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Exploring the Early Neolithic in the Arabian Gulf: A newly discovered 8,400-year-old stone-built architecture on Ghagha Island, United Arab Emirates. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
The site of GHG0088, with its two successive main phases of occupation, provides crucial data for re-evaluating our understanding of the Early Neolithic period (c. 6600-5400 cal. BCE) in the Arabian Gulf.
Kevin Lidour, Noura Al Hameli, Rémy Crassard, Fabian D'Silva, Ahmed Al Haj   +4 more
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Decorated or Undecorated: Analysis of the Early-Middle Neolithic Transition in Western Iberia Through the Ceramic’s Stylist Techniques and Decorative Motifs

Open Archaeology, 2021
In this article, we study the role played by pottery production in the transition from Early Neolithic to Middle Neolithic in Western Iberia (∼4500–3300 cal BC) based on a critical analysis of the available empirical data.
Neves César
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Ancient mitochondrial diversity reveals population homogeneity in Neolithic Greece and identifies population dynamics along the Danubian expansion axis

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, Susanne Kreutzer, Angelos Souleles, Sevasti Triantaphyllou, Kostas Kotsakis, Dushka Urem-Kotsou, Paul Halstead, Nikos Efstratiou, Stavros Kotsos, Georgia Karamitrou-Mentessidi, Fotini Adaktylou, Areti Chondroyianni-Metoki, Maria Pappa, Christina Ziota, Adamantios Sampson, Anastasia Papathanasiou, Karen Vitelli, Tracey Cullen, Nina Kyparissi-Apostolika, Andrea Zeeb Lanz, Joris Peters, Jérémy Rio, Daniel Wegmann, Joachim Burger, Mathias Currat, Christina Papageorgopoulou   +25 more
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New insights into the use of Neolithic pottery in Guangxi of South China: organic residue analysis of experimental and archaeological pottery

Heritage Science, 2023
As one of the world’s earliest pottery origins in Eurasia, the role of pottery during Neolithic period in South China remains unclear. Here, we present a new understanding on the utilization pattern of early pottery from the Neolithic sites of Dayan ...
Xiaodi Liu, Meng Ren, Yongxu Fu, Yaowu Hu, Shuzhi Wang, Yimin Yang   +5 more
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The economic and social importance of saline soils and saltwaters during the Late Neolithic of the Pannonian Plain and the Central Balkans [PDF]

Starinar, 2021
The importance of salt in human and animal diets suggests that the local resources of saline soils, watercourses, and marshes with saline water had to be well known to past populations.
Milanović Dragan
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Enclosing the settlement or filling the ditch: The case of Aşağı Pınar

Studia Praehistorica, 2023
Ongoing research in the Balkans is revealing the importance of Early Neolithic ditches that enclosed settlements. As the research continues, more information is being uncovered about the ditches.
Eylem Özdoğan
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A new approach to the problem of the Neolithisation of the North-Pontic area: is there a north-eastern kind of Mediterranean Impresso pottery

Documenta Praehistorica, 2011
Potsherds from a few vessels with Cardium decoration were recently found in old collections of some Neolithic sites of the Northern Black Sea area. A good samples of the valves of brackish water ostracods were discovered in the raw material in most of ...
Dmytro Gaskevych
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Preceramic, Aceramic or Early Ceramic? The radiocarbon dated beginning of the Neolithic in the Aegean

Documenta Praehistorica, 2015
The Pre-Pottery-Neolithic refers to a period in the Eastern Mediterranean when ceramic containers were not yet in use (although small objects made of clay were already being created). This concept, which reflects a specific and quite unique stage in the
Agathe Reingruber
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Lateral river erosion impacts the preservation of Neolithic enclosures in alluvial plains

Scientific Reports, 2023
Situating prehistoric sites in their past environment helps us to understand their functionality and the organization of early sedentary human societies.
Jean-Louis Grimaud, Patrick Gouge, Damien Huyghe, Christophe Petit, Laurence Lestel, David Eschbach, Martin Lemay, Jean Catry, Ibtissem Quaisse, Amélie Imperor, Léo Szewczyk, Daniel Mordant   +11 more
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The transition from the Pre-Pottery to the early Pottery Neolithic period at the site of Uğurlu on the Island of Gökçeada, NE Aegean

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Uğurlu, on the island of Gökçeada (Türkiye), is among the most important sites in the Aegean when considering the transition from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic to the early Pottery Neolithic.
Nejat Yücel
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