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What can lithics tell us about food production during the transition to farming? Exploring harvesting practices and cultural changes during the neolithic in Southwest Asia: a view from Qminas (north‐western Syria)

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the continuity and change in harvesting practices between the Late Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B (LPPNB) and the Early Pottery Neolithic at Qminas, north‐western Levant, through a traceological analysis of flint sickles. By combining qualitative traceological analysis with quantitative functional approaches, we demonstrate that ...
Fiona Pichon, Osamu Maeda, Juan José Ibáñez Estévez, Patricia Anderson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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., Brock, F., Bronk Ramsey, C., Ditchfield, P., Higham, T. F. G., Staff, R. A.   +5 more
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Fats, Fire and Bronze Age Funerary Rites: Organic Residue Analysis of Wide Horizontal Rim Vessels From Burial Contexts in Northwest Portugal

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents the first GC‐MS–based analyses of wide horizontal rim vessels with well‐defined funerary contexts, from Middle Bronze Age Portugal (Quinta do Amorim 2 and Pego). Organic residues from two vessels revealed ruminant fats and plant oils, alongside molecular markers of heat exposure.
João Vinícius Back, César Oliveira, Ana M. S. Bettencourt, Hugo Aluai Sampaio, Luciano Vilas Boas, Luís Gonçalves   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

New Neolithic cult centres and domestic settlements in the light of Urfa Region Surveys

Documenta Praehistorica, 2015
The present study concerns Neolithic period cult centres and settlements discovered recently during surface surveys in the central district of Urfa (Sanlıurfa) region in south-eastern Turkey.
Bahattin Celik
doaj   +1 more source

Latitudinal gradient in dairy production with the introduction of farming in Atlantic Europe

Nature Communications, 2020
The transition to agriculture brought major changes to human populations in Europe during the Neolithic period. Here, Cubas and colleagues analyse lipid residues from Neolithic pottery from along the Atlantic coast of Europe to trace the spread of dairy ...
Miriam Cubas, Alexandre Lucquin, Harry K. Robson, André Carlo Colonese, Pablo Arias, Bruno Aubry, Cyrille Billard, Denis Jan, Mariana Diniz, Ricardo Fernandes, Ramón Fábregas Valcarce, Cécile Germain-Vallée, Laurent Juhel, Arturo de Lombera-Hermida, Cyril Marcigny, Sylvain Mazet, Grégor Marchand, César Neves, Roberto Ontañón-Peredo, Xose Pedro Rodríguez-Álvarez, Teresa Simões, João Zilhão, Oliver E. Craig   +22 more
doaj   +1 more source

Coastal hunter-gatherers and social evolution: marginal or central? [PDF]

, 2002
General accounts of global trends in world prehistory are dominated by narratives of conquest on land: scavenging and hunting of land mammals, migration over land bridges and colonisation of new continents, gathering of plants, domestication, cultivation,
Bailey, G., Milner, N.
core  

Wet Season Carbon (δ13C) and Nitrogen (δ15N) Composition of Modern Plants as Isotopic Framework for Agropastoral and Palaeoecological Studies in Northern Greece

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mediterranean wetlands are one of Europe's most vital and endangered biodiversity hotspots. This study determined the carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotope values of modern plants to construct an isotopic framework by which to contextualize agropastoral management in and around past wetland ecosystems.
Doris Vidas‐Cardador, Amy Styring, Michael Charles, Valasia Isaakidou, Paul Halstead, Amy Bogaard   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The origin of farming in the Lower Volga Region

Documenta Praehistorica, 2015
The paper focuses on the results of archaeological, palaezoological, and radiocarbon analyses of Neolithic and Eneolithic sites in the Northern Caspian and Lower Volga regions.
Alexander Vybornov, Pavel Kosintsev, Marianna Kulkova   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Archaeometric Approach to Reveal Organic Compounds via GC‐MS Analyses of Two Discovered Incense Burners at Daba Al‐Bayah

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study focuses on two terracotta incense burners discovered in the Daba Al‐Bayah necropolis in the Musandam Peninsula (Oman), associated with an Iron Age collective tomb (LCG‐2). Through gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC‐MS), the organic residues preserved within these artifacts were analyzed to investigate their use and ...
Francesco Genchi, Federica Spagnoli, Vittorio Vinciguerra, Stefania Garzoli   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dealing With Inbuilt Age: A Bayesian Approach to Radiocarbon Dating of Rice, Bamboo and Charcoal From Non Ban Jak, Thailand

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT New radiocarbon determinations from rice grains and bamboo have been obtained from Non Ban Jak, Northeast Thailand. These, along with charcoal, date a late Iron Age building sequence. The results come from short‐lived species and charcoal with potential inbuilt age. We built a series of Bayesian models to obtain a reliable chronology.
C. F. W. Higham, T. F. G. Higham
wiley   +1 more source