The Promise and Peril of Older Collections: Meta-Analyses and the Zooarchaeology of Late Prehistoric/Early Historic New Mexico by Emily Lena Jones, Caroline Gabe

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The origins of money: Calculation of similarity indexes demonstrates the earliest development of commodity money in prehistoric Central Europe. by Maikel H G Kuijpers, Cătălin N Popa

“…The origins of money and the formulation of coherent weight and measurement systems are amongst the most significant prehistoric developments of the human intellect. We present a method for detecting perceptible standardization of weights and apply this to 5028 Early Bronze Age rings, ribs, and axe blades from Central Europe. …”
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Book Review: Glossary of Prehistoric and Historic Timber Buildings by Lutz Volmer and W. Haio Zimmermann (ed.) by Roeland P Paardekooper

“…The 1987 conference in Århus, Denmark on ESF Workshop on the reconstruction of wooden buildings from the prehistoric and early historic period has been important to EXARC as we have acquired, and are gradually publishing, the manuscripts of the unpublished proceedings.…”
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The prehistoric roots of Chinese cuisines: Mapping staple food systems of China, 6000 BC-220 AD. by Xinyi Liu, Rachel E B Reid

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Reconstruction of an indigenous community's belief in dragon; Research on prehistoric Batu Naga Site in Kuningan, West Java by Ali Akbar

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Studies in organic archaeometry III: Prehistoric adhesives: alternatives to birch bark pitch could be ruled out by Fritz Sauter, Aloisia Graf, Christian Hametner, Johannes Fröhlich

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Cases of trisomy 21 and trisomy 18 among historic and prehistoric individuals discovered from ancient DNA by Adam Benjamin Rohrlach, Maïté Rivollat, Patxuka de-Miguel-Ibáñez, Ulla Moilanen, Anne-Mari Liira, João C. Teixeira, Xavier Roca-Rada, Javier Armendáriz-Martija, Kamen Boyadzhiev, Yavor Boyadzhiev, Bastien Llamas, Anthi Tiliakou, Angela Mötsch, Jonathan Tuke, Eleni-Anna Prevedorou, Naya Polychronakou-Sgouritsa, Jane Buikstra, Päivi Onkamo, Philipp W. Stockhammer, Henrike O. Heyne, Johannes R. Lemke, Roberto Risch, Stephan Schiffels, Johannes Krause, Wolfgang Haak, Kay Prüfer

“…To explore the presence of trisomies in historic and prehistoric populations we screen nearly 10,000 ancient human individuals for the presence of three copies of any of the target autosomes. …”
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Studies in organic archaeometry I: Identification of the prehistoric adhesive used by the “Tyrolean Iceman” to fix his weapons by Fritz Sauter, Ulrich Jordis, Aloisia Graf, Wolfgang Werther, Kurt Varmuza

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Lithic raw materials in Prehistoric Times of Eastern Central Europe, Antonín Přichystal, Brno 2013 : [recenzja] by Katarzyna Kerneder-Gubała

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Dental calculus reveals unique insights into food items, cooking and plant processing in prehistoric central Sudan. by Stephen Buckley, Donatella Usai, Tina Jakob, Anita Radini, Karen Hardy

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Reindeer retrieved from melting snow patches reveal information on prehistoric landscape use in Swedish Sápmi by Markus Fjellström, Anna-Kaisa Salmi, Kjell-Åke Aronsson, Kerstin Lidén

“…The results from the morphometric data, stable isotope analysis and radiocarbon dating from prehistoric and historic reindeer (n=40) show that there is very little variation over time in the diet of the reindeer retrieved from the snow patches. …”
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Caries as an archaeological problem-solving tool: reconstructing subsistence patterns in late prehistoric west-central Tennessee by Maria Ostendorf Smith, Tracy K Betsinger

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Journey to the east: Diverse routes and variable flowering times for wheat and barley en route to prehistoric China. by Xinyi Liu, Diane L Lister, Zhijun Zhao, Cameron A Petrie, Xiongsheng Zeng, Penelope J Jones, Richard A Staff, Anil K Pokharia, Jennifer Bates, Ravindra N Singh, Steven A Weber, Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, Guanghui Dong, Haiming Li, Hongliang Lü, Hongen Jiang, Jianxin Wang, Jian Ma, Duo Tian, Guiyun Jin, Liping Zhou, Xiaohong Wu, Martin K Jones

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Provenance Study of Prehistoric Ceramics from Sicily: A Comparative Study between pXRF and XRF by Tanasi Davide, Tykot Robert H., Pirone Frederick, McKendry Erin

“…The 1964 archaeological exploration of the Ognina islet near Syracuse, Sicily, has provided evidence suggesting a long-term prehistoric occupation from the Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age. …”
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Bronze Age and Early Iron Age sickles in the evolution of the prehistoric аgricultural toolkit from Bulgaria by Maria Gurova, Georgi Ivanov, Ivo Cholakov, Lyuba Traikova

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The Saliency of Snake Scales and Leopard Rosettes to Infants: Its Relevance to Graphical Patterns Portrayed in Prehistoric Art by Richard G. Coss, Eric P. Charles

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Virtual Sea-Drifting Experiments between the Island of Cyprus and the Surrounding Mainland in the Early Prehistoric Eastern Mediterranean by Phaedon Kyriakidis, Theodora Moutsiou, Andreas Nikolaidis, Christian Reepmeyer, Georgios Leventis, Stella Demesticha, Evangelos Akylas, Vasiliki Kassianidou, Constantine Michailides, Zomenia Zomeni, Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, Yizhaq Makovsky, Carole McCartney

“…Seaborne movement underpins frontier research in prehistoric archaeology, including water-crossings in the context of human dispersals, and island colonisation. …”
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Prehistoric Mining Data: How to create Open Data from archaeological research for the ARIADNE community and beyond by Gerald Hiebel, Brigit Danthine, Milena Peralta Friedburg, Manuel Scherer-Windisch

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Mapping prehistoric artefacts that were used to process daily staple foods 40,000 years ago by Tung, Wern Yien

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Farming, inequality and urbanization: a comparative analysis of late prehistoric northern Mesopotamia and south-west Germany by Bogaard, A, Styring, A, Whitlam, J, Fochesato, M, Bowles, S