Late Neolithic
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Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Britain is an era of prehistory permeated by notions of elaborate funerary rituals, exotic artefactual evidence, and immigrant invaders – at least to the untrained archaeological mind. However, such a... more
Human stature as a measurement for evaluating physical status is used by the World Health Organization (WHO) as well as bioarchaeologists. A reason for this is that only about 80% depends on genetic factors, while 20% depend on the... more
Новые радиоуглеродные даты позволили существенно скорректировать хронологию ымыяхтахской культуры позднего неолита Восточной Сибири и сугуннахской пережиточно-ымыяхтахской культуры бронзового века сибирского Заполярья. Ключевые даты для... more
Diet and health during the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Scandinavia have never been under systematic study. Still, high statures have been reported from osteologists, statures that indicate good health. This article is based on a... more
The article presents some new finds of rare flint arrow-head-types from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, mostly dated to late-neolithic beaker-cultures
Domuztepe is located 40 km to the south of Kahramanmaraş city center in the Turkish Eastern Mediterranean. After its discovery during a 1993 survey by an Anglo-American team, excavations began in 1995 until 2006 under E. Carter (UCLA) and... more
La fouille de sauvetage réalisée sur le tracé de la future rocade ouest de la ville de Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin) a permis de mettre au jour les vestiges d’un habitat et de trois inhumations multiples du Néolithique récent. Les défunts ont été... more
The Palù di Livenza wetland lies at the foot of the Cansiglio plateau in the Pordenone area. The research directed by the Soprintendenza since 1981 have highlighted archaeological materials and wooden features of a Late Neolithic... more
Based on the Zsóa von Torma’s private collection, the early cultural stage, named Vinca-Turdas, of Vinca culture (phases A and B) was defined. Later, was proved that the Turdas site provide only elements contemporary to Vinca C phase... more
A brief information on history of research, main sites, figurines, metallurgy and appearance of the Vinča Culture in Croatia.
Our information about the Late Neolithic period and the Early Bronze Age in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern comes mainly from graves, hoards and surface finds. Settlements, on the other hand, in particular sites with house features, are known... more
Nieuwenhuijse O.P, Bernbeck R, Akkermans P.M.M.G & Rogash J. (Eds.) 2013. FINAL PROOFS, APRIL 2013 The times between the Neolithic and Urban revolutions in Mesopotamia have for a long time been interpreted as a period of... more
The thesis aims to put the draft into the practice for further substantial research into the sling missiles in the Near East which has been made in the prior bachelor thesis. The presented work will try to establish a first morphological... more
The paper is set out to present current evidence about the timing of cultural change from the Late Neolithic (henceforth LN) to the Copper Age (henceforth CA) in the northern and central Balkans. It also discusses the character of this... more
In this working paper, I present a unique assemblage of 43 figurines and 11 miniature tool models discovered at the Late Vinca culture site at Crkvine, Stubline in Serbia. The distinctiveness of this find is that it was discovered in it... more
Barrows, as burial markers, are ubiquitous throughout North-Western Europe. In some regions dense concentrations of monuments form peculiar configurations such as long alignments while in others they are spread out extensively, dotting... more
The Corded Ware Culture (c. 2900–2300 BC) is found in a large area, from Russia to the Netherlands and from Scandinavia to Switzerland. Supra-regional elements include beakers decorated with cord and/or spatula imprints, battle-axes, and... more