Sediment descriptions and geochemical analyses of radiocarbon-dated deposits from the vicinity of Göbekli Tepe-A dataset. [PDF]
Data Brief, 2020 This dataset comprises the detailed descriptions and laboratory measurements of sediment profiles from the semi-arid environs of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey—one of the oldest monumental structures of humankind ...
Nykamp M, Knitter D, Schütt B.
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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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Göbekli Tepe – the Stone Age Sanctuaries. New results of ongoing excavations with a special focus on sculptures and high reliefs [PDF]
, 2010 The transition from non-food producing to farming societies first took place during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) of the Near East. It happened immediately after the end of the Pleistocene, between the 10th to the 8th millennium BC.
Schmidt, Klaus
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Adapting to Population Growth: The Evolutionary Alternative to Malthus
Cliodynamics, 2016 A long-standing debate on the dynamics of population growth in human history has become polarized between a Malthusian stance and a Boserupian one. The former tends to view population growth as limited by carrying capacity, dependent on environment and ...
Axel Kristinsson +1 more
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A Decorated Bone ‘Spatula’ from Göbekli Tepe. On the Pitfalls of Iconographic Interpretations of Early Neolithic Art [PDF]
, 2017 In 2011 a special object was discovered at Göbekli Tepe in one of the excavation trenches in the tell´s northwestern depression. The artefact was described preliminarily as a ‘spatula’ made from a rib bone.
Jens Notroff, Oliver Dietrich
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Archaeoacoustic analysis of Xaghra Hypogeum, Gozo, Malta [PDF]
, 2017 Archaeoacoustics offers a new way to interpret anthropological questions pertaining to ancient architecture and populations. Studies conducted at a number of ancient sites throughout Europe and Asia, have found the presence of natural phenomena capable ...
Debertolis, Paolo +2 more
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Becoming Neolithic in words, thoughts and deeds [PDF]
, 2019 How did people come to ‘think Neolithic’? While there has been considerable progress on reconstructing the environmental, economic, technological and social changes associated with the transition from mobile hunter-gathering to sedentary farming and ...
Mithen, Steven
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Studying the Use of Earth in Early Architecture of Southwest and Central Asia [PDF]
, 2023 Using case studies from Aşıklı Höyük, Çatalhöyük, Boncuklu Tarla, Göbekli Tepe (all Turkey), and Monjukli Depe (southern Turkmenistan), this study presents a framework for in-depth research on prehistoric earthen architecture in southwestern and central ...
Baranski, Marek Z. +3 more
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Processes of social flourishing and their liminal collapse: elements to a genealogy of globalization [PDF]
, 2016 This article aims at exploring a long-term historical perspective on which contemporary globalization can be more meaningfully situated. A central problem with established approaches to globalization is that they are even more presentist than the ...
Szakolczai, Árpád
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Farewell to the ‘childhood of man’: ritual, seasonality, and the origins of inequality [PDF]
, 2015 Evidence of grand burials and monumental construction is a striking feature in the archaeological record of the Upper Palaeolithic period, between 40 and 10 kya (thousand years ago).
Acemoğlu +99 more
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