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New Perspectives on the Late Neolithic of South-Western Sweden. An Interdisciplinary Investigation of the Gallery Grave Falköping Stad 5

open access: yesOpen Archaeology, 2018
This article presents the results of an interdisciplinary study combining archaeology, osteology, and stable isotope analyses. The geological conditions and richness of megalithic graves in Falbygden is suitable for studies of Neolithic human remains ...
Blank Malou   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cave Palaeolithic of the Ural Mountains – a review

open access: yesBoreas, EarlyView.
The Ural Mountains are of fundamental importance for studying early human migrations along the geographical limits between Europe and Asia. Geological processes and past climates gave rise to numerous caves, mostly in Palaeozoic carbonate formations.
Jiri Chlachula
wiley   +1 more source

Big-Men and Small Chiefs: The Creation of Bronze Age Societies

open access: yesOpen Archaeology, 2017
This paper investigates to what extent the significant material changes observable at the end of the Neolithic reflect transformations of the underlying social dynamics.
Iversen Rune
doaj   +1 more source

A glimpse of human life from the Neolithic cemetery at Tell el-Kerkh, Northwest Syria

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2011
The excavations at Tell el-Kerkh, Northwest Syria, have uncovered the presence of a large Neolithic settlement that had a long cultural sequence.
Akira Tsuneki
doaj   +1 more source

Combining morphological and molecular data to study past foraminiferal communities from a temperate coastal sediment core

open access: yesBoreas, EarlyView.
This paper presents the results of a dual approach for assessing fossil benthic foraminiferal communities using both traditional morphology‐based analyses and sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) metabarcoding. The main objectives are to test the feasibility of sedaDNA analyses to assess foraminiferal biodiversity in temperate shelf sediments (Le Croisic,
Meryem Mojtahid   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

A new approach to the problem of the Neolithisation of the North-Pontic area: is there a north-eastern kind of Mediterranean Impresso pottery

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2011
Potsherds from a few vessels with Cardium decoration were recently found in old collections of some Neolithic sites of the Northern Black Sea area. A good samples of the valves of brackish water ostracods were discovered in the raw material in most of ...
Dmytro Gaskevych
doaj   +1 more source

Securing the past for the future – why climate proxy archives should be protected

open access: yesBoreas, EarlyView.
Glaciers, corals, speleothems, peatlands, trees and other natural proxy archives are essential for global climate change research, but their scarcity and fragility are not equally recognised. Here, we introduce a rapidly disappearing source of palaeoclimatic, environmental and archaeological evidence from some 5000 years ago in the Fenland of eastern ...
Tatiana Bebchuk, Ulf Büntgen
wiley   +1 more source

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