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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 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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Thin Section Petrography of Neolithic Pottery from Northeast India [PDF]

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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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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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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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

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
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Neolithic skull shapes and demic diffusion: a bioarchaeological investigation into the nature of the Neolithic transition

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2006
There is a growing body of evidence that the spread of farming in Europe was not a single uniform process, but that it involved a complex set of processes such as demic diffusion, folk migration, frontier mobility, and leapfrog colonisation ...
Ron Pinhasi
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A Review of Malta’s Pre-Temple Neolithic Pottery Wares

open access: yesOpen 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   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Archaeological Traces of Hunter-gatherer Seasonal Occupation in Western Coastal Estonia from the Second Half of the 6th Millennium to the End of the 3rd Millennium BC

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2021
Results of archaeological surveys of paleocoastlines in the Western Estonian Lowland are discussed with paleogeographic reconstructions. Mapped sites and stray finds can be dated to the period between the end of the Pre-Pottery Mesolithic and the end of
Kristjan Sander, Aivar Kriiska
doaj   +1 more source

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