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The Lost Large Mammals of Arabia

Journal of Biogeography, Volume 52, Issue 6, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Aim If successful, plans to restore the vegetation of the Arabian Peninsula (AP) as announced by the Middle East and Saudi Green Initiatives will see the greatest increase in vegetation cover since the beginning of the Holocene Humid Phase (HHP), roughly 9–10,000 years ago.
Christopher Clarke, Sultan M. Alsharif
wiley   +1 more source

Instrumentos líticos para a deformação plástica de metais do povoado calcolítico de Outeiro Redondo (Sesimbra) [PDF]

, 2018
Excavations undertaken at the fortified Chalcolithic settlement of Outeiro Redondo between 2005 and 2016 produced an assemblage of eight stone implements likely used in the plastic deformation of metals.
Boutoille, Linda, Brandherm, Dirk, Cardoso, João Luís   +2 more
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THE ROLE OF IRON AGE STELAE IN THE CREATION OF A SYMBOLIC LANDSCAPE ON THE ATLANTIC COAST OF THE IBERIAN PENINSULA

Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page 159-181, May 2025.
Summary This paper investigates a complex archaeological landscape on the Iberian peninsula’s Atlantic coast. The present‐day landscape is characterized by dense forest and abrupt topography, posing challenges for a systematic research program of landscape archaeology.
Jagoba Hidalgo‐Masa, Jesús García Sánchez   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Holocene biogeography of the southwestern European white‐toothed shrew (Crocidura iculisma, Eulipotyphla) through its fossil record

Mammal Review, Volume 55, Issue 2, April 2025.
The shrew Crocidura iculisma has a fragmented distribution limited to southwestern Europe. This study analyzes changes in its geographic distribution including palaeontological and modern data, revealing a significant reduction its range during the Holocene due to competitive exclusion by Crocidura russula and climatic changes.
Ángel C. Domínguez‐García, Adrián Álvarez‐Vena, César Laplana, Paloma Sevilla, Jacinto Román, Josep Francesc Bisbal‐Chinesta, Javier Calzada, M. Ángeles Galindo‐Pellicena, Luis Benítez De Lugo Enrich   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

From the Earliest Settlements to the Historical Periods: Archaeological Sites in the Eastern Anatolian Highlands (Türkiye) from the Chalcolithic to the Iron Age

Journal of Open Archaeology Data
The dataset described in this paper represents the repository of the archaeological sites (n = 796) for the Eastern Anatolian Highlands, from the known earliest settlements of the Chalcolithic Age (ca. 5000 BC) to the end of the Iron Age (ca.
Alper Aslan
doaj   +1 more source

Two Relief-carvings of Chalcolithic Malta [PDF]

, 1986
The west temple of the Tarxien complex is certainly the most elaborately decorated of the Chalcolithic temples of Malta. The repertoire of stone-carved motifs is fairly extensive, among which one - carved beneath a monumental limestone statue of the 'Goddess'seems to represent the prototype of the egg-and-dart motif before it was abstracted to become ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Late Holocene Evolution of the Lagoonal Harbour of the Punic Centre of Othoca (Western Sardinia, Mediterranean Sea)

Geoarchaeology, Volume 40, Issue 2, March/April 2025.
ABSTRACT Geophysical surveys and multiproxy analyses of sediment cores have been used to reconstruct the palaeoenvironmental evolution of the Santa Giusta coastal lagoon (SGL), along the western coast of Sardinia. This area served as a natural harbour mainly during the Punic and Roman Republican periods (6th–2nd century bc).
Giovanni De Falco, Alfredo Carannante, Carla Del Vais, Luca Gasperini, Ignazio Sanna, Fabio Cammarano, Marilena Cozzolino, Vincenzo Pascucci, Alessandro Conforti   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Long and attenuated: comparative trends in the domestication of tree fruits [PDF]

, 2017
This paper asks whether we can identify a recurrent domestication syndrome for tree crops (fruits, nuts) and track archaeologically the evolution of domestication of fruits from woody perennials.
Fuller, DQ
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A Multi-Analytical Archaeometric Approach to Chalcolithic Ceramics from Charneca do Fratel (Portugal): Preliminary Insights into Local Production Practices

Quaternary
The archaeological site of Charneca do Fratel, in Vila Velha de Ródão, Portugal, is a fortification that is radiocarbon-dated from the third millennium BCE.
Ana S. Saraiva, Mathilda L. Coutinho, Joaquina Soares, Carlos Tavares da Silva, João C. Caninas, João Pedro Veiga   +5 more
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LES MARQUAGES CORPORELS CHEZ LES COMMUNAUTÉS NÉOLITHIQUES ET ÉNÉOLITHIQUES CARPATO DANUBIENNES (II) [PDF]

Codrul Cosminului, 2011
In the second part of this work, the author continues the discussion about anthropomorphic statuettes and vases, this time of the Aeneolithic, the Carpatho-Balkan and Danubian area, which emphasizes body (bodily) marks such as tattoos, piercings ...
Dumitru Boghian
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