The role of conflict during the adoption of agriculture in the Southwestern Japanese Archipelago: late-final Jōmon and Yayoi Period traumatic lesions by White, JA

“…The implications of these findings are critically evaluated in relation to previous studies in the region and to patterns of violence from two case studies from European prehistory – the Mesolithic-–Neolithic transition and the Bronze Age.…”

The darker angels of our nature: a butchered Early Bronze Age human bone assemblage from Charterhouse Warren, Somerset, UK by Schulting, R, Fernández-Crespo, T, Ordoño, J, Brock, F, Kellow, A, Snoeck, C, Cartwright, IR, Walker, D, Loe, L, Audsley, T

“…This level and scale of violence to the living as well as to the dead is unprecedented in British prehistory. …”

A tale of two processes of Neolithisation: southeast Europe and Britain/Ireland by Schulting, R, Borić, D

“…The volume is presented to celebrate the enormous impact that Alasdair Whittle has had on the study of prehistory, especially the European and British Neolithic, and his rich career in archaeology.…”

Multi-isotope evidence for the emergence of cultural alterity in Late Neolithic Europe by Fernández-Crespo, T, Snoeck, C, Ordoño, J, De Winter, N, Czermak, A, Mattielli, N, Lee-Thorp, J, Schulting, R

“…The co-existence of cultural identities and their interaction is a fundamental topic of social sciences that is not easily addressed in prehistory. Differences in mortuary treatment often reflect differences in lifestyle and beliefs, and can help approach this issue. …”

What rivers did: a study of if and how rivers shaped later prehistoric lives in Britain and beyond by Brudenell, M, Cooper, A, Green, C, Nimura, C, Schulting, R

“…Countering the passive representation of rivers in many previous accounts of later prehistory – as static vessels for spectacular deposits, highways for transport and communication, and backdrops for settlement and farming – this paper asks if and how rivers actively shaped prehistoric lives. …”

Synthesis of stable isotopic data for human bone collagen: a study of the broad dietary patterns across ancient China by Liu, R, Pollard, M, Schulting, R, Rawson, J, Liu, C

“…This pattern, which has also been repetitively discovered with bronze and iron technology in later periods, starts to characterise some intrinsic features of Chinese prehistory.…”

The ups and downs of Iron Age animal management on the Oxfordshire Ridgeway, south-central England: A multi-isotope approach by Schulting, R, Le Roux, P, Gan, Y, Pouncett, J, Hamilton, J, Snoeck, C, Ditchfield, P, Henderson, R, Lange, P, Lee-Thorp, J, Gosden, C, Lock, G

“…The study demonstrates the level of detail it is possible to achieve with a multi-isotope approach to animal management practices in prehistory. The focus on a micro-region contrasts with, or rather complements, studies addressing larger-scale movement of animals in the past.…”

As dry as a (burnt) bone – histological, physicochemical, and osteogenic reaction-related approaches to identifying the pre-burning condition of bone by Vegh, EI

“…Cremation after active or passive excarnation, as a funerary rite, was mainly proposed during the prehistory of the British Isles. The postmortem (after death) transformation of the corpse starts during early diagenesis, thus taphonomic changes are thought to have the potential to determine the postmortem interval (PMI) at the time of burning. …”