Elsevier is pleased to announce the three virtual special issues of the Journal of Archaeological Science. The special issue on DNA, edited by Keri A. Brown of the University of Manchester, UK, brings together articles on ancient DNA research that have appeared in the journal over the last 22 years.
Subsequent virtual special issues now available include:
■ Environmental History
■ Shipwrecks and Harbours
Crystal Skulls in the Journal of Archaeological Science
Currently popularised by the release of the recent Indiana Jones movie, Margaret Sax and her co-authors investigate the origin of two purportedly pre-Columbian crystal skulls. Read the paper here
Supplementary Data
Authors submitting to the Journal of Archaeological Science and The Journal of Anthropological Archaeology can now submit electronic supplementary material to support and enhance their scientific research. Supplementary files offer authors additional possibilities to publish supporting applications, movies, animation sequences, high-resolution images, background datasets, sound clips and more. Supplementary files supplied will be published online alongside the electronic version of articles in Elsevier web products, including ScienceDirect.
Elsevier is pleased to announce the winner of the 2007 Society for American Archaeology Student Paper Award. Scott Ortman of the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University and the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center wins a year’s subscription to the Journal of Archaeological Science for his paper entitled "Population Biology of the Four Corners to Rio Grande Migration."
Read the article in full on ScienceDirect: What can pollen grains from the Terracotta Army tell us? Journal of Archaeological Science, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 6 December 2006
Ya-Qin Hu, Zhong-Li Zhang, Subir Bera, David K. Ferguson, Cheng-Sen Li, Wen-Bin Shao and Yu-Fei Wang
Scientists solve iceman murder mystery
Archaeologists think they have solved the longstanding mystery of how Otzi, the world's most famous iceman, met his end: an arrow wound to his shoulder caused him to bleed to death. Reports in the Guardian, the BBC and MSNBC detail the findings of Swiss archaeologist Frank Ruhli of the University of Zurich.
