Threads of memory: Reviving the ornament of a dead child at the Neolithic village of Baja (Jordan)

H Alarashi, M Benz, J Gresky, A Burkhardt, A Fischer… - PLoS …, 2023‏ - journals.plos.org
In 2018, a well-constructed cist-type grave was discovered at Baja, a Neolithic village (7,400–
6,800 BCE) in Southern Jordan. Underneath multiple grave layers, an 8-year-old child was …

Geoarchaeological and palaeobotanical evidence for prehistoric cereal storage in the southern Caucasus: the Neolithic settlement of Göytepe (mid 8th millennium BP)

S Kadowaki, L Maher, M Portillo, RM Albert… - Journal of …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
This paper presents direct evidence for cereal storage by Neolithic farmers in west Asia.
Storage features analyzed this study are circular clay bins that frequently occur at Neolithic …

Blame it on the goats? Desertification in the Near East during the Holocene

DO Henry, CE Cordova, M Portillo, RM Albert… - The …, 2017‏ - journals.sagepub.com
The degree to which desertification during the Holocene resulted from climatic deterioration
or alternatively from overgrazing has puzzled Quaternary scientists in many arid regions of …

The evolution of caprine herding in the hyper-arid zone of the southern Levant viewed through Niche Construction Theory

DO Henry - Quaternary International, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Caprine herding in the hyper-arid zone of the Southern Levant emerged in the early
Holocene during a brief moist episode (∼ 9500 years ago) within semi-permanent Middle …

Lithic economy and prehistoric human behavioral ecology viewed from southern Jordan

DO Henry, V Mraz - Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2020‏ - Elsevier
A lithic sourcing study coupled with analyses of lithic reduction strategies and settlement-
procurement patterns of Middle Paleolithic (Late Levantine Mousterian) and Early Neolithic …

New light on old data: Toward understanding settlement and social organization in Middle Bronze Age Aeolian Islands (Sicily) through quantitative and multivariate …

G Alberti - Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Settlement and social organization in Middle Bronze Age Sicily (ca 1490–1250 BCE) have
received scant attention compared to that devoted to broader cultural processes during the …

The material politics of houses at Çatalhöyük, 7000–6300 BCE

K Kay - 2021‏ - repository.cam.ac.uk
Archaeologists often treat past houses and households as social units—as places of stability
within larger political dynamics. Houses are rendered as conservative objects, not places of …

Investigating the Role of Liminality in the Cultural Transition of the Late Eighth Millennium BC on Cyprus

LL Keach - 2018‏ - search.proquest.com
Abstract The Near East has the earliest and best documented Neolithic in the world.
However, most research attention has focused on the mainland. The spread of the Neolithic …

[PDF][PDF] High resolution, intrasite spatial analysis at different scales

DO Henry - Decades in Deserts: Essays on Near Eastern …, 2019‏ - academia.edu
Tracing the material residuals of prehistoric behaviors across occupational surfaces is
fundamental to defining site structure; that is the spatial and contextual relationships of …

[HTML][HTML] Shin-ichi Nakamura, Takuro Adachi et Masashi Abe (éd.)–Decades in Deserts. Essays on Near Eastern Archaeology in honour of Sumio Fujii

W Abu-Azizeh - … de préhistoire et de protohistoire de l'Asie …, 2021‏ - journals.openedition.org
1 Cet ouvrage est un volume en hommage à la carrière de Sumio Fujii, récemment retraité
de l'université de Kanasawa au Japon. Edité par ses collègues S. Nakamura, T. Adachi et M …