Villages du Néolithique en Méditerranée occidentale. Sédentarisation et habitat groupé
Archéopages, 2015 It is commonly assumed that Neolithic groups were organised in village communities. Yet the use of the term “village” is inappropriate for the Neolithic since several sociological or political criteria used to define a village are outside the reach of ...
Jean Vaquer, Muriel Gandelin
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Cultural diffusion was the main driving mechanism of the Neolithic transition in southern Africa. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 It is well known that the Neolithic transition spread across Europe at a speed of about 1 km/yr. This result has been previously interpreted as a range expansion of the Neolithic driven mainly by demic diffusion (whereas cultural diffusion played a ...
Antonieta Jerardino +3 more
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Radiocarbon evidence for the pace of the M-/L-PPNB transition in the 8th millennium BC south-west Asia [PDF]
, 2017 The transition from the Middle to Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) happened throughout southwest Asia in the mid-8th millennium cal BC. It entailed the abandonment of a number of sites, rapid growth of others, as well as the wide spread of ...
Jacobsson, Piotr
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Documenta Praehistorica, 2017 This paper discusses the basis of Neolithic periodization used in mainland Finland. It is suggested that the periodization should be revised: boundary between the Middle and Late Neolithic periods should be moved to correspond the appearance of Corded ...
Kerkko Nordqvist, Teemu Mökkönen
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Material choices for fibre in the Neolithic: an approach through the measurement of mechanical properties [PDF]
, 2016 Studies of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Europe have focused on plants and animals exploited for food. However, the exploitation of plants for fibres underwent a significant change with the addition of domestic flax as a fibre crop.
Haigh, Sarah +3 more
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Le Néolithique du Morvan : état des connaissances
Revue Archéologique de l’Est, 2011 The region of Morvan, in particular the granitic massif, forms a very large geographic area of which the prehistoric remains largely unknown. The situation regarding the zone lying between Morvan massif and the adjacent Serein, Arroux, Aleine and Yonne ...
Rémi Martineau +5 more
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Insights on the changing dynamics of cemetery use in the neolithic and chalcolithic of southern Portugal. Radiocarbon dating of Lugar do Canto Cave (Santarém) [PDF]
, 2014 Lugar do Canto Cave is one of the most relevant Neolithic burial caves in Portugal given not only its extraordinary preservation conditions at the time of discovery but also the quality of the field record obtained during excavation. Its material culture
Carvalho, António, Luis Cardoso, Joao
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Scientific Reports, 2022 The aim of the study is to investigate mitochondrial diversity in Neolithic Greece and its relation to hunter-gatherers and farmers who populated the Danubian Neolithic expansion axis.
Nuno M. Silva +25 more
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The beginning of the Neolithic on the Upper Volga (Russia)
Documenta Praehistorica, 2019 The appearance of the Neolithic in the Upper Volga region is to be associated with infiltrations of notch-ware pottery-makers into the indigenous Mesolithic populations. Most likely the first vessels were imported into the region as final goods.
Nataliya A. Tsvetkova
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Neolithic settlement dynamics derived from archaeological data and colluvial deposits between the Baar region and the adjacent low mountain ranges, southwest Germany [PDF]
Eiszeitalter und Gegenwart, 2019 The present study combines archaeological data with archaeopedological data from colluvial deposits to infer Neolithic settlement dynamics between the Baar region, the Black Forest and the Swabian Jura.
J. J. Miera +14 more
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