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MODERN VISUALIZATION BY DIGITALLY MODELING NEOLITHIC CRAFTED HUMAN SKULLS [PDF]
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2023 Our digital modeling in 3D aims to visualize Neolithic crafted skulls found in the Near East for their preservation and study taking into account both the possibilities of skull deformation in vivo as well as crafting them postmortem.
M. Silver +3 more
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Resilience at the Transition to Agriculture: The Long-Term Landscape and Resource Development at the Aceramic Neolithic Tell Site of Chogha Golan (Iran). [PDF]
Biomed Res Int, 2015 The evidence for the slow development from gathering and cultivation of wild species to the use of domesticates in the Near East, deriving from a number of Epipalaeolithic and aceramic Neolithic sites with short occupational stratigraphies, cannot explain the reasons for the protracted development of agriculture in the Fertile Crescent.
Riehl S +5 more
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Paradise Found or Common Sense Lost? Göbekli Tepe’s Last Decade as a Pre-Farming Cult Centre
Open Archaeology, 2023 The spectacular finds at Turkey’s Göbekli Tepe have fired the imaginations of archaeologists and the general public alike. Reflecting on developments at and about the site since the 2011 publication of a critique of the site’s dominant interpretation as ...
Banning Edward B.
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Milel ve Nihal, 2020 Disiplinlerarası çalışmaların gerekliliğine atıf yapan Din Arkeolojisi ve Göbekli Tepe isimli kitap, arkeoloji ile dinler tarihi disiplinlerinin ortak çalışması gerektiğini ve ortaya çıkarı-lan buluntuların beraber yorumlanması ...
Muammer Özdemir
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Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 2023 The humans of the Göbekli Tepe Neolithic culture of the Upper Euphrates Basin left behind long-term settlements with surprising monumental structures and a rich set of symbolism.
Orhan Ayaz
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Zodiacal Dating Prehistoric Artworks [PDF]
Athens Journal of History, 2020 Recent work has shown that animal symbols in European Palaeolithic cave art and at two ancient sites in southern Turkey, namely Gobekli Tepe and Catalhoyuk, can be interpreted as star constellations, practically the same constellations we continue to use
Martin B. Sweatman
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How we got stuck: The origins of hierarchy and inequality
Mind &Language, Volume 37, Issue 4, Page 751-759, September 2022., 2022 Kim Sterelny's book The Pleistocene social contract provides an exceptionally well‐informed and credible narrative explanation of the origins of inequality and hierarchy. In this essay review, we reflect on the role of rational choice theory in Sterelny's project, before turning to Sterelny's reasons for doubting the importance of cultural group ...
Jonathan Birch, Andrew Buskell
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COMPOSITE HUMAN‐ANIMAL FIGURES IN EARLY URBAN NORTHERN MESOPOTAMIA: SHAMANS OR IMAGES OF RESISTANCE?
Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 230-251, August 2022., 2022 Summary Urban growth in northern Mesopotamia in the early fourth millennium BC was accompanied by an increase in clay container sealings, reflecting the intensified movement and management of resources and manufactured items. The diverse imagery impressed into these sealings includes a human‐ibex grasping a pair of snakes, a bird‐human, and other ...
Augusta McMahon
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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 +5 more
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Decoding European Palaeolithic Art: Extremely Ancient knowledge of Precession of the Equinoxes [PDF]
Athens Journal of History, 2019 A consistent interpretation is provided for zoomorphic artworks at Neolithic Göbekli Tepe and Çatalhöyük as well as European Palaeolithic cave art. It appears they all display the same method for recording dates based on precession of the equinoxes, with
Martin B. Sweatman, Alistair Coombs
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