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Energy regimes help tackle limitations with the prehistoric cultural‐phases approach to learn about sustainable transitions: Archaeological evidence from northern Spain

Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 38, Issue 6, Page 921-937, August 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT Human societies face challenges in transitioning towards low‐carbon economies and sustainable management of land use and natural resources. Documenting and learning from past transitions helps policy‐makers cope with such challenges. The agricultural revolution in Cantabrian Spain (ca.
Alexandre Martinez, Sjoerd Kluiving, José Muñoz‐Rojas, César Borja Barrera, Pablo Fraile Jurado, María Esperanza Roldán Muñoz, Juan Carlos Mejías‐García   +6 more
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Impacts of Early Holocene environmental dynamics on open‐air occupation patterns in the Western Mediterranean: insights from El Arenal de la Virgen (Alicante, Spain)

Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 38, Issue 5, Page 725-749, July 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT Open‐air sites represent a fundamental proxy of the Early Holocene adaptive systems in the Iberian Peninsula. However, its research potential for the study of human–environmental interactions has been minimally explored. In this work, we present the results of an integrated research programme focused on open‐area excavations at the Mesolithic ...
Javier Fernández‐López De Pablo, Ana Polo‐Díaz, José Ramón Rabuñal, Magdalena Gómez Puche, Yolanda Carrión Marco, Ana Cantó, Rowan Mclaughlin, Carlos Ferrer, Francesc Burjachs   +8 more
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EVIDENCE OF AN EPHEMERAL EPIPALAEOLITHIC SITE IN THE CRIMEAN FOOTHILLS: FROM THE HISTORY OF FIELD RESEARCH IN CRIMEA IN 1990

КОНСЕНСУС, 2023
This paper presents materials from one of the Palaeolithic sites discovered by the author in the late 1980s and early 1990s in Crimea. The Hamak-Koba sediment pack was once tested, and some archaeological materials were recovered.
Вадим Степанчук
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Birds as indicators of early Holocene biodiversity and the seasonal nature of human activity at WF16, an early Neolithic site in Faynan, Southern Jordan

Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 37, Issue 6, Page 1148-1163, August 2022., 2022
Abstract Birds are useful indicators of biodiversity. Their bones have been used for reconstructing the local environments and seasonality of human activity at Epipalaeolithic and early Neolithic sites in south‐west Asia. We consider the bird bones from WF16, an early Neolithic settlement in southern Jordan, currently located in an arid environment ...
Steven Mithen, Judith White, Bill Finlayson, Ben Greet, Fares Khoury   +4 more
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The bird remains from WF16, an early Neolithic settlement in southern Jordan: Assemblage composition, chronology and spatial distribution

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 31, Issue 6, Page 1030-1045, November/December 2021., 2021
Abstract Excavations at the early Neolithic settlement of WF16 in Faynan, southern Jordan, 11.84–10.24 ka BP, recovered 17,700 bird bones, of which 7808 could be identified to at least family level. Sixty‐three different bird taxa are present from 18 families, representing a mix of resident and migrant birds, based on present‐day ecology.
Judith White, Bill Finlayson, Cheryl Makarewicz, Fares Khoury, Ben Greet, Steven Mithen   +5 more
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The utilization of birds at neolithic WF16, southern Jordan: Cut marks, body parts, and experimental skinning

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 31, Issue 6, Page 1203-1216, November/December 2021., 2021
Abstract WF16 is an early Neolithic settlement in southern Jordan with a large bird bone assemblage (Number of Identified Specimens [NISP] = 7808), representing 18 families. We explore how the birds were utilized by considering cut marks and body part representation for each of the families represented, also drawing on the experimental skinning of ...
Judith White, Fares Khoury, Ben Greet, Steven Mithen   +3 more
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BEATS: BEAmline for synchrotron X-ray microTomography at SESAME. [PDF]

J Synchrotron Radiat
The recently inaugurated beamline ID10‐BEATS for hard X‐ray full‐field tomography at the SESAME synchrotron in Jordan is presented. The design, performance and scientific applications of the beamline, which was developed within the European Horizon 2020 project BEAmline for Tomography at SESAME, are illustrated.The ID10 beamline of the SESAME ...
Iori G, Alzu'bi M, Abbadi A, Al Momani Y, Hasoneh AR, Van Vaerenbergh P, Cudin I, Marcos J, Ahmad A, Mohammad A, Matalgah S, Foudeh I, Al Najdawi M, Amro A, Ur Rehman A, Abugharbiyeh M, Khrais R, Aljadaa A, Nour M, Al Mohammad H, Al Omari F, Salama M, García Fusté MJ, Reyes-Herrera J, Morawe C, Attal M, Kasaei S, Chrysostomou C, Kołodziej T, Boruchowski M, Nowak P, Wiechecki J, Fatima A, Ghigo A, Wawrzyniak AI, Lorentz K, Paolucci G, Lehner F, Krisch M, Stampanoni M, Rack A, Kaprolat A, Lausi A.   +42 more
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DANCE SCENES IN LEVANTINE ROCK ART (SPAIN): A CRITICAL REVIEW

Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 342-366, November 2021., 2021
Summary We argue here that it is possible to study dance in prehistoric societies by analysing how it was depicted in rock art. For this research to be effective, subjectivity must be minimised by analysing the images systematically. We adapt a series of criteria first established in Garfinkel’s ‘archaeology of dance’ and apply them to our case study ...
Neemias Santos Da Rosa, Laura Fernández‐Macías, Tommaso Mattioli, Margarita Díaz‐Andreu   +3 more
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Fertile Crescent crop progenitors gained a competitive advantage from large seedlings

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 11, Issue 7, Page 3300-3312, April 2021., 2021
Using controlled‐setting experiments, we studied how the domestication of cereal species in the Fertile Crescent was influenced by the role of seedling competition in species mixtures. Crop progenitors had greater germination success and had greater aboveground biomass than other wild species when grown in competition with other species, and seed size ...
Catherine Preece, Glynis Jones, Mark Rees, Colin P. Osborne   +3 more
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What makes an island a suitable refuge for an endemic lizard?

Diversity and Distributions, Volume 27, Issue 3, Page 463-472, March 2021., 2021
Abstract Aim To identify and evaluate the environmental properties of the Mediterranean islands that make them a suitable habitat for their endemic lizards. This would represent an important improvement in our knowledge and would assist the conservation of these lizards, which are threatened by both the expansion of mainland species and the increasing ...
Daniel Escoriza, K. C. Burns
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