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Early Neolithic Pottery Production in the Maltese Islands: Initiating a Għar Dalam and Skorba Pottery Fabric Classification

open access: yesOpen Archaeology
Abstract The Early Neolithic (EN) period (5500–4800 BCE) marks the first sedentary settlement of the Maltese Islands by farmers. Despite advances in petrographic and archaeometric studies of pottery in Maltese archaeology, such methods have rarely been applied to Neolithic assemblages.
Richard-Tremeau E.   +7 more
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To the Question of the Cultural Status of Early Neolithic Sites in the Forest Middle Volga Region

open access: yesАрхеология евразийских степей
The presented article examines the aspect of the cultural affiliation of the Mari sites, attributed by researchers to the Early Neolithic. The existing theories regarding the origin of the tradition are analyzed.
Alexander S. Kudashov
doaj   +1 more source

The Impact of Climate Change and Human Habitation on Long‐Term Ecological Stability

open access: yesGlobal Ecology and Biogeography, Volume 35, Issue 8, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Aim Direct human impacts and climate change jeopardise the stability of ecological systems. Recent trends are built atop a long history of vegetation change from the Pleistocene deglaciation and Holocene human population expansion. We aimed to model a long‐term measure of ecological stability over the last 20,000 years, a period that includes ...
Timothy L. Staples   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comprehensive Analysis and Genetic Insights Into GJB2 c.35delG Mutation‐Associated Non‐Syndromic Hearing Loss in Morocco

open access: yesOTO Open, Volume 10, Issue 3, July-September 2026.
Abstract Objective To assess the prevalence of the GJB2 c.35delG mutation among Moroccan patients with nonsyndromic sensorineural hearing loss (NSHL) and compare it with frequencies reported in other North African populations. Study Design Retrospective cohort study. Setting Multidisciplinary tertiary care hearing loss genetics clinic.
El Mostafa Salman   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lime plaster cover of the dead 12,000 years ago – new evidence for the origins of lime plaster technology

open access: yesEvolutionary Human Sciences, 2019
The production of lime plaster is especially important as a technological development in human prehistory as it requires advanced knowledge and skills to transform rocks to a plastic yet durable material.
David E. Friesem   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Emergence of corpse cremation during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Southern Levant: A multidisciplinary study of a pyre-pit burial.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
Renewed excavations at the Neolithic site of Beisamoun (Upper Jordan Valley, Israel) has resulted in the discovery of the earliest occurrence of an intentional cremation in the Near East directly dated to 7031-6700 cal BC (Pre-Pottery Neolithic C, also ...
Fanny Bocquentin   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Towards configuring the neolithisation of Aegean Turkey

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2013
Increasing field work in the  ̇Izmir region has produced much sought tangible evidence about the ways in which food-producing communities emerged in the Aegean. Focusing on the archaeological and zooarchaeological data from Ulucak and neighboring sites,
Çiler Çilingiroğlu, Canan Çakırlar
doaj   +1 more source

The Early Neolithic communities in Macedonia

open access: yesArcheologické Rozhledy, 2015
The Neolithisation and the first agricultural societies in Southeast Europe are under constant discussions. Besides numerous data on the earliest farming settlements in this region, still there are debates on the directions and chronology of the ...
Goce Naumov
doaj   +1 more source

The uncertain frontier

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica
Long archaeological debate on the process of Neolithisation across Europe has been resolved at a broad level, thanks to aDNA and other scientific investigations, in favour of significant migrations virtually everywhere.
Eszter Bánffy, Alasdair Whittle
doaj   +1 more source

NEW DATA ON THE CULTURAL HORIZON OF EARLY NEOLITHIC POLYCHROME POTTERY IN TRANSYLVANIA. THE 432A COMPLEX FROM THE LIMBA-OARDA DE JOS- SITE (ALBA COUNTY)

open access: yesJournal of Ancient History and Archaeology
Starting from the premise of its highly strategic position as a major intersection of several natural communication routes linking large geographic units (Transylvania, Banat, Oltenia, Muntenia), the present study addresses issues arising from the re ...
Marius-Mihai CIUTĂ, Anamaria TUDORIE
doaj   +1 more source

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