Epipalaeolithic animal tending to Neolithic herding at Abu Hureyra, Syria (12,800-7,800 calBP): Deciphering dung spherulites. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Excavations at Abu Hureyra, Syria, during the 1970s exposed a long sequence of occupation spanning the transition from hunting-and-gathering to agriculture. Dung spherulites preserved within curated flotation samples from Epipalaeolithic (ca.
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The Zagros Epipalaeolithic revisited: New excavations and 14C dates from Palegawra cave in Iraqi Kurdistan. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 Palegawra cave, alongside its neighbouring Zarzi, has been an emblematic site of the Epipalaeolithic (Zarzian) cultural horizon in the NW Zagros of Southwest Asia ever since its first exploration in 1951 by Bruce Howe and Robert Braidwood in the context ...
Eleni Asouti +7 more
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The Natufian Epipalaeolithic and Pre-Pottery Neolithic in the desert of northern Arabia [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe Fertile Crescent region, spanning from the upper Euphrates to the head of the Gulf of Aqaba, witnessed the earliest transition in the world from hunting and gathering wild foods to farming domesticates.
Ceri Shipton +16 more
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A systematic review of wild grass exploitation in relation to emerging cereal cultivation throughout the Epipalaeolithic and aceramic Neolithic of the Fertile Crescent. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The present study investigates the occurrence of wild grasses at Epipalaeolithic and aceramic Neolithic sites in the Near East in order to assess their role in subsistence economies alongside the emergence of cereal cultivation.
Alexander Weide +3 more
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The ‘Epipalaeolithic’ site Hont–Templomdomb of Northern Hungary revisited
Communicationes Archaeologicae Hungariae, 2023 This paper presents the results of the typological revision of Hont-Templomdomb site originally published in 1956 as Epipalaeolithic. Our observations contradict the Epipalaeolithic cultural and chronological position of the lithic material, which ...
Kristóf Szegedi +2 more
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Settling down in Southwest Asia: the Epipalaeolithic-Neolithic transformation
Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 2023 Permanent settlement began in southwest Asia across the end of the Pleistocene (the Epipalaeolithic) and the beginning of the Holocene (the Neolithic).
Trevor Watkins
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Epipalaeolithic Ritual Practices at Gedikkaya Cave, Northwestern Türkiye
Anadolu AraştırmalarıThis paper examines the Epipaleolithic occupation of Gedikkaya Cave in northwestern Türkiye, which also served as a settlement during the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods. The Epipaleolithic marks a period of increased human mobility, likely influenced
Deniz Sarı
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The oldest Pottery Neolithic (PN) culture of northeastern Iran: First absolute dating from eastern Mazandaran plains. [PDF]
PLoS ONEIn the past, establishing a clear chronology for the Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic periods in eastern Mazandaran proved challenging. A major obstacle had been the lack of radiocarbon dating.
Rahmat Abbasnejad Seresti +2 more
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Expansion of the known distribution of Asiatic mouflon (Ovis orientalis) in the Late Pleistocene of the Southern Levant [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 Wild sheep (Ovis orientalis) bones recovered from the Natufian site of Shubayqa 1 demonstrate a wider distribution of mouflon in the Late Pleistocene of the Southern Levant than previously known.
Lisa Yeomans +2 more
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Versatile use of microliths as a technological advantage in the miniaturization of Late Pleistocene toolkits: The case study of Neve David, Israel. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 The miniaturization of stone tools, as reflected through the systematic production of bladelets and bladelet tools (microliths), characterized many industries of the Late Pleistocene, with the Levantine Epipalaeolithic serving as a well-studied example ...
Iris Groman-Yaroslavski +7 more
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