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0000-0001-5649-0430
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Institute of Environmental Science and Research Ltd
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Publisher: University of Washington Libraries
Date: 30-11-2015
Abstract: Excavations were undertaken at the village ( em hum) /em of Sophy in Banteay Meanchey Province, north-west Cambodia over two field seasons in two separate areas in 2009 and 2010. The remains of twenty in iduals were found in 14 mortuary contexts with in iduals interred with a range of burial goods including ceramic vessels, stone and glass beads, iron and bronze artefacts and faunal remains. The site dates to the Iron Age (dates spanning the period c. 87-526 AD) and is surrounded by the ruins of later, Pre-Angkorian temples and their associated ponds. Excavation and research has revealed Sophy to be a prehistoric agricultural village in which the inhabitants exploited a wide-range of habitats and engaged in inter-regional exchange. The results of these investigations are presented here incorporating a description of the excavation, preliminary discussion of the material assemblage and demographic data obtained from the mortuary contexts.
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Date: 2008
DOI: 10.1130/G24938A.1
Publisher: National Speleological Society
Date: 31-08-2010
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 10-03-2021
DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0247167
Abstract: The megalithic jar sites of Laos (often referred to as the Plain of Jars) remain one of Southeast Asia’s most mysterious and least understood archaeological cultures. The sites, recently inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage, host hollowed stone jars, up to three metres in height, which appear scattered across the landscape, alone or clustered in groups of up to more than 400. Until now, it has not been possible to estimate when the jars were first placed on the landscape or from where the stone was sourced. Geochronological analysis using the age of detrital zircons demonstrates a likely quarry source for one of the largest megalithic jar sites. Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating suggests the jars were positioned at the sites potentially as early as the late second millennium BC. Radiocarbon dating of skeletal remains and charcoal s les places mortuary activity around the jars from the 9-13th century AD, suggesting the sites have maintained ritual significance from the period of their initial placement until historic times.
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2011
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 14-03-2013
DOI: 10.1002/OA.1245
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 07-11-2014
DOI: 10.1038/NCOMMS6436
Abstract: New Zealand moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) are the only late Quaternary megafauna whose extinction was clearly caused by humans. New Zealand offers the best opportunity to estimate the number of people involved in a megafaunal extinction event because, uniquely, both the Polynesian settlement of New Zealand and moa extinction are recent enough to be dated with a high degree of precision. In addition, the founding human population can be estimated from genetic evidence. Here we show that the Polynesian population of New Zealand would not have exceeded 2,000 in iduals before extinction of moa populations in the habitable areas of the eastern South Island. During a brief (<150 years) period and at population densities that never exceeded ~0.01 km(-2), Polynesians exterminated viable populations of moa by hunting and removal of habitat. High human population densities are not required in models of megafaunal extinction.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2002
Location: No location found
Location: New Zealand
Location: United States of America
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