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Polylinear incursions and autochthonous adaptations: Neolithisation and sustainable sedentarisation of the Arabian Peninsula

open access: yesArabian 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
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the beginnings: a multianalytical archaeometric study of the Early Neolithic pottery production at Koprivets, Northern Bulgaria

open access: yesMateriale și Cercetări Arheologice, 2021
This paper examines pottery production as a proxy for the introduction of major Neolithic achievements, especially in newly-settled territories.
Dzhanfenova, T.
doaj   +1 more source

Reconstructing the climatic niche breadth of land use for animal production during the African Holocene

open access: yesGlobal 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
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yesOpen 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
openaire   +6 more sources

Between the Danube and the Deep Blue Sea: Zooarchaeological Meta-Analysis Reveals Variability in the Spread and Development of Neolithic Farming across the Western Balkans

open access: yesOpen Quaternary, 2016
The first spread of farming practices into Europe in the Neolithic period involves two distinct ‘streams’, respectively around the Mediterranean littoral and along the Danube corridor to central Europe.
David Orton   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reflections on the Other Side. A Southern Iberia Origin for the First Pottery Production of Northern Morocco?

open access: yesOpen Archaeology, 2021
This work is a starting point for rethinking the role of the Iberian Peninsula in the neolithisation of northern Morocco. It focuses on the similarities and divergences between the first pottery productions and their decorations in both territories. This
Martínez Sánchez Rafael M.   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The beginning of the Neolithic on the Upper Volga (Russia)

open access: yesDocumenta 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
doaj   +1 more source

Evolutionary Dynamics of Armatures in Southern France in the Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic

open access: yesOpen Archaeology, 2022
The use of weapons, and therefore of arrowheads, contributed to structuring the technical, economic, social and cultural domains. In the technical sphere, emblematic projectile armatures are often considered to be loaded with cultural values and to ...
Defranould Elsa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The absolute chronology of East Chia Sabz: a Pre-Pottery Neolithic site in Western Iran

open access: yesDocumenta 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
doaj   +1 more source

The first vs. second stage of neolithisation in Polish territories (to say nothing of the third?)

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2019
The origins of the Neolithic in Polish territories are associated with migrations of groups of the Linear Band Pottery culture (LBK) after the mid-6th millennium BC.
Marek Nowak
doaj   +1 more source

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