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Insights on the changing dynamics of cemetery use in the neolithic and chalcolithic of southern Portugal. Radiocarbon dating of Lugar do Canto Cave (Santarém) [PDF]
, 2014 Lugar do Canto Cave is one of the most relevant Neolithic burial caves in Portugal given not only its extraordinary preservation conditions at the time of discovery but also the quality of the field record obtained during excavation. Its material culture
Carvalho, António, Luis Cardoso, Joao
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Trashing Out Late Chalcolithic Trajectories in the Zagros Foothills
Anatolica, 2021 Evidence for the so-called "Uruk Expansion" into northeastern Iraq and western Iran is rapidly growing and serves to revisit this important, but still opaque phenomenon. In this article we present tantalising new evidence from the Rania Plain (Kurdish Region of Iraq), from the sites of Araban and Mullah Shell, located on the east bank of the Lower Zab ...
Eidem Jesper, Giannessi Deborah
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Past plant use in Jordan as revealed by archaeological and ethnoarchaeological phytolith signatures [PDF]
, 2011 Ninety-six phytolith samples were analysed from seven archaeological sites ranging from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic to the Classical period and from two ethnoarchaeological sites in Jordan.
Baker, A., Elliott, S., Jenkins, E.L.
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The Genetic Variability of Present-Day Bulgarians Captures Ancient and Recent Ancestral Contributions. [PDF]
Am J Biol AnthropolABSTRACT Objectives Thanks to its pivotal crossroad position, Bulgaria played a fundamental key role during all the migration processes that interested the continent through time. While the genetic variability of the country has been deeply investigated using uniparental markers, previous genome‐wide autosomal‐based surveys mainly consisted of wider ...
Sarno S +13 more
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Campaniforme o no Campaniforme: una perspectiva sobre las cerámicas ‘pellizcadas’ en vasos con perfil en ‘s’ del Calcolítico en la Península Ibérica [PDF]
, 2019 The Bell Beaker phenomenon is the sum of several regional answers. Those are diluted into a reality with several shared characteristics. Nevertheless, and although being one of the most studied expressions of the European Recent Prehistory, more specific
Blanco-González, Valera
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Journal of Lithic Studies, 2016 The very Late Chalcolithic sites of the Fazael Valley exhibit changes in settlement patterns and material culture. This paper presents the analysis of the ground stone tool assemblages of these sites, and includes the combination of attribute analysis ...
Haggai Cohen-Klonymus, Shay Bar
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The beginning of metallurgy in the southern Levant: a late 6th millennium CalBC copper awl from Tel Tsaf, Israel. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 The beginning of metallurgy in the ancient Near East attracts much attention. The southern Levant, with the rich assemblage of copper artifacts from the Nahal Mishmar cave and the unique gold rings of the Nahal Qanah cave, is regarded as a main center of
Yosef Garfinkel +3 more
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The life cycle of the houses in the final Late Copper Age horizon at Tell Yunatsite
Studia Praehistorica, 2021 The article summarizes the accumulated information from the investigated 11 houses of the last Late Chalcolithic settlement at Tell Yunatsite. The Late Chalcolithic house is discussed both as a functional and a symbolically arranged place where real and
Velichka Mazanova +2 more
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Zephyrus, 2018 The fortified chalcolithic settlement in Puente de Santa Bárbara (Huércal-Overa, Almería), with 1.5 ha, located 3 km away from the Cerro Minado copper mines, and exploited at least during the Late Chalcolithic, presents copper ores, crucible smelting and
Pedro GONZÁLEZ QUINTERO +5 more
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Quaternary, 2021 The Chalcolithic levels of El Portalón de Cueva Mayor (Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain) offer a good opportunity to test whether the small-mammal contents of different archaeo-stratigraphical units may be useful to characterize them as independent entities ...
Juan Rofes +7 more
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