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The fortified metallurgical settlement from the Middle-Late Chalcolithic in Puente de Santa Bárbara (Huércal-Overa, Almería)

Zephyrus, 2018
The fortified chalcolithic settlement in Puente de Santa Bárbara (Huércal-Overa, Almería), with 1.5 ha, located 3 km away from the Cerro Minado copper mines, and exploited at least during the Late Chalcolithic, presents copper ores, crucible smelting and
Pedro GONZÁLEZ QUINTERO, Alfredo MEDEROS MARTÍN, Antonio DÍAZ CANTÓN, Charles BASHORE ACERO, Jorge CHAMÓN FERNÁNDEZ, Marco A. MORENO BENÍTEZ   +5 more
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Diet-related dental wear in archaeological human populations of Chalcolithic and Bronze Age from North-Eastern Romania

Homo, 2022
Dental macrowear is the non-pathological loss of hard tissues on the occlusal surface of the teeth. In archaeological contexts, the loss of tooth tissues is often correlated with lifestyles, habits, and with the physical properties of the consumed food -
Ozana-Maria Petraru, Luminița Bejenaru, Mariana Popovici   +2 more
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(Don’t) Use Your Hands: The South Levantine Late Chalcolithic (ca. 4500–3900 cal BC) Spoons and Their Significance

Humans
The Late Chalcolithic period in the southern Levant saw notable changes in almost every aspect of daily life. Some of the most significant shifts during this time seem to have been anchored in the subsistence economy and involved food and its cooking ...
Danny Rosenberg, Shira Gur-Arieh, Motti Pearl, Hadar Ahituv   +3 more
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Early Bronze Age Copper Circulation in the Guadalentín and Segura Valleys (SE Spain)

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Identifying the sources of copper used in Early Bronze Age metalwork from south‐east Spain is key to resolving a long‐running debate concerning centralized control, or lack thereof, over El Argar society's economic organisation. This study provides the first substantial integrated programme of EDXRF and MC‐ICP‐MS analyses for copper‐base ...
Dirk Brandherm, Ignacio Montero‐Ruiz
wiley   +1 more source

Ground stone tool assemblages at the end of the Chalcolithic period: A preliminary analysis of the Late Chalcolithic sites in the Fazael Valley

Journal of Lithic Studies, 2016
The very Late Chalcolithic sites of the Fazael Valley exhibit changes in settlement patterns and material culture. This paper presents the analysis of the ground stone tool assemblages of these sites, and includes the combination of attribute analysis ...
Haggai Cohen-Klonymus, Shay Bar
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Procurement of Senonian Flint for Bladelets Production at the Early PPNB Site of Nahal Zahal in the Northern Negev Established for the First Time Using Chemical Composition Analysis

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The hypotheses of Senonian flint to be a prime source of prehistoric “chalcedony” flint artefacts from the Negev Desert (Israel) was not investigated in detail thus far. By combining trace‐element profiling with statistical interpretation, ten flint items from Nahal Zahal, an Early Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B site in the northern Negev, were ...
Meir Finkel, Michal Birkenfeld, Talia Abulafia, Keren Weiss‐Sarusi, Olga Berlin, Yoav Ben Dor   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Early Chalcolithic and Late Chalcolithic at Sultana–Ghețărie site (southern Romania). A look from the pots

Българско е-Списание за Археология
This study examines two prehistoric pottery assemblages from the Sultana–Ghețărie site (southern Romania), excavated in 2021 from distinct contexts: an Early Chalcolithic pit (Boian–Vidra tradition, ca.
Vasile Opriș, Robert Hofmann
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The Origins of Fashion

Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 35, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper reconceptualizes fashion as a deep‐time system of bodily communication rather than a byproduct of modern consumer societies. We define fashion as a socially transmitted system of bodily display in which patterned variation occurs within shared conventions of appearance.
Francesco d'Errico, Solange Rigaud
wiley   +1 more source

Ceramic Production and Geodiversity in Iron Age Iberia: An Archaeometric Study of Pottery from Castrejón de Capote (SW Spain)

Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 4, Page 659-673, August 2026.
ABSTRACT The hillfort of Castrejón de Capote is one of the best investigated settlements of Late Iron Age southwest Iberia. Located in the territory that the classical sources attributed to the Celtici, it was occupied between the early 4th and the 1st centuries bce.
Beatrijs de Groot, Luis Berrocal‐Rangel, Manuel Fernández‐Götz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Batı Anadolu Kalkolitik Dönem Oluk Bezeme Tekniği: Çine-Tepecik Höyük Bağlamında Bir Değerlendirme / Grooved Decoration Technique of the Chalcolithic Period of Western Anatolia: An Evaluation in the Context of Çine-Tepecik Mound

Arkhaia Anatolika
The Chalcolithic Period represents one of the lesser-known and most debated phases of Anatolian archaeology. The fact that architectural evidence pertaining to the period has been documented only on a limited scale impedes our understanding of settlement
Ümit ÇAYIR TIĞLI
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