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Late Glacial lithic industry of the Xiaonanshan site: implications for the Neolithisation in the Amur River basin [PDF]

open access: bronzeAntiquity, 2023
Abstract Xiaonanshan is an archaeological site dated to 16.5–13.5 cal kyr BP, situated beside the Ussuri River in China. The lithic assemblages feature microblade debitage, bifacial points and stone adzes, which provide important new materials for this ...
Jian‐Ping Yue   +4 more
openalex   +2 more sources

The Early Neolithic pottery of Keçiçayiri and its place in the North-western Anatolian Neolithisation process

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2019
The region of Inner North-western Anatolia was a key node in the transmission of the Neolithic lifestyle from the Near East to Marmara, and from there to the Balkans and the rest of Europe. It formed the intersection between several important routes and
Deniz Sari, Semsettin Akyol
doaj   +2 more sources

The Neolithisation of the Adriatic: Contrasting Regional Patterns and Interactions Along and Across the Shores [PDF]

open access: greenOpen Archaeology, 2021
The beginning of the Neolithic in the Adriatic region dates back to approximately 6000 cal BC, and the appearance of Impressed Ware pottery marks its generic development.
Sonja Kačar
semanticscholar   +4 more sources

Back to Combe-Grèze (La Cresse, Aveyron): New data on the Neolithisation of the Grands Causses region, Southwestern France–abridged version [PDF]

open access: hybridPréhistoires méditerranéennes, 2022
Elsa Defranould   +14 more
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First contribution of the excavation and chronostratigraphic study of the Ruways 1 Neolithic shell midden (Oman) in terms of Neolithisation, palaeoeconomy, social‐environmental interactions and site formation processes

open access: green, 2019
The NeoArabia project tries to understand how environmental, social, economic and technological factors work in concert to influence settlement and abandonment along a latitudinal transect of 1200 km from UAE to southern Oman. This region was affected by
Jean‐François Berger   +21 more
openalex   +3 more sources

Infectious disease in the Pleistocene: Old friends or old foes?

open access: yesAmerican 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
wiley   +1 more source

The Blurry Third Millennium. “Neolithisation” in a Norwegian Context

open access: yesOpen Archaeology, 2023
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.
Astrid J. Nyland, D. Hofmann, R. Iversen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Twelve years of the ‘Arabian Seashores’ project: How the extensive investigation of coastal Oman changed the paradigm of the Arabian Neolithic

open access: yesArabian 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
wiley   +1 more source

An archaeological review of Polynesian adze quarries and sources

open access: yesArchaeology 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
wiley   +1 more source

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