A Review of Malta’s Pre-Temple Neolithic Pottery Wares by Richard-Trémeau Emma, Brogan Catriona, Betts John C., Anastasi Maxine, Vella Nicholas C.

“…Sites from the earliest known phases of Maltese prehistory often consist of scatters of sherds for the Għar Dalam and Skorba phases (6000–4800 BCE), and tomb contexts for the Żebbuġ phase (3800–3600 BCE). …”
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YInMn blue - 200 Years in the making: New intense inorganic pigments based on chromophores in trigonal bipyramidal coordination by Mas A. Subramanian, Jun Li

“…Materials with various colors have always fascinated humans from prehistory to the present. They bring joy to our daily life by making the world a more beautiful place to live in and influence our feelings. …”
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Effect of Marble Waste Powder as a Binder Replacement on the Mechanical Resistance of Cement Mortars by Marco Lezzerini, Letizia Luti, Andrea Aquino, Gianni Gallello, Stefano Pagnotta

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How a Paleogenomic Approach Can Provide Details on Bioarchaeological Reconstruction: A Case Study from the Globular Amphorae Culture by Stefania Vai, Maria Angela Diroma, Costanza Cannariato, Alicja Budnik, Martina Lari, David Caramelli, Elena Pilli

“…Ancient human remains have the potential to explain a great deal about the prehistory of humankind. Due to recent technological and bioinformatics advances, their study, at the palaeogenomic level, can provide important information about population dynamics, culture changes, and the lifestyles of our ancestors. …”
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Raw material studies of West Central Serbia by Vera Bogosavljević Petrović, Jelena Marković

“…It has occasionally been in use from the earliest periods of prehistory until today as a source of black and ochre-coloured flint, opal and silicified wood. …”
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Tracing population movements in ancient East Asia through the linguistics and archaeology of textile production by Sarah Nelson, Irina Zhushchikhovskaya, Tao Li, Mark Hudson, Martine Robbeets

“…Archaeolinguistics, a field which combines language reconstruction and archaeology as a source of information on human prehistory, has much to offer to deepen our understanding of the Neolithic and Bronze Age in Northeast Asia. …”
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A Non-Invasive In Situ Spectroscopic Analysis of Cinnabar Minerals to Assist Provenance Studies of Archaeological Pigments by Silvia Pérez-Diez, Cheyenne Bernier, Javier G. Iñañez, Maite Maguregui

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Editorial "The coloniality of natural history collections"/Redactioneel "Doorwerking van natuurhistorische kolonialiteit" by Marieke Borren, Caroline Drieënhuizen

“…With this special issue (‘dossier’) on The Coloniality of Natural History Collections, we aim to bring the critical conversation further. The prehistory of this issue dates back to the workshop ‘The colonial legacy of Dutch natural history collections’ in December 2018, organized by Caroline Drieënhuizen (History, Open University (OU) Netherlands) and Fenneke Sysling (History, Utrecht University/Leiden University) and hosted by Artis Amsterdam Royal Zoo. …”
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Alterations and Contaminations in Ceramics Deposited in Underwater Environments: An Experimental Approach by Uxue Sanchez-Garmendia, Javier G. Iñañez, Gorka Arana

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An Experimental Diachronic Exploration of Patination Methodology of Dark Patinated (Arsenical) Copper Alloys on Case Studies from the Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age and Early Iro... by Marianne Talma

“…The process in which artificial patination was achieved in prehistory is unknown, however specialized knowledge exists for the production of the modern Japanese irogane alloys. …”
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Geospatial modelling of farmer–herder interactions maps cultural geography of Bronze and Iron Age Tibet, 3600–2200 BP by Xinzhou Chen, Hongliang Lü, Xinyi Liu, Michael D. Frachetti

“…Yet, it remains unclear how these cultural relationships and social interactions took shape through time and how they were influenced by ecologically oriented behavioral strategies (e.g. mobility) emerging in prehistory. Recent applications of network analysis provide novel tools to quantitatively measure shared forms of material culture, but there have been fewer attempts to couple social network analysis with fine-grained geospatial modelling of prehistoric human mobility in Tibet. …”
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0289 The Patronage of Berlin’s Egyptian Museum by German-Jewish Press Tycoon Rudolf Mosse (1843–1920) and the Sequestration of His Art Collection during the "Third Reich" by Thomas L. Gertzen, Jana Helmbold-Doyé

“…This article—which is based on the findings of a multi-author volume published jointly by the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies in Potsdam and the Egyptian Museum in Berlin—discusses the prehistory of the seizure and sale of Mosse’s private art collection in 1934, including Egyptian antiquities, and the attempted damnatio memoriae of him. …”
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Photogrammetry (SfM) vs. Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) for Archaeological Excavations: Mosaic of Cantillana (Spain) as a Case Study by Carmen Marín-Buzón, Antonio Miguel Pérez-Romero, Manuel J. León-Bonillo, Rubén Martínez-Álvarez, Juan Carlos Mejías-García, Francisco Manzano-Agugliaro

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SfM Photogrammetric Techniques Applied in the Building Archaeology Works of the Old Cloister of the Monastery of San Francisco from the 16th Century (Cazalla de la Sierra, Seville) by Manuel José León-Bonillo, Juan Carlos Mejías-García, Rubén Martínez-Álvarez, Antonio Miguel Pérez-Romero, Cristina León-Ortíz, Carmen Marín-Buzón

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Branching Random Walks in a Random Killing Environment with a Single Reproduction Source by Vladimir Kutsenko, Stanislav Molchanov, Elena Yarovaya

“…The offspring of the initial particle evolves according to the same law, independently of each other and the entire prehistory. The aim of this paper is to study the conditions for the presence of exponential growth of the average number of particles at every lattice point. …”
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Esihistoriallisten tartuntatautien ja epidemioiden tutkimusmahdollisuudet Suomessa by Ulla Moilanen, Sofia Paasikivi

“…However, identifying any period of crisis in prehistory can also lead to the identification of an epidemic, since epidemics are typically linked to other population crises. …”
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Reconstruction of the Stagirite argument against the fatalism of future events by Ruslan Myronenko

“…One of the attributes of consciousness is free will. The prehistory of modern research in the field of free will is the discussion about the need for future events, which was first analyzed by Stagirite in chapter 9, "On Interpretation". …”
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Zooming out the microscope on cumulative cultural evolution: ‘Trajectory B’ from animal to human culture by Claes Andersson, Claudio Tennie

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Cultural evolution of emotional expression in 50 years of song lyrics by Charlotte O. Brand, Alberto Acerbi, Alex Mesoudi

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Japan considered from the hypothesis of farmer/language spread by Elisabeth de Boer, Melinda A. Yang, Aileen Kawagoe, Gina L. Barnes

“…And despite considerable hypothesizing about prehistoric language, the spread of historic languages/ dialects through the islands is more accessible but difficult to relate to prehistory. Though the lack of Yayoi skeletal material available for DNA analysis greatly inhibits direct study of how the pre-agricultural Jōmon peoples interacted with rice agriculturalists, our review of Jōmon genetics sets the stage for further research into their relationships. …”
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