Agricultural productivity in past societies: toward an empirically informed model for testing cultural evolutionary hypotheses [PDF]
, 2015 Agricultural productivity, and its variation in space and time, plays a fundamental role in many theories of human social evolution. However, we often lack systematic information about the productivity of past agricultural systems on a scale large enough
Bogaard, Amy +14 more
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The Jericho Oasis Archaeological Park - 2015 Interim Report. Italian-Palestinian cooperation for protection and valorization of archaeological heritage [PDF]
, 2015 In April 2015, the Italian Cooperation, Sapienza University of Rome and the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities started the Project “Oasis of Jericho” aimed at the implementation of the Jericho Oasis Archaeological Park (JOAP) by means of ...
Hamdan, Iyad +3 more
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Domesticating Mathematics: Taxonomic Diversity in Archaeozoological Assemblages [PDF]
, 2013 Understanding taxonomic richness is indispensable in studying the choices made in the exploitation of the local fauna such as those of the broad-spectrum revolution in the Near East.
Bartosiewicz, László +2 more
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Metagenomic analysis of dental calculus in ancient Egyptian baboons [PDF]
, 2019 Dental calculus, or mineralized plaque, represents a record of ancient biomolecules and food residues. Recently, ancient metagenomics made it possible to unlock the wealth of microbial and dietary information of dental calculus to reconstruct oral ...
Bramanti, Barbara +7 more
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Hypotrophic Roots of the Upper Central Incisors –a Proposed New Discrete Dental Trait
Dental Anthropology, 2012 This paper describes a newly defined nonmetric trait in the human dentition, i.e., Hypotrophic Roots of the Upper Central Incisors (HRUCI). Teeth presenting HRUCI are characterized by abnormally short roots whose crowns exhibit no apparent morphological ...
Claudia Cunha +5 more
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Bethlehem in the Bronze and Iron Ages in the light of recent discoveries by the Palestinian MOTA-DACH [PDF]
, 2015 The discovery of the necropolis of Khalet al-Jam’a, around 2.2 Km south-east of Bethlehem (Nigro et al. in this volume), provides new data on the Bronze and Iron Age town which controlled the main route connecting Jerusalem to Hebron, and the access to ...
Nigro, Lorenzo
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Cultic and Ritual Artifacts of The Chalcolithic Period
Works of Georgian Technical UniversityArchaeological artifacts from the Chalcolithic period discovered within the territory of Georgia provide compelling evidence for examining the belief systems and ritual practices of prehistoric communities. Anthropomorphic clay figurines, stone and clay tokens, spindle whorls, amulets, and various symbolic motifs are linked to the worship of fertility,
Aleqsander Nazgaidze, Vaja Sadradze
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An interpretation of the bell beaker cultural sequence in the tagus estuary region : data from Leceia (Oeiras) [PDF]
, 2004 Neste traballho discute-se o significado das cerâmicas campaniformes encontradas no povoado calcolítico fotificado de Leceia, para as quais se definiram contextos especificos, associados a datações de radiocarbono.
Cardoso, João Luís
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A hafted halberd excavated at Trecastell, Powys: from undercurrent to uptake – the emergence and contextualisation of halberds in Wales and North-west Europe [PDF]
, 2015 Excavations at Trecastell, Powys, south Wales, in 2007 yielded a copper halberd complete with its haft-grip. This has major implications for the mode of hafting halberds, but the discovery has also prompted a reconsideration of insular halberds in their ...
Adam Gwilt +6 more
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Geometrical 3D laser scanner model of a Chalcolithic vessel (Gor, Granada, Spain) [PDF]
, 2007 The most recent computer technologies of 3D geometrical modelling provide a great quantity of tools for archaeological investigation. This paper presents an application of the 3D laser scanner to study the metric and morphometric parameters of a ...
Alemá, I. +2 more
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