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Rezultatele preliminare ale cercetărilor arheologice întreprinse în anul 2016 în aşezarea neoeneolitică de la Nicolaevca V / Preliminary results of the archaeological investigations in the Neolithic and Copper Age site of Nicolaevca V during the 2016 excavation season

Tyragetia, 2016
The small scale excavations conducted in 2016 on the site of Nicolaevca V had as objective to substantiate the existing interpretation of the geophysical plan and to date the anomalies from the two areas of the site.
Stanislav Ţerna, Maciej Dębiec, Andreea Vornicu-Ţerna, Mariana Vasilache-Curoşu, Thomas Saile   +4 more
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Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-38, March 2025.
Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
wiley   +1 more source

Podlesie, Site 6 – the First Obsidian Inventory of the Linear Pottery Culture Communities from the Połaniec Basin

Archaeologia Polona, 2019
The article includes the presentation and preliminary characterisation of the obsidian inventory obtained during the five research seasons (2014–2018) at the site in Podlesie, Staszów district, Świętokrzyskie voievodship.
Marcin Szeliga, Michał Przeździecki, Artur Grabarek   +2 more
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Mesolithic health and subsistence at Langhnaj and Mahadaha, India [PDF]

, 2012
The late Mesolithic period in India saw the emergence of agriculture in the Harappan civilization. From here agriculture spread east and south replacing hunting and gathering.
Arista, Katherine L.
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Plant remains from the Linear Pottery Culture settlement at sites Modlniczka 3 and 4, Kraków district. New sources for understanding agriculture in the Early Neolithic in southern Poland.

Acta Palaeobotanica
The aim of the archaeobotanical research of plant macro remains assemblage from the Early Neolithic settlement at Modlniczka in southern Poland is to study plants (fruit and seeds), cultivated and wild species used by the oldest farming groups during the
Magda Dagmara Kapcia, Maciej Nowak
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‘Robust chronologies’ or ‘Bayesian illusion’? Some critical remarks on the use of chronological modelling

Documenta Praehistorica, 2019
The explanatory power of Bayesian chronological modelling is often overestimated, leading to an uncritical belief in the reliability of each isolated model without the necessary look at archaeological connections between different models. The methodical
Hans-Christoph Strien
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Mass cannibalism in the Linear Pottery Culture at Herxheim (Palatinate, Germany) [PDF]

, 2017
The Early Neolithic central place at Herxheim is defined by a perimeter of elongated pits containing fragments of human bone, together with pottery imported from areas several hundred kilometres distant.
Arbogast, Rose-Marie, Boulestin, Bruno, Denaire, Anthony, Haack, Fabian, Jeunesse, Christian, Zeeb-Lanz, Andrea   +5 more
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Investigating shellfish deposition and landscape history at the Natia Beach site, Fiji [PDF]

, 2008
The relationship between environmental variation and subsistence practices is a central point of discussion in much Oceanic archaeology. While human predation can significantly reduce prey populations, environmental variation also contributes to ...
Cochrane, E.E., Morrison, A.
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What can lithics tell us about food production during the transition to farming? Exploring harvesting practices and cultural changes during the neolithic in Southwest Asia: a view from Qminas (north‐western Syria)

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the continuity and change in harvesting practices between the Late Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B (LPPNB) and the Early Pottery Neolithic at Qminas, north‐western Levant, through a traceological analysis of flint sickles. By combining qualitative traceological analysis with quantitative functional approaches, we demonstrate that ...
Fiona Pichon, Osamu Maeda, Juan José Ibáñez Estévez, Patricia Anderson   +3 more
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The Origin, Development and Decline of Lengyel Culture Figurative Finds

Open Archaeology
The Lengyel culture (4800–4100 calBC), covering Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary, is a hotspot for figurative finds, with especially high numbers occurring in Lower Austria, Moravia and Transdanubia.
Becker Valeska
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