https://www.pagepress.org/journals/arc <!--<p>The <strong>Open Journal of Archaeometry</strong> is a peer-reviewed, Open Access, international scientific journal published by PAGEPress Publications. It is devoted to the publication of research articles, short communications and review papers on every aspect of archaeometry. Archaeometry – <em>also known as archaeological science</em> – applies scientific techniques to the analysis of archaeological materials. Research topics mainly comprise the following disciplines and analyzing techniques: chemical and physical analyses of artifacts, concerning provenance, technology types of use and authenticity; dating methods providing archaeologists with numerical and relative chronologies; environmental approaches providing information on past changes in landscape, climate, flora, and fauna; anthropological studies dealing with diet, nutrition, health and pathology; mathematical methods for data treatment with the purpose of handling, analyzing, and modeling large data sources; remote-sensing and geophysical-survey applications assisting underground and underwater archaeology; conservation sciences involving the study of decay processes and the development of appropriate methods of conservation and restoration.</p>--> <h1>Announcement of closure</h1> <p><strong>Open Journal of Archaeometry</strong> is no longer open to new submissions. All papers that have been published will be permanently accessible under the terms of open access, both at: <a href="https://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/arc/issue/archive">https://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/arc/issue/archive</a> and via the Portico digital preservation service.<br /><br />PAGEPress would like to thank the past Editor-in-Chief, and the Editorial Board for all their efforts over the past years.<br /><br />Unfortunately, the number of authors in this field contributing to the journal was not as high as expected.</p> PAGEPress Scientific Publications, Pavia, Italy en-US Open Journal of Archaeometry 2038-1948 <p><strong>PAGEPress</strong> has chosen to apply the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 4.0 International License</strong></a> (CC BY-NC 4.0) to all manuscripts to be published.</p> https://www.pagepress.org/journals/arc/article/view/7171 We report archaeomagnetic results from four pottery kilns in Portugal which are thought to belong to the period of Roman rule (3^rd Century BCE-4^th Century CE). Very few details have been published to date, so this broad assignment is based on the general archaeological context at each site. Our motivation was to see if a more precise chronology could be established by means of archaeomagnetic dating. Concomitant goals were to compare these results from Portugal to their counterparts in Spain and to expand geographic coverage of the regional geomagnetic secular variation reference curve. Experimentally, all the samples behaved in a very coherent manner during progressive alternating-field demagnetization and yielded high-precision mean archaeomagnetic directions (a₉₅&lt;3°) for each site. The results suggest that two of the kilns, Castelo de Vide and Peniche, were most likely in use during the late 1st/early 2^nd centuries CE, whereas the two kilns at Seixal are somewhat younger, dating to the late 2nd to early 4^th centuries CE. Michael Edwin Evans Antonio Correia Copyright (c) 2018 Michael Edwin Evans, Antonio Correia 2018-10-01 2018-10-01 4 1 10.4081/arc.2018.7171 https://www.pagepress.org/journals/arc/article/view/7512 The Siegerland (North-Rhine Westphalia, FRG) is famous for its early mining industry and ore exploitation. The archaeological context of cremated burials as well as grave goods indicate parallels to today's Wetterau (Hesse), suggesting migration into the Siegerland. After morphological examination of the cremations augmented by a histological age-at-death determination, provenance analysis by use of stable strontium isotope analysis was carried out. 60 individuals from the burial mound at Netphen-Deuz in the Siegerland were available for anthropological examination. The ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr isotopic ratio was measured in 29 dentine and 15 bone samples. At least 19 individuals exhibited a non-local isotopic signal which was compatible with a provenance from the Wetterau region. Since ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr isotopic ratios in the bioapatite are thermally stable, provenance analysis of cremated finds is thus possible, whereby a testable archaeological hypothesis is prerequisite. Histological examination of cremated bones proved indispensable for the age-at-death estimation. Sidney V. Sebald Manuel Zeiler Gisela Grupe Copyright (c) 2018 Sidney V. Sebald, Manuel Zeiler, Gisela Grupe 2018-06-13 2018-06-13 4 1 10.4081/arc.2018.7512