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Notes for a Political Ecology of Non-Sedentary People [PDF]
, 2016 The research group Political Ecology of Non-Sedentary Communities encompasses three research projects examining archaeological remains from various time periods in the Nile Delta, the foothills of the Kopet Dag and in the steppe region of western Eurasia;
Bernbeck, Reinhard +9 more
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Dating WF16: Exploring the Chronology of a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Settlement in the Southern Levant [PDF]
, 2016 A pre-requisite for understanding the transition to the Neolithic in the Levant is the establishment of a robust chronology, most notably for the late Epi-Palaeolithic and Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) periods. In this contribution we undertake a dating
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Are Big Gods a big deal in the emergence of big groups? [PDF]
, 2015 In Big Gods, Norenzayan (2013) presents the most comprehensive treatment yet of the Big Gods question. The book is a commendable attempt to synthesize the rapidly growing body of survey and experimental research on prosocial effects of religious primes ...
Atkinson, Quentin D. +2 more
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Making Memory – Culturescapes and the Communication of Archaeological Meaning [PDF]
, 2017 Archaeology plays a unique role in the rediscovery and restoration of lost moments of cultural memory. It also bears a responsibility beyond the narrow confines of academia, and can and should play a role in the public perception of the past ...
Wolde, Christopher Ten
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The earliest transverse grooved stones of Eurasia: Near Eastern distribution, types and chronology [PDF]
, 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
Usacheva, Irina
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Lost for words: an extraordinary structure at the early Neolithic settlement of WF16 [PDF]
, 2020 Extraordinariness is a useful concept for everyday life and for academic research, frequently invoked within archaeology. In this contribution I explore how this term might be defined and whether it is appropriate for a large early Neolithic structure ...
Mithen, Steve
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To vegetable: Seasons that require us
Crop Science, Volume 65, Issue 2, March/April 2025.Abstract Domestication of cereals tracks with the natural life cycle of plants in the Poaceae family, but vegetables represent a different modality and often possess a truncated life cycle. The evolution of vegetable biodiversity required curatorial work each growing season that differed in important ways from curation of grains or perennial crops ...
I. L. Goldman
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City, Territory and ArchitectureContemporary urban transformations are increasingly challenging the traditional categories through which the urban has been conceptualized, highlighting the need for a critical reinterpretation of its origins.
Lidia Decandia, Natalia Agati
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Humans and fire: changing relations in early agricultural and built environments in the Zagros, Iran, Iraq [PDF]
, 2016 Fire-centred studies have recently been highlighted as powerful avenues for investigation of energy flows and relations between humans, materials, environments and other species.
Arshi Z +72 more
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The Neolithic Revolution in the Middle East
The Economic History Review, Volume 77, Issue 4, Page 1154-1196, November 2024.Abstract This paper investigates the causes and the consequences of the emergence of agriculture in the Middle East. Agriculture has emerged in many parts of the world since the end of the last Ice Age about 15 000 years ago. The paper first surveys the Palaeolithic Period to understand why agriculture did not emerge earlier.
Robert C. Allen
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