ebro River have led to a rethinking and updating of the forecasting and management systems. The improvements in the flow measurement systems applied in this type of extreme phenomena ...
The return to the Iberian Peninsula: first Quaternary record of Muscardinus and a palaeogeographical overview of the genus in Europe
(Elsevier, 2015-05-18)
Although the earliest record of the genus Muscardinus dates from the Middle Miocene in Spain, no mention has been reported since the Lower Pliocene in the Iberian Peninsula. In this paper, Quaternary fossil remains of a ...
The Contribution of Open-Air Sites to the Environmental Reconstruction of the Gravettian at the "Basque Crossroads" (North Iberia)"
(Elsevier, 2016-08)
The reconstruction of the Cantabrian Gravettian and its palaeoenvironmental sequence is based on cave
stratigraphies, which generally indicate a very rigorous climate (intense cold, occasionally dry and other
times ...
The southwesternmost record of Sicista (Mammalia; Dipodidae) in Eurasia, with a review of the palaeogeography and palaeoecology of the genus in Europe
(Elsevier, 2012-07-27)
We describe the southwesternmost specimen of Sicista betulina (Mammalia; Dipodidae) and of the genus Sicista found to date in Eurasia, which comes from the early Late Pleistocene (MIS 5) site of Lezetxiki II (Arrasate, ...
The supply of ceramics to Portuguese north African strongholds in the 15th and 16th centuries: new archaeometric data from Ksar Seghir and Ceuta
(Elsevier, 2021-03-23)
The present study aims to present new archaeometric data from a wide typological rank of ceramics collected in Ksar Seghir (Morocco) and Ceuta (Spain), two different archaeological sites in the south bank of the Strait of ...
Submerged and reused: An archaeometric approach to the early Modern ceramics from Aveiro (Portugal)
(2020-11-02)
Aveiro, a city located in northern Portugal that lies next to the Atlantic Ocean, has a long potting tradition.
Indeed, during the 15th–17th centuries, this region played an important role in the maritime trade between ...