Susanne Lindauer
Biographic Data
| ID | 4020111 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susanne Lindauer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Lindauer |
| SIGNATURE | LINDAUER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Curt Engelhorn Centre Archaeometry |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5363-2755 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A cold case from the last Glacial Maximum: A partial mammoth skeleton from southern Germany (Danube Valley, Germany) – Part 1: Traces of human activity and archaeological context
Remains of at least 72 skeletal elements and a tusk of one woolly mammoth were unearthed from an Upper Würmian palaeo-channel fill and adjacent overbank deposits in southeastern Germany. The skeletal remains are from a large but not yet fully grown individual. Cut marks on several ribs indicate human involvement. However, archaeological traces, such as artefacts or settlement remains, were not recovered. The individual was radiocarbon-dated to 26…
The Upper Palaeolithic “Neuessing” skeleton from Mittlere Klause Cave in Bavaria: Anthropological examination, radiocarbon dating and isotope analyses
The Upper Paleolithic burial of Neuessing (Bavaria) is one of the few anatomically largely complete skeletal remains in Central Europe. The lack of a bioarchaeological investigation according to modern standards, an unclear dating and stratigraphic uncertainties made the find a research desideratum. The present study introduces the initial situation for the investigation and the varied research history. It describes the skeletal remains of the 45…
Reservoir Effects from Shells of Tell Abraq, Sharjah Emirate, UAE
We present reservoir effects on shells of species Terebralia palustris and Marcia spp. that were recovered during archaeological excavations at the multi-period site of Tell Abraq, Sharjah Emirate, UAE (This paper was presented at the combined 24th Radiocarbon and 10th Radiocarbon & Archaeology International Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, Sept. 2022.). The site was inhabited during the mid to late Holocene. It is situated in a lagoonal environm…
New Luminescence and Radiocarbon Dates for Kanem-Borno Fired-Brick Elite Sites in Kanem, Chad: Bayesian Chronological Modelling of Settlement Construction
Five fired-brick sites, tentatively attributed to the Kanem-Borno State, were test-excavated, and samples of fired bricks and wood charcoal were dated using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS). Although OSL yielded larger standard deviations compared to radiocarbon dating, both methods produced chronologically significant results. In addition to confirming that the sites were constructed during Kanem-Bo…
A Multi-Proxy Investigation of the Anthropogenic Landscape Near the Early Bronze Age Building VII at Al-Khashbah, Oman
The Early Bronze Age in southeastern Arabia is characterized by a significant shift in the archaeological record that coincides with the regional deterioration of climatic conditions associated with the end of the Holocene Humid Period. This study presents evidence for human modification of the local landscape around Building VII, a large circular structure at Al-Khashbah, Oman dating to the late third millennium BC. Through multiproxy analyses c…
A multidisciplinary investigation of a mummified Egyptian head and analysis of its associated resinous material from the Salinas Regional Archaeological Museum in Palermo (Sicily)
Among the 70 items donated by the abbot Antonio Pietro Paternostro to the former National Museum of Palermo (now Salinas Regional Archaeological Museum) in 1870, an ancient Egyptian mummified human head stands out. In 2022 the finding was submitted for a multidisciplinary investigation that relied upon non-invasive or minimally invasive approaches. Investigations revealed that this is a possible female head, which was likely subjected to trans-na…
A Newly Dated Late Pleistocene and Holocene Archaeological Assemblage from Bukhtarma Cave in the Southern Altai Piedmont, East Kazakhstan
The Altai mountains contain a number of cave and rockshelter sites that have given crucial information about human evolution in Asia. Most of these caves are located in the Gornyi Altai of Siberia, while the southern flank of the range remains much less known. Bukhtarma Cave was a karstic cave located near the former village of Peshchera, on the banks of the Bukhtarma River running through the foothills of the southern (Kazakh) Altai mountains. T…
Funny Wrappings—challenging Your Radiocarbon Laboratory
Shipping radiocarbon samples from the scientist to the laboratories involves packaging and wrapping them with all sorts of bags and materials to make sure the samples arrive safely. Over the years a variety of possible and impossible package materials have arrived at our laboratory, causing problems occasionally but often being the highlight of the day cheering up the people involved. The reality of excavating important, occasionally unexpected, …
Origin and Age of Carbon in the Cellulose of Mid-Latitude Tree Rings
Cellulose of tree rings is often assumed to be predominantly formed by direct assimilation of CO 2 by photosynthesis and consequently can be used to reconstruct past atmospheric 14 C concentrations at annual resolution. Yet little is known about the extent and the age of stored carbon from previous years used in addition to the direct assimilation in tree rings. Here, we studied 14 C in earlywood and latewood cellulose of four different species (…
Kalba: Research on trade networks of a prehistoric coastal community on the Gulf of Oman, United Arab Emirates
This project investigates the prehistoric coastal site of Kalba on the Gulf of Oman in the context of exchange networks between maritime waterways and land-based caravan routes on the south-eastern Arabian Peninsula. In addition to favourable environmental conditions, raw-material procurement strategies were important for the economy of this multi-crafting community
The chronology of Julianos Church, Umm el‐Jimal, Jordan: AMS radiocarbon dates of its synthronon
An ongoing long debate on the chronology of Julianos Church, Umm el‐Jimal, northeast Jordan, started in the early 20th century. It was claimed to be the earliest dated church ( ad 344) by an inscription not found in situ. After five decades, it was proven that the inscription was mistakenly associated to the church, and ‘after the start of the fifth century ad ’ was suggested as a new date. It is still argued that this new date is an early one, a…
Nazugum, a new 4000 year old rockshelter site in the Ili Alatau, Tien Shan
Radiocarbon in the Marine Environment: An Overview
Understanding carbon cycling in the ocean is critical for understanding past ocean dynamics, local impacts of environmental changes, and predicting future changes due to climate change. Radiocarbon plays an important role in deciphering the carbon puzzle and, here, we highlight some of the contributions this isotope has made to oceanography. The field is enormous and distilling it to three short papers was a challenge; we chose to focus on three …
Marine Biogenic Carbonates and Radiocarbon—a Retrospective on Shells and Corals With an Outlook on Challenges and Opportunities
Many organisms living in the ocean create tests, shells, or related physical structures of calcium carbonate (CaCO 3 ). As this is most often from dissolved inorganic carbon, using organisms that create calcium carbonate structures for climate research and dating purposes requires knowledge of the origin of carbon that is incorporated. Here, we give a short overview of research on marine carbonates over the last 60 years, especially that based on…
Karl Otto Münnich (1925–2003): In Memoriam
Karl Otto Mnnich (KO) came to the field of radiocarbon by accident. Born in Heidelberg, Germany, in 1925, he had studied nuclear physics at the local university. KO planned to continue a career as a nuclear physicist when, after finishing his studies in 1952, Prof. Otto Haxel (inspired after meeting Willard Libby) offered him a position to set up a radiocarbon laboratory. Haxel had recognized KO's experimental skills in an advanced lab course. Si…
Collapse of Holocene mangrove ecosystems along the coastline of Oman
Sedimentological, geochemical, and paleontological investigations of the coastline of northeastern Oman have provided the authors with an in-depth insight into Holocene sea levels and climate conditions. The spatial distribution and species assemblage of mangrove ecosystems are analyzed. These ecosystems are sensitive to changes in sea level and precipitation and thus reflect ecological conditions. The close proximity to archaeological sites allo…
Luminescence Sensitivity of Rhine Valley Loess: Indicators of Source Variability
Loess provides a valuable terrestrial record of past environmental conditions, including the dynamics and trajectories of air mass circulation responsible for dust transport. Here we explore variations in the luminescence sensitivity characteristics of sedimentary quartz and feldspar as possible tools for identifying changes in source down a loess-palaeosol sequence (LPS). Luminescence sensitivity is a rapidly measurable index which is the produc…
A New Annual 14 C Dataset for Calibrating the Thera Eruption
Annually resolved tree-ring samples of the time period 1625–1510 BCE were analyzed from the German oak tree-ring chronology. Blocks of the same tree rings were previously used to generate IntCal calibration data. The new dataset shows an offset to the calibration data IntCal13 of 24 years and resembles annual data for the same time period derived from tree-ring records in other growth locations. A subset of samples of the period 1625–1585 BCE was…
Blunt force trauma: An exceptional example of an ancient Egyptian mummy head
In the course of a scientific cooperation between the German Mummy Project at the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim (Germany) and the Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art Luxembourg (Luxembourg), an ancient Egyptian mummy head was analyzed using a multidisciplinary approach including radiocarbon dating, ultra-high resolution computed tomography, physical anthropology, forensic medicine and Egyptology. Dated to the Roman Period, the mummy head belong…
Kinship-based social inequality in Bronze Age Europe
Ancient DNA informs on past cultures Archaeology has used analysis of the artifacts and remains of people to uncover their past behaviors and to infer their cultural practices. However, establishing genetic relationships has only recently become possible. Mittnik et al. examined the kinship and inheritance of the remains of people from the German Lech River Valley over a time period spanning the Late Neolithic Corded Ware Culture, the Bell Beaker…
Annual 14 C Tree-Ring Data Around 400 AD: Mid- and High-Latitude Records
Two tree-ring series, one from a high-latitude pine tree (located in northern Scandinavia) and one from a mid-latitude oak tree (located in eastern Germany) were analyzed for radiocarbon ( 14 C) at annual resolution. The new records cover the calendar date ranges 290–460 AD and 382–486 AD, respectively, overlapping by 79 yr. The series show similar trends as IntCal13. However, some significant deviations around 400 AD are present with lower Δ 14 …
Heating mollusc shells - A radiocarbon and microstructure perspective from archaeological shells recovered from Kalba, Sharjah Emirate, UAE
The Muknal cave near Tulum, Mexico: An early-Holocene funeral site on the Yucatán peninsula
Here, we report on an incomplete human skeleton, soot patches related to anthropogenic fireplaces, and cut marks on the mandible of an extinct peccary, from the submerged Muknal cave southwest of Tulum on the Mexican Yucatán peninsula. The human individual, here named ‘Muknal Grandfather’, was identified as a male based on cranial parameters. The age at the time of death was estimated to be between 40 and 45 years. We propose that the human bones…
Evidence of Neolithic settlement in the foothills of the Western al‐Hajar Mountains
Systematic prospection and excavations in the Rustaq region of northern Oman, approximately 45 km from the coast in the foothills of the Western Hajar Mountains, have revealed an unexpectedly dense record of Neolithic sites. Besides surface scatters of lithic artefacts, excavation at the site of Hayy al‐Sarh recovered two stratified archaeological horizons ( AH s). The upper horizon, AH I, contained pierced marine shells that provided an age of t…
HLO 1‐south: An Early Neolithic site in Wadi al‐Hilo (Sharjah, UAE )
Site HLO 1 (Sharjah, UAE ), situated in a particularly favourable geographical position, has provided an extraordinary range of anthropogenic radiocarbon dates, spanning before 8000 to Zero BCE . The Neolithic is represented by finds from the eighth to the fifth millennium BCE . Apart from the dated fireplaces, however, there are almost no typical artefacts of this period. Small stone structures appear to have been early Neolithic graves. A middl…
A New Annual 14 C Dataset for Calibrating the Thera Eruption
Annually resolved tree-ring samples of the time period 1625–1510 BCE were analyzed from the German oak tree-ring chronology. Blocks of the same tree rings were previously used to generate IntCal calibration data. The new dataset shows an offset to the calibration data IntCal13 of 24 years and resembles annual data for the same time period derived from tree-ring records in other growth locations. A subset of samples of the period 1625–1585 BCE was…
HLO 1‐south: An Early Neolithic site in Wadi al‐Hilo (Sharjah, UAE )
Site HLO 1 (Sharjah, UAE ), situated in a particularly favourable geographical position, has provided an extraordinary range of anthropogenic radiocarbon dates, spanning before 8000 to Zero BCE . The Neolithic is represented by finds from the eighth to the fifth millennium BCE . Apart from the dated fireplaces, however, there are almost no typical artefacts of this period. Small stone structures appear to have been early Neolithic graves. A middl…
Investigating the Local Reservoir Age and Stable Isotopes of Shells from Southeast Arabia
We recently started a systematic approach to determine the reservoir age in southeast Arabia and its dependence on mollusk species and their environment. This part of the study concentrates on local reservoir age and stable isotopes of the lagoonal species Terebralia palustris and Anadara uropigimelana at Khor Kalba, Oman Sea. Environmental and nutritive influences on mollusks are reflected in the radiocarbon and stable isotope signal. We found a…
Mollusk carbonate thermal behaviour and its implications in understanding prehistoric fire events in shell middens
Annual 14 C Tree-Ring Data Around 400 AD: Mid- and High-Latitude Records
Two tree-ring series, one from a high-latitude pine tree (located in northern Scandinavia) and one from a mid-latitude oak tree (located in eastern Germany) were analyzed for radiocarbon ( 14 C) at annual resolution. The new records cover the calendar date ranges 290–460 AD and 382–486 AD, respectively, overlapping by 79 yr. The series show similar trends as IntCal13. However, some significant deviations around 400 AD are present with lower Δ 14 …
The Muknal cave near Tulum, Mexico: An early-Holocene funeral site on the Yucatán peninsula
Here, we report on an incomplete human skeleton, soot patches related to anthropogenic fireplaces, and cut marks on the mandible of an extinct peccary, from the submerged Muknal cave southwest of Tulum on the Mexican Yucatán peninsula. The human individual, here named ‘Muknal Grandfather’, was identified as a male based on cranial parameters. The age at the time of death was estimated to be between 40 and 45 years. We propose that the human bones…
Evidence of Neolithic settlement in the foothills of the Western al‐Hajar Mountains
Systematic prospection and excavations in the Rustaq region of northern Oman, approximately 45 km from the coast in the foothills of the Western Hajar Mountains, have revealed an unexpectedly dense record of Neolithic sites. Besides surface scatters of lithic artefacts, excavation at the site of Hayy al‐Sarh recovered two stratified archaeological horizons ( AH s). The upper horizon, AH I, contained pierced marine shells that provided an age of t…
Marine Biogenic Carbonates and Radiocarbon—a Retrospective on Shells and Corals With an Outlook on Challenges and Opportunities
Many organisms living in the ocean create tests, shells, or related physical structures of calcium carbonate (CaCO 3 ). As this is most often from dissolved inorganic carbon, using organisms that create calcium carbonate structures for climate research and dating purposes requires knowledge of the origin of carbon that is incorporated. Here, we give a short overview of research on marine carbonates over the last 60 years, especially that based on…
The skeletons of Lauricocha: New data on old bones
Carbonate Sample Preparation for 14 C Dating Using an Elemental Analyzer
Radiocarbon dating of carbonates is of increasing importance for archaeology and climate research. Like most samples, these usually require pretreatment to remove surface contamination. We studied several pretreatment techniques using snails and shells of different stages of preservation and sensitivity to dissolution during the acid step of the pretreatment. We find that simple acid treatment leads to reliable results, and is applicable especial…
Origin and Age of Carbon in the Cellulose of Mid-Latitude Tree Rings
Cellulose of tree rings is often assumed to be predominantly formed by direct assimilation of CO 2 by photosynthesis and consequently can be used to reconstruct past atmospheric 14 C concentrations at annual resolution. Yet little is known about the extent and the age of stored carbon from previous years used in addition to the direct assimilation in tree rings. Here, we studied 14 C in earlywood and latewood cellulose of four different species (…
The chronology of Julianos Church, Umm el‐Jimal, Jordan: AMS radiocarbon dates of its synthronon
An ongoing long debate on the chronology of Julianos Church, Umm el‐Jimal, northeast Jordan, started in the early 20th century. It was claimed to be the earliest dated church ( ad 344) by an inscription not found in situ. After five decades, it was proven that the inscription was mistakenly associated to the church, and ‘after the start of the fifth century ad ’ was suggested as a new date. It is still argued that this new date is an early one, a…
Nazugum, a new 4000 year old rockshelter site in the Ili Alatau, Tien Shan
Radiocarbon in the Marine Environment: An Overview
Understanding carbon cycling in the ocean is critical for understanding past ocean dynamics, local impacts of environmental changes, and predicting future changes due to climate change. Radiocarbon plays an important role in deciphering the carbon puzzle and, here, we highlight some of the contributions this isotope has made to oceanography. The field is enormous and distilling it to three short papers was a challenge; we chose to focus on three …
Heating mollusc shells - A radiocarbon and microstructure perspective from archaeological shells recovered from Kalba, Sharjah Emirate, UAE
Mams – A new AMS facility at the Curt-Engelhorn-Centre for Achaeometry, Mannheim, Germany
Carbonate Sample Preparation for 14 C Dating Using an Elemental Analyzer
Radiocarbon dating of carbonates is of increasing importance for archaeology and climate research. Like most samples, these usually require pretreatment to remove surface contamination. We studied several pretreatment techniques using snails and shells of different stages of preservation and sensitivity to dissolution during the acid step of the pretreatment. We find that simple acid treatment leads to reliable results, and is applicable especial…
Carbonate Sample Preparation for 14C Dating Using an Elemental Analyzer
Radiocarbon dating of carbonates is of increasing importance for archaeology and climate research. Like most samples, these usually require pretreatment to remove surface contamination. We studied several pretreatment techniques using snails and shells of different stages of preservation and sensitivity to dissolution during the acid step of the pretreatment. We find that simple acid treatment leads to reliable results, and is applicable especial…
The skeletons of Lauricocha: New data on old bones
Investigating the Local Reservoir Age and Stable Isotopes of Shells from Southeast Arabia
We recently started a systematic approach to determine the reservoir age in southeast Arabia and its dependence on mollusk species and their environment. This part of the study concentrates on local reservoir age and stable isotopes of the lagoonal species Terebralia palustris and Anadara uropigimelana at Khor Kalba, Oman Sea. Environmental and nutritive influences on mollusks are reflected in the radiocarbon and stable isotope signal. We found a…
Heating mollusc shells - A radiocarbon and microstructure perspective from archaeological shells recovered from Kalba, Sharjah Emirate, UAE
The Muknal cave near Tulum, Mexico: An early-Holocene funeral site on the Yucatán peninsula
Here, we report on an incomplete human skeleton, soot patches related to anthropogenic fireplaces, and cut marks on the mandible of an extinct peccary, from the submerged Muknal cave southwest of Tulum on the Mexican Yucatán peninsula. The human individual, here named ‘Muknal Grandfather’, was identified as a male based on cranial parameters. The age at the time of death was estimated to be between 40 and 45 years. We propose that the human bones…
Evidence of Neolithic settlement in the foothills of the Western al‐Hajar Mountains
Systematic prospection and excavations in the Rustaq region of northern Oman, approximately 45 km from the coast in the foothills of the Western Hajar Mountains, have revealed an unexpectedly dense record of Neolithic sites. Besides surface scatters of lithic artefacts, excavation at the site of Hayy al‐Sarh recovered two stratified archaeological horizons ( AH s). The upper horizon, AH I, contained pierced marine shells that provided an age of t…
HLO 1‐south: An Early Neolithic site in Wadi al‐Hilo (Sharjah, UAE )
Site HLO 1 (Sharjah, UAE ), situated in a particularly favourable geographical position, has provided an extraordinary range of anthropogenic radiocarbon dates, spanning before 8000 to Zero BCE . The Neolithic is represented by finds from the eighth to the fifth millennium BCE . Apart from the dated fireplaces, however, there are almost no typical artefacts of this period. Small stone structures appear to have been early Neolithic graves. A middl…
Mollusk carbonate thermal behaviour and its implications in understanding prehistoric fire events in shell middens
Kinship-based social inequality in Bronze Age Europe
Ancient DNA informs on past cultures Archaeology has used analysis of the artifacts and remains of people to uncover their past behaviors and to infer their cultural practices. However, establishing genetic relationships has only recently become possible. Mittnik et al. examined the kinship and inheritance of the remains of people from the German Lech River Valley over a time period spanning the Late Neolithic Corded Ware Culture, the Bell Beaker…
Annual 14 C Tree-Ring Data Around 400 AD: Mid- and High-Latitude Records
Two tree-ring series, one from a high-latitude pine tree (located in northern Scandinavia) and one from a mid-latitude oak tree (located in eastern Germany) were analyzed for radiocarbon ( 14 C) at annual resolution. The new records cover the calendar date ranges 290–460 AD and 382–486 AD, respectively, overlapping by 79 yr. The series show similar trends as IntCal13. However, some significant deviations around 400 AD are present with lower Δ 14 …
A New Annual 14 C Dataset for Calibrating the Thera Eruption
Annually resolved tree-ring samples of the time period 1625–1510 BCE were analyzed from the German oak tree-ring chronology. Blocks of the same tree rings were previously used to generate IntCal calibration data. The new dataset shows an offset to the calibration data IntCal13 of 24 years and resembles annual data for the same time period derived from tree-ring records in other growth locations. A subset of samples of the period 1625–1585 BCE was…
Blunt force trauma: An exceptional example of an ancient Egyptian mummy head
In the course of a scientific cooperation between the German Mummy Project at the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim (Germany) and the Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art Luxembourg (Luxembourg), an ancient Egyptian mummy head was analyzed using a multidisciplinary approach including radiocarbon dating, ultra-high resolution computed tomography, physical anthropology, forensic medicine and Egyptology. Dated to the Roman Period, the mummy head belong…
Collapse of Holocene mangrove ecosystems along the coastline of Oman
Sedimentological, geochemical, and paleontological investigations of the coastline of northeastern Oman have provided the authors with an in-depth insight into Holocene sea levels and climate conditions. The spatial distribution and species assemblage of mangrove ecosystems are analyzed. These ecosystems are sensitive to changes in sea level and precipitation and thus reflect ecological conditions. The close proximity to archaeological sites allo…
Luminescence Sensitivity of Rhine Valley Loess: Indicators of Source Variability
Loess provides a valuable terrestrial record of past environmental conditions, including the dynamics and trajectories of air mass circulation responsible for dust transport. Here we explore variations in the luminescence sensitivity characteristics of sedimentary quartz and feldspar as possible tools for identifying changes in source down a loess-palaeosol sequence (LPS). Luminescence sensitivity is a rapidly measurable index which is the produc…
Nazugum, a new 4000 year old rockshelter site in the Ili Alatau, Tien Shan
Radiocarbon in the Marine Environment: An Overview
Understanding carbon cycling in the ocean is critical for understanding past ocean dynamics, local impacts of environmental changes, and predicting future changes due to climate change. Radiocarbon plays an important role in deciphering the carbon puzzle and, here, we highlight some of the contributions this isotope has made to oceanography. The field is enormous and distilling it to three short papers was a challenge; we chose to focus on three …
Marine Biogenic Carbonates and Radiocarbon—a Retrospective on Shells and Corals With an Outlook on Challenges and Opportunities
Many organisms living in the ocean create tests, shells, or related physical structures of calcium carbonate (CaCO 3 ). As this is most often from dissolved inorganic carbon, using organisms that create calcium carbonate structures for climate research and dating purposes requires knowledge of the origin of carbon that is incorporated. Here, we give a short overview of research on marine carbonates over the last 60 years, especially that based on…
Karl Otto Münnich (1925–2003): In Memoriam
Karl Otto Mnnich (KO) came to the field of radiocarbon by accident. Born in Heidelberg, Germany, in 1925, he had studied nuclear physics at the local university. KO planned to continue a career as a nuclear physicist when, after finishing his studies in 1952, Prof. Otto Haxel (inspired after meeting Willard Libby) offered him a position to set up a radiocarbon laboratory. Haxel had recognized KO's experimental skills in an advanced lab course. Si…
The chronology of Julianos Church, Umm el‐Jimal, Jordan: AMS radiocarbon dates of its synthronon
An ongoing long debate on the chronology of Julianos Church, Umm el‐Jimal, northeast Jordan, started in the early 20th century. It was claimed to be the earliest dated church ( ad 344) by an inscription not found in situ. After five decades, it was proven that the inscription was mistakenly associated to the church, and ‘after the start of the fifth century ad ’ was suggested as a new date. It is still argued that this new date is an early one, a…
A multidisciplinary investigation of a mummified Egyptian head and analysis of its associated resinous material from the Salinas Regional Archaeological Museum in Palermo (Sicily)
Among the 70 items donated by the abbot Antonio Pietro Paternostro to the former National Museum of Palermo (now Salinas Regional Archaeological Museum) in 1870, an ancient Egyptian mummified human head stands out. In 2022 the finding was submitted for a multidisciplinary investigation that relied upon non-invasive or minimally invasive approaches. Investigations revealed that this is a possible female head, which was likely subjected to trans-na…
A Newly Dated Late Pleistocene and Holocene Archaeological Assemblage from Bukhtarma Cave in the Southern Altai Piedmont, East Kazakhstan
The Altai mountains contain a number of cave and rockshelter sites that have given crucial information about human evolution in Asia. Most of these caves are located in the Gornyi Altai of Siberia, while the southern flank of the range remains much less known. Bukhtarma Cave was a karstic cave located near the former village of Peshchera, on the banks of the Bukhtarma River running through the foothills of the southern (Kazakh) Altai mountains. T…
Funny Wrappings—challenging Your Radiocarbon Laboratory
Shipping radiocarbon samples from the scientist to the laboratories involves packaging and wrapping them with all sorts of bags and materials to make sure the samples arrive safely. Over the years a variety of possible and impossible package materials have arrived at our laboratory, causing problems occasionally but often being the highlight of the day cheering up the people involved. The reality of excavating important, occasionally unexpected, …
Origin and Age of Carbon in the Cellulose of Mid-Latitude Tree Rings
Cellulose of tree rings is often assumed to be predominantly formed by direct assimilation of CO 2 by photosynthesis and consequently can be used to reconstruct past atmospheric 14 C concentrations at annual resolution. Yet little is known about the extent and the age of stored carbon from previous years used in addition to the direct assimilation in tree rings. Here, we studied 14 C in earlywood and latewood cellulose of four different species (…
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