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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Chalcolithic"”.
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Investigations at Tal-i Iblis : evidence for copper smelting during the Chalcolithic period
This thesis examines a small corpus of artifacts from Tal-i Iblis, Iran dating to the mid-6th millennium BCE. When excavated in the late 1960s, these artifacts were presumed to be evidence of an early copper smelting technology on the Iranian Plateau, and they were delivered to MIT for further …
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A Geoarchaeological Investigation of Storage and Surplus at Tel Tsaf, Israel
The Chalcolithic period of the southern Levant spans from c. 5800 - 3600 cal BC. Traditional hallmarks of this period include caches of copper items, non-domestic shrine sites and large off site cemeteries or burial caves. However, these features date to the later portion of the period (Late …
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Across mountains and deserts: Patterns of movement and interaction in fourth and third millennium BC south-east Iran
… and the Indus River Basin in the Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age (c.4000-2000 BC). Excavations at sites such as Tepe Yahya, Konar Sandal and Shahr-i Sokhta, and surface collections have revealed evidence for a variety of local, regional and interregional dynamics across a …
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The analysis of funerary and ritual practices in Wales between 3600-1200 BC based on osteological and contextual data
… 2900-2400 BC), formal burials re-appeared in the Chalcolithic (c. 2500-2200 BC) with Beaker burials. However, formal burials remained relatively rare until the Early Bronze Age (c. 2200-1700 BC) when burial mounds, which often contained multiple burials, became the dominant type of funerary …
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Las comunidades campesinas calcolíticas en el Valle Medio del Arlanzón (cal. 3000-1900 a.C.) : transformaciones y procesos históricos
… explore the archaeological record linked with Chalcolithic peasant societies. The collected data have allowed the discussion in historical terms of the material evidence left by these communities.
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Pollen stratigraphy of Holocene peat sites in Eastern Liguria, Northern Italy
… which locally may have been initiated by human (Chalcolithic) forest disturbances. Nevertheless there is also a lack of known early Holocene peat or lake sediments in much of northwestern Italy suggesting widespread climatic conditions inimical to peat development during that period. The …
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Understanding the selection and co-existence of tin bronze alloying techniques in Antiquity. An experimental and archaeological approach with Northeast Iberia as case study (2800-200BC).
… assemblages from Northeast Iberia dated between Chalcolithic and Iberian times (2800-200BC) are presented. Archaeometallurgical by-products of these collections were analysed using pXRF, OM, SEM-EDS, and LIA to characterise technological choices through time. These choices were considered in …
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Along The Mountain Passes: Tracing Indigenous Developments Of Social Complexity In The Zagros Region During The Early Bronze Age (ca. 3500-2000 Bce)
… interaction. Following the collapse of the Late Chalcolithic directional interaction network that had connected distant settlements and allowed the spread of the “Uruk” material culture throughout the fourth millennium BCE, the first centuries of the Early Bronze Age saw the emergence of distinct …
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Social Transformations and Ceramic Production during the 4th millennium BCE in the Shahrizor Plain and Bazyan Valley, Iraqi Kurdistan. A Geochemical and Petrographic Study.
The Late Chalcolithic (c.4400-3200 BCE) in Mesopotamia featured new forms of socio-political and economic organisation, increasing material cultural homogeneity, resource accumulation and (re)-distribution. The Uruk Phenomenon (traditionally dated to c.3600-3200 BCE) is characterised by the …
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Conditions of the Oral Cavity in Early Bronze Age Anatolia: Reconstruction of Dietary Behavior, Biological Impact, and Social Structure
… the EBA from the preceding Neolithic and Chalcolithic. Most research supporting these extensive changes stems from archaeological research, while more recent trends in reconstructing the EBA have followed biocultural approaches in bioarchaeology studies. Moreover, even fewer investigations …
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Origini e diffusione dell’agricoltura in Sardegna: studio dei resti vegetali della preistoria
… the results of archaeobotanical analyzes from Chalcolithic period in Sardinia, the analysis have focused on the archaeological site of Canelles. Chapter 4 presents data on agriculture practiced in Sardinia during the Bronze Age, in particular, provides an overview on crop plants (cereals and …
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Living with a changing climate: Holocene climate variability and socio-evolutionary trajectories, central Turkey
… of four long-term adaptive cycles (Neolithic, Chalcolithic-Bronze Age, Iron Age-Classical, Byzantine-Ottoman) characterise the dynamic inter-play between people, climate and their environment. In each adaptive cycle, environmental change contributed (both positively and negatively) to community …
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Análise espacial e aplicação de grafos no entendimento dos objetos de placas de xisto da pré-história recente de Portugal
Esta dissertação de mestrado em Estudos do Património incide sobre um fenómeno marcante da pré-história do sudoeste da Península Ibérica: as placas de xisto gravadas. Propõese uma análise inovadora dos dados do registo arqueológico, integrando o tratamento em Sistemas de Informação Geográfica (SIG) …