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The earliest transverse grooved stones of Eurasia: Near Eastern distribution, types and chronology
Journal of Lithic Studies, 2021 Transverse grooved stones (TGS) believed to be used as shaft straighteners, first made their appearance at Epipalaeolithic sites in the Near East from where they spread to the Mediterranean coasts of Africa and Europe, but mostly to Northern Eurasia (the
Irina Usacheva
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20,000 years of societal vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in southwest Asia. [PDF]
WIREs Water, 2019 We discuss the impact of a changing regional hydroscape (pictured) on the proxy archives and people of southwest Asia over the last 20,000 years. The Fertile Crescent, its hilly flanks and surrounding drylands has been a critical region for studying how climate has influenced societal change, and this review focuses on the region over the last 20,000 ...
Jones MD +23 more
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Ein Qedem 2. A Kebaran site in Nahal Galim, Mount Carmel, Israel
Documenta Praehistorica, 2011 Ein Qedem 2 (EQ2) is an open-air Kebaran site (Early Epipalaeolithic period, ca. 22 000 –17 500 calBP) located on the slope of Mount Carmel, Israel. The site is a part of a complex of prehistoric sites situated around the perennial spring of Ein Qedem ...
Danny Rosenberg +2 more
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Documenta Praehistorica, 2020 Recent excavations in Jordan have demonstrated a long sequence of development from the late Pleistocene Epipalaeolithic through the early Holocene Pre-Pottery Neolithic.
Bill Finlayson, Cheryl A. Makarewicz
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African Archaeological Review, 2021 This study focuses on the chronostratigraphic sequence of the Cave of Kaf Taht el-Ghar (Dar Ben Karrich, Tétouan, Morocco) excavated in 2012 in the framework of the AGRIWESTMED research project.
Rafael M. Martínez Sánchez +5 more
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Les stations paléolithiques de Mitoc, sur le Prut (Roumanie)
Materiale și Cercetări Arheologice, 2021 The first Palaeolithic discoveries in Romania were made in the 19th century in Mitoc (Botoșani department). Five main stations were excavated, yielding Middle and Upper Palaeolithic industries (including Aurignacian, Gravettian and Epipalaeolithic). Some
Chirica, V. +5 more
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Cyprus Dataset: Settlements from 11000 BCE to 1878 CE
Journal of Open Archaeology Data, 2022 The dataset described in this paper comprises one component of the project ‘EIDOS of a City: simulating the collapse and resilience of ancient Eastern Mediterranean urban environments via agent-based modelling’.
Katherine A. Crawford +1 more
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Between Anatolia and the Aegean: Epipalaeolithic and Mesolithic Foragers of the Karaburun Peninsula
Journal of Field Archaeology, 2020 The Epipalaeolithic and Mesolithic periods of Turkey are poorly understood. The discovery of two sites (Kocaman and Kayadibi) in the Karaburun Peninsula in coastal western Turkey opens a whole new window into our understanding of these periods in Turkey ...
Çiler Çilingiroğlu +5 more
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Cahiers du Centre d’Études Chypriotes, 2023 This paper examines human-mammal relations in prehistoric Cyprus, from the Late Palaeolithic to the end of the Bronze Age (ca 11,000-1100 BCE). The study uses faunal remains and their distribution based on published NISP data.
Lærke Recht
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Eşek Deresi Cave: a new Late Epipalaeolithic site in the Central Taurus, Cilicia, Türkiye
AntiquityEşek Deresi Cave provides a new Late Epipalaeolithic sequence in the Central Taurus Mountains, radiocarbon dated to c. 13 200–10 700 years cal BC. Here, the authors present preliminary analyses of finds excavated between 2021 and 2024, which indicate ...
A. Gopher +3 more
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