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Infectious disease in the Pleistocene: Old friends or old foes?
American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 182, Issue 4, Page 513-531, December 2023., 2023 Sources of evidence for studying infectious diseases of humans and other Pleistocene hominins. From top to bottom: DNA analysis of humans and hominins, modern and ancient, including the analysis of genomes at a population scale; palaeopathology, such as osteolytic skeletal lesions resulting from infection, and the study of mummified tissues or palaeo ...
Charlotte J. Houldcroft, Simon Underdown
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Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 34, Issue S1, Page S1-S21, November 2023., 2023 Abstract For over a decade, the French mission ‘Archaeology of the Arabian Seashores’ has been exploring the evolution of the Omani coastline, from hunter–gatherers to the rise of complex societies during the crucial passages from the culmination of the Pleistocene to the Early Bronze Age, passing through the Neolithic.
Vincent Charpentier +4 more
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An archaeological review of Polynesian adze quarries and sources
Archaeology in Oceania, Volume 58, Issue 2, Page 183-213, July 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT Adze quarries and sources are some of the most visible, unique and well‐preserved Polynesian archaeological sites where stone technology, intensification of production, other aspects of economy, social organisation and ritual practices are anchored together on the landscape.
Christopher Jennings +2 more
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The Blurry Third Millennium. “Neolithisation” in a Norwegian Context [PDF]
Open Archaeology, 2023 Abstract In this article, we critically review recurrent tropes, implicit frameworks, and unexplained concepts in current research on the process of “Neolithisation” in the western part of southern Norway. Two models are on offer, as also seen elsewhere in the European research: either 1) the transition to agriculture is rapid and ...
Nyland, Astrid J. +2 more
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Environmental archaeologies of Neolithisation: Europe [PDF]
Environmental Archaeology, 2014 The origins and spread of Neolithic life-ways represent a pivotal change in human ecology and society. Communities transformed their relationships with the world around them, shifting away from reliance upon hunted and collected wild resources, to the management and domestication of plants and animals, alongside a pattern of increasing sedentism. These
Bendrey, R +3 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 365-388, June 2020., 2020 Abstract Invasive schemes involving the erection of land tenure boundaries are currently spreading quickly across vast areas throughout the globe, turning former unfenced forests and grasslands into closed‐off parcels. These processes pose intriguing questions about the deep history of colonizing assemblages consisting of particular tenure practices ...
Mette Løvschal
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Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 119-127, May 2020., 2020 This contribution’s broad and in parts essayistic approach to Arabia’s Neolithic is less a discussion of findings than an explicit advocacy for future holistic research strategies. Based on the contribution’s meta‐theoretical inputs, it suggests two sets of theses to be tested by the hitherto gained fragmentary information and future research on Arabia’
Hans Georg K. Gebel
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Global Ecology and Biogeography, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 127-147, January 2020., 2020 Abstract Aim Domestic animals first appeared in the archaeological record in northern Africa c. 9000 years before present and subsequently spread southwards throughout the continent. This geographic expansion is well studied and can broadly be explained in terms of the movement of pastoralist populations due to climate change.
Leanne N. Phelps +10 more
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The beginning of the Neolithic on the Upper Volga (Russia)
Documenta Praehistorica, 2019 The appearance of the Neolithic in the Upper Volga region is to be associated with infiltrations of notch-ware pottery-makers into the indigenous Mesolithic populations. Most likely the first vessels were imported into the region as final goods.
Nataliya A. Tsvetkova
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The absolute chronology of East Chia Sabz: a Pre-Pottery Neolithic site in Western Iran
Documenta Praehistorica, 2011 East Chia Sabz is a PPN site located in the Seimareh Valley, western Iran. 14C dating results indicated that the site was occupied from the early 9th millennium to the early 7th millennium BC.
Hojjat Darabi +3 more
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