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Past plant use in Jordan as revealed by archaeological and ethnoarchaeological phytolith signatures [PDF]

open access: yes, 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.
Baker, A., Elliott, S., Jenkins, E.L.
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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

open access: yesБългарско 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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A Neolithic mega-tsunami event in the eastern Mediterranean: Prehistoric settlement vulnerability along the Carmel coast, Israel.

open access: yesPLoS 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   +10 more
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Sediment descriptions and geochemical analyses of radiocarbon-dated deposits from the vicinity of Göbekli Tepe—A dataset

open access: yesData in Brief, 2020
This dataset comprises the detailed descriptions and laboratory measurements of sediment profiles from the semi-arid environs of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey—one of the oldest monumental structures of humankind ...
Moritz Nykamp   +2 more
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New Neolithic cult centres and domestic settlements in the light of Urfa Region Surveys

open access: yesDocumenta 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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Form and function of early neolithic bifacial stone tools reflects changes in land use practices during the neolithization process in the levant. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2012
For many, climate change is no longer recognized as the primary cause of cultural changes in the Near East. Instead, human landscape degradation, population growth, socioeconomic adjustments, and conflict have been proposed as the mechanisms that shaped ...
Richard W Yerkes   +2 more
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Fire and memory: transforming place using fire at henge monuments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Henges — Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age earthwork monuments — often have long life-histories of reuse and rebuilding over generations. At some sites, fire-lighting and the deposition of fire-altered materials played a significant role in certain ...
Younger, Rebecca
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New evidence of the Neolithic period in West Central Zagros: the Sarfirouzabad- Mahidasht Region, Iran

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2012
Because the eastern region of the Mahidasht Valley in the Sarfirouzabad region, to the south-east of Kermanshah Province, had not been studied by archaeologists, this area of central Zagros was surveyed in 2009 by a team from Tehran University.
Kamal-Aldin Niknami, Meisam Nikzad
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Beyond the Jordan

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2020
Recent excavations in Jordan have demonstrated a long sequence of development from the late Pleistocene Epipalaeolithic through the early Holocene Pre-Pottery Neolithic.
Bill Finlayson, Cheryl A. Makarewicz
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Probable Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis (DISH) in Pre-Pottery Neolithic Cyprus [PDF]

open access: yesPaléorient, 2021
Le site de Khirokitia à Chypre (VIIe-début VIe millénaire avant J.-C.) a livré l’une des plus grandes séries de restes humains pour la période du Néolithique précéramique en Méditerranée orientale et au Proche-Orient (NMI = 243). L’étude paléopathologique de cette série a permis de diagnostiquer un cas probable de maladie hyperostosique (DISH ...
Le Mort, Françoise, Duday, Henri
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