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Geoarchaeology, Volume 40, Issue 2, March/April 2025.ABSTRACT Although the primary purpose of agricultural terracing can be assumed to be food production, it has been suggested that a secondary purpose was the control of soil erosion. In this paper, we explore this thesis with multi‐proxy data from the TerrACE project, which studied 20 sites in a latitudinal transect across Europe.
Antony G. Brown +16 more
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Archaeogenetic Data Mining Supports a Uralic–Minoan Homeland in the Danube Basin
InformationFour types of archaeogenetic data mining are used to investigate the origin of the Minoans and the Uralic peoples: (1) six SNP mutations related to eye, hair, and skin phenotypes; (2) whole-genome admixture analysis using the G25 system; (3) an analysis ...
Peter Z. Revesz
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En‐échelon Rifting and Origin of the Volcanism in the Comoros
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Volume 26, Issue 2, February 2025.Abstract Two volcanic provinces have been recently discovered during the SISMAORE oceanographic cruise in the Comoros archipelago in the North Mozambique Channel between Madagascar and East Africa: N’Droundé, along the North‐eastern insular slopes of Grande Comores Island and Mwezi, in the abyssal plain, north‐east of Mayotte and Anjouan islands.
P. Boymond +6 more
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Ancient and historical cooking pots and food: an eternal communion. A topical review
Archaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 219-234, February 2025.Abstract This contribution provides a topical view at and review of traditional clay‐based utilitarian cooking pots that were used for millennia to prepare, serve, display, and distribute foodstuff. Key mechanical and thermal properties of ceramic cooking vessels will be discussed and strategies of property optimization outlined.
Robert B. Heimann
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Terracotta Figures, Figurines, and Plaques from the Anavlochos, Crete.
Les Carnets de l’ACoSt, 2018 In the summer of 2017 two votive deposits were excavated on the summit of the Anavlochos, Crete. The first one yielded protogeometric to classical figures, figurines, and plaques representing female figures. The second one included zoomorphic figures and
Florence Gaignerot-Driessen
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EXARC Journal, 2022 During the Bronze Age in Crete, agriculture, pottery production, metallurgy, textiles, architectural feats, trade, and other specializations flourished. Throughout habitation on Crete, pottery production was an area of craftsmanship and practicality from
Brianna Jenkins
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Solar symbolism in the cultures of Eurasia. Archetype and chronology of formation [PDF]
Cultural Heritage and Modern TechnologiesThe symbolism of the spiral and the meander is well known from the ornaments on Minoan and Mycenaean artifacts, while the roots of this symbolism can be traced chronologically much deeper than these cultures and have been fixed since the Paleolithic era.
Parshikov S.A., Gienko E.G.
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Revised Minoan eruption volume as benchmark for large volcanic eruptions. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2023 Karstens J +14 more
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Akroterion, 2012 Olive wood, stone olive presses and clay spouted tubs, used for separating olive oil and water, are found on Crete in association with the Late Bronze Age archaeological evidence for earthquake and fire damage to property.
F. R. Riley
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To Use or Not to Use a Minoan Chisel? Ancient Technology in a New Light
EXARC Journal, 2014 The Minoan chisel is thought to have been used by the metal worker, the stone mason, the sculptor, the carpenter, and the ivory and bone worker. However, barely any work has been conducted to substantiate the different workers and their chisels.
Maria Lowe Fri
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