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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
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On the edge of Prehistory. Preliminary results of excavations at three Chalcolithic and Bronze Age sites in southern Jordan [PDF]

Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean
This article summarizes the research conducted between 2019 and 2022 by a Jagiellonian University (JU) team at three important sites in southern Jordan: Umm Tuweyrat, Wadi Quseir/Huseiniya, and Wadi Faynan 731.
Piotr Kołodziejczyk, Marek Nowak, Michał Wasilewski, Barbara Witkowska, Jacek Karmowski, Marcin Czarnowicz, Justyna Zakrzeńska, Agnieszka Brzeska-Zastawna   +7 more
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They Are People Too: The Ethics of Curation and Use of Human Skeletal Remains for Teaching and Research

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 186, Issue 2, February 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper is an introduction and review for the special issue of AJBA on the Curation and Use of Human Skeletal Remains for Teaching and Research, which emerged from an organized session at the American Association of Biological Anthropologists in 2022.
Gwen Robbins Schug, Siân E. Halcrow, Carlina de la Cova   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vesnice či již město? Neolit a počátky urbanizace Evropy

AntropoWebzin, 2014
The purpose of this paper is to acquaint the reader with the majortrends of proto-urban settlements in the Near East since the beginnin gof Pre-pottery Neolithic (PPN) to the Early Chalcolithic (10/9000 BC– 6000 BC) and the Early Neolithic to the Early ...
Josef Dufek
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Key Resources and Sociocultural Developments in the Iberian Chalcolithic [PDF]

, 2017
The Iberian Peninsula displays extreme geographic and climatic differences, resulting in very different local preconditions. To what extent are these responsible for the heterogeneous social and cultural development in different regions observable ...
Bartelheim, Martin, Bueno Ramírez, Primitiva, Kunst, Michael   +2 more
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Kurgan Phenomenon in the Southern Caucasus: Results of an Interdisciplinary Multi‐Method Remote Sensing Survey Along the Kurekçay Valley (Goranboy Province, Western Azerbaijan)

Archaeological Prospection, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 159-177, January/March 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper presents the results of a pilot study that combines findings from satellite remote sensing analyses and an intensive interdisciplinary survey conducted in November 2021 on kurgans along the Kurekçay Valley, in western Azerbaijan. Through the integration of various methods, including historical and contemporary satellite and aerial ...
Andrea Ricci, Bakhtiyar Jalilov, Stefania Fiori, Ercan Erkul, Jutta Kneisel, Simon Fischer, Hendrik Raese, Wolfgang Rabbel   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Origins of Terracing in the Southern Levant and Patch Cultivation/Box Fields

Journal of Landscape Ecology, 2017
This paper looks at various suggestions relating to what incipient and early forms of terracing might have looked like, and goes on to suggest that some of the earliest terraces in the southern Levant may have emerged from horticultural practices, and ...
Gibson Shimon, Lewis Rafael Y.
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Blame it on the goats? Desertification in the Near East during the Holocene [PDF]

, 2016
The degree to which desertification during the Holocene resulted from climatic deterioration or alternatively from overgrazing has puzzled Quaternary scientists in many arid regions of the world.
Albert, Rosa-María, Cordova, Carlos E., DeWitt, Regina, Emery-Barbier, Aline, Henry, Donald O., Portillo Ramirez, Marta   +5 more
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The chalcolithic fortified site of Leceia (Oeiras, Portugal) [PDF]

, 2008
At the main Chalcolithic settlements of Estremadura, the agricultural potential enhanced through successive improvement of production technologies created an economic surplus that needed to be defended.
Cardoso, João Luís
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Enigmatic artefacts from the Chalcolithic tell Petko Karavelovo (Veliko Tarnovo district)

Българско е-Списание за Археология, 2019
The Chalcolithic Tell Petko Karavelovo reveals a cultural sequence from the Early to the Late Chalcolithic. Apart from evidence of complex building architecture, the tell has produced a rich repertoire of finds of various materials (clay, bone, antler ...
Maria Gurova, Alexander Chohadzhiev
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