The Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute webpage:
http://mai.mercyhurst.edu/has an icon at the extreme upper right-hand corner of the webpage, reading "Current Research". This icon leads to a number of articles on various subjects in pdf form. Of possible interest to those here who have participated in past conversations on the now nearly abandoned Yahoo palanth-l group is one concerning the Chikhen Agui Upper Paleolithic site in Mongolia, referred to in the Brantingham article on the Initial Upper Paleolithic of Northeast Asia, which we discussed last year. titled:
"Geomorphology and Geochemistry of the Upper Paleolithic Site of Chikhen Agui, Mongolia", by D.C. Hyland.
See:
http://mai.mercyhurst.edu/PDFs/Hyland_Chikhen.pdfAlthough focused on the geomorphology and geochemistry of the Chikhen Agui site, the article also has some informative things to say about the history of Paleolithic research in Mongolia.
Other "Current Research" articles available from the Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute webpage, several of which might be of interest to some here, include:
Pleistocene Textiles in the Russian Far East: Impressions From Some of the World's Oldest Pottery
D. C. Hyland, I. S. Zhushchikhovskaya, V. E. Medvedev, A. P. Derevianko, and A. V. Tabarev— Recent excavations at a series of terminal Pleistocene sites in the Amur River basin and the Primorie region of the Russian Far East have produced some of the earliest evidence of pottery production in the world (Derevianko and Medvedev 1995; Zhushchikhovskaya 1996, 1997a, 1997b). Additionally, and like the novel reports of an elaborate textile industry for Upper Paleolithic Moravia . . .
and
A Long View of Deep Time at Meadowcroft Rockshelter.
J. M. Adovasio and D. R. Pedler
Perishable Artifacts, Paleoindians, and Dying Paradigms
J. M. Adovasio
Perishable Technology from the Hiscock Site (to be reposted soon)
J. M. Adovasio, R. S. Laub, J. S. Illingworth, J. H. McAndrews, and D. C. Hyland
Forensic Processing of the Terrestrial Mass Fatality Scene: Testing New Search, Documentation and Recovery Methodologies– (Presented at the 2001 American Academy of Forensic Sciences Meetings in Seattle, WA)
Dennis C. Dirkmaat, Ph.D., D.A.B.F.A., Joseph T. Hefner, B.S., and Michael J. Hochrein, B.S.
Can Sharp Force Trauma To Bone Be Recognized After Fire Modification? An Experiment Using Odocoileus virginianus (White-Tailed Deer) Ribs–(Presented at the 2002 American Academy of Forensic Sciences Meetings in Atlanta, GA)
Paul D. Emanovsky, Joseph T. Hefner, Dennis C. Dirkmaat,
Early Bronze Age Perishable Construction Technology from the Southeastern Dead Sea Plain (to be reposted soon)
J. S. Illingsworth— M. A. Owoc
Erie County Historic Cemetery Survey Project- Web page
Munselling the Mound: The Use of Soil Colour as Metaphor in British Bronze Age Funerary Ritual
Mary Ann Owoc
The times, they are a changin': experiencing continuity and development in the Early Bronze Age funerary rituals of south-western Britain.
Mary Ann Owoc
Knap-In! Breaking Stone with the Public
C . Pedler , C. Brumbaugh, II, and V. Tonn A. Quinn
The Orton Quarry Site (36ER243) and the Late Prehistory of the Lake Erie Plain
A. G. Quinn, J. M. Adovasio, D. R. Pedler, C. L. Pedler, D. C. Dirkmaat, D. C. Hyland, and M. R. Buyce
Western Pennsylvania's Maritime History as Illuminated by the Erie Land Lighthouse
J. Thomas
Enjoy,
Dar
