Corridor analysis using pheric-distance and energetic parameters show how topographic anisotropy shapes movement through mountain environments, yielding models with explanatory and predictive power
OSL rock surface burial dating of megalith structures in the Dzhungar Mountains – Kazakhstan
The Dzhungar Mountains’ megalithic structures are dated using infrared-stimulated luminescence, establishing a chronological framework.
OSL rock surface dating in Mountain archaeology – principles, applications and frontiers
OSL rock surface burial and exposure dating are novel tools in Quaternary geochronology opening up new vistas in Mountain Archaeology
Ancient Socio-Hydrological Landscapes of the Upper Amazon: Adaptation, Resilience, and the Case for World Heritage Recognition
Upper Amazon region in Ecuador hosts a 2000 km² archaeological complex,reflecting three millennia of socio-hydrological adaptation. Its legacy highlights the need for UNESCO World Heritage recognition
Middle Pleistocene to the Early Holocene human occupation of the northeastern Tibetan Plateau
In this presentation, I report our recent multidisciplinary studies on several Paleolithic and Epiplaleolithic sites in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau, including Baishiya Karst Cave site and so on.
High-Altitude Petroglyphs of Kyzyl Dara: Discovery, Challenges, and Documentation
By prioritising photographic documentation and supplementing it only with simple sketches, the team minimised the time spent in extreme conditions, while shifting interpretive analysis to cabinet work
Elements of Human Activity in Mountain Areas – Approaching Soil Geochemical Analysis in (High) Mountain Contexts on the Example of the Grafenbergalm, Dachstein plateau, Upper Austria
The presentation provides an overview of soil geochemical approaches in archaeology and it´s potentials and challenges in reconstructing past human activities in (high) mountain regions.
Kold Krush, A Cosmos Compressed: Mountain Subsistence and Spiritual Transformations in the Neoglacial of Maloti-Drakensberg, Southern Africa
Archaeologists have long sought to make excavated and rock art evidence mutually intelligible. With new direct dates from rock paintings comes an unprecedented opportunity to relate the two registers
‘Things of consequence’: ostrich eggshell beads as indicators of precolonial societal interaction between southern African highlands and lowlands
Exotic ostrich eggshell beads held powerful associations for hunter-gatherers living in Lesotho’s Maloti-Drakensberg Mountains during the Late Quaternary and bound them to various lowland societies.