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Characterization of Chalcolithic Ceramics from the Lisbon Region, Portugal: An Archaeometric Study

Heritage, 2022
The Chalcolithic period in the Lisbon region, Portugal, is usually divided into three phases chronologically: the Early Chalcolithic, characterized by cylindrical corrugated cups, Full Chalcolithic by so-called acacia-leaf decoration, and Late ...
Rute Correia Chaves, João Pedro Veiga, António Monge Soares   +2 more
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A Multi-Method Study of a Chalcolithic Kiln in the Bora Plain (Iraqi Kurdistan): The Evidence From Excavation, Micromorphological and Pyrotechnological Analyses

Open Archaeology, 2022
Pyrotechnology has always been a core topic in the archaeological debate concerning phases of deep cultural transformations, such as the Chalcolithic period in the Near East (c. 6000–3500 BC). However, previous studies on pyrotechnological installations,
Squitieri Andrea, Amicone Silvia, Dinckal Ada, Altaweel Mark, Gur-Arieh Shira, Rohde Jens, Herr Jean-Jacques, Pietsch Sophie, Miller Christopher   +8 more
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Identification of Fazael 2 (4000–3900 BCE) as first lost wax casting workshop in the Chalcolithic Southern Levant

Heritage Science, 2023
Apart from many lost wax cast metal fragments, crucible fragments and several heated sediment nodules were found at the Chalcolithic site Fazael 2 (central Jordan Valley).
Thomas Rose, Shay Bar, Yotam Asscher, Yuval Goren   +3 more
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First evidence for alloying practices in the Chalcolithic Southern Levant (4500–3800 BCE) as revealed by metallography

Heritage Science, 2023
Excavations at the Chalcolithic site Fazael in the central Jordan Valley uncovered a large number of metal items, many of them polymetallic copper alloys cast in the lost wax technique.
Thomas Rose, Stefano Natali, Andrea Brotzu, Shay Bar, Yuval Goren   +4 more
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Ancient DNA from Chalcolithic Israel reveals the role of population mixture in cultural transformation

Nature Communications, 2018
The Late Chalcolithic material culture in the southern Levant has unique attributes that suggest spread of people or culture. Here, the authors use genome-wide ancient DNA data from 22 individuals from a Chalcolithic site and show evidence of complex ...
Éadaoin Harney, Hila May, Dina Shalem, Nadin Rohland, Swapan Mallick, Iosif Lazaridis, Rachel Sarig, Kristin Stewardson, Susanne Nordenfelt, Nick Patterson, Israel Hershkovitz, David Reich   +11 more
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Human Activities, Biostratigraphy and Past Environment Revealed by Small-Mammal Associations at the Chalcolithic Levels of El Portalón de Cueva Mayor (Atapuerca, Spain)

Quaternary, 2021
The Chalcolithic levels of El Portalón de Cueva Mayor (Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain) offer a good opportunity to test whether the small-mammal contents of different archaeo-stratigraphical units may be useful to characterize them as independent entities ...
Juan Rofes, Amaia Ordiales, Eneko Iriarte, Gloria Cuenca-Bescós, María Ángeles Galindo-Pellicena, Amalia Pérez-Romero, José Miguel Carretero, Juan Luis Arsuaga   +7 more
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Chronological Modelling of the Chalcolithic Settlement Layers at Tell Yunatsite, Southern Bulgaria

Documenta Praehistorica, 2021
This article publishes a new series of radiocarbon dates from Tell Yunatsite, Southern Bulgaria. Context-based excavations undertaken over a large surface area, as well as a small test trench, provided a long stratigraphic sequence (11 ‘building levels’)
Yavor Boyadzhiev, Kamen Boyadzhiev, Lennart Brandtstätter, Raiko Krauß   +3 more
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The Genetic Variability of Present-Day Bulgarians Captures Ancient and Recent Ancestral Contributions. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
ABSTRACT Objectives Thanks to its pivotal crossroad position, Bulgaria played a fundamental key role during all the migration processes that interested the continent through time. While the genetic variability of the country has been deeply investigated using uniparental markers, previous genome‐wide autosomal‐based surveys mainly consisted of wider ...
Sarno S, Piccini F, Abondio P, Cilli E, Kuyumdjian EM, Dimitrov NA, Dilov CD, De Fanti S, Ciani G, Gentilini D, Boattini A, Sazzini M, Pettener D, Luiselli D.   +13 more
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Archaeobotanical Investigations into Golbai Sasan and Gopalpur, Two Neolithic-Chalcolithic Settlements of Odisha

Ancient Asia, 2018
This paper presents the results of plant macro-remain and phytolith analyses from two Neolithic-Early Historic mounded settlement sites in Odisha, eastern India: Gopalpur and Golbai Sasan.
Eleanor Kingwell-Banham, Emma Karoune nee. Harvey, Rabindra Kumar Mohanty, Dorian Q. Fuller   +3 more
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The Strength of Diversity: Macrolithic Artefacts and Productive Forces During the Chalcolithic of Southern Iberia

Journal of World Prehistory, 2023
Any approach to the economic organization of a society depends on our knowledge of the productive forces and relations of production involved. In archaeology, this line of research requires an analysis of the technical quality and quantity of the means ...
Marina Eguíluz, S. Delgado-Raack, Roberto Risch   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source