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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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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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Pre-Pottery Neolithic in the Near East

, 2022
The Pre-Pottery Neolithic group assemblage refers to the communities that settled in the early Holocene territories of Southwest Asia from about the 10th millennium until the middle of the 7th millennium. These Neolithic groups are primarily spread across the area known as the Fertile Crescent, i.e., the Levant, Anatolia, and Mesopotamia.
Cartolano, Mattia
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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

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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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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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A Review of Malta’s Pre-Temple Neolithic Pottery Wares [PDF]

Open Archaeology, 2023
Sites from the earliest known phases of Maltese prehistory often consist of scatters of sherds for the Għar Dalam and Skorba phases (6000–4800 BCE), and tomb contexts for the Żebbuġ phase (3800–3600 BCE). Neolithic studies are, therefore, heavily reliant
Richard-Trémeau Emma, Brogan Catriona, Betts John C., Anastasi Maxine, Vella Nicholas C.   +4 more
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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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Large-scale investigations of Neolithic settlement dynamics in Central Germany based on machine learning analysis: A case study from the Weiße Elster river catchment.

PLoS ONE, 2022
The paper investigates potentials and challenges during the interpretation of prehistoric settlement dynamics based on large archaeological datasets.
Jan Johannes Miera, Karsten Schmidt, Hans von Suchodoletz, Mathias Ulrich, Lukas Werther, Christoph Zielhofer, Peter Ettel, Ulrich Veit   +7 more
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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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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
Bill Finlayson, Jenkins, Emma, Maricevic, Darko, Sam Smith, Smith, S., Finlayson, Bill, Maricevic, D., Darko Maričević, Jenkins, Emma L., Mohammed Najjar, Emma Jenkins, Mithen, Steve, Jenkins, E., Najjar, M., Steven J Mithen, Mithen, Steven J., Smith, Sam, Najjar, Mohammed, Mithen, S.J., Finlayson, B.   +19 more
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