Build n burn: using fire as a tool to evoke, educate and entertain [PDF]
, 2017 The visceral nature of fire was exploited in the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods in Britain by the burning down of timber buildings and monuments, as well as the cremation of the dead. These big fires would have created memories, perhaps even ‘flashbulb
Brophy, Kenneth +2 more
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Typology of chipped stone artefacts in the Early and Middle Neolithic in Serbia [PDF]
Starinar, 2006 After studying the material from twenty sites dating from the Early and Middle Neolithic we propose the typology of chipped stone artefacts based on the established morphological characteristics but supplemented with data provided by the analysis of ...
Šarić Josip
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Middle Neolithic of the Kamchatka Peninsula
Vestnik NSU. Series: History and Philology, 2020 Purpose. The study of archaeological sites of the Middle Neolithic of Kamchatka should offer a chronology and a set of criteria for identifying the period. Results. The research data is based on the materials of the studied cultural layer, buried dwellings and individual artifacts of 46 archaeological sites.
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Göytepe: Neolithic Excavations in the Middle Kura Valley, Azerbaijan [PDF]
, 2021 Göytepe: Neolithic Excavations in the Middle Kura Valley, Azerbaijan, publishes the first round of fieldwork and research (2008-2013) at this key site for understanding the emergence and development of food-producing communities in the South Caucasus.
Nishiaki, Yoshihiro, Guliyev, Farhad
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Decorating the Neolithic: an Evaluation of the Use of Plaster in the Enhancement of Daily Life in the Middle Pre-pottery Neolithic B of the Southern Levant [PDF]
, 2012 During the Middle Pre-pottery Neolithic B in the southern Levant the use of lime plaster in both ritual and domestic contexts increased significantly relative to previous periods.
Clarke, Joanne
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The Development of Early Pottery in the Forest Zone of the Middle Volga Region (Eastern Europe)
Documenta Praehistorica, 2021 The article is devoted to the Neolithisation in the forest zone of the Middle Volga River basin. The different conceptions of the process are considered.
Alexander Vybornov +3 more
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Pack goats in the Neolithic Middle East [PDF]
Anthropozoologica, 2019 This article advances the hypotheses that sheep (Ovis aries Linnaeus, 1758) and goats (Capra hircus Linnaeus, 1758) in the Neolithic Middle East were employed regularly as pack animals and were domesticated to serve as pack animals. The employment of pack ovicaprines, especially pack goats, can explain how obsidian and other goods that circulated in ...
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Carbon stable isotope analysis of cereal remains as a way to reconstruct water availability: preliminary results [PDF]
, 2011 Reconstructing past water availability, both as rainfall and irrigation, is important to answer questions about the way society reacts to climate and its changes and the role of irrigation in the development of social complexity.
AM Rosen +97 more
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Journal of Lithic Studies, 2021 The prehistory of South-western France is known worldwide for its rich record of Palaeolithic sites, especially from the Dordogne region. However, while research on the Palaeolithic is extremely prolific, the Neolithic was at the same time relegated to ...
Sofia Solanas
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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. +5 more
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