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Chalcolithic beginnings and ecological change spanning 1,000 years as glimpsed from a doline in the Burren, Co. Clare

Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature, 2022
:In 1986 an excavation was carried out upon an area of what transpired to be a multicomponent settlement in the eastern Burren, located near to the late eighth-early ninth century ad chieftain's residence of Cahercommaun.
D. Gibson
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Monumentality, Social Memory, and Territoriality in Neolithic–Chalcolithic Northwestern Arabia

, 2021
Recent excavations undertaken by the Aerial Archaeology in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (AAKSA) project have recovered significant skeletal material, evidence for funerary offerings, including jewelry, and the earliest chronometrically dated domestic dog ...
H. Thomas   +7 more
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Flint sources and mobility at the Chalcolithic (3500–2200 BCE) settlement of Zambujal (Portugal)

Geoarchaeology, 2021
Provenance studies of the siliceous sedimentary raw material used by ancient communities are essential to understanding the mobility and exchange networks of these communities.
Patrícia Jordão, N. Pimentel
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A stamped sealing from Middle Chalcolithic Tel Tsaf: implications for the rise of administrative practices in the Levant

, 2021
This article describes and discusses a stamped sealing found at Middle Chalcolithic Tel Tsaf (5th millennium BCE). This is the earliest stamped sealing found in the southern Levant.
Michael Freikman   +2 more
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Sifting Through: The Characteristics and Significance of Ceramic Strainer-Vessels in the Chalcolithic Period of the Southern Levant

Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental research, 2021
A strainer is an autonomous utensil (sieve or colander) or an integral part (filter) of a utensil designed to separate mixtures based on grain size.
E. C. M. van den Brink   +2 more
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Transregional Perspectives: Characterizing Obsidian Consumption at Early Chalcolithic Ein el-Jarba (N. Israel)

, 2020
This paper details the characterization of 48 obsidian artifacts from Ein el-Jarba, an Early Chalcolithic site of the southern Levantine Wadi Rabah culture (6th millennium cal b.c.).
Tristan Carter   +2 more
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Fishing for Answers: the rarity of fish and fishhooks in the Late Chalcolithic of the southern Levant and the significance of copper fishhooks

International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 2020
Evidence of fishing is rare at most Late Chalcolithic sites in the southern Levant, reflecting the region's economy and preferences. The minimal incorporation of fish into the diet is striking especially as some sites are near the Mediterranean Sea, the ...
D. Rosenberg, R. Chasan
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Dietary continuation in the southern Levant: a Neolithic-Chalcolithic perspective through organic residue analysis

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2022
R. Chasan, C. Spiteri, D. Rosenberg
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Chalcolithic Period

Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology, 2021
‘Ein Gedi, Nahal Beer-Sheba
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