The evidence from ancient crops over the past decade challenges some of our most basic
assumptions about the process of domestication. The emergence of crops has been viewed …

As genetic and archaeological evidence has developed over the past few years, it has
become apparent that our most basic assumptions about how crops became incorporated …

Abstract The Zayukovo (Baksan) source is the only obsidian source known in the Northern
Caucasus. We report new data, collected in 2017–2018, about exploitation of the Zayukovo …

Archaeologists have previously proposed several different measures of flaked stone raw
material “quality”, but this variable has proven difficult to quantify, and the precise …

Beginning in the early 1990s, the theme of mobility became central to many studies of
Paleolithic lithic technology. Models relating group movements to the design, production …

In studies of flaked stone tools, the “quality” of lithic raw material has often been assessed
from a viewpoint of its suitability to lithic production, and several studies examined such raw …

For more than a half-century, obsidian provenancing has underpinned many archaeological
investigations of peoples of the past. The pace of obsidian studies in this regard has …

The renewed Mesolithic research in the Greek mainland and the islands has been providing
new insights into the lively maritime activity within the region; however, the southwest coast …

Abstract Excavations at Aghitu-3 Cave in Armenia revealed stratified Upper Palaeolithic
archaeological horizons (AHs), spanning from 39 to 36,000 cal BP (AH VII) to 29–24,000 cal …

The present work represents the first attempt using an archaeometric approach to
characterize the potential chert outcrops and retrace the provenance of the chert raw …