Documenta Praehistorica, 2017 This paper discusses the basis of Neolithic periodization used in mainland Finland. It is suggested that the periodization should be revised: boundary between the Middle and Late Neolithic periods should be moved to correspond the appearance of Corded ...
Kerkko Nordqvist, Teemu Mökkönen
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Between the Baltic and Danubian Worlds: the genetic affinities of a Middle Neolithic population from central Poland. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 For a long time, anthropological and genetic research on the Neolithic revolution in Europe was mainly concentrated on the mechanism of agricultural dispersal over different parts of the continent.
Wiesław Lorkiewicz +8 more
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First evidence for cattle traction in Middle Neolithic Ireland: A pivotal element for resource exploitation. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 The power harnessed by cattle traction was undeniably a valuable asset to Neolithic communities. However, data are still lacking on the timing, purposes, and intensity of exploitation of draught animals.
Pigière F, Smyth J.
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Macro-Process of Past Plant Subsistence from the Upper Paleolithic to Middle Neolithic in China: A Quantitative Analysis of Multi-Archaeobotanical Data. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2016 Detailed studies of the long-term development of plant use strategies indicate that plant subsistence patterns have noticeably changed since the Upper Paleolithic, when humans underwent a transitional process from foraging to agriculture. This transition
Wang C, Lu H, Zhang J, He K, Huan X.
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Genetic history from the Middle Neolithic to present on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2020 The island of Sardinia has been of particular interest to geneticists for decades. The current model for Sardinia’s genetic history describes the island as harboring a founder population that was established largely from the Neolithic peoples of southern
Marcus JH +37 more
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Compound specific isotope evidence points to use of freshwater resources as weaning food in Middle Neolithic Paris Basin [PDF]
Am J Biol Anthropol, 2022 Objectives A clear understanding of past weaning practices can provide invaluable insights into social issues such as infant care, fertility rate, and demographic patterns in past societies.
Cheung C, Herrscher E, Thomas A.
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Middle Neolithic farming of open-air sites in SE France: new insights from archaeobotanical investigations of three wells found at Les Bagnoles (L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Dépt. Vaucluse, France) [PDF]
Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 2020 Previous reviews of Middle Neolithic agricultural practice (4400–3500 cal bc) in southern France have highlighted a change in crop assemblages after 4000 cal bc, with a reduction of naked wheat and an increase of emmer and partly of einkorn.
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The exceptional finding of Locus 2 at Dehesilla Cave and the Middle Neolithic ritual funerary practices of the Iberian Peninsula. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2020 There is a significant number of funerary contexts for the Early Neolithic in the Iberian Peninsula, and the body of information is much larger for the Late Neolithic.
García-Rivero D +13 more
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A ritual murder shaped the Early and Middle Neolithic across Central and Southern Europe. [PDF]
Sci AdvIn the Rhône Valley’s Middle Neolithic gathering site of Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux (France), the positioning of two females within a structure aligned with the solstices is atypical.
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The Cultural Project: Formal Chronological Modelling of the Early and Middle Neolithic Sequence in Lower Alsace. [PDF]
J Archaeol Method Theory, 2017 Starting from questions about the nature of cultural diversity, this paper examines the pace and tempo of change and the relative importance of continuity and discontinuity. To unravel the cultural project of the past, we apply chronological modelling of
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