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Near East - Archaeoastronomy
Peg, Boat, and Quartered Sky: The Lidar Hoyuk Prism as Portable Parapegma
A Bronze Age limestone prism from Anatolia may encode the world's earliest hand-held astronomical index device, predating known parapegmata by a millennium.
John Carlton
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March 2026
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Near East
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Linked Data - Numismatics
Coins as Portable Archives: ANS MANTIS and Linked Data Numismatics
A first sketch for turning Nomisma RDF, Pelagios annotations, mint geography, and ANS collection feeds into a research workbench for ancient coinage.
archAIology Lab
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Mesoamerica - Classic Maya
Hieroglyphic Stairways and the Long Count: New Readings at Copan
Revised epigraphic analysis of Structure 26 challenges established dynastic sequences and opens new questions about the Classic collapse.
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North America - Mississippian
Cahokia's Woodhenge and the Solstice Alignment Problem
LiDAR survey data provides new evidence for the spatial relationship between Monks Mound and the post circle alignments at the greatest pre-Columbian city north of Mexico.
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Near East - Bronze Age
The Ain Samiya Goblet: Cosmos, Chaos, and the Earliest Cosmological Depiction
A reexamination of the silver goblet from the Judean Hills reframes its imagery not as myth-illustration but as cosmogenesis - creation of order from primordial chaos.
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Mesoamerica - Olmec
San Lorenzo and the First Monumental Tradition in the Americas
Revisiting the colossal heads and hydraulic engineering of San Lorenzo in light of recent geophysical survey data and revised dating evidence.
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