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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, Volume 68, Issue S3, Page S126-S153, June 2026.
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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Reconstructing Lifeways and Social Differentiation in the Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B Population of Nahal Yarmuth 38, Central Israel

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 190, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Objectives This study presents a bioarcheological analysis of skeletal remains from Nahal Yarmuth 38 (NY38), a distinctive Middle Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B site in central Israel. The research aimed to reveal the demographic composition, origins, and lifeways of the NY38 people, to contextualize the site's unique archeological features within ...
Yulia Makoviychuk, Viviane Slon, Dana Ackerfeld, Prajjval Pratap Singh, Pnina Cohen, Avi Gopher, Hila May   +6 more
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Insights into lentil diversity, domestication, and the genetic basis of important agronomic traits through resequencing of 238 Lens accessions

The Plant Journal, Volume 126, Issue 3, May 2026.
SUMMARY Lentil is an important legume crop with significant nutritional value, playing a pivotal role in environmentally sustainable agricultural systems. The lentil whole‐genome resequencing data have not been reported. In this study, we re‐sequenced a total of 238 Lens accessions, including 112 cultivated lentils, 71 landraces, and 55 wild species ...
Yu Ma, Dorrie Main, Clarice J. Coyne, Lyndon D. Porter, Garett C. Heineck, Mary Burrows, Marilyn L. Warburton, Renan Uhdre, Hatice Sari, Britton Bourland, Kirstin Bett, Rebecca J. McGee   +11 more
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Palaeogenomic insights into the origins of early settlers on the island of Cyprus

Scientific Reports
Archaeological evidence supports sporadic seafaring visits to the Eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus by Epipaleolithic hunter-gatherers over 12,000 years ago, followed by permanent settlements during the early Neolithic.
Alexandros Heraclides, Aris Aristodemou, Andrea N. Georgiou, Marios Antoniou, Elisabeth Ilgner, Leonidas-Romanos Davranoglou   +5 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
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Ancient DNA analysis of 8000 B.C. near eastern farmers supports an early neolithic pioneer maritime colonization of Mainland Europe through Cyprus and the Aegean Islands. [PDF]

PLoS Genetics, 2014
The genetic impact associated to the Neolithic spread in Europe has been widely debated over the last 20 years. Within this context, ancient DNA studies have provided a more reliable picture by directly analyzing the protagonist populations at different ...
Eva Fernández, Alejandro Pérez-Pérez, Cristina Gamba, Eva Prats, Pedro Cuesta, Josep Anfruns, Miquel Molist, Eduardo Arroyo-Pardo, Daniel Turbón   +8 more
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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

Sexual symbolism in the Early Neolithic of the Southern Levant: pestles and mortars from WF16

Documenta Praehistorica, 2005
WF16 is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic site in the Southern Levant that has produced an important collection of ground stone artefacts. These include one explicit and one ambiguous representation of a phallus – the latter may be a human head and shoulders.
Steven Mithen, Bill Finlayson, Ruth Shaffrey   +2 more
doaj   +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

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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