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LATE NEOLITHIC VINČA POTTERY FIRING PROCEDURE: RECONSTRUCTION OF NEOLITHIC TECHNOLOGY THROUGH EXPERIMENT [PDF]
Opuscula Archaeologica, 2018 The considerations about Late Neolithic Vinča pottery are numerous in archaeological literature, but the Neolithic technology, and especially firing procedures are still unknown. The main goal of conducted experiment was reconstruction of reduced firing in pits, but also open-air firing and intentional blackening of the vessels fired in oxidizing ...
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Radiocarbon dates from the Oxford AMS system: archaeometry datelist 35 [PDF]
, 2014 This is the 35th list of AMS radiocarbon determinations measured at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU). Amongst some of the sites included here are the latest series of determinations from the key sites of Abydos, El Mirón, Ban Chiang, Grotte
Baker, D. +5 more
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Resource Exploitation at Late Neolithic Domuztepe [PDF]
Current 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
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The social origins of cooking and dining in early villages of western Asia [PDF]
, 2000 This paper explores social customs of cooking and dining as farming emerged in the earliest villages of Palestine and Jordan (12,650–6850 cal BC). The approach is a spatial analysis of in situ hearths, pits, bins, benches, platforms, activity areas ...
Wright, KI
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Big-Men and Small Chiefs: The Creation of Bronze Age Societies
Open Archaeology, 2017 This paper investigates to what extent the significant material changes observable at the end of the Neolithic reflect transformations of the underlying social dynamics.
Iversen Rune
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Late Neolithic Complex of the Gulyukovo I Site in the Lower Kama Region
Поволжская археология, 2017 The article features an analysis of the Neolithic portion of the Gulyukovo I site – a multilayer monument of the Neolithic and Late Bronze Age periods.
Morozov Victor V. +2 more
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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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PLoS ONE, 2015 The importance of the process of Neolithization for the genetic make-up of European populations has been hotly debated, with shifting hypotheses from a demic diffusion (DD) to a cultural diffusion (CD) model.
Montserrat Hervella +10 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Many questions still remain regarding the acquisition and circulation of ancient domesticated animals across the Yellow River Basin, one of the key areas for the development of complex societies in ancient China. Here, we re-evaluate previously published
Xueye Wang +14 more
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Build n burn: using fire as a tool to evoke, educate and entertain [PDF]
, 2017 The visceral nature of fire was exploited in the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods in Britain by the burning down of timber buildings and monuments, as well as the cremation of the dead. These big fires would have created memories, perhaps even ‘flashbulb
Brophy, Kenneth +2 more
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