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The Fiery Eyes of a Maenad: Origin Determination of Faceted Garnet Eye Inlays in a Roman Bronze Bust From Southern Tyrol

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1837, the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck, Austria, purchased a Roman bronze statue of a maenad from the 2nd century ce with red garnets as facetted eye inlays found near Brixen, Southern Tyrol. These garnets were investigated using optical microscopy, a portable hand‐held and a stationary micro‐X‐ray fluorescence device, as
H. Albert Gilg, Simon Wagner, Anton Höck, Peter Tropper   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Neolithic ceramic spoons – indicators of dietary distinctiveness in the eastern Adriatic Neolithic?

Documenta Praehistorica, 2015
Among the rich and diverse archaeological finds collected at more than fifty known Neolithic sites in the entire area of the eastern Adriatic and its hinterland, ceramic spoons comprise a group of very rare and almost marginalised items.
Kristina Horvat
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Beyond the Jordan

Documenta Praehistorica, 2020
Recent excavations in Jordan have demonstrated a long sequence of development from the late Pleistocene Epipalaeolithic through the early Holocene Pre-Pottery Neolithic.
Bill Finlayson, Cheryl A. Makarewicz
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A Newly Discovered Tablet‐Making Facility in Nineveh: Insights From Scientific Analysis

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper addresses the question of tablet technology in the Neo‐Assyrian capital city of Nineveh. Recent excavations in the lower town of Nineveh by the Iraqi–Italian Archaeological Expedition uncovered an exceptional assemblage of more than 200 tablets from an elite residence that appears to have included a scriptorium.
Mathilde Jean, Michela Spataro, Jonathan Taylor, Gianfranco Ulian, Giovanni Valdré, Gabriele Giacosa, Eleonora Mariani, Nicolò Marchetti   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human management and landscape changes at Palaikastro (Eastern Crete) from the Late Neolithic to the Early Minoan period

, 2018
On the east Mediterranean island of Crete, a hierarchical society centred on large palatial complexes emerges during the Bronze Age. The economic basis for this significant social change has long been debated, particularly concerning the role of olive ...
N. Cañellas-Boltà, S. Riera-Mora, H. Orengo, Alexandra Livarda, C. Knappett   +4 more
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Population Dynamics and Socio-ecological Trajectories Explain the Emergence of Farming in Late Neolithic Southeast Norway

Journal of Neolithic Archaeology
This paper examines the emergence of farming in Late Neolithic Southeast Norway. A summed probability distribution of radiocarbon dates is used to infer population dynamics and together with a chronological model using dated samples from post-built ...
Steinar Solheim
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Learning Across the Divide: Understanding Knowledge Sharing Through Petrographic Analysis on Ceramics From the Rhine‐Meuse Delta During the Middle to Late Neolithic Transition (3400–2200 bce)

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vlaardingen (VL) communities on the Dutch West coast (3400–2200 bce) are part of a unique, long‐term continuity in the European Neolithic. Despite large‐scale changes in European populations during the Neolithic, the genomic diversity and cultural practices of VL communities can be retraced to the Mesolithic.
Jisca de Bruin, Erik Kroon, Lasse van den Dikkenberg, Dennis Braekmans   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Procurement of Senonian Flint for Bladelets Production at the Early PPNB Site of Nahal Zahal in the Northern Negev Established for the First Time Using Chemical Composition Analysis

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The hypotheses of Senonian flint to be a prime source of prehistoric “chalcedony” flint artefacts from the Negev Desert (Israel) was not investigated in detail thus far. By combining trace‐element profiling with statistical interpretation, ten flint items from Nahal Zahal, an Early Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B site in the northern Negev, were ...
Meir Finkel, Michal Birkenfeld, Talia Abulafia, Keren Weiss‐Sarusi, Olga Berlin, Yoav Ben Dor   +5 more
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Investigating the Dietary, Economic, and Social Practices of a Neolithic Funnel Beaker Community in Wanna, Germany, Through Raw Material and Organic Residue Analyses of Pottery

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study details the analysis of an assemblage of Funnel Beaker pottery from Wanna in Northern Germany investigated using petrographic, geochemical, and organic residue analyses. The analyses revealed specialized production of pottery vessels for funerary contexts, but that domestic and funerary pottery were used intensively to process ...
I. L. Wiltshire, K. Struckmeyer, A. Behrens, M. Mennenga, M. Roffet‐Salque   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A first absolute chronology for Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age Myanmar: new AMS 14C dates from Nyaung'gan and Oakaie

Antiquity, 2018
Late prehistoric archaeological research in Myanmar is in a phase of rapid expansion. Recent work by the Mission Archéologique Française au Myanmar aims to establish a reliable Neolithic to Iron Age culture-historical sequence, which can then be compared
Thomas Oliver, 12 Pryce, A. Kyaw, Myo Min Kyaw, T. Win, Khin Htwe Win3, M. Mon, Su Hlaing Htay, A. Mar, B. Bellina, A. Bentley, A. Bevan, Louis Champion, Camille Colonna, Amanda J. Cook, A. Favereau, D. Fuller, Cloé Georjon, C. Higham, Kalayar Myat, Myat Htwe, Philip J. Piper, Y. Iizuka, Jitlada Innanchai, Xavier Peixoto, Peter Petchey, R. Pinhasi, Baptiste Pradier, F. Valentin, Anna Willis, B. Wohlfarth, A. Zazzo   +31 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source