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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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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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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Ancient DNA Reveals Limited Hunter-Gatherer Ancestry in the Cerny Culture (Middle Neolithic, France) Despite Hunting-Associated Practices. [PDF]
Am J Biol AnthropolABSTRACT The arrival of the Neolithic way of life in Europe is associated with the migration of Anatolian farmers and their admixture with local hunter‐gatherers. In the Paris Basin (Northern France), the Middle Neolithic Cerny culture (4700–4300 bce) combines agricultural practices with funerary items linked to hunting, suggesting a particular ...
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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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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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Preliminary Observations on the Sere Şippe Mound in the Upper Tigris Valley (Dargeçit/Mardin/Turkey)
Anadolu Araştırmaları, 2022 The Sere Şippe mound is an archaeological site located in the Temelli neighborhood of Dargeçit district in Turkey’s Mardin Province. The site was discovered in 2019 during a survey conducted by the archaeology team working at Boncuklu Tarla, another site
Ergül Kodaş
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The future Neolithic in the Aegean
Studia Praehistorica, 2022 Scholars working in the Aegean are used to associating the term Neolithic always with plant cultivation and domesticated animals. On the other hand, the recent trends in redefining the Neolithic reveal that the Neolithic is marked not only by the onset ...
Burçin Erdoğu
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PLoS ONE, 2022 The paper investigates potentials and challenges during the interpretation of prehistoric settlement dynamics based on large archaeological datasets.
Jan Johannes Miera +7 more
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Review and Synthesis of the Early Neolithic Cultural Development in Fars, Southern Iran
Journal of Neolithic Archaeology, 2021 After the eve of domestication of some wild species of cereal grains as well as sheep, goat, and pig in the Iranian central Zagros Mountains in the 2nd half of the 8th millennium BC, the process of Neolithization and sedentism began with earnest outside
Abbas Alizadeh
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