Re-assessing the notion(s) of craft standardization through diversity statistics: A pilot study on Late Chalcolithic pottery from Arslantepe in Eastern Anatolia. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2021 This paper proposes a new range of diversity indexes applicable to ceramic petrographic and geochemical data and potentially to any archaeological data of both metric and non-metric nature in order to assess the degree of craft standardization.
Fragnoli P.
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The function of the south-Levantine Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age basalt vessels bearing circumferential depressions: Insights from use-wear analyses. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2021 One of the most characteristic aspects of the Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age periods in the southern Levant is the appearance of large assemblages of basalt vessels.
Hruby K +4 more
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Cercetări Arheologice, 2023 Potsherds are very important for the archaeological research because they may date a site, reveal clues about art, technology, and subsistence of people. Potteries show the relationships and exchanges between people from different regions. The Kelar Hill
Parastoo Masjedi Khak +2 more
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ESTABLISHING AN ABSOLUTE CHRONOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE LATE CHALCOLITHIC TO EARLY BRONZE AGE IN IRAQI KURDISTAN: RADIOCARBON DATES FROM KANI SHAIE [PDF]
Radiocarbon: An International Journal of Cosmogenic Isotope Research, 2022 The possibility to conduct new fieldwork projects in previously largely unexplored Iraqi Kurdistan during the past decade has reinvigorated research into the transformative fifth to third millennium BCE (Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age) in southwest ...
Steve Renette +4 more
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LATE CHALCOLITHIC CERAMIC DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTHERN IRAQI KURDISTAN: THE STRATIGRAPHIC SOUNDING AT KANI SHAIE [PDF]
Iraq, 2021 Kani Shaie is a small archaeological site in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, centrally located in the Bazian Basin, a narrow valley at the western edge of the Zagros Mountains along the major route between Kirkuk and Sulaymaniyah.
Steve Renette +6 more
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Kababurun: investigations of an eastern Aegean village in the Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age transition [PDF]
Anatolian Studies, 2023 The Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age (EBA) 1 are dynamic prehistoric eras, encapsulating crucial political, social and economic developments in western Anatolia and the adjacent regions. Although recent fieldwork and synthesis on this transition in
Çiler Çilingiroğlu +3 more
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Lime Production in the Late Chalcolithic Period: The Case of Arslantepe (Eastern Anatolia)
Heritage, 2021 Plaster and mortar samples from Arslantepe (Turkey) hold potential to provide unique information about the lime production and adhibition during the Late Chalcolithic period (4th millennium BCE).
Silvano Mignardi +7 more
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HumansThe Late Chalcolithic period in the southern Levant saw notable changes in almost every aspect of daily life. Some of the most significant shifts during this time seem to have been anchored in the subsistence economy and involved food and its cooking ...
Danny Rosenberg +3 more
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Potential responses and resilience of Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age societies to mid-to Late Holocene climate change on the southern Iberian Peninsula [PDF]
Environmental Research Letters, 2021 In this investigation, we use a socio-environmental multi-proxy approach to empirically test hypotheses of recurrent resilience cycles and the role of climate forcing in shaping such cycles on the Iberian Peninsula during mid-Holocene times. Our approach
Mara Weinelt +4 more
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Documenta Praehistorica, 2008 This paper proposes an association between climate forcing connected with the 8200 calBP ‘climate event’ and a postulated phase of internecine warfare and population collapse at Late Neolithic/Early Chalcolithic sites in Pisidia, southwestern Turkey.
Lee Clare +3 more
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