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Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-38, March 2025.
Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
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THE NEOLITHIC OF FOREST-STEPPE TRANSURALS AND IRTYSH AREA: LATEST RESEARCHES AND PERIODIZATION

Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2015
Recently, the issue of neolitization of Transurals is dominated by two basic concepts that are opposed to each other: the sequencing of traditions as Koshkino-Boborykino by V. T. Kovaleva and as Boborykino-Koshkino by V. A. Zakh.
V. S. Моsin
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The Early Neolithic pottery of Keçiçayiri and its place in the North-western Anatolian Neolithisation process

Documenta Praehistorica, 2019
The region of Inner North-western Anatolia was a key node in the transmission of the Neolithic lifestyle from the Near East to Marmara, and from there to the Balkans and the rest of Europe. It formed the intersection between several important routes and
Deniz Sari, Semsettin Akyol
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Population Replacement in Early Neolithic Britain [PDF]

, 2018
The roles of migration, admixture and acculturation in the European transition to farming have been debated for over 100 years. Genome-wide ancient DNA studies indicate predominantly Anatolian ancestry for continental Neolithic farmers, but also variable admixture with local Mesolithic hunter-gatherers1–9.
Brace, Selina, Diekmann, Yoan, Booth, Thomas J., Faltyskova, Zuzana, Rohland, Nadin, Mallick, Swapan, Ferry, Matthew, Michel, Megan, Oppenheimer, Jonas, Broomandkhoshbacht, Nasreen, Stewardson, Kristin, Walsh, Susan, Kayser, Manfred, Schulting, Rick, Craig, Oliver E., Sheridan, Alison, Pearson, Mike Parker, Stringer, Chris, Reich, David, Thomas, Mark G., Barnes, Ian   +20 more
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Coastal hunter-gatherers and social evolution: marginal or central? [PDF]

, 2002
General accounts of global trends in world prehistory are dominated by narratives of conquest on land: scavenging and hunting of land mammals, migration over land bridges and colonisation of new continents, gathering of plants, domestication, cultivation,
Bailey, G., Milner, N.
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Rethinking 'cattle cults' in early Egypt: Towards a prehistoric perspective on the Narmer Palette [PDF]

, 2008
The Narmer Palette occupies a key position in our understanding of the transition from Predynastic to Dynastic culture in Egypt. Previous interpretations have focused largely upon correspondences between its decorative content and later conventions of ...
Wengrow, D
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Living by the lake: Plant food diversity in a prehistoric lake‐dwelling community in the Republic of North Macedonia

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the relationship between wetland ecosystems and prehistoric lakeshore settlements within the Lake Ohrid basin (a biodiversity hotspot) by considering plant food systems at Ploča Mičov Grad, North Macedonia. The mid‐fifth millennium (c.4555–4373 to 4437–4241 cal BCE) waterlogged assemblage contained a diverse spectrum of ...
Amy Holguin, Michael Charles, Ferran Antolín, Rachel Ballantyne, Müge Ergun, Albert Hafner, Stefanie Jacomet, André F. Lotter, Goce Naumov, Johannes Reich, Raül Soteras, Elizabeth Stroud, Willy Tinner, Rachel Wood, Amy Bogaard   +14 more
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Chronology of Neolithic Sites in the Social and Cultural Space of the Trans-Urals

Археология евразийских степей
The concept of social and cultural space of the Neolithic Trans-Urals describes a historical space, considered in terms of the existing cultural traditions of certain societies in the spatial -temporal framework of the VII–V millennia BC (cal BC).
Vadim S. Mosin
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What can lithics tell us about food production during the transition to farming? Exploring harvesting practices and cultural changes during the neolithic in Southwest Asia: a view from Qminas (north‐western Syria)

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the continuity and change in harvesting practices between the Late Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B (LPPNB) and the Early Pottery Neolithic at Qminas, north‐western Levant, through a traceological analysis of flint sickles. By combining qualitative traceological analysis with quantitative functional approaches, we demonstrate that ...
Fiona Pichon, Osamu Maeda, Juan José Ibáñez Estévez, Patricia Anderson   +3 more
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Palaeogenomic insights into the origins of early settlers on the island of Cyprus

Scientific Reports
Archaeological evidence supports sporadic seafaring visits to the Eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus by Epipaleolithic hunter-gatherers over 12,000 years ago, followed by permanent settlements during the early Neolithic.
Alexandros Heraclides, Aris Aristodemou, Andrea N. Georgiou, Marios Antoniou, Elisabeth Ilgner, Leonidas-Romanos Davranoglou   +5 more
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