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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Early Neolithic"”.
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The early Neolithic tor enclosures of Southwest Britain
… indicate that they could reveal more about the Early Neolithic than many causewayed enclosure sites. Yet, despite being recognised as Neolithic in date as early as the 1920s, they have been subject to a disproportionately small amount of work. Indeed, the southwest, Cornwall especially, is …
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Scourge or Sustenance: Using microfauna to explore the palaeoenvironment and palaeoeconomics of Epipalaeolithic and early Neolithic communities in Anatolia.
… (c7100-5950 cal. BCE); Boncuklu Höyük, a small early Neolithic village (c8300-7800 cal. BCE), and Pınarbaşı, a transitory rock-shelter site (14150-11000 cal. BCE), with a settled early Neolithic settlement (9800-7800 cal. BCE), and a transitory late Neolithic phase (6500-6000 cal. BCE). The …
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Monuments, society and the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition, with particular reference to Cumbria and the northern Irish Sea region
… of monuments with origins in the earlier Neolithic. In that context it is suggested that some of the structures located beneath long cairns were originally free standing foci. How the monuments might reflect contemporary society is discussed and it is shown that some standing stones might …
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The Mesolithic/Neolithic transition in the southern region of Ireland: a Bayesian approach to the integration of the palaeoenvironmental and archaeological records
… study has assessed the evidence the Mesolithic/Neolithic transition (c.4500 – 3750 cal BC) in southern Ireland, examining the timing, extent and nature of woodland disturbance, agricultural activity and settlement during the period. This study represents the first explicit use of the Bayesian …
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A panyological study of the impact of man on the landscape of central Southern England, with special reference to the chalklands
… Atlantic woodland of the chalk and exhibits an early Ulmus decline clearance. Open conditions appear to have prevailed in at least this area of the Hampshire Downs since the Early Neolithic. The Snelsmore data show that from the end of the UImus decline clearance, woodland was a more common …
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Does culture evolve?: testing evolutionary theories of culture through a case study of El Khiam points from three sites in the Pre Pottery Neolithic A of the Southern Levant
… perforators from three contrasting sites of the early Neolithic in the Levant. Two complementary analytical techniques, variation and phylogenetic analysis, are applied to examine the patterns of attributes of El Khiam points. Variation analysis, specifically the coefficient of variation, is used …
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Does the archaeoastronomic record of the Cotswold-Severn region reflect evidence of a transition from lunar to solar alignment?
… southern England during the Mesolithic and early Neolithic. It argues that those who built the prehistoric structures known as Cotswold-Severn earthen tombs embedded archaeoastronomic intent within their monuments’ architecture for both navigational and calendrical purposes. This research …
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The vegetational and archaeological history of the Ingleborough Massif, North Yorkshire
… until 6400 ± 70 BP. Some evidence of possible early Mesolithic activity during this period was found. Small-scale and short-lived clearance of the mixed-oak woodland began c. 5700 BP, due to the activities of either Late Mesolithic or Early Neolithic peoples. A distinctive and long-term …
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The Lure of Origins : An Inquiry into Human-Environmental Relations, Focused on the ”Neolithization” of Sweden
… recent research reports dealing mostly with the Early Neolithic of (Middle) Sweden which shows, inter alia, that ”agriculture” was of marginal importance for a very long time from about 4000 BC onwards, while, at the same time, the idea of ”the transition to farming” dominates discourse. This …
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Walking through time: a window onto the prehistory of the Yorkshire Dales through multi-method, non-standard survey approaches
… it is proposed may have roots as far back as the early Neolithic. Contextualisation of the survey area against palynological data, radiocarbon dates and comparative material moves the date of inception of the field-systems back to the middle Bronze Age, some 1000 years earlier than is currently …
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Palaeoenvironmental investigations into the human-environmental interactions of prehistoric communities around loch of Stenness, Orkney
… with natural environments within the Heart of Neolithic Orkney (HONO), by analysing sediment sequences from the Loch of Stenness. This study focuses on the Mesolithic (10000 cal BC to 4100 cal BC) and Neolithic (4100-2500 cal BC) periods. Research uses pollen, and unique to this study (for the …
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Human Mitochondrial DNA from 5th – 3rd Millennia BCE: An Analysis of Iberian Populations
… demographic changes accompanied the onset of the Neolithic but subsequent population dynamics are less clear. Ancient DNA data from the Neolithic period of coastal regions of the Iberian Peninsula are relatively scarce. The aim of the present study was to sequence DNA from Neolithic Iberians from …
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Infusion cuisine: a study of the value of foods in a pottery context across the transition to agriculture in the southern Baltic
… that were important in the Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic, as domesticates began to be incorporated into culinary use. It is argued that although residues are not a reflection of the economy, there were diverse values to food that contributed to the sequence that domesticates appear in the …
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Palaeoecological studies of selected mires in the Craven District of West Yorkshire with special reference to the late Devensian period and the Ulmus decline
… birches. It is tentatively inferred that the early part of the Lateglacial is interrupted by a phase of deteriorating climate and that the relative warmth of the Lateglacial Interstadial gives way to a further and more prolonged deterioration. The climatic deterioration of the Younger Dryas …
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Skin and bone: the face in the archaeological imagination
… structure. The ‘starting point’ is the Neolithic period which has been associated with the notion of visuality with a reconstruction from the early Neolithic site of Annagh, Co. Limerick. The following layer of analysis appears with attention to intersubjectivity in the early medieval …
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The Neolithic pottery of the Isle of Man and its relationship to that of the surrounding area
This research project focuses on the Neolithic pottery of the Isle of Man and its relationship to that used in neighbouring parts of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales (the Irish Seaprovince). The Manx pottery has not been studied as a complete corpus since the early 1930s, since which time the …
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A Multi-Method Approach to Re-associating Fragmented and Commingled Human Remains
… individuals from the destroyed remains from the Early Neolithic cemetery Moty-Novaia Shamanka, situated in the Cis-Baikal region of Siberia, Russia. It asks, how can we further develop and apply existing methods to salvage information from highly disturbed and fragmented human remains in order to …
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Environmental change and human interaction in the western Mediterranean over the long term: a comparative study from Sardinia
… during wet periods was likely driven by Early Neolithic human activity around 7,500 BP. The micromorphological analysis and the radiocarbon-dating of on-site buried soils and slope deposits from upland environments found that the Late Neolithic period (ca. 6,000-5,500 BP) corresponded …
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A 7000 yr runoff chronology from varved sediments of Lake Mondsee (Upper Austria)
… Mondsee could have also influenced human life in early Neolithic lake dwellings (5750-4750 cal. yr BP). While the first lake dwellings were constructed on wetlands, the later lake dwellings were built on piles in the water suggesting an early flood risk adaptation of humans and/or a general change …
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