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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Late Neolithic"”.
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Eating identity: food, gender, and social organization in late Neolithic northern China
The Dawenkou Neolithic Culture (ca. 4300-2600 cal. BC) in Shandong, northern Jiangsu and Anhui Provinces, China, has been intensively investigated because it provides insights into the origin of complex stratified societies. Dawenkou is well known for its extremely elaborate burials indicating …
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Umm Meshrat I and II : two Late Neolithic sites along the Wadi ath-Thamad, Jordan
… from Umm Meshrat I and II comparable with other Late Neolithic sites in the southern Levant. The analysis demonstrated that both sites exhibit characteristics typical of the Late Neolithic period. Among the chipped stone assemblage, these typical artifacts include tile knives, ha-Parsa points, …
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An investigation into the late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age round barrow monuments in the Wylye Valley, Wiltshire
… funerary practices 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 …
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Heads, shoulders, knees and toes: Exploring bodies, body parts and personhood in late Neolithic Malta through funerary taphonomy
… research addresses the body and personhood in late Neolithic Malta (c. 3600–2300 cal BC) by reconstructing funerary practices at two collective burial sites: the Xemxija Tombs (Malta) and Xagħra Circle (Gozo). The range and sequence of funerary practices are identified through implementing …
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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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A high-resolution palaeoecological study of land use change during late prehistory on Exmoor
… a general trend of woodland clearance from the late Neolithic onwards, which was largely completed by the late Iron Age. This trend has been associated with an increase in the charcoal data and a coinciding decrease of pastoralism. Results further suggest that climatic changes did not …
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Rock matters: a geological basis for understanding the Rock at the Ness of Brodgar, Orkney
… setting, the Ness of Brodgar, a middle to late Neolithic site in the West Mainland of Orkney. Discovered in 2003, the site is located on an isthmus of land between two lochs and is equidistant between the Ring of Brodgar and the Stones of Stenness stone circles. The site consists of more …
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The environmental context of later prehistoric human activity in Orkney, Scotland
… Bronze Age are less visible than those from the Neolithic and Iron Age, leading to suggestions that the Neolithic-Bronze Age transition represents a cultural and/or economic 'decline'. This 'decline' has often been attributed to environmental deterioration, although there is little published …
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Craftful Minds
… inequality in the Carpathian Basin between the Late Neolithic and the Middle/Late Bronze Age (5200–1000 BCE) through a quantitative analysis of burial contexts. Employing statistical methods, including Gini indices and Generalized Entropy Measures, the study evaluates the extent, development, …
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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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Functional Analysis of Polished-edge Discoidal Knives of the British Isles
… from the British Isles with an approximate Late Neolithic date. These artefacts are manufactured in three basic shapes: circular to D-shaped, triangular, and broad leaf to lozenge (Clark 1929). The aim of this project was to explore the function of polished-edge discoidal knives. To achieve …
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The dating and phasing of the timber circle complex at Ballynahatty, Co. Down
… not only this tradition, but also the end of the Neolithic in Ireland as a whole, and so it is vital that the results and interpretation be presented in order to elucidate this period. By providing an in depth analysis of this particular site, it is hoped to pave the way toward a greater …
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The analysis of funerary and ritual practices in Wales between 3600-1200 BC based on osteological and contextual data
This thesis examines the character of Middle Neolithic to Middle Bronze Age (3600-1200 BC) funerary and ritual practices in Wales. This was based on the analysis of chronological (radiocarbon determinations and artefactual evidence), contextual (monument types, burial types, deposit types) and …
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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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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 with a …
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The Late Quaternary palaeoecological history of the Great Wold Valley
… Valley, yielded fossil-rich deposits from the late-glacial and Flandrian periods. Although the sedimentary history of this site would appear to be incomplete, an exceptionally detailed image of the palaeoecological history of this valley emerges. The transition from the late-glacial fen and …
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Scourge or Sustenance: Using microfauna to explore the palaeoenvironment and palaeoeconomics of Epipalaeolithic and early Neolithic communities in Anatolia.
… 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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Componenti culturali nei siti neolitici emiliani tra Neolitico recente e finale
… indigenous world of ancient tradition. Studies related to this phase of the Neolithic mainly refer to the observations of Bagolini (Bagolini and Biagi 1987; Bagolini 1998) taken from various other authors (Barfield et al 2000), which outline a framework for northern Italy multifaceted , created by …
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