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The Cardial–Epicardial Early Neolithic of Lower Rhône Valley (South-Eastern France): A Lithic Perspective

open access: yesOpen Archaeology, 2021
In the lower Rhône Valley, many sites are attributed to the Early Neolithic and dated between 5600 and 4800 cal. BC. According to their ceramic production, they are associated with two cultural facies: the Cardial and the Epicardial. The relation between
Defranould Elsa
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Le nomadisme néolithique en zone steppique syrienne et les acteurs de sa découverte

open access: yesLes Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2023
The current climate of the Near Eastern steppes was gradually put in place on the eve of the Neolithisation, around the 12th millennium BCE. The Syrian steppe was then travelled by mobile groups of hunter-gatherers belonging to the Natufian culture.
Frédéric Abbès
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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
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Neolithization Process in the central Zagros:

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2019
In the 1960–70s, fieldwork in the central Zagros Mountains produced evidence of early Holocene Neolithic settlements in this mountainous zone along the ‘Eastern wing’ of the Fertile Cre-scent.
Hojjat Darabi   +2 more
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The bioarchaeology of the Neolithic transition: evidence of dental pathologies at Lepenski Vir (Serbia)

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2013
The Neolithic transition affected human biology, which is visible as a series of inter- related skeletal and dental pathological conditions. The population of Lepenski vir culture, which inhabited the region of the Danube Gorges between 9500–5500 BC ...
Marija Radović, Sofija Stefanović
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Rise and decline of Holocene tufas across Europe: exploring east/west and north/south similarities and differences in their development

open access: yesJournal of Quaternary Science, Volume 39, Issue 6, Page 960-971, August 2024.
ABSTRACT An extended inventory of 82 well‐dated European calcareous tufas is used to discuss the timing and amplitude of their onset, maximum and decline; in particular differences from east to west and between the Mediterranean area and the rest of Europe.
Julie Dabkowski, Léa Beaumont
wiley   +1 more source

Neolithic transverse arrowheads

open access: yesDanish Journal of Archaeology, 2018
One of the most debated subjects in archaeology is the transition between the Mesolithic and the Neolithic period. A missing piece in this debate has been the transverse arrowhead, which is a relic from the hunting and gathering society but still has ...
Andreas Valentin Wadskjær
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The introduction of ceramics in the Ertebølle Culture

open access: yesDanish Journal of Archaeology, 2013
Pottery production has long been viewed as an integrated part of the Neolithic package. Instances of ceramic production in hunter-gatherer contexts have been explained by influences from early farmers. This has also been the case for the ceramics of the
Karen Poulsen
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Neolithic pots and potters in Europe: the end of ‘demic diffusion’ migratory model

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2013
In this paper we discuss the inventions and re-inventions of ceramic technology and pot- tery dispersals in foraging and farming contexts in Eurasia.
Mihael Budja
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Why are there no Neolithic mega-sites in the Anatolian Euphrates basin? A socio-archaeological approach to the marital structure of early farming societies

open access: yesArkhaia Anatolika, 2019
The appearance and disappearance of Late Neolithic mega-sites in Central Anatolia are poorly understood. These huge agricultural settlements are all the more puzzling that they seem to be unknown from Southeast Anatolia, the area where the mixed-farming ...
Cédric BODET
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