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Lithic Industries Of The Aegean Upper Mesolithic

, 2016
Recent research at Areta in the northern side of Chalki Island (Dodecanese) has revealed an enormous quantity of lithics of the Mesolithic period. It is the first time that such an old settlement is located in the area of the Dodecanese, thus extending to the southeast of the Aegean the already known Mesolithic network of sites and creating a sea route
Sampson, A., Kozlowski, J. K., Kaczanowska, M.   +2 more
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The Tay Landscape Partnership Scheme: Report on the assessment of Mesolithic lithic artefacts [PDF]

, 2012
The archaeological record for Mesolithic events in Perth and Kinross has proved elusive. On behalf of the Tay Landscape Partnership Scheme an investigation of the lithic assemblages from Perth and Kinross held in the collections of the National Museums ...
Wright, Dene
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Peuplements préhistoriques au Brésil

Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2008
Franco-brazilian researchs in Mato Grosso is pointing out two periods of settlements. The first one, dated around 25 000 years ago is characterized by the lithic industry, found with bones of a Glossotherium in a level of Santa Elina Shelter.
Àgueda Vilhena Vialou, Denis Vialou
doaj   +1 more source

The acheulean handaxe : More like a bird's song than a beatles' tune? [PDF]

, 2016
© 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. KV is supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. MC is supported by the Canada Research Chairs Program, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research of Canada, the Canada Foundation for Innovation ...
Anderson C, Bar‐Yosef O, Boesch C, Boyd R, Boyd R, Buchanan B, Calvin WH, Cavalli‐Sforza LL, Collard M, Durham WH, Durkheim E, Galef BG, Gamble C, Gowlett JAJ, Hansell M, Irons W, Jöris O, Laland K, Leakey M, Matsuzawa T, McNabb J, McNabb J, Mithen S, Mithen S, Paddayya K, Potts R, Richerson PJ, Roe D, Roebroeks W, Sanderson MJ, Schick K, Sharon G., Shennan SJ, Soressi M, Vaufrey R, Vaughan CD, Weber B, Wenban‐Smith FF, Wynn T   +38 more
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Medicine for the Material World

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It is clear that many of the inorganic materials of antiquity have been used both as medicines for human ills and also as agents in technological processes. This paper speculates that there might have been a stronger link between these two functions in the past, based on the concept of “active agents”—materials that are efficacious at curing ...
A. M. Pollard
wiley   +1 more source

Santa Elina, Mato Grosso, site ancien au centre de l’Amérique du Sud

Brésil(s), 2022
Due to its geographical location and its Pleistocene-era antiquity, the Santa Elina rock shelter renews the analysis of prehistoric settlements in South America. In the mountains where the shelter is hidden, Pleistocene men hunted a Glossotherium, 27,000
Denis Vialou, Águeda Vilhena Vialou
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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., Brock, F., Bronk Ramsey, C., Ditchfield, P., Higham, T. F. G., Staff, R. A.   +5 more
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Investigating Technology and Raw Materials Source of the Archaic and Classical Architectural Terracottas From the Athenaion in Castro (Apulia, Italy)

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since 2000, archaeological excavations have brought to light the sanctuary of Athena in Castro (Apulia, Italy), including terracotta roofs dated between the 6th and 4th centuries bce. Based on their morphological and stylistic features, it is suggested that the terracotta items were manufactured in the Greek colony of Taras (modern Taranto ...
M. M. N. Franceschini, T. Ismaelli, S. Vettori, L. Chelazzi, S. Ciattini, F. Di Benedetto, C. Grifa, E. Cantisani   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dating of the Upper Pleistocene Lithic Industry of Sardinia [PDF]

Radiocarbon, 1989
During an excavation of 1986 and 1987, a joint team from Utrecht, Siena and the Soprintendenza di Sassari e Nuoro, found a pre-Neolithic lithic industry in Corbeddu Cave, Oliena, Sardinia, which was dated to 8000–17,000 bp. The artifact typology is different from that of the mainland of the same period.
G Klein Hofmeijer, C Alderliesten, K Van Der Borg, C M Houston, A F M de Jong, Fabio Martini, Mario Sanges, P Y Sondaar, J A de Visser   +8 more
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