Dear all,
The January issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science is currently available from Elsevier Inc., via Science Direct., online free as "complementary". Particularly interesting (can I say a heated exchange) are papers by Fiedel & Haynes and Grayson & Meltzer concerning differences in viewpoints taken on the "overkill" hypothesis for the extinction of Late Pleistocene megafauna in North America. The full contents are as follows:
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Journal of Archaeological Science
Volume 31, Issue 1, Pages 1-140 (January 2004)
Plant remains as indicators for economic activity: a case study from Iron Age Ashkelon, Pages 1-13
Ehud Weiss and Mordechai E. Kislev
Confirmation of a near 400 ka age for the Yabrudian industry at Tabun Cave, Israel, Pages 15-20
W. J. Rink, H. P. Schwarcz, A. Ronen and A. Tsatskin
Are obsidian subsources meaningful units of analysis?: temporal and spatial patterning of subsources in the Coso Volcanic Field, southeastern California, Pages 21-29. Jelmer W. Eerkens and Jeffrey S. Rosenthal
Use of scanning electron microscopy to characterize schist as a temper in Hohokam pottery, Pages 31-38
Mary F. Ownby, Charlotte L. Ownby and Elizabeth J. Miksa
Sealing, whaling and caribou: the skeletal isotope chemistry of Eastern Arctic foragers, Pages 39-57
Joan Brenner Coltrain, M. Geoffrey Hayes and Dennis H. O'Rourke
Non-random DNA damage resulting from heat treatment: implications for sequence analysis of ancient DNA, Pages 59-63
Monica Banerjee and Terence A. Brown
Subsistence patterns of Early Pleistocene hominids in the Levant––taphonomic evidence from the 'Ubeidiya Formation (Israel), Pages 65-75
Sabine Gaudzinski
Fruits and seeds from Roman cremations in Limagne (Massif Central) and the spatial variability of plant offerings in France, Pages 77-86
Laurent Bouby and Philippe Marinval
Characterisation of microbial attack on archaeological bone, Pages 87-95
M. M. E. Jans, C. M. Nielsen-Marsh, C. I. Smith, M. J. Collins and H. Kars
Isotopic evidence of inland-water fishing by a Jomon population excavated from the Boji site, Nagano, Japan, Pages 97-107
Minoru Yoneda, Ryo Suzuki, Yasuyuki Shibata, Masatoshi Morita, Tomohiro Sukegawa, Nobuo Shigehara and Takeru Akazawa
Identifying changing fluvial conditions in low gradient alluvial archaeological landscapes: can coleoptera provide insights into changing discharge rates and floodplain evolution?, Pages 109-120. David N. Smith and Andy J. Howard
A premature burial: comments on Grayson and Meltzer's "Requiem for overkill", Pages 121-131
Stuart Fiedel and Gary Haynes
North American overkill continued?, Pages 133-136
Donald K. Grayson and David J. Meltzer
Errata to: Plant lipids and fossil hydrocarbons in embalming material of Roman Period mummies from the Dakhleh Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt[Journal of Archeological Science, 29(7), 751–762]*1, Pages 137-138
Joachim Maurer, Thomas Möhring, Jürgen Rullkötter and Arie Nissenbaum
"Microsatellites from archaeological Vitis vinifera seeds allow a tentative assignment of the geographical origin of ancient cultivars" by J.-F. Manen, L. Bouby, O. Dalnoki, P. Marinval, M. Turgay, A. SchlumbaumJournal of Archaeological Science 30 (6) pp. 721–729 (2003)*1, Pages 139-140
J. F. Manen
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Enjoy,
Dar
