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Rethinking 'cattle cults' in early Egypt: Towards a prehistoric perspective on the Narmer Palette [PDF]

, 2008
The Narmer Palette occupies a key position in our understanding of the transition from Predynastic to Dynastic culture in Egypt. Previous interpretations have focused largely upon correspondences between its decorative content and later conventions of ...
Wengrow, D
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Neolithic skull shapes and demic diffusion: a bioarchaeological investigation into the nature of the Neolithic transition

Documenta 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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Early Neolithic settlement patterns and exchange networks in the Aegean

Documenta Praehistorica, 2011
The Neolithisation process is one of the major issues under debate in Aegean archaeology, since the description of the basal layers of Thessalian tell-settlements some fifty years ago.
Agathe Reingruber
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SERFing in the Scottish heartlands: artefacts and the research strategy [PDF]

, 2010
This paper describes the first phase (2006–11) of the SERF (Strathearn Environs and Royal Forteviot) project and outlines the research strategy developed by a team of prehistorians and medievalists.
Driscoll, S.T.
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Radiocarbon dates from the Oxford AMS system: archaeometry datelist 35 [PDF]

, 2014
This is the 35th list of AMS radiocarbon determinations measured at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU). Amongst some of the sites included here are the latest series of determinations from the key sites of Abydos, El Mirón, Ban Chiang, Grotte
Baker, D., Brock, F., Bronk Ramsey, C., Ditchfield, P., Higham, T. F. G., Staff, R. A.   +5 more
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Early Neolithic imagery in flux

Documenta Praehistorica, 2023
Stone is often regarded as the ideal medium for the long-term preservation of knowledge, as it is resistant to change. Early to middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey has repeatedly been treated as a prime example for such ...
Oliver Dietrich, Julia Wagner
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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 B.
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Carbon stable isotope analysis of cereal remains as a way to reconstruct water availability: preliminary results [PDF]

, 2011
Reconstructing past water availability, both as rainfall and irrigation, is important to answer questions about the way society reacts to climate and its changes and the role of irrigation in the development of social complexity.
AM Rosen, B Finlayson, BD Marino, C Grigson, C Körner, C Körner, C Migowski, DH Price, DW McCreery, E Galili, E Jenkins, E Kaptijn, E Peltenburg, Emma Jenkins, F Braemer, FB Salisbury, G Fiorentino, G Fiorentino, G Jones, G Palumbo, G Philip, G Rollefson, GD Farquhar, GD Farquhar, GD Farquhar, GD Farquhar, GK Gillmore, GR Stewart, Gundula Müldner, H Helbaek, H Weiss, HR Stokes, I Kuijt, J Codron, J Doorenbos, J Hoefs, J Mabry, J Mabry, J Sealy, JL Araus, JL Araus, JL Araus, JL Araus, JL Araus, JN Postgate, JP Ferrio, JP Ferrio, JP Ferrio, JP Ferrio, JP Ferrio, JP Oleson, JR Ehleringer, JW Laundré, K Bastert, K Prag, KT Hubick, KW Butzer, L Cabrera-Bosquet, LT Tieszen, M Aguilera, M Charles, M Davies, M Harrower, M Madella, M Staubwasser, MH O’Leary, MW Ertsen, N Roberts, NK Fageria, P Monneveux, P Wright, Pascal Flohr, PB deMenocal, PG Whitehead, PMMG Akkermans, R Matthews, R Shaheen, RB Austin, RC Hunt, RS Wenke, RTJ Cappers, S Fujii, S Fujii, S Helms, S Mithen, S Riehl, S Riehl, SJ Bourke, SW Helms, TE Dawson, TE Levy, THE Heaton, THE Heaton, TW Boutton, TW Boutton, U Bellwald, VL Scarborough, Y Garfinkel   +97 more
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New Results From the Pre‐Pottery Neolithic Site of Al Uyaynah, Tabuk, in Northwestern Saudi Arabia

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Al Uyaynah is a low sandstone mound on an alluvial plain, long known for its extensive surface remains of stone‐built circular and rectangular structures. Following test excavations in 2012, more detailed excavation was undertaken in 2016 within one of the largest rectangular stone structures.
Khalid Alasmari, Stephanie F. Piper, Kirsten Grothe, W. Derek Hamilton, Delphine Joly, Penny Bickle, Geoff Bailey   +6 more
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The transition to farming and the ceramic trajectories in Western Eurasia. From ceramic figurines to vessels

Documenta Praehistorica, 2006
In Eurasia the invention of ceramic technology and production of fired-clay vessels has not necessarily been related to the dynamics of the transition to farming.
Mihael Budja
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