Landscape Alteration by Pre-Pottery Neolithic Communities in the Southern Levant - The Kaizer Hilltop Quarry, Israel. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 This study focuses on Kaizer Hill, a quarry site located in the vicinity of the city of Modiin where remains of a single prehistoric cultural entity assigned to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A were discovered.
Leore Grosman, Naama Goren-Inbar
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Beyond the Levant: first evidence of a pre-pottery Neolithic incursion into the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Pre-Pottery Neolithic assemblages are best known from the fertile areas of the Mediterranean Levant. The archaeological site of Jebel Qattar 101 (JQ-101), at Jubbah in the southern part of the Nefud Desert of northern Saudi Arabia, contains a large ...
Rémy Crassard +13 more
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Farming legumes in the pre-pottery Neolithic: New discoveries from the site of Ahihud (Israel). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 New discoveries of legumes in the lower Galilee at the prehistoric site of Ahihud in Israel shed light on early farming systems in the southern Levant.
Valentina Caracuta +3 more
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Kaizer Hill (Modi'in), a pre-pottery neolithic a quarry site - the terraced slopes. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 The research of the Kaizer Hill site (the Hilltop and its Terraces), recognized as a Pre Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) quarry site, involved studies of the rock damage associated with the quarrying activities as well as of the recovered material remains ...
Naama Goren-Inbar +4 more
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Burying power: New insights into incipient leadership in the Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic from an outstanding burial at Ba'ja, southern Jordan. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 In 2016, an extraordinary burial of a young adult individual was discovered at the Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (LPPNB, 7,500-6,900 BCE) settlement of Ba'ja in southern Jordan.
Marion Benz +7 more
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Pre-Pottery Neolithic Clay Figurines from Nevali Çori, Turkey
Internet Archaeology, 2000 A mineralogical and chemical study of clay figurines excavated in Turkey is presented with the aim of characterising the raw materials used and to suggest possible provenances.
Maria Thaís Crepaldi Affonso +1 more
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Human Hunting and Nascent Animal Management at Middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic Yiftah'el, Israel. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 The current view for the southern Levant is that wild game hunting was replaced by herd management over the course of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period, but there is significant debate over the timing, scale and origin of this transition.
Lidar Sapir-Hen +3 more
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Palaeogenomic insights into the origins of early settlers on the island of Cyprus [PDF]
Scientific ReportsArchaeological evidence supports sporadic seafaring visits to the Eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus by Epipaleolithic hunter-gatherers over 12,000 years ago, followed by permanent settlements during the early Neolithic.
Alexandros Heraclides +5 more
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Squaring the circle. Social and environmental implications of pre-pottery neolithic building technology at Tell Qarassa (South Syria). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 We present the results of the microstratigraphic, phytolith and wood charcoal study of the remains of a 10.5 ka roof. The roof is part of a building excavated at Tell Qarassa (South Syria), assigned to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period (PPNB).
Andrea L Balbo +9 more
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New Pre-Pottery Neolithic sites and cult centres in the Urfa Region
Documenta Praehistorica, 2013 The present study assesses the sites and the corresponding artefacts that were recently discovered during cultural inventory studies in the Urfa region in south-eastern Turkey. The studies were conducted at PPN sites located at Herzo Tepe, Basaran Höyük
Gül Güler +2 more
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