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Neolithic and chalcolithic cultures in Turkish Thrace [PDF]

, 2001
The subject of this thesis are the Neolithic and Chalcolithic cultures in Turkish Thrace. Turkish Thrace acts as a land bridge between the Balkans and Anatolia. Along this land bridge it might be expected that there has been a transfer of ideas, exchange
Erdogu, Burcin
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The Layout and Size of an Early Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B Small Settlement Revealed by Geophysical Prospection at Harbetsuvan Tepesi in Southeastern Anatolia

Archaeological Prospection, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 519-535, April/June 2026.
ABSTRACT In Upper Mesopotamia, the transition from the Pre‐Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) to Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) period, ca. 10 800–10 600 cal. BP, is marked by a series of changes in chipped stone industries, architectural forms, symbolic objects, regional distribution of settlements and long‐distance exchange networks among others.
Toshihiro Tada, Ryota Moriwaki, Kazuya Shimogama, Kenta Suzuki, Wataru Satake, Nurcan Küçükarslan, Celal Uludağ, Yoshihiro Nishiaki   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Pre-Pottery Neolithic Clay Figurines from Nevali Çori, Turkey

Internet Archaeology, 2000
A mineralogical and chemical study of clay figurines excavated in Turkey is presented with the aim of characterising the raw materials used and to suggest possible provenances.
Maria Thaís Crepaldi Affonso, Ernest Pernicka   +1 more
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Nightmare egalitarianism: Commensuration, autonomy, and imagination Le cauchemar de l’égalitarisme : commensuration, autonomie et imagination

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 7-27, March 2026.
Egalitarianism is often idealized, but many anthropologists have noted its potential for nightmare scenarios involving envy, mistrust, and violence. This introduction outlines a framework for understanding the negative emotions and violence associated with the forces of commensuration that are necessary to make people equal.
Natalia Buitron, Florian Mühlfried, Hans Steinmüller   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Twenty Thousand-Year-Old Huts at a Hunter-Gatherer Settlement in Eastern Jordan [PDF]

, 2012
Ten thousand years before Neolithic farmers settled in permanent villages, hunter-gatherer groups of the Epipalaeolithic period (c. 22–11,600 cal BP) inhabited much of southwest Asia.
Stock, JT, Jones Matthew D., Maher, Lisa, Martin, Louise, Matthew D Jones, Macdonald Danielle, Martin, L, MacDonald, Danielle, Louise Martin, Jay T Stock, Stock, Jay T., Stock, Jay T, Martin Louise, Lisa A Maher, Maher, Lisa A, Stock Jay T., Maher Lisa A., Macdonald, D, Maher, LA, Richter, Tobias, Richter, T, Tobias Richter, Danielle Macdonald, Jones, Matthew D, Richter Tobias, Jones, MD, Jones, Matthew   +26 more
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GATHERING THE HARVEST: THE COLLECTION AND TRANSPORTATION OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE IN ROMAN CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND PETERBOROUGH

Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 68-92, February 2026.
Summary When Rome colonized Britain, it created a transport network spanning the province. This transformed the Iron Age economy, creating large new markets which in turn supported specialized manufacturing. This article explores the impact of transportation on Roman agriculture – the core of the Romano‐British economy.
Rob Wiseman, with contributions by Rachel Fosberry, Martha Craven   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The early medieval origin of Perth, Scotland [PDF]

, 2007
The radiocarbon results (and Bayesian modeling) of 15 samples of carbonized food residues removed from the external surface of rim sherds of cooking pots indicate that shellyware pottery first appeared in Perth, Scotland, around cal AD 9101020 (95 ...
Cook, G. T., Scott, E.M., Muir, G. P. K., Hall, D.W., Hall, D. W., Cook, G.T., Muir, G.K.P., Hamilton, D., Hall, M.A., Hall, M. A., Scott, E. M.   +10 more
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Göbekli Tepe – the Stone Age Sanctuaries. New results of ongoing excavations with a special focus on sculptures and high reliefs

Documenta Praehistorica, 2010
The transition from non-food producing to farming societies first took place during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) of the Near East. It happened immediately after the end of the Pleistocene, between the 10th to the 8th millennium BC.
Klaus Schmidt
doaj   +1 more source