Plant, pigment, and bone processing in the Neolithic of northern Arabia–New evidence from Use-wear analysis of grinding tools at Jebel Oraf

• Giulio Lucarini ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Giulio Lucarini, Maria Guagnin

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: guagnin@shh.mpg.de (MG); giulio.lucarini@cnr.it (GL)

  Affiliations Institute of Heritage Science, National Research Council of Italy, Rome, Italy, Department of Asian, African, and Mediterranean Studies, University of Naples L’Orientale, Naples, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4722-1065

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• Maria Guagnin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Giulio Lucarini, Maria Guagnin

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: guagnin@shh.mpg.de (MG); giulio.lucarini@cnr.it (GL)

  Affiliation Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7995-8611

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• Ceri Shipton,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Anita Radini,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

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• Abdullah M. Alsharekh,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Archaeology, College of Tourism and Archaeology, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2666-3262

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• Michael Petraglia

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University, Nathan, Australia, School of Social Science, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia, Human Origins Program, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., United States of America

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