Journal of Archaeological Science special issue goes online

AN international team of archaeologists from the Philippines, Italy, Spain and Russia has put together and edited a special issue of the “Journal of Archeological Science: Reports,” a leading international and Scopus-indexed journal that showcases new discoveries and developments in the field of archaeology.

Now available online, this special issue compiles recent research on the reconstruction of prehistoric technologies and the identification of function and the uses of ancient tools made of stone, bone, shell and other materials used by early humans.

This extensive volume stems from two scientific sessions organized by the editors for the 18th World Congress of the International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP), the world’s leading academic body for prehistoric archaeology, which was held at the Paris-Sorbonne University in June 2018.

To commemorate two outstanding scientific personalities Participants of the UISPP 2018 sessions on functional studies who were of great importance in as an archaeological discipline. the establishment of this research The special issue has been edited method, this special volume is by Alfred Pawlik (Ateneo de dedicated to Galina F. Korobkova Manila University, Philippines), and Lawrence H. Keeley, who were Andreu Ollé (Institut Català de among the first followers of Sergei Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució A. Semenov, recognized worldwide Social IPHES and Universitat as the founding father of traceology Rovira i Virgili, Spain), Belén

Márquez ( Museo Arqueológico 2 Regional, Spain), Laura Longo (Univ. degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli and Università Ca’Foscari, Italia) and Natalia Skakun (Institute for the History of Material Culture, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation).