Ancient use and long-distance transport of the Four Corners Potato (Solanum jamesii) across the Colorado Plateau: Implications for early stages of domestication. [PDF]
PLoS ONEDespite its long history, utilitarian value, and cultural significance to several Indigenous Tribes in the Southwest USA, the extent to which the Four Corners potato (Solanum jamesii Torr.) has been domesticated requires circumscription. Establishing the
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The development of plant food processing in the Levant: insights from use-wear analysis of Early Epipalaeolithic ground stone tools [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2015 Laure Dubreuil, Dani Nadel
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Bee products in the prehistoric southern levant: evidence from the lipid organic record
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 Beehive products have a rich global history. In the wider Levantine region, bees had a significant role in Egypt and Mesopotamia, and intensive beekeeping was noted in Israel during the Biblical period when apiaries were first identified.
Rivka Chasan +7 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 We present the results of a detailed geochemical provenance study of 54 Natufian (ca. 15,000–11,700 cal. BP) basalt pestles from the site of el-Wad Terrace (EWT), Israel. It is the first time precise locations from where basalt raw materials were derived
Danny Rosenberg +4 more
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Ground stone tools from the copper production site Al-Khashbah, Sultanate of Oman
Journal of Lithic Studies, 2020 Archaeological research at Al-Khashbah, Sultanate of Oman, conducted by the University of Tübingen, revealed a large Early Bronze Age (3rd millennium BCE) site.
Stephanie Döpper
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Journal of Lithic Studies, 2020 Ground stone implements are found across most Australian landscapes and are often regarded as Aboriginal tools that were used for processing or modifying other items such as plant foods, plant fibres, resins, bone points, pigments and ground-stone axes ...
Elspeth Hayes +5 more
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65,000-years of continuous grinding stone use at Madjedbebe, Northern Australia
Scientific Reports, 2022 Grinding stones and ground stone implements are important technological innovations in later human evolution, allowing the exploitation and use of new plant foods, novel tools (e.g., bone points and edge ground axes) and ground pigments.
Elspeth H. Hayes +10 more
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Ground stone percussion tools from Maltese Islands
Journal of Lithic Studies, 2016 A few lithic percussion tools, probably related to construction and craftsmanship, are stored in the National Museum of Archaeology of Valletta (Malta).
Felice Larocca
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Stone tools from locality Crkvine in Stubline [PDF]
Starinar, 2011 Stone artifacts from excavations in Crkvine in 2008. originate from two stratigraphic units, both chronologically defined as the final stage of the Vinča culture: 1. distruction layer above and 2. from the floor of House 1/2008.
Antonović Dragana, Šarić Josip
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Grooved stone tools from Calabria region (Italy): Archaeological evidence and research perspectives
Journal of Lithic Studies, 2016 Since the end of the 19th century the Calabria region in southern Italy has been known for an abundance of grooved stone axes and hammers used during late prehistory.
Felice Larocca, Francesco Breglia
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