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Neolithic Archaeology at the Penedo dos Mouros Rock-Shelter (Gouveia, Portugal) and the Issue of Primitive Transhumance Practices in the Estrela Mountain Range

open access: yesZephyrus, 2017
Located in the foothills of the north-western sector of the Estrela Mountain (Beira Alta province in central-north Portugal), Penedo dos Mouros Rock-shelter revealed a succession of three distinct archaeological horizons datable to the evolved Early ...
António Faustino CARVALHO   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A social perspective on the Neolithic in western Iran

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2016
While the Neolithic revolution caused gradual basic changes in different dimensions of human life, including social structure, western Iran has so far mostly received attention in terms of the emergence of domestication and sedentarisation.
Hojjat Darabi
doaj   +1 more source

Middle Neolithic in Baikal-Yenisei Siberia: Technological and Cultural Traditions of Pottery Reviewed

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2022
Introduction. The lack of known Middle Neolithic burial complexes in Baikal-Yenisei Siberia makes pottery finds from archaeological sites a key source to explore the cultural and historical situation in the region. According to AMS 14C-dates in the range
Ilia V. Ulanov   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Modelling the initial expansion of the Neolithic out of Anatolia

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2015
Using the space-time distribution of 1162 uniformly recalibrated dates from 71 sites in Asia Minor, the Aegean Basin, Southern Thrace and Macedonia, this article presents geostatistical (kriging) and graphical simulations of the Neolithic expansion out ...
Maxime Brami, Andrea Zanotti
doaj   +1 more source

65 years later …

open access: yesJournal of Neolithic Archaeology, 2020
In 1955, C. J. Becker published the excavations at Store Valby, western Zealand, Denmark, in the journal “Aarbøger for nordisk Oldkyndighed og Historie”. Except for an Early Neolithic phase, the site showed Middle Neolithic occupation. Even if the flint
Rune Iversen
doaj   +1 more source

Plant, pigment, and bone processing in the Neolithic of northern Arabia-New evidence from Use-wear analysis of grinding tools at Jebel Oraf.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2023
Archaeological sites with surface hearths are a ubiquitous feature across the arid zones of the Arabian interior. At Jebel Oraf, in the Jubbah basin of the Nefud Desert of northern Arabia, numerous grinding stone fragments were found in association with ...
Giulio Lucarini   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

5000 years of dietary variations of prehistoric farmers in the Great Hungarian Plain.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2018
The development of farming was a catalyst for the evolution of the human diet from the varied subsistence practices of hunter-gatherers to the more globalised food economy we depend upon today.
Beatriz Gamarra   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

Balakhchino VIa Site Neolithic Complex in the Kama Mouth Region

open access: yesПоволжская археология, 2019
The materials from one of the Neolithic sites of the Middle Volga Region are analyzing by the authors of the paper. Ceramic finds from the site corresponds to the ceramic tradition of the Neolithic Kama culture in terms of the technical and typological ...
Vybornov Aleksandr A.   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Changes of Neolithic subsistence in south Hangzhou Bay coast, eastern China: An adaptive strategy to landscape processes

open access: yesFrontiers in Plant Science, 2022
The transition from hunting and gathering to agricultural subsistence is a striking feature of the Neolithic revolution worldwide. Known as the cradle of a series of representative Neolithic cultures, south Hangzhou Bay (SHB) witnessed substantial ...
Jinqi Dai   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘Neolithisation’ in the NE Sea of Azov region: one step forward, two steps back?

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2016
In this paper we present the migratory nature of an initial Neolithisation in the Sea of Azov area on the basis of an analysis of comparatively new and a revision of old materials from the Early Neolithic period.
Alexander Felix Gorelik   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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