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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
wiley   +1 more source

Production of arsenical bronze using speiss on the Elephantine Island (Aswan, Egypt) during the Middle Kingdom (Middle Bronze Age) (c.2000–1650 BCE)

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper presents the first direct evidence of the slags produced during the cementation alloying process of Cu with speiss inside ceramic crucibles, thus representing Cu alloying with As in Middle Kingdom Egypt. The settlement deposits from the Middle Bronze Age were excavated on Elephantine Island, within modern Aswan.
Jiří Kmošek, Martin Odler
wiley   +1 more source

The Mesolithic at the Danube’s Iron Gates: new radiocarbon dates and old stratigraphies

Documenta Praehistorica, 2007
In this paper we present 31 new AMS radiocarbon dates from the Mesolithic Iron Gates sites. The new dates allowed for a total reconsideration of the chronological sequences, and offer new insights for a reinterpretation of both Upper Paleolithic ...
Alexandru Dinu, Andrei Soficaru, Doru Miritoiu   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Soil wetting and drying processes influence stone artefact distribution in clay‐rich soils: A case study from Middle Gidley Island in Murujuga, northwest Western Australia

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Soils that contain swelling clay minerals (e.g., montmorillonite) expand and contract during wetting and drying, causing movement within the soil profile. This process, known as argilliturbation, can alter artefact distributions, destroy stratigraphy and complicate the interpretation of archaeological deposits.
Caroline Mather, Matthias Leopold, Kaitlin Sullivan, Kane Ditchfield, Tom Horrocks, Luke Gliganic, Emma Beckett, Diana Patalwala, Emielda Yusiharni, Michael Smirk, William Hiscock, Jo McDonald   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Collagen Fingerprinting: A New Screening Technique for Radiocarbon Dating Ancient Bone.

PLoS ONE, 2016
Collagen is the dominant organic component of bone and is intimately locked within the hydroxyapatite structure of this ubiquitous biomaterial that dominates archaeological and palaeontological assemblages.
Virginia L Harvey, Victoria M Egerton, Andrew T Chamberlain, Phillip L Manning, Michael Buckley   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bayesian analyses of direct radiocarbon dates reveal geographic variations in the rate of rice farming dispersal in prehistoric Japan. [PDF]

Sci Adv, 2022
Crema ER, Stevens CJ, Shoda S.
europepmc   +1 more source

‘You Load Sixteen Tons, What Do You Get?’. The Jodłowno Hoard (Pomerania, Poland) as Evidence of Long‐Distance Contacts in the Early Iron Age

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents multifaceted analyses of metal artefacts from the Jodłowno Hoard (Northern Poland), revealing that the metal originated from Iberian polymetallic ore deposits. Transported as raw ingots via Atlantic maritime routes, this copper was reworked locally into regionally distinctive forms.
K. Nowak, P. Gan, Z. Stos‐Gale, K. Cywa, J. Karasiński   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The time of Appearance and Spread of the Neolithic Pottery Traditions in the Volga Region

Поволжская археология, 2016
The paper presents the results of a complex radiocarbon analysis of the Neolithic pottery, including its radiocarbon dating and a comparative analysis of data on pottery technologies used by the Neolithic population of the Lower and Middle Volga Region ...
Vasilyeva Irina N., Vybornov Aleksandr A.   +1 more
doaj  

The First Archaeomagnetic Age at Tiwanaku and Implications for Dating Andean Metallurgical Furnaces

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents the first archaeomagnetic dating at Tiwanaku (Andean Altiplano). We compared the geomagnetic field values recorded by a metallurgical furnace against an updated SHAWQ2k‐SH global model and a regional intensity curve, both of which include, for the first time, high‐quality intensity data from the Southern Hemisphere. Results
Judit del Río, Pablo Cruz, Miriam Gómez‐Paccard, Alicia Palencia‐Ortas, Marina Puente‐Borque, F. Javier Pavón‐Carrasco, Erik Marsh   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The reliability of late radiocarbon dates from the Paleolithic of southern China. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2021
Higham TFG, Douka K.
europepmc   +1 more source