Danish 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-influence in Jutland around 2350 BCE.
Jens Winther Johannsen
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Open Archaeology, 2018 This article presents the results of an interdisciplinary study combining archaeology, osteology, and stable isotope analyses. The geological conditions and richness of megalithic graves in Falbygden is suitable for studies of Neolithic human remains ...
Blank Malou +2 more
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Ancient genomes reveal tropical bovid species in the Tibetan Plateau contributed to the prevalence of hunting game until the late Neolithic. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2020 Significance We undertook an ancient genomic DNA investigation of large animal remains dated ∼5,200 y B.P. from the Tibetan Plateau. We provide compelling evidence that the present-day low-latitude tropical inhabitants Bos gaurus and Dicerorhinus ...
Chen N +16 more
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Cult, herding, and 'pilgrimage' in the Late Neolithic of north-west Arabia: Excavations at a mustatil east of AlUla. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Since the 1970s, monumental stone structures now called mustatil have been documented across Saudi Arabia. However, it was not until 2017 that the first intensive and systematic study of this structure type was undertaken, although this study could not ...
Kennedy M +9 more
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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]
World 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 R Bishop
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Detection of dairy products from multiple taxa in Late Neolithic pottery from Poland: an integrated biomolecular approach. [PDF]
R Soc Open Sci, 2023 The detection of dairy processing is pivotal to our understanding of ancient subsistence strategies. This culinary process is linked to key arguments surrounding the evolution of lactase persistence in prehistory.
Evans M +11 more
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Ancient genome analyses shed light on kinship organization and mating practice of Late Neolithic society in China. [PDF]
iScience, 2021 Summary Anthropology began in the late nineteenth century with an emphasis on kinship as a key factor in human evolution. From the 1960s, archaeologists attempted increasingly sophisticated ways of reconstructing prehistoric kinship but ancient DNA ...
Ning C +15 more
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Mansion on the Hill – A Monumental Late Neolithic House at Vinge, Zealand, Denmark
Journal of Neolithic Archaeology, 2017 This paper presents the results of an excavation of the remains of a large, Late Neolithic two-aisled house in the northeastern part of Zealand, Denmark.
Jens Winther Johannsen
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Ancient genomes reveal social and genetic structure of Late Neolithic Switzerland. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2020 Genetic studies of Neolithic and Bronze Age skeletons from Europe have provided evidence for strong population genetic changes at the beginning and the end of the Neolithic period.
Furtwängler A +19 more
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Multi-isotope evidence for the emergence of cultural alterity in Late Neolithic Europe. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2020 Multi-isotope analyses suggest cultural differentiation as the primary reason for Late Neolithic variability in burial location. The coexistence of cultural identities and their interaction is a fundamental topic of social sciences that is not easily ...
Fernández-Crespo T +7 more
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