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The Fiery Eyes of a Maenad: Origin Determination of Faceted Garnet Eye Inlays in a Roman Bronze Bust From Southern Tyrol

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1837, the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck, Austria, purchased a Roman bronze statue of a maenad from the 2nd century ce with red garnets as facetted eye inlays found near Brixen, Southern Tyrol. These garnets were investigated using optical microscopy, a portable hand‐held and a stationary micro‐X‐ray fluorescence device, as
H. Albert Gilg, Simon Wagner, Anton Höck, Peter Tropper   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Systems of Interaction between the First Sedentary Villages in the Near East Exposed Using Agent-Based Modelling of Obsidian Exchange

Systems, 2016
In the Near East, nomadic hunter-gatherer societies became sedentary farmers for the first time during the transition into the Neolithic. Sedentary life presented a risk of isolation for Neolithic groups.
David Ortega, Juan José Ibáñez, Daniel Campos, Lamya Khalidi, Vicenç Méndez, Luís Teira   +5 more
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Tracing mobility patterns through the 6th-5th millennia BC in the Carpathian Basin with strontium and oxygen stable isotope analyses.

PLoS ONE, 2020
The complexity of Neolithic population movements and their interpretation through material culture have been the subject of archaeological research for decades.
Margaux L C Depaermentier, Michael Kempf, Eszter Bánffy, Kurt W Alt   +3 more
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UNPACKING THE EARLY NEOLITHIC?

Samara Journal of Science, 2015
The preliminary analysis of Early Neolithic pottery from North Central Bulgaria, and the site of Dzhulyunitsa specifically, yielded surprising results which affect a number of aspects related to the study of the Neolithisation processes. Not all characteristic features traditionally considered as key signal of the Neolithisation processes were ...
DZHANFEZOVA TANYA, DOHERTY CHRIS, ELENSKI NEDKO   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

A Newly Discovered Tablet‐Making Facility in Nineveh: Insights From Scientific Analysis

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper addresses the question of tablet technology in the Neo‐Assyrian capital city of Nineveh. Recent excavations in the lower town of Nineveh by the Iraqi–Italian Archaeological Expedition uncovered an exceptional assemblage of more than 200 tablets from an elite residence that appears to have included a scriptorium.
Mathilde Jean, Michela Spataro, Jonathan Taylor, Gianfranco Ulian, Giovanni Valdré, Gabriele Giacosa, Eleonora Mariani, Nicolò Marchetti   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Learning Across the Divide: Understanding Knowledge Sharing Through Petrographic Analysis on Ceramics From the Rhine‐Meuse Delta During the Middle to Late Neolithic Transition (3400–2200 bce)

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vlaardingen (VL) communities on the Dutch West coast (3400–2200 bce) are part of a unique, long‐term continuity in the European Neolithic. Despite large‐scale changes in European populations during the Neolithic, the genomic diversity and cultural practices of VL communities can be retraced to the Mesolithic.
Jisca de Bruin, Erik Kroon, Lasse van den Dikkenberg, Dennis Braekmans   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identification of microbial pathogens in Neolithic Scandinavian humans

Scientific Reports
With the Neolithic transition, human lifestyle shifted from hunting and gathering to farming. This change altered subsistence patterns, cultural expression, and population structures as shown by the archaeological/zooarchaeological record, as well as by ...
Nora Bergfeldt, Emrah Kırdök, Nikolay Oskolkov, Claudio Mirabello, Per Unneberg, Helena Malmström, Magdalena Fraser, Federico Sanchez-Quinto, Roger Jorgensen, Birgitte Skar, Kerstin Lidén, Mattias Jakobsson, Jan Storå, Anders Götherström   +13 more
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Procurement of Senonian Flint for Bladelets Production at the Early PPNB Site of Nahal Zahal in the Northern Negev Established for the First Time Using Chemical Composition Analysis

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The hypotheses of Senonian flint to be a prime source of prehistoric “chalcedony” flint artefacts from the Negev Desert (Israel) was not investigated in detail thus far. By combining trace‐element profiling with statistical interpretation, ten flint items from Nahal Zahal, an Early Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B site in the northern Negev, were ...
Meir Finkel, Michal Birkenfeld, Talia Abulafia, Keren Weiss‐Sarusi, Olga Berlin, Yoav Ben Dor   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

From sherds to potters

Archeologické Rozhledy, 2017
The British Neolithic transition, occurring around 4000 BC, at least one millennium after the continental part of Northwest Europe, is still subject to important debate these days.
Hélène Pioffet, Vincent Ard
doaj   +1 more source

Investigating the Dietary, Economic, and Social Practices of a Neolithic Funnel Beaker Community in Wanna, Germany, Through Raw Material and Organic Residue Analyses of Pottery

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study details the analysis of an assemblage of Funnel Beaker pottery from Wanna in Northern Germany investigated using petrographic, geochemical, and organic residue analyses. The analyses revealed specialized production of pottery vessels for funerary contexts, but that domestic and funerary pottery were used intensively to process ...
I. L. Wiltshire, K. Struckmeyer, A. Behrens, M. Mennenga, M. Roffet‐Salque   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source