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  • The death of collective tombs in Middle Bronze Age Crete: new evidence from Sissi

  • Sylviane Déderix, Aurore Schmitt, Ilaria Caloi
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 99 / Issue 405 / June 2025
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    07 April 2025, pp. 727-745
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    June 2025
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  • The abandonment of collective tombs in Middle Bronze Age Crete testifies to substantial transformations in funerary, ritual and social practices on the island. Yet, the processes and timing of this abandonment were not uniform, and each cemetery can potentially offer new insights. While some collective tombs fell gradually into disuse, others were deliberately and ritually terminated. Here, the authors explore the cemetery at Sissi, where gradual abandonment in some areas contrasts with the ultimate demolition and burial of tombs in Zone 9 during a ceremony that marked a major shift in the social history of the associated community.

  • Towards online ramped oxidation (ORO)-AMS for thermal dissection and serial radiocarbon analysis of complex organic matter

  • Marco A. Bolandini, Daniele De Maria, Negar Haghipour, Lukas Wacker, Jordon D. Hemingway, Timothy I. Eglinton, Lisa Bröder
  • Journal:
    Radiocarbon / Volume 67 / Issue 3 / June 2025
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    04 April 2025, pp. 471-486
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    June 2025
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  • By constraining organic carbon (OC) turnover times and ages, radiocarbon (14C) analysis has become a crucial tool to study the global carbon cycle. However, commonly used “bulk” measurements yield average turnover times, masking age variability within complex OC mixtures. One method to unravel intra-sample age distributions is ramped oxidation, in which OC is oxidized with the aid of oxygen at increasing temperatures. The resulting CO2 is collected over prescribed temperature ranges (thermal fractions) and analyzed for 14C content by accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS). However, all ramped oxidation instruments developed to date are operated in an “offline” configuration and require several manual preparation steps, hindering sample throughput and reproducibility. Here we describe a compact, online ramped oxidation (ORO) setup, where CO2 fractions are directly collected and transferred for 14C content measurement using an AMS equipped with a gas ion source. Our setup comprises two modules: (i) an ORO unit containing two sequential furnaces, the first of which holds the sample and is ramped from room temperature to ∼900°C, the second of which is maintained at 900°C and holds catalysts (copper oxide and silver) to ensure complete oxidation of evolved products to CO2; and (ii) a dual-trap interface (DTI) collection unit containing two parallel molecular sieve traps, which alternately collect CO2 from a given fraction and handle its direct injection into the AMS. Initial results for well-characterized samples indicate that 14C content uncertainties and blank background values are like those obtained during routine gas measurements at ETH, demonstrating the utility of the ORO-DTI setup.

  • Textual Layering, Landscape Memory, and Medieval Places in Vayots Dzor, Armenia

  • Kate Franklin, Astghik Babajanyan
  • Journal:
    European Journal of Archaeology / Volume 28 / Issue 3 / August 2025
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    04 April 2025, pp. 369-390
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  • Travel accounts provide both benefits and challenges to survey archaeologists. This article presents a case study, generated by the Vayots Dzor Silk Road Survey, which aims to reconstruct the medieval (tenth to fifteenth centuries ad) landscape of Vayots Dzor in the Republic of Armenia, ‘excavating’ literary accounts of its landscape. Knowledge of this region in the Middle Ages is dominated by a core text written in the thirteenth century by Bishop Step’anos Orbelyan. From the mid-nineteenth century onwards, the region was visited by travellers who found links between the places they visited, the inscriptions they recorded, and the events and locations attested in Orbelyan’s text. Through examples from the site list of the Vayots Dzor Silk Road Survey, the authors explore how these and other sources accumulate, creating local knowledge about places that inform archaeologists and heritage professionals. They argue for reflection on the ways that local memory, archaeology, and the physical landscape inform complex makings of place.

  • Chapter One - Introduction

  • Elizabeth A. Murphy, Florida State University
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    The Pottery Industries of the Roman East
    Published online:
    20 March 2025
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    03 April 2025, pp 1-23

  • Summary

    Chapter 1 introduces the themes, objectives, and chronological and geographic parameters of the volume. It also argues for the importance of potters as a usual case study for everyday professions of the Romans. This is because, while we have relatively few textual accounts about potters, it is nonetheless a profession that has left extensive and easily recognized archaeological remains, as well as ubiquitous and well-studied products.

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