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An 11 600 year-old communal structure from the Neolithic of southern Jordan [PDF]

, 2011
The authors present a new type of communal and monumental structure from the earliest Neolithic in western Asia. A complement to the decorated stone pillars erected at G¨obekli Tepe in the north, ‘Wadi Faynan 16 Structure O75’ in the southern Levant
Maricevic, D., Jenkins, Emma L., Najjar, M., Smith, S., Mithen, S.J., Finlayson, B.   +5 more
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The Neolithic pottery of the Isle of Man and its relationship to that of the surrounding area [PDF]

This research project focuses on the Neolithic pottery of the Isle of Man and its relationship to that used in neighbouring parts of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales (the Irish Seaprovince).
Burrow, Stephen Paul
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Past plant use in Jordan as revealed by archaeological and ethnoarchaeological phytolith signatures [PDF]

, 2011
Ninety-six phytolith samples were analysed from seven archaeological sites ranging from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic to the Classical period and from two ethnoarchaeological sites in Jordan.
Jenkins, E.L., Elliott, S., Baker, A.
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Ulucak Höyük

Documenta Praehistorica, 2020
It has been increasingly clear that pottery was adopted as a continuous technology during the first quarter of the 7th millennium BC in a wide region, from Upper Mesopotamia through Central Anatolia and the Lakes District region. However, the absence of
Özlem Çevik, Osman Vuruşkan
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A new Pre-Pottery Neolithic site in Southeastern Turkey: Ayanlar Höyük (Gre Hut)

Documenta Praehistorica, 2017
Ayanlar Höyük (Gre Hut), located 30km west of Şanlıurfa, was discovered during surface surveys conducted in 2013. Ayanlar Höyük dated to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Period, is a large- scale mound like Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe, covering an overall ...
Bahattin Celik
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Multi-isotope evidence of population aggregation in the Natufian and scant migration during the early Neolithic of the Southern Levant

Scientific Reports, 2021
Human mobility and migration are thought to have played essential roles in the consolidation and expansion of sedentary villages, long-distance exchanges and transmission of ideas and practices during the Neolithic transition of the Near East.
Jonathan Santana, Andrew Millard, Juan J. Ibáñez-Estevez, Fanny Bocquentin, Geoffrey Nowell, Joanne Peterkin, Colin Macpherson, Juan Muñiz, Marie Anton, Mohammad Alrousan, Zeidan Kafafi   +10 more
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The transition from the Pre-Pottery to the early Pottery Neolithic period at the site of Uğurlu on the Island of Gökçeada, NE Aegean

Българско е-Списание за Археология
Uğurlu, on the island of Gökçeada (Türkiye), is among the most important sites in the Aegean when considering the transition from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic to the early Pottery Neolithic.
Nejat Yücel
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New Neolithic cult centres and domestic settlements in the light of Urfa Region Surveys

Documenta Praehistorica, 2015
The present study concerns Neolithic period cult centres and settlements discovered recently during surface surveys in the central district of Urfa (Sanlıurfa) region in south-eastern Turkey.
Bahattin Celik
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A Neolithic mega-tsunami event in the eastern Mediterranean: Prehistoric settlement vulnerability along the Carmel coast, Israel.

PLoS ONE, 2020
Tsunami events in antiquity had a profound influence on coastal societies. Six thousand years of historical records and geological data show that tsunamis are a common phenomenon affecting the eastern Mediterranean coastline. However, the possible impact
Gilad Shtienberg, Assaf Yasur-Landau, Richard D Norris, Michael Lazar, Tammy M Rittenour, Anthony Tamberino, Omri Gadol, Katrina Cantu, Ehud Arkin-Shalev, Steven N Ward, Thomas E Levy   +10 more
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A Virtual and a Practiced Neolithic? Material Culture Symbolism, Monumentality and Identities in the Western Baltic Region

Journal of Neolithic Archaeology, 2010
Besides the economic, technical and social innovations most Neolithic societies of the old world are separated from Pre-Neolithic societies by a new stage of the manipulation of material objects and structures as media of symbolic communication.
Martin Furholt
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