The deposition of miniature weaponry in Iron Age Lincolnshire by Julia Farley

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The Iron Age Shepherd Sling by David Jackson

“…The purpose of this experiment was to examine the shepherd sling to form an understanding as to why it would appear to be the most dominant missile weapon of Iron Age Britain (Harding, 2012, p.194). The experiment consisted of making and using the sling, testing its range and accuracy to reveal its strengths and limitations. …”
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New light on old iron by Peter Halkon, Zechariah Jinks-Fredrick

“…This contribution will consider the origins of iron production in Iron Age Britain and the relationship between iron production, its uses and the deposition of iron artefacts within the landscape in the light of these recent discoveries. …”
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Condiments before Claudius: new plant foods at the Late Iron Age oppidum at Silchester, UK by Lodwick, L

“…This paper presents the first evidence of several imported plant foods from Late Iron Age Britain in the form of waterlogged plant remains from the oppidum at Silchester. …”

Haplotype-based inference of recent effective population size in modern and ancient DNA samples by Romain Fournier, Zoi Tsangalidou, David Reich, Pier Francesco Palamara

“…We apply HapNe to several modern populations from the 1,000 Genomes Project, the UK Biobank, the Allen Ancient DNA Resource, and recently published samples from Iron Age Britain, detecting multiple instances of recent effective population size variation across these groups.…”
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