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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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What can lithics tell us about food production during the transition to farming? Exploring harvesting practices and cultural changes during the neolithic in Southwest Asia: a view from Qminas (north‐western Syria)

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the continuity and change in harvesting practices between the Late Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B (LPPNB) and the Early Pottery Neolithic at Qminas, north‐western Levant, through a traceological analysis of flint sickles. By combining qualitative traceological analysis with quantitative functional approaches, we demonstrate that ...
Fiona Pichon, Osamu Maeda, Juan José Ibáñez Estévez, Patricia Anderson   +3 more
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Mitochondrial DNA analysis of eneolithic trypillians from Ukraine reveals neolithic farming genetic roots [PDF]

, 2017
The agricultural revolution in Eastern Europe began in the Eneolithic with the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture complex. In Ukraine, the Trypillian culture (TC) existed for over two millennia (ca. 5,400–2,700 BCE) and left a wealth of artifacts.
Lillie, Malcolm, Mallick, Swapan, Nikitin, Alexey, Nikitin, Alexey G., Potekhina, Inna, Potiekhina, I D, Reich, David, Rohland, Nadin   +7 more
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An Archaeometric Approach to Reveal Organic Compounds via GC‐MS Analyses of Two Discovered Incense Burners at Daba Al‐Bayah

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study focuses on two terracotta incense burners discovered in the Daba Al‐Bayah necropolis in the Musandam Peninsula (Oman), associated with an Iron Age collective tomb (LCG‐2). Through gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC‐MS), the organic residues preserved within these artifacts were analyzed to investigate their use and ...
Francesco Genchi, Federica Spagnoli, Vittorio Vinciguerra, Stefania Garzoli   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Radiocarbon evidence for the pace of the M-/L-PPNB transition in the 8th millennium BC south-west Asia [PDF]

, 2017
The transition from the Middle to Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) happened throughout southwest Asia in the mid-8th millennium cal BC. It entailed the abandonment of a number of sites, rapid growth of others, as well as the wide spread of ...
Jacobsson, Piotr
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The Neolithic Site of Piano dei Cardoni in the Island of Ustica (Italy): Minero‐Petrographic and Chemical Characterization of the Ceramic Finds and Clayey Raw Materials

Geoarchaeology, Volume 41, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper presents the results of minero‐petrographic and chemical analyses of pottery and potential local raw materials from Ustica, a small volcanic island off the coast of Palermo (Sicily), inhabited during the Middle Neolithic. Typologically, the pottery shows cultural connections to the Bicromica and Serra d'Alto traditions, linking ...
G. Montana, C. Speciale, G. Battaglia, L. Randazzo, G. Carnevale, M. V. Antonopoulou, A. Magrì   +6 more
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Collaboration franco-israélienne dans la recherche archéologique

Archéopages, 2010
The Israel Antiquities Authority and Inrap have collaborated on numerous occasions over Neolithic and Mesolithic archaeology in Israel, leading to two main projects: the resumption of research at the Beisamoun site and the Caesarea Project. For Beisamoun,
Hamoudi Khalaily
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The color of transformation: Investigations into heat treatment of Natufian artifacts from Hayonim Terrace (Israel) [PDF]

, 2016
In the Natufian lithic component at Hayonim, both in the cave and the terrace, numerous artifacts of pink/red color may be recognized. Cherts with similar appearance are not present in the geological environment surrounding the site in Northern Israel ...
Delage, C, Sunseri, JU
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Early Use of Lime Mortar at the Early Iron Age Piscina Torta Salt Production Site (Tiber Delta, Ostia, Italy)

Geoarchaeology, Volume 41, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
ABSTRACT This study presents new evidence for the early use of lime mortar during the Early Iron Age at the Piscina Torta site (Ostia, Italy), situated on the earliest Holocene beach ridges in the southern Tiber delta. The site, which was earlier described as a briquetage site, dates from between the late 8th and 6th century BCE and consists of a large
Francesca Bulian, Jan Sevink, Patrick Degryse, Matilde Quilici, Luca Alessandri, Peter Attema   +5 more
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Dating WF16: Exploring the Chronology of a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Settlement in the Southern Levant [PDF]

, 2016
A pre-requisite for understanding the transition to the Neolithic in the Levant is the establishment of a robust chronology, most notably for the late Epi-Palaeolithic and Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) periods. In this contribution we undertake a dating
Austin, Bar-Yosef, Bar-Yosef, Colledge, Coqueugniot, Edwards, Fahn, Finlayson, Ibáñez, Kenyon, Kuijt, Lechavallier, Makarewicz, Michczyński, Mithen, Mithen, Nesbitt, Sayej, Schmidt, Van der Plicht, Vidakovic   +20 more
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