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The Late Neolithic Expansion

open access: yesDanish Journal of Archaeology, 2023
Although the Scandinavian Late Neolithic today is mainly defined by the introduction of bifacial flint work, particularly daggers, agricultural intensification must also be seen as a part of the Late Neolithic package, which developed under Bell Beaker ...
Jens Winther Johannsen
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Did Late Neolithic farming fail or flourish? A Scottish perspective on the evidence for Late Neolithic arable cultivation in the British Isles [PDF]

open access: yesWorld Archaeology, 2015
This paper critically assesses the recent claim (Stevens and Fuller 2012) that cereal agriculture was abandoned in the Late Neolithic of the British Isles. The Scottish archaeobotanical dataset is considered in detail to test the universal applicability of the model proposed by Stevens and Fuller (2012) and a series of alternative hypotheses are ...
Rosie Bishop
exaly   +3 more sources

Ancient genomes reveal tropical bovid species in the Tibetan Plateau contributed to the prevalence of hunting game until the late Neolithic [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020
Ningbo Chen   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Permanent molar trait expression in the Late Neolithic cave burials of the Meuse Basin, Belgium

open access: yesDental Anthropology, 2021
At least 250 cave burials along the Meuse river basin of Belgium yield prehistoric remains, and most date from the Late Neolithic period. Several have been radiocarbon dated, including the early/late Neolithic deposits of Hastière Caverne M and Hastière ...
Frank L'Engle Williams   +1 more
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Re-working the Past: Evidence for Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Flint Extraction at the Early Neolithic Mines of Sussex

open access: yesArchaeologia Polona, 2022
This paper will summarise evidence for Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age flint extraction at the Southern English mines, beginning with a brief synopsis of their chronology and followed by a summary of mine lithics.
Jon Baczkowski
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Take a seed! Revealing Neolithic landscape and agricultural development in the Carpathian Basin through multivariate statistics and environmental modelling

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2021
The Carpathian Basin represents the cradle of human agricultural development during the Neolithic period, when large parts were transformed into ‘cultural landscapes’ by first farmers from the Balkans.
Michael Kempf
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Emerging Evidence for Neolithic Ithaca

open access: yesJournal of Neolithic Archaeology, 2022
The article presents new evidence for the Neolithic habitation on Ithaca, consisting of ceramic and stone finds, recognised among material from the University of Ioannina excavations at the site of Agios Athanasios-School of Homer in the northwest part ...
Thanasis Papadopoulos   +4 more
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Houses of the middle and late Neolithic Karanovo I–III and Karanovo III layers at Tell Kazanlak

open access: yesStudia Praehistorica, 2021
This paper considers the houses of the middle and late Neolithic layers at Tell Kazanlak dating to the Protokaranovo III and Karanovo III periods, respectively.
Dessislava Andreeva
doaj   +1 more source

Intra-settlement burials of Vinča culture at Sajlovo 5 archaeological site: Continuity or change in the late Neolithic period? [PDF]

open access: yesBalcanica
During rescue archaeological excavations undertaken in 2011 due to the construc­tion of a north bypass connecting the town of Novi Sad and the E75 highway, several Neolithic-period skeletal burials were detected on a multilayered site named ...
Marić Miroslav   +3 more
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Resource Exploitation at Late Neolithic Domuztepe [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Anthropology, 2009
Domuztepe, in southeastern Turkey, is one of the largest known Late Neolithic sites in the Near East. Ecofactual remains recovered at Domuztepe indicate that the site’s inhabitants relied on a well‐established mixed economy of domestic plants and animals to sustain the settlement’s large population, which may have peaked at more than 1,500 people ...
Kansa, Sarah Whitcher   +3 more
openaire   +5 more sources

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