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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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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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The Neolithic transition in Europe: archaeological models and genetic evidence [PDF]

, 2003
The major pattern in the European gene pool is a southeast-northwest frequency gradient of classic genetic markers such as blood groups, which population geneticists initially attributed to the demographic impact of Neolithic farmers dispersing from the ...
Richards, Martin, Richards, Martin B., Martin Richards   +2 more
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Sediment descriptions and geochemical analyses of radiocarbon-dated deposits from the vicinity of Göbekli Tepe—A dataset

Data 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, Daniel Knitter, Brigitta Schütt   +2 more
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New evidence of the Neolithic period in West Central Zagros: the Sarfirouzabad- Mahidasht Region, Iran

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

, 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
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Beyond the Jordan

Documenta 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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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., Ambroise Baker, Emma Jenkins, Sarah Elliott, Elliott, S., Baker, A.   +5 more
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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]

PLoS 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, Hamudi Khalaily, Ran Barkai   +2 more
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