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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, Caterina De Vito, Michela Botticelli, Gabriele Favero, Francesca Balossi Restelli, Luca Marinacci, Samah Alkhasoneh, Laura Medeghini   +7 more
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Ancient DNA from Chalcolithic Israel reveals the role of population mixture in cultural transformation

Nature Communications, 2018
The Late Chalcolithic material culture in the southern Levant has unique attributes that suggest spread of people or culture. Here, the authors use genome-wide ancient DNA data from 22 individuals from a Chalcolithic site and show evidence of complex ...
Éadaoin Harney, Hila May, Dina Shalem, Nadin Rohland, Swapan Mallick, Iosif Lazaridis, Rachel Sarig, Kristin Stewardson, Susanne Nordenfelt, Nick Patterson, Israel Hershkovitz, David Reich   +11 more
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Opium trade and use during the Late Bronze Age: Organic residue analysis of ceramic vessels from the burials of Tel Yehud, Israel

Archaeometry, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract Organic residue analysis was conducted on various vessels from burials at Tel Yehud, Israel. The analyses led to new reliable evidence for the presence of opioid alkaloids and their decomposition products. This research revitalizes a decades‐old discussion on the presence and function of the opium trade across a cultural region of utmost ...
Vanessa Linares, Eriola Jakoel, Ron Be’eri, Oded Lipschits, Ronny Neumann, Yuval Gadot   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Snail assemblages in Holocene floodplain research – an example from the southern Caucasus [PDF]

Eiszeitalter und Gegenwart, 2020
During the last decades, rivers and their deposits in different regions were intensively studied to better understand the late-Quaternary landscape evolution and former human activities.
H. von Suchodoletz, C. Richter, F. Walther, M. Bliedtner, M. Eloshvili, L. Losaberidze, B. Hausdorf   +6 more
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A multidisciplinary study of an exceptional prehistoric waste dump in the mountainous inland of Calabria (Italy) : implications for reconstructions of prehistoric land use and vegetation in Southern Italy [PDF]

, 2020
The mountainous inland of northern Calabria (Southern Italy) is known for its sparse prehistoric human occupation. Nevertheless, a thorough multidisciplinary approach of field walking, geophysical survey and invasive research led to the discovery of a ...
Arienzo, Ilenia, Attema, Peter A. J., De Neef, Wieke, den Haan, Michael, di Vito, Mauro A., Ippolito, Francesca, Noorda, Nikolaas, Sevink, Jan, Ullrich, Burkhart, van Loon, Emiel E.   +9 more
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Understanding the Urbanization Process in Çine-Tepecik’s Cultural Development

Anadolu Araştırmaları, 2021
With its location on the Çine plain south of the Greater Meander (Büyük Menderes), Çine-Tepecik is a settlement that sheds light on the region’s early cultural history.Its earliest cultural remains date to the Chalcolithic Period (Late Neolithic in the ...
Sevinç Günel
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Human Dental Microwear From Ohalo II (22,500–23,500 cal BP), Southern Levant [PDF]

, 2007
Dietary hardness and abrasiveness are inferred from human dental microwear at Ohalo II, a late Upper Palaeolithic site (22,500–23,500 cal BP) in the southern Levant.
Agelarakis, Baker, Bar Yosef, Bar Yosef, Bar Yosef, Bar Yosef, Bar Yosef, Baruch, Carmi, Cook, Covert, Daegling, Dewdney, Every, Frankel, Gal, Gal, Garfinkel, Garfinkel, Goldberg, Goldberg, Golden, Gonen, Gopher, Gordon, Gordon, Goring-Morris, Grigson, Grine, Henry, Hershkovitz, Hershkovitz, Hershkovitz, Hershkovitz, Hillman, Hillman, Hillman, Hopf, Hopf, Horwitz, Kahila, Karmon, King, Kislev, Kislev, Kislev, Kislev, Lalueza, Lechevallier, Lev-Tov, Levy, Lucas, Mahoney, Mahoney, Mahoney, Mahoney, Maier, Martin, Molleson, Molleson, Nadar, Nadel, Nadel, Nadel, Nadel, Nadel, Nadel, Nadel, Nadel, Nadel, Noy, Noy, Noy, Noy, Nystrom, Organ, Pastor, Pe'rez-Pe'rez, Perrot, Perrot, Piperno, Piperno, Pough, Puech, Rabinovich, Rensberger, Rensberger, Ronen, Ryan, Schmidt, Shalev, Simmons, Smith, Steckelis, Tabachnick, Teaford, Teaford, Teaford, Teaford, Teaford, Teaford, Teaford, Teaford, Tsatskin, Ungar, Ungar, Ungar, Ungar, Ungar, Valla, Van Valkenburgh, Van Zeist, Waddle, Walker, Weiss, Weiss, Willcox, Willcox, Wright, Zagerson, Zar, Zohar, Zohary, Zohary   +123 more
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Diet uniformity at an early farming community in northwest Anatolia (Turkey) : carbon and nitrogen isotope studies of bone collagen at Aktopraklik [PDF]

, 2017
Aktopraklık is a settlement site composed of three areas (A–C) in the Marmara region of northwest Anatolia, with phases of occupation that date to the Late Neolithic and Early Chalcolithic periods, mid-seventh to mid-sixth millennium bc (ca.
Alpaslan-Roodenberg, Songül, Budd, Chelsea, Galik, Alfred, Karul, Necmi, Lillie, Malcolm, Schulting, Rick   +5 more
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Newcomers and autochthons. Preliminary report on 2013 activitiesin the Kurdistan Autonomous Region, Iraq [PDF]

Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2016
The aim of the project “Newcomers and autochthons” is a detailed analysis of thearchaeological remains dated to the Late Chalcolithic and Ninevite 5 periods found during thesurvey conducted in the Upper Greater Zab area.
Dorota Ławecka
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An Investigation in to the Chalcolithic Period of the Moghan Plain in Light of Archaeological Data from Yatag Tepesi, Azerbaijan [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies, 2022
The Aras and other rivers running across the Moghan region played an important role in the formation of prehistoric sites. The Moghan plain has not so far received the scholarly attention it deserves.
Ali Karimikiya, Reza Rezaloo, Rouhollah Mohammadi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source