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Arran pitchstone (Scottish volcanic glass): New dating evidence
Journal of Lithic Studies, 2015 In the present paper, the author offers new absolute and contextual dating evidence for Scottish archaeological pitchstone. Much archaeological pitchstone from the Scottish mainland is recovered from unsealed contexts of multi-period or palimpsest sites,
Torben Bjarke Ballin
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Mesolithic Europe : glimpses of another world [PDF]
, 2008 [First Paragraph] Mesolithic Europe holds a special place in our imagination. Perhaps more than any other region and period, it is unique in conjuring up a strange sense of both 'otherness' and familiarity.
Spikins, Penny
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As the capital of Makuria, Tungul was a major sociopolitical center within medieval Nubia, being the seat of a bishopric and a monastic community. During the excavation of the Kom H monastery, three burial crypts (Crypts 1–3) were uncovered.
Robert J. Stark +2 more
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Polish Mesolithic Pots. Jasiu Kowalczyk – in memoriam
Archaeologia Polona, 2019 The article deals with making of pottery among the European Mesolithic communities. The author, referring to the terminological proposal of Jan Kowalczyk – "ceramic Mesolithic”, follows in this respect the development of research and the evolution of ...
Stefan Karol Kozłowski
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The Site Groß Fredenwalde, NE-Germany, and the Early Cemeteries of Northern Europe
Open Archaeology, 2023 The Mesolithic burial site Groß Fredenwalde, NE-Germany, discovered in 1962, had remained a poorly understood part of the Mesolithic burial record for decades. Since 2012, the site has been under re-investigation.
Kotula Andreas +5 more
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Geoarchaeology, 2020 The open‐air site Feuersteinacker near Stumpertenrod has yielded one of the largest lithic assemblages in Central Germany. It repeatedly served as a workshop for the production of stone tools during an early phase of the Mesolithic.
Thomas Hess, F. Riede
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What Do Lithics Tell Us About Cultural Evolution? Insights From the Central African Record
Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While Western historical narratives often incorporate a biased vision of human evolution—driven by a progressive view tied to a progressively evolving state of culture—this paper proposes combining archaeological lithic data with epistemological reflections to critique the modern regime of historicity, where progress is assumed as rational ...
Isis Isabella Mesfin
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Quaternary, 2022 Palaeolake Flixton, in the eastern Vale of Pickering in northeast Yorkshire, UK, existed as open water during the Lateglacial and early to mid-Holocene, until hydroseral succession and gradual terrestrialisation changed it to an area of fen and basin ...
Ian G. Simmons +3 more
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We present the application of a new quantitative approach to space study in Palaeolithic cave art. Using GIS, we analysed the distribution and position of hand stencils in El Castillo cave to track the gestures and behaviours of Palaeolithic societies.
Olga Spaey +7 more
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Archaeogenomics of humans from the layer of the Upper Volga Culture revealed their greatest genetic similarity with Eastern European hunter-gatherers and ancient representatives of Mesolithic/Neolithic Europe [PDF]
Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографииThe genetic structure of the population of Northern Europe of the Mesolithic-Neolithic period currently remains poorly investigated due to the small number of materials available for research. For the first time, the complete genome of an individual from
Andreeva T.V. +7 more
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