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Stone age

Refits, cobbles, and fire: Approaching the temporal nature of an expedient Gravettian lithic assemblage from Lagar Velho (Leiria, Portugal)

Elvira Susana Alonso-Fernández, Manuel Vaquero, Joan Daura, Ana Maria Costa, Montserrat Sanz, Ana Cristina Araújo

published 20 Dec 2023

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Early Neolithic pastoral land use at Alsónyék-Bátaszék, Hungary (Starčevo culture): New insights from stable isotope ratios

Magdalena Blanz, Marie Balasse, Delphine Frémondeau, Erika Gál, Anett Osztás, Anna Zs. Biller, Éva Á. Nyerges, Denis Fiorillo, Eszter Bánffy, Maria Ivanova

published 12 Dec 2023

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Nascent craft specialization in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A? Bead making at Shubayqa 6 (northeast Jordan)

Mette Bangsborg Thuesen, Hala Alarashi, Anthony Ruter, Tobias Richter

published 08 Dec 2023

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Making ties and social identities: Drawing connections between PPNB communities as based on shell bead typology

Heeli C. Schechter, David S. Reese, Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, A. Nigel Goring-Morris

published 28 Nov 2023

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Exploring the impact of mobility and selection on stone tool recycling behaviors through agent-based simulation

Emily Coco

published 09 Nov 2023

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The shaping of social and symbolic capital during the transition to farming in the Western Mediterranean: Archaeological network analyses of pottery decorations and personal ornaments

Daniel Pereira, Claire Manen, Solange Rigaud

published 08 Nov 2023

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Demographic dynamics between 5500 and 3500 calBP (3550–1550 BCE) in selected study regions of Central Europe and the role of regional climate influences

Ralph Großmann, Mara Weinelt, Johannes Müller

published 25 Oct 2023

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Human occupations of upland and cold environments in inland Spain during the Last Glacial Maximum and Heinrich Stadial 1: The new Magdalenian sequence of Charco Verde II

Javier Aragoncillo-del Río, José-Javier Alcolea-González, Luis Luque, Samuel Castillo-Jiménez, Guillermo Jiménez-Gisbert, José-Antonio López-Sáez, José-Manuel Maíllo-Fernández, Mónica Ruiz-Alonso, Ignacio Triguero, José Yravedra, Manuel Alcaraz-Castaño

published 04 Oct 2023

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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, Maria Guagnin, Ceri Shipton, Anita Radini, Abdullah M. Alsharekh, Michael Petraglia

published 04 Oct 2023

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As above, so below: Deposition, modification, and reutilization of human remains at Marmoles cave (Cueva de los Marmoles: Southern Spain, 4000–1000 cal. BCE)

Zita Laffranchi, Marco Milella, Juan Carlos Vera Rodríguez, María José Martínez Fernández, María Dolores Bretones García, Sylvia Alejandra Jiménez Brobeil, Julia Brünig, Inmaculada López Flores, Juan Antonio Cámara Serrano, Rafael M. Martínez Sánchez

published 20 Sep 2023

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Harvesting cereals at Tappeh Sang-e Chakhmaq and the introduction of farming in Northeastern Iran during the Neolithic

Fiona Pichon, Juan José Ibáñez Estevez, Patricia C. Anderson, Akira Tsuneki

published 25 Aug 2023

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The dynamic lives of osseous points from Late Palaeolithic/Early Mesolithic Doggerland: A detailed functional study of barbed and unbarbed points from the Dutch North Sea

Alessandro Aleo, Paul R. B. Kozowyk, Liliana I. Baron, Annelou van Gijn, Geeske H. J. Langejans

published 02 Aug 2023

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

Hala Alarashi, Marion Benz, Julia Gresky, Alice Burkhardt, Andrea Fischer, Lionel Gourichon, Melissa Gerlitzki, Martin Manfred, Jorune Sakalauskaite, Beatrice Demarchi, Meaghan Mackie, Matthew Collins, Carlos P. Odriozola, José Ángel Garrido Cordero, Miguel Ángel Avilés, Luisa Vigorelli, Alessandro Re, Hans Georg K. Gebel

published 02 Aug 2023

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