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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Early Bronze Age"”.
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The Early Bronze Age Burial Customs of Karataş-Semayük
<p>From the abstract: "Excavation of the Early Bronze Age cemetery at Karataş-Semayük in the highlands of Lycia has confirmed and amplified knowledge of third millennium burial customs in western Anatolia." Dissertation adviser: Machteld J. Mellink</p>
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The Early Bronze Age Ceramic Assemblage from Tell Ta'annek, Palestine
… isolating temporal ceramic indicators for the Early Bronze II-III periods is "one of the thorniest issues in the archaeology of Palestine" (2000: 183). Part of theproblem stems from the homogenous nature of ceramic assemblages from Early Bronze Age Palestine; part of it stems from a continued …
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The Neolithic and early Bronze Age in the Firth of Clyde
… the Firth of Clyde region in the Neolithic and early Bronze Age. Six type monuments which were the foci of ritual and/or burial practices during this period are considered: chambered cairns of the Neolithic, stone circles, standing stones, cup-marked rocks, early Bronze Age burial cairns and …
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The bioarchaeology of Early Bronze Age Ireland: health, disease, trauma, and care
Human remains have been reported from Early Bronze Age contexts in Ireland since the 19th century. With a relative lack of settlement sites, the mortuary contexts of the Early Bronze Age in Ireland have been the focus for many studies, especially those interested in social structure and status. …
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Identity as process: an archaeological and osteological study of Early Bronze Age burials in northern England.
… demography, identities, and chronology of Early Bronze Age burials in northern England. Processes of life, death and burial are identified as a way of evaluating the lifecourse and burial processes of Early Bronze Age individuals. Different burial practices have similar themes of the …
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Lithic scatters and landscape: the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Early Bronze Age inhabitation of the lower Exe valley, Devon
… lower Exe valley, between the Mesolithic and the Early Bronze Age through the evidence of a series of surface lithic scatters. Research draws on recent confident approaches to surface lithic scatters which view them as key data for understanding the inhabitation of prehistoric landscapes. …
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The Social Dynamics of Early Helladic Sealing Practices: Seal Use and Social Change in Early Bronze Age Greece
… in the emergence of social complexity in Early Helladic (EH) period (ca. 3100-2000 BCE) Greece. Archaeologists associate emerging complexity in mainland Greece with key developments in the EH period, including sealing practices, long-distance exchanges, monumental architecture, and craft …
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Are linear arrangements of Early Bronze Age round barrows oriented towards predictable extreme solar events on the horizon?
… was to investigate the orientations of lines of Bronze Age burial mounds (‘round barrows’) in Dorset and the New Forest. Doing this required identifying as many as possible lines of round barrows in the study area, which contained 3,587 sites of individual barrows. A set of criteria to define …
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An investigation into the late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age round barrow monuments in the Wylye Valley, Wiltshire
… and monuments dating to the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in and around the Wylye Valley to the west of Stonehenge. This has been conducted through the re-evaluation of the work of Sir Richard Colt Hoare and the production of a database and Geographical Information System using 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 Early Bronze Age (EBA; 3000-2000 BCE) in Anatolia is recognized as a period of increased social stratification, expansive trade, urbanization, agricultural intensification, craft specialization in metallurgy, and socioeconomic shifts. This combination of sociocultural and sociopolitical changes …
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From order to narrative: assembling eventfulness through Bayesian chronologies. A view from the Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) South Caucasus
… that adhere to the lived experience of social agents while relating them to material practices. I explore these themes in the context of the Kura-Araxes culture (3500-2500 BCE), a pressing “chronological case” for the archaeology of the South Caucasus and Southwest Asia. In this dissertation, I …
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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)
… with identifying the material culture of the Early Bronze Age, giving the impression of a largely abandoned landscape perhaps inhabited by a few pastoral nomadic tribes. New fieldwork at the site of Kani Shaie in Iraqi Kurdistan conducted in the context of this dissertation between 2012-16 and …
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Mountains: Time out of mind? Contextualising the landscape: the significance and use of the Cumbrian fells in the neolithic and early bronze age
… in the mountainous areas in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age and how this relates to settlement and mobility patterns in the neighbouring lowland locales. Monumental, settlement, artefactual and environmental data from the area is combined, along with for the first time, the recently …
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Ancient Economic Complexity and Adaptation in the Semi-Arid Highlands of Jordan: A Zooarchaeological Study of the Early Bronze Age Through the Ottoman Period at Tell Madaba
… years, during seven historical periods: the Early Bronze Age, the Iron Age II, the Late Hellenistic Period, Early Roman/Nabataean, Byzantine, Late Byzantine/Early Islamic, and the Ottoman period. The primary research presented in this dissertation focused on a large faunal assemblage …
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The Bronze Age funerary cups of southern England
… ‘accessory’ or ‘funerary’ cups are small Early Bronze Age vessels, almost all from mortuary contexts, united by their diminutive size. Although several small-scale and regional studies have previously been undertaken, until recently there has been little attempt to consider such vessels as …
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You Didn’t Have To Be There: Evidence of Humour in the Creation and Use of Material Objects From the Near East, Eastern Europe and Mediterranean, From the Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age
… were still being developed, and yet he so clearly summarises why it is important to find our shared funny bones. Through humour we gain sympathetic understandings with each other in a way that goes beyond words; indeed humour may have preceded language in our evolutionary development and has …
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Across mountains and deserts: Patterns of movement and interaction in fourth and third millennium BC south-east Iran
… 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 fragmented landscape of …
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