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Multi-isotope evidence of population aggregation in the Natufian and scant migration during the early Neolithic of the Southern Levant

open access: yesScientific 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   +10 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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Thin Section Petrography of Neolithic Pottery from Northeast India

open access: yes, 2023
Twenty nine potsherds from nine Neolithic sites of Northeast India have been analysed using thin section petrography. The primary objectives of this article are to determine their provenance, to investigate the production techniques of Neolithic pottery ...
Sharma, Sukanya   +2 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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Human Dental Microwear From Ohalo II (22,500–23,500 cal BP), Southern Levant [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Dietary hardness and abrasiveness are inferred from human dental microwear at Ohalo II, a late Upper Palaeolithic site (22,500–23,500 cal BP) in the southern Levant.
Patrick Mahoney, Mahoney, Patrick
core   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

The Early Neolithic pottery of Keçiçayiri and its place in the North-western Anatolian Neolithisation process

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2019
The region of Inner North-western Anatolia was a key node in the transmission of the Neolithic lifestyle from the Near East to Marmara, and from there to the Balkans and the rest of Europe. It formed the intersection between several important routes and
Deniz Sari, Semsettin Akyol
doaj   +1 more source

The Beginning of the Neolithic in Southeast Anatolia

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2020
New research in southeastern Anatolia at Early Neolithic sites has brought a fresh perspective on the emergence of the Neolithic way of life in southwest Asia. In addition to providing more details on the transition to settled life, food production, and
Necmi Karul
doaj   +1 more source

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