Guanaco colonisation of Tierra del Fuego Island from mainland Patagonia: Walked, swam, or by canoe? by William L. Franklin

“…Empirical evidence and pivotal events of Patagonia's prehistory support one of three hypotheses: guanacos were introduced to Tierra del Fuego by early Holocene, guanaco‐dependent, indigenous peoples from the mainland who repopulated Tierra del Fuego utilising the newly invented, skilfully crafted, seaworthy bark canoe (Appendix S1–Resumen en Español).…”
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Demography, trade and state power: a tripartite model of medieval farming/language dispersals in the Ryukyu Islands by Aleksandra Jarosz, Martine Robbeets, Ricardo Fernandes, Hiroto Takamiya, Akito Shinzato, Naoko Nakamura, Maria Shinoto, Mark Hudson

“…Hunter–gatherer occupations of small islands are rare in world prehistory and it is widely accepted that island settlement is facilitated by agriculture. …”
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Family History in the Iberian Peninsula during Chalcolithic and Bronze Age: An Interpretation through the Genetic Analysis of Plural Burials by Sara Palomo-Díez, Ángel Esparza-Arroyo, Cláudia Gomes, Olga Rickards, Elena Labajo-González, Bernardo Perea-Pérez, Cristina Martínez-Labarga, Eduardo Arroyo-Pardo

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(Philosophical) Pilgrimage to the East with a Visit to the West. Evgeniy A. Torchinov by E. G. Sokolov

“…Such an approach gave grounds to classify the analyzed texts either as philosophical prehistory, or as non–philosophy in general. Therefore, the objectives of the article are, firstly, to clarify the reasons why an adequate perception of the essential and constitutive parameters of the philosophy of the East is difficult. …”
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New challenges in the study of lithic raw materials in central Italy at the dawn of metal working societies: La Pietra and other radiolarite quarry-workshops in Tuscany by Sem Scaramucci, Vanessa Volpi, Armando Costantini, Marco Giamello, Alessandro Donati, Biancamaria Aranguren, Adriana Moroni

“…In central-southern Tuscany radiolarite has been used as a lithic raw material throughout prehistory. During the Copper Age it was selected for the local production of leaf-shaped artefacts. …”
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Populations dynamics in Northern Eurasian forests: a long-term perspective from Northeast Asia by Junzo Uchiyama, J. Christopher Gillam, Alexander Savelyev, Chao Ning

“…All of these results combine to suggest that the ecological complex in the southern edge of the NEG in northeast Asia played a significant role in peopling across the continents during prehistory.…”
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Behaviour and belief in mortuary ritual: attitudes to the disposal of the dead in southern Britain 3500bc-AD43 by Peter H.W. Bristow

“…This is the first time that such a study - covering c.4400 years of British prehistory - has been undertaken on such a scale or in such detail. …”
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Bayesian 14C-rationality, Heisenberg Uncertainty, and Fourier Transform by Bernhard Weninger, Kevan Edinborough

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A Multi-Method Study of a Chalcolithic Kiln in the Bora Plain (Iraqi Kurdistan): The Evidence From Excavation, Micromorphological and Pyrotechnological Analyses by Squitieri Andrea, Amicone Silvia, Dinckal Ada, Altaweel Mark, Gur-Arieh Shira, Rohde Jens, Herr Jean-Jacques, Pietsch Sophie, Miller Christopher

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Bioarchaeological analyses reveal long-lasting continuity at the periphery of the Late Antique Roman Empire by Margaux L.C. Depaermentier, Ben Krause-Kyora, Irka Hajdas, Michael Kempf, Thomas Kuhn, Norbert Spichtig, Peter-Andrew Schwarz, Claudia Gerling

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New data concerning “large blades” in Catalonia: Apt-Forcalquier chert in the Penedès (south of Barcelona) during the Late Neolithic - Chalcolithic by Javier Mangado Llach, Jean Vaquer, Juan Francisco Gibaja Bao, F. Xavier Oms Arias, Artur Cebrià Escuer, Cynthia Belén González Olivares, Araceli Martín Colliga, Dioscórides Marín

“…In some cases their macroscopic features link them to Apt-Forcalquier chert (Haut Provence, France), which was widely distributed in the form of large blades during these phases of Late Catalan prehistory. The absence of evidence of the chaîne opératoire production of this type of foreign chert in the lithic assemblages in Catalonia lead to the supposition that the dispersion of the blades was done as trade items, and only in a few cases were highly complex technological tools of this kind of raw material distributed (e.g., daggers). …”
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The elements of imperial practice in the foreign policy of Vladimir Princely State in the first third of the 13th century by A.A. Kuznetsov

“…In the course of the study, the following tasks have been solved: compiling a complex of representative sources, studying the prehistory of the foreign policy of Russian princes in both geographical directions, investigating the policy of the Vladimir Prince Georgy (Yuri) Vsevolodovich (1188–1238) in the Volga and Baltic regions, identifying its specifics. …”
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SEASONAL AND INTER-ANNUAL VARIABILITY OF THE ICE COVER IN THE GREENLAND SEA by L. A. Timokhov, N. A. Vyazigina, E. U. Mironov, A. V. Popov

“…This regularity is characterized by an existence of a ‘memory’ in the state of the ice cover, when a prehistory of the ice conditions determines to a certain extent the following phase. …”
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The Work of Jovan Cvijić and Vladimir Dvorniković through the Prism of Serbian Archaeology by Aleksandar Palavestra, Monika Milosavljević

“…This means that the source of the archaeological idea of the elements of (material) culture that may be preserved from prehistory to the present, must be sought for in another direction, outside the work of Cvijić. …”
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Traces of music carved in wax: The collection of phonographic recordings from the Institute of Musicology SASA by Lajić-Mihajlović Danka

“…After an elaboration on the prehistory of documentary field recordings of traditional music, it has been pointed to procurement of a phonograph for the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade in 1930. …”
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Northern Sangtam phonetics, phonology and word list by Coupe, Alexander R.

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Materiality in numerical cognition by Overmann, KA

“…Considering archaeological evidence from the Epipaleolithic Levant and drawing on linguistic and ethnographic evidence to characterize the regional prehistory, the thesis suggests that the numerical lexicon would have included relatively high numbers prior to the Neolithic; that finger-counting (linguistically attested) and tallies (archaeologically attested) would have preceded tokens; and that numbers are ‘abstract’ concepts whose content changes in conjunction with the incorporation and use of different material forms. …”

The role of recent admixture in forming the contemporary West Eurasian genomic landscape by Busby, G, Hellenthal, G, Montinaro, F, Tofanelli, S, Bulayeva, K, Rudan, I, Zemunik, T, Hayward, C, Toncheva, D, Karachanak-Yankova, S, Nesheva, D, Anagnostou, P, Cali, F, Brisighelli, F, Romano, V, Lefranc, G, Buresi, C, BenChibani, J, Haj-Khelil, A, Denden, S, Ploski, R, Krajewski, P, Hervig, T, Moen, T, Herrera, R, Wilson, J, Myers, S, Capelli, C

“…While these efforts are bringing the details of West Eurasian prehistory into increasing focus, studies aimed at understanding the processes behind the generation of the current West Eurasian genetic landscape have been limited by the number of populations sampled or have been either too regional or global in their outlook [8-11]. …”

Subsistence shift and socio-economic response to cultural and climate changes among north-central Iberian megalithic groups by Fernández-Crespo, T, Ordoño, J, Schulting, RJ

“…This approach provides a means to address the socio-economic response of northern Iberian megalithic communities to the cultural and climatic changes occurring in late prehistory. Isotopic data are contextualized using palaeoenvironmental and osteoarchaeological information. …”

Integrating art, landscape, and archaeology: Investigations of prehistoric wall paintings at Çatalhöyük by St George, IM

“…</p> <p>This thesis explores innovation in artists’ materials and art in prehistory, and charts developments as they occur in images and materials over time, giving rise to a reinterpretation of the paintings. …”