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Między Wschodem a Zachodem. Inwentarz krzemienny z osady ludności kultury ceramiki wstęgowej rytej na stanowisku Podlesie 6, woj. świętokrzyskie

Michał Przeździecki, Michał Szubski, Artur Grabarek

Folia Praehistorica Posnaniensia > 2020 > 25 > 191-208

Paper presents results of analysis of the assemblage of flint artefacts from the settlement of Linear Pottery culture (LBK) at the site no. 6 in Podlesie, Świętokrzyskie voivodeship. Importance of the site is primarily by its location: on the border of two geographical regions, two geological conditions, two settlement eccentrics of the LBK and two provinces of lithic raw materials. Within the flint...

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Neolithic and Aeneolithic Environments in the Central Primor'ye Region (the Bol'shaya Ussurka Valley), the Russian Far East

Jiri Chlachula, Valery A. Lynsha, Piotr Kolaczek, Vladimir N. Tarasenko, more

Quaternary International > 2015 > 370 > Complete > 127-144

Holocene climates and environmental changes in the Russian Primor'ye are still insufficiently documented in comparison with the more southerly Far East Asian areas. Systematic field investigations performed during the last years in the central Primor'ye Region adjacent to Manchuria have produced a new and most fascinating picture on the local cultural development between 9th and 3rd Mill. BP. Multi-proxy...

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A 7000-year record of environmental change, including early farming impact, based on lake-sediment geochemistry and pollen data from County Sligo, western Ireland

Michael O'Connell, Beatrice Ghilardi, Liam Morrison, M. O'Connell, more

Quaternary Research > 2014 > 81 > 1 > 35-49

Detailed, chronologically tightly constrained, lake-sediment-based geochemical and pollen records have enabled local changes in soil erosion, woodland cover and composition, and prehistoric farming impact to be reconstructed in considerable detail. The profile opens shortly after 7800BC when tall canopy trees were well-established and presumably in equilibrium with their environment. A distinct perturbation...

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Coping with marsh floods and fires: Resilience at the pile‐dwelling site of Dispilio, Northwestern Greece

Myrsini Gkouma

Geoarchaeology > 39 > 4 > 396 - 427

Lacustrine environments are considered favorable locations for Neolithic settlements, constituting a reliable year‐round water resource, which contributes to fertile arable land, rich biodiversity, and natural protection. Living by the wetlands, however, is characterized by intensive ecological vulnerabilities, that is, floods and fire events. These recurrent episodes are difficult to trace in the...

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Earliest Records of Holocene Cetaceans in the Black Sea

Magie Aiken, Elena Gladilina, Canan Çakirlar, Serhii Telizhenko, more

Journal of Quaternary Science > 39 > 4 > 585 - 591

The timing of the Holocene transition of the Black Sea from a brackish lake to a marine sea has long been debated. Here, we report on the earliest records of cetaceans in the Black Sea region as a proxy for the connection with the Mediterranean and the transition from a brackish to marine environment. We base our analysis on cetacean skeletal finds and archival data on cetacean skeletal remains from...

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Provenance studies of basaltic tools from the Polish Lowlands in the light of geochemical and mineralogical studies

Wojciech Bartz, Piotr Chachlikowski, Anna Kukuła, Magdalena Matusiak‐Małek, more

Archaeometry > 66 > 1 > 1 - 29

Basaltic artefacts related to early agrarian cultures (Neolithic and Early Bronze Age) inhabiting the Kujawy region of the Polish Lowlands (Central Poland) were studied. The main goal of this study was to assess the provenance of the basaltic raw material and the documentation of manifestations of the activity of inhabitants of the Lowlands. The mineral and chemical compositions of the artefacts were...

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Twelve years of the ‘Arabian Seashores’ project: How the extensive investigation of coastal Oman changed the paradigm of the Arabian Neolithic

Vincent Charpentier, Maria Pia Maiorano, Gregor Marchand, Jérémie Vosges, more

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy > 34 > S1 > S1 - S21

For over a decade, the French mission ‘Archaeology of the Arabian Seashores’ has been exploring the evolution of the Omani coastline, from hunter–gatherers to the rise of complex societies during the crucial passages from the culmination of the Pleistocene to the Early Bronze Age, passing through the Neolithic. The team extensively surveyed the land spreading from the eastern head of Arabia, Ra's...

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Patterns of pre‐Islamic settlement in the Qumayrah microregion, northern Oman: First results of an archaeological and geological survey

Piotr Bieliński, Agnieszka Pieńkowska, Marcin Białowarczuk, Hubert Kiersnowski, more

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy > 34 > S1 > S22 - S38

The Qumayrah microregion lies in the mountains of northern Oman, roughly halfway between two large oasis settlements—Bat and Hili. It is situated at the crossing of routes leading from the Arabian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman into the interior. Results of a previous archaeological excavation and survey confirmed the presence of sites from prehistoric times to the Islamic period in the area. In light...

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Vegetation and climate dynamics at the dawn of human settlement: multiproxy palaeoenvironmental evidence from the Hashilan Wetland, western Iran

Reza Safaierad, Roger Matthews, Lydie Dupont, Bernd Zolitschka, more

Journal of Quaternary Science > 38 > 8 > 1289 - 1304

The scarcity of high‐resolution palaeoclimate records from the interior of West Asia has limited our understanding of the mechanisms of past climate change and their potential impacts on early human societies of the Eastern Fertile Crescent. Here, we present a multiproxy sedimentological, geochemical and palynological record from the Hashilan Wetland in the central Zagros Mountains, spanning the time...

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A common ecogeographic trend in the internal nasal cavity variation across Mesolithic to Bronze Age Eastern European and Caucasian populations

Pavel D. Manakhov, Andrej A. Evteev

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology > 33 > 5 > 841 - 857

The ecogeographic trends in the shape of the internal nasal cavity and external facial skeleton were explored in a sample of Mesolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Age skulls from Northeastern Europe and the Caucasus and tested against a background of the variation in recent populations from the same area. The volume, surface area, and several linear dimensions of the internal nasal cavity as well as a...

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Lithic and stone industries of Bahra 1, an Ubaid‐related site in northern Kuwait

Stefan Karol Kozłowski, Marcin Białowarczuk

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy > 34 > 1 > 1 - 43

Bahra 1 is a large site in the north of the Arabian Peninsula that provided an assemblage of nearly 100,000 lithic artefacts. The whole lithic industry of Bahra 1 represents a set of well‐thought‐out flint, quartz and stone tools for the mass production of shell jewellery, with only a small share of typical household tools. They mostly relate to the Ubaid tradition with Arabian Neolithic influences...

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Lithological description and provenancing of a collection of bluestones from excavations at Stonehenge by William Hawley in 1924 with implications for the human versus ice transport debate of the monument's bluestone megaliths

Richard Bevins, Rob Ixer, Nick Pearce, James Scourse, more

Geoarchaeology > 38 > 6 > 771 - 785

A rhyolite boulder collected by R. S. Newall in 1924 from an excavation at Stonehenge has been pivotal to arguments concerning glacial versus human transport of the bluestones to Stonehenge. Initial studies suggested that the boulder came from north Wales, and hence was a probable glacial erratic. New petrographic and geochemical analyses however support it being from Craig Rhos‐y‐Felin in west Wales, the...

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Why did the chicken cross the Wallace Line? Archeological evidence suggests human‐mediated dispersal of Gallus to Flores first occurred at least ~2.25 ka cal. BP

Hanneke J. M. Meijer, Samuel J. Walker, Thomas Sutikna, E. Wahyu Saptomo, more

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology > 33 > 4 > 631 - 641

Domesticated chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus) are a dominant part of the global human diet. Although the early domestication history of this species remains disputed, Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA) is assumed to have been the initial domestication center. The eastward spread of chickens into Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) and the Pacific is typically attributed to human‐mediated dispersals. Chicken...

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Testing recipes: an experimental approach to paint production processes in Levantine rock art (Spain)

Neemias Santos da Rosa, Danae Fiore, Ramon Viñas

Archaeometry > 65 > 4 > 816 - 832

Over more than a century, several proposals have been made on the composition and technical features of the pictorial recipes used by Levantine prehistoric painters. In this paper all these proposals are surveyed and tested through systematic experiments to determine the technical affordance of pigments and binders in different pictorial recipes. Experimental results were then used as independent...

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Production and use of birch bark tar at the Neolithic pile‐dwelling of Palù di Livenza (North‐Eastern Italy) revealed by X‐ray computed micro‐tomography and synchrotron Fourier‐transform infrared spectroscopy

Federico Bernardini, Lisa Vaccari, Franco Zanini, Michele Bassetti, more

Archaeometry > 65 > 4 > 897 - 907

Recent excavations at Palù di Livenza (northeastern Italy) revealed a multiphase Neolithic pile dwelling dated between ca. 4,300/4200 and 3,600 cal BC. Three lumps with teeth imprints and a larger amorphous piece from the Late Neolithic layers have been studied by X‐ray computed micro‐tomography (microCT) and synchrotron Fourier‐transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). FTIR spectra match well that...

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Coastal changes and human occupation in the eastern part of Thessaloniki Bay: Geoarchaeological investigations of Toumba Gona

Jakub Niebieszczański, Iwona Hildebrandt‐Radke, Janusz Czebreszuk, Cezary Bahyrycz, more

Geoarchaeology > 38 > 4 > 406 - 419

The Holocene marine transgression in the Aegean Sea area has significantly impacted prehistoric societies. Toumba Gona is a tell site located at the mouth of the Anthemous River, east of Thessaloniki Bay. According to earlier research, the site should be dated at most to the late stage of the Early Bronze Age. Geoarchaeological research by means of electrical resistivity tomography, vibra‐coring,...

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Pastoralism, hunting, and coexistence: Domesticated and wild bovids in Neolithic Sudan

Shayla Monroe, Stuart Tyson Smith, Sarah B. McClure

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology > 33 > 3 > 517 - 531

The interactions between mobile pastoralists and semi‐sedentary Nilotic foraging groups in the Middle Nile Valley had long‐term implications for the development of social complexity as seen in the ancient African kingdom of Kerma. This study presents the results of the zooarcheological analysis of animal remains from two sites in the 4th cataract of the Nile valley, El Ginefab and Shemkhiya, and compares...

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Earliest cereal cultivation in Egypt recorded in the Faiyum Oasis lake deposits and its palaeoclimatic context

Fabian Welc, Leszek Marks, Krystyna Milecka

Geological Quarterly > 2023 > Vol. 67, No. 2 > art. no. 21

We determine the beginning of the Neolithic farming in northern Egypt, based on analysis of core FA-1 of lake deposits in the Faiyum Oasis in northern Egypt. Regular lamination of the early Middle Holocene lake deposits, supported by radiocarbon dating and pollen analysis, indicates the earliest occurrence of domesticated cereals at ~7.8 cal ka BP in this region. The appearance of cereals in the Faiyum...

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Stanowiska archeologiczne w powiecie siedleckim

Marta Czerwieniec-Ivasyk

Radzyński Rocznik Humanistyczny > 2023 > 21 > 7-29

Stanowiska archeologiczne na Wysoczyźnie Siedleckiej pozwalają na zaobserwowanie historii osadnictwa na tym terenie od późnego paleolitu do średniowiecza. Teren usytuowany na piaszczystych morenach czołowych, mimo szeroko rozgałęzionych szlaków wodnych, nie stanowił bardzo atrakcyjnej lokalizacji osadniczej. Na obszarze obecnie funkcjonującego powiatu udało wyodrębnić się kilkaset śladów obecności...

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Investigating the Neolithic Presence in South-Central Oman: The DUQ-25A Rock Shelter

Maria Pia Maiorano, Dominik Chlachula, Alžběta Danielisová, Roman Garba

Études et Travaux (Institut des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales... > 2023 > 36 > 93-110

Over the past decade, extensive surveys have been carried out in the wider area surrounding the city of Duqm (south-central Oman). During fieldwork in 2023, research on the Neolithic encampment in the Wādī Ṣayy area was conducted. Numerous locations surrounding this large wadi have yielded evidence of Neolithic occupation. The proximity to chert outcrops and the presence of elevated fluvial terrace...

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Między Wschodem a Zachodem. Inwentarz krzemienny z osady ludności kultury ceramiki wstęgowej rytej na stanowisku Podlesie 6, woj. świętokrzyskie

Neolithic and Aeneolithic Environments in the Central Primor'ye Region (the Bol'shaya Ussurka Valley), the Russian Far East

A 7000-year record of environmental change, including early farming impact, based on lake-sediment geochemistry and pollen data from County Sligo, western Ireland

Coping with marsh floods and fires: Resilience at the pile‐dwelling site of Dispilio, Northwestern Greece

Earliest Records of Holocene Cetaceans in the Black Sea

Provenance studies of basaltic tools from the Polish Lowlands in the light of geochemical and mineralogical studies

Twelve years of the ‘Arabian Seashores’ project: How the extensive investigation of coastal Oman changed the paradigm of the Arabian Neolithic

Patterns of pre‐Islamic settlement in the Qumayrah microregion, northern Oman: First results of an archaeological and geological survey

Vegetation and climate dynamics at the dawn of human settlement: multiproxy palaeoenvironmental evidence from the Hashilan Wetland, western Iran

A common ecogeographic trend in the internal nasal cavity variation across Mesolithic to Bronze Age Eastern European and Caucasian populations

Lithic and stone industries of Bahra 1, an Ubaid‐related site in northern Kuwait

Lithological description and provenancing of a collection of bluestones from excavations at Stonehenge by William Hawley in 1924 with implications for the human versus ice transport debate of the monument's bluestone megaliths

Why did the chicken cross the Wallace Line? Archeological evidence suggests human‐mediated dispersal of Gallus to Flores first occurred at least ~2.25 ka cal. BP

Testing recipes: an experimental approach to paint production processes in Levantine rock art (Spain)

Production and use of birch bark tar at the Neolithic pile‐dwelling of Palù di Livenza (North‐Eastern Italy) revealed by X‐ray computed micro‐tomography and synchrotron Fourier‐transform infrared spectroscopy

Coastal changes and human occupation in the eastern part of Thessaloniki Bay: Geoarchaeological investigations of Toumba Gona

Pastoralism, hunting, and coexistence: Domesticated and wild bovids in Neolithic Sudan

Earliest cereal cultivation in Egypt recorded in the Faiyum Oasis lake deposits and its palaeoclimatic context

Stanowiska archeologiczne w powiecie siedleckim

Investigating the Neolithic Presence in South-Central Oman: The DUQ-25A Rock Shelter

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