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Goldberg, Amy, Torsten Günther, Noah A. Rosenberg, and Mattias Jakobsson. "Ancient X chromosomes reveal contrasting sex bias in Neolithic and Bronze Age Eurasian migrations." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114, no. 10 (2017): 2657–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1616392114.

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Dramatic events in human prehistory, such as the spread of agriculture to Europe from Anatolia and the late Neolithic/Bronze Age migration from the Pontic-Caspian Steppe, can be investigated using patterns of genetic variation among the people who lived in those times. In particular, studies of differing female and male demographic histories on the basis of ancient genomes can provide information about complexities of social structures and cultural interactions in prehistoric populations. We use a mechanistic admixture model to compare the sex-specifically–inherited X chromosome with the autos

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White, Joyce. "Comment on ‘Debating a great site: Ban Non Wat and the wider prehistory of Southeast Asia’." Antiquity 89, no. 347 (2015): 1230–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2015.109.

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Many of the components of this argument can be seen as a matter of debate; for example, the occurrence at sites in north-east Thailand of indisputably Bronze Age flexed burials contradicts Higham's contention that flexed graves represent earlier indigenous hunter-gatherer populations. The occurrence of tin-bronze artefacts in ordinary graves at other sites in north-east Thailand belies the proposed scenario that bronze was necessarily a ‘prestige valuable’ that generated a competitive milieu, particularly as the early metal artefacts at Ban Non Wat are unalloyed copper. It is my view that alth

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Whitley, James. "Objects with Attitude: Biographical Facts and Fallacies in the Study of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Warrior Graves." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 12, no. 2 (2002): 217–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774302000112.

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Aegean prehistory still has to deal with the legacy of ‘Homeric archaeology’. One of these legacies is the ‘warrior grave’, or practice of burying individuals (men?) with weapons which we find both in the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age in the Aegean. This article suggests that the differences between the ‘weapon burial rituals’ in these two periods can tell us much about the kind of social and cultural changes that took place across the Bronze Age/Iron Age ‘divide’ of c. 1100 BC. In neither period, however, can items deposited in ‘warrior graves’ be seen as straightforward biographical

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Appleby, Jo. "4. Grandparents in the Bronze Age?" AmS-Skrifter, no. 26 (May 2, 2019): 49–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.31265/ams-skrifter.v0i26.209.

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Evolutionary biology and ethnographic analogy suggest that grandparenting has been critical to the development of human life history and may even explain modern human longevity. However, the roles and functions of grandparents have not previously been investigated in later prehistoric contexts. Ethnographic studies show that grandparents take on an extremely wide range of roles worldwide, whether this is teaching knowledge and skills, providing childcare, or even taking on parental roles and titles. In many cases, grandparents play a critical role in the support and socialization of children.

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Janik, Liliana. "Seeing visual narrative. New methodologies in the study of prehistoric visual depictions." Archaeological Dialogues 21, no. 1 (2014): 103–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1380203814000129.

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AbstractThe aim of this paper is to establish how visual narratives can be used in the social context of storytelling, enabling the remembrance of events and those who participated in them in prehistory around the White Sea in the northernmost part of Europe. One of the largest complexes of fisher-gatherer-hunter art is located here, dating from the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age (ca 6000–4000 B.P.). A number of methodological strands are brought together to aid in the interpretation of the art, combining Western art-historical and non-Western visual traditions that challenge our modern wa

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Menšík, Petr, and Milan Menšík. "An Overview of Southern Bohemian Hilltop Settlements from Prehistory to the Late Middle Ages." Archaeologia Lituana 19 (December 20, 2018): 34–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/archlit.2018.19.3.

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[full article, abstract in English; abstract in Lithuanian] The Southern Bohemian Region belongs to regions where many hilltop settlements had been built since the Early Stone Age. However, the first fortified systems were built in the Late Bronze Age, as hilltops, mountain peaks, and promontories were fortified using complex systems of ramparts and ditches. This phenomenon thereafter continued into younger prehistoric periods, especially the Early Iron Age, resulting in the foundation of hilltops in the Early Middle Ages, starting with the 9th century and frequently continuing in the fo

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Perucchetti, Laura, Peter Bray, Andrea Dolfini, and A. Mark Pollard. "Physical Barriers, Cultural Connections: Prehistoric Metallurgy across the Alpine Region." European Journal of Archaeology 18, no. 4 (2015): 599–632. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/1461957115y.0000000001.

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This paper considers the early copper and copper-alloy metallurgy of the entire Alpine region. It introduces a new approach to the interpretation of chemical composition data sets, which has been applied to a comprehensive regional database for the first time. The Alpine Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age each have distinctive patterns of metal use, which can be interpreted through changes in mining, social choice, and major landscape features such as watersheds and river systems. Interestingly, the Alpine range does not act as a north-south barrier, as major differences in composition tend to

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Higham, Charles Franklin, Thomas F. G. Higham, and Katerina Douka. "THE CHRONOLOGY AND STATUS OF NON NOK THA, NORTHEAST THAILAND." Journal of Indo-Pacific Archaeology 34 (December 31, 2014): 61. http://dx.doi.org/10.7152/jipa.v34i0.14719.

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<p> </p> <p><em>Excavations at Non Nok Tha, in Northeast Thailand in 1965-1968 revealed for the first time in Southeast Asia, a stratigraphic transition from the Neolithic into the Bronze Age. Based on conventional charcoal radiocarbon determinations, early reports identified fourth millennium bronze casting. The proposed length of the prehistoric sequence, and the division of the Neolithic to Bronze age mortuary sequence into at least 11 phases, has stimulated a series of social interpretations all of which have in common, a social order based on ascriptive ranking int

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Sanjuán, Leonardo García, Miriam Luciañez Triviño, Thomas X. Schuhmacher, David Wheatley, and Arun Banerjee. "Ivory Craftsmanship, Trade and Social Significance in the Southern Iberian Copper Age: The Evidence from the PP4-Montelirio Sector of Valencina de la Concepción (Seville, Spain)." European Journal of Archaeology 16, no. 4 (2013): 610–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/1461957113y.0000000037.

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Because of its great potential to provide data on contacts and overseas trade, ivory has aroused a great deal of interest since the very start of research into Iberian late prehistory. Research recently undertaken by the German Archaeological Institute in Madrid in collaboration with a number of other institutions has provided valuable contributions to the study of ivory in the Iberian Copper Age and Early Bronze Age. One of the archaeological sites that is contributing the most data for analysing ivory from the Copper Age in southern Iberia is Valencina de la Concepción (Seville), which is cu

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Baldi, Johnny Samuele. "Within small things. Reflections on techno-social boundaries between prehistory and recent past during a Lebanese fieldwork." Matérialiser la frontière, no. 3 (December 14, 2020): 7–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.35562/frontieres.405.

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The village of Qleiaat, in the Mount Lebanon, has recently been the centre of archaeological activities aimed at studying late prehistoric and Early Bronze Age vestiges. But from the very beginning this research has also tried to investigate with purely archaeological means the remains of the recent past of the village, especially the pithoi used in the 19th-20th centuries for food storage, and the ruins left by violent clashes that took place in Qleiaat at the end of the Lebanese civil war. Through a reflection on the possibility of reconstructing physical frontiers starting from the archaeol

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Molloy, Barry P. C. "Hunting Warriors: The Transformation of Weapons, Combat Practices and Society during the Bronze Age in Ireland." European Journal of Archaeology 20, no. 2 (2017): 280–316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2016.8.

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Warfare is increasingly considered to have been a major field of social activity in prehistoric societies, in terms of the infrastructures supporting its conduct, the effects of its occurrence, and its role in symbolic systems. In the Bronze Age many of the weapon forms that were to dominate battlefields for millennia to come were first invented—shields and swords in particular. Using the case study of Ireland, developments in Bronze Age warfare are traced from the Early to the Late Bronze Age. It is argued that during this period there was a move from warfare that made use of projectiles and

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Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina. "3. Personal Relationships between Co-buried Individuals in the Central European Early Bronze Age." AmS-Skrifter, no. 26 (May 2, 2019): 35–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.31265/ams-skrifter.v0i26.208.

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People were usually buried in single, individual graves in Early Bronze Age Austria and the surrounding areas, but there are some exceptions. In burials of two or more people, it is often the way that bodies were placed in relation to each other that suggests familiarity, if not family. This paper reviews the social relations expressed through co-burials, and aims to better understand relationships between couples, siblings, or parents and children. The chapter particularly highlights mother-child relationships and presents graves of pregnant women and graves of women and children buried toget

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Chapman, John, and Robert Shiel. "Social Change and Land Use in Prehistoric Dalmatia." Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 59 (1993): 61–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0079497x00003753.

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The Neothermal Dalmatia Project is an Anglo-Yugoslav collaborative project whose aims are to define and explain changes in physical environment, settlement pattern and social structure in north Dalmatia over the last 12 millennia. The Project's fieldwork included archaeological field survey, analytical survey, trial excavation of Neolithic, Copper Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman sites, soil and land use mapping, ethnographic survey of modern villages and hamlets and palaeoenvironmental reconstructions (pollen, sediments, sea-level change, etc.). Within the long-term constraints of a limest

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Hansen, S. "Technical and Social Innovations: A New Field of Research." Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia 47, no. 3 (2019): 27–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.17746/1563-0110.2019.47.3.027-037.

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The grand narrative of cultural developments claims that all technical achievements in prehistory stemmed from urban centres in Mesopotamia and Egypt. But current studies, for instance on the oldest wagons, have opened up space for alternative working hypotheses and models: modern radiocarbon dating of complexes that revealed the cited innovations, e.g. the oldest wagons, functional metal tools, and an advanced copper metallurgy, which predate their fi rst appearance in Mesopotamia, questions the role of this region in the development of technology. Possibly Mesopotamian cities operated rather

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Muhly, Polymnia. "Furniture from the shaft graves: the occurrence of wood in Aegean burials of the Bronze Age." Annual of the British School at Athens 91 (November 1996): 197–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068245400016476.

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Certain wooden fragments from tomb V at Mycenae are identified as parts of two small tripod tables, which constitute the best-preserved furniture from the prehistoric Aegean. As the epigraphic, iconographic, and archaeological evidence demonstrates, wooden furniture was not common in the Aegean area and belonged chiefly to prosperous persons, who rarely provided it to the dead. Statistically rare, though more widely known, are the wooden structures used from the end of MM III to the LH/LM III A2 period for burials, nearly all richly endowed (with weapons, metal vessels, ornaments, even with fu

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Booth, Thomas J., Joanna Brück, Selina Brace, and Ian Barnes. "Tales from the Supplementary Information: Ancestry Change in Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age Britain Was Gradual with Varied Kinship Organization." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 31, no. 3 (2021): 379–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774321000019.

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Large-scale archaeogenetic studies of people from prehistoric Europe tend to be broad in scope and difficult to resolve with local archaeologies. However, accompanying supplementary information often contains useful finer-scale information that is comprehensible without specific genetics expertise. Here, we show how undiscussed details provided in supplementary information of aDNA papers can provide crucial insight into patterns of ancestry change and genetic relatedness in the past by examining details relating to a >90 per cent shift in the genetic ancestry of populations who inhabited Ch

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Bikoulis, Peter. "Revisiting prehistoric sites in the Göksu valley: a GIS and social network approach." Anatolian Studies 62 (November 13, 2012): 35–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0066154612000026.

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AbstractUsing a variety of quantitative approaches, interactions between prehistoric sites in the Göksu valley and south-central Anatolia are modelled within their wider multi-regional and diachronic socio-economic networks to assess the prominence and influence of communities in south-central Anatolia from the Late Chalcolithic to the end of the Early Bronze Age (c. 4200–2000 BC). Since the 1950s, some have understood the valley as significant in terms of movement and communication through the Taurus mountain chain that divides the southern Anatolian plateau from the Mediterranean coast. This

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Kocak, Ozdemir, and Omur Esen. "ROUTE DETERMINATION OF HISTORICAL ROADS BY LOCATION OF PREHISTORIC SETTLEMENTS: NORTH OF LAKE EBER." International Journal of Heritage, Art and Multimedia 4, no. 13 (2021): 11–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.35631/ijham.413002.

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Prehistoric settlements are prominent among the most important representatives of the cultural heritage in Turkey. These settlements are important for understanding the social, cultural, and economic conditions of the people who had lived in the past. As a matter of fact, these ancient settlements (mounds) and their locations to each other are taken as a basis in understanding the prehistoric routes. In this study, a route is identified beginning from the settlements in the north of a lake called Eber Gölü, which is located in the western part of Turkey. In this project, the study methods of A

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Santos Cancelas, Alberto. "Religiones castreñas contra el estado." Vínculos de Historia. Revista del Departamento de Historia de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, no. 8 (June 20, 2019): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.18239/vdh_2019.08.01.

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RESUMENNuestro conocimiento sobre las religiones protohistóricas se encuentra prejuiciado por categorías de pensamiento presentistas y el recurso a fuentes posteriores. Para lograr una caracterización mínima de la fenomenología de tales manifestaciones se propone una aproximación a partir de los materiales de la Edad del Hierro, con atención a los problemas y metodologías de la arqueología, que privilegie el estudio de casos particulares frente a la generalización céltica. A través del ejemplo de la cultura castreña, se examinará qué elementos constituyeron objeto de atención ritual y sobredim

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Isbell, William H. "Mortuary Preferences: A Wari Culture Case Study from Middle Horizon Peru." Latin American Antiquity 15, no. 1 (2004): 3–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4141562.

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AbstractMortuary practices reveal a great deal about the social organization of prehistoric cultures and their landscape of places. However, tombs are favored targets for looters, making it difficult to determine original burial practices. Very little was known about Wari burial during the Middle Horizon (A.D. 500–1000), even though Wari was an imperial, early Bronze Age culture with a spectacular urban capital in highland Peru. Excavations at the secondary Wari city of Conchopata produced remains of more than 200 individuals, from disturbed and undisturbed contexts. These burials as well as i

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Higham, Charles. "The Long and Winding Road that Leads to Angkor." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 22, no. 2 (2012): 265–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774312000261.

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In the late sixteenth century, Portuguese missionaries encountered a vast city at Angkor. Abandoned for 150 years, it had been partially restored as a Buddhist piligrimage centre but many of the monuments had been given over to the forest. They wondered about its origins. Some suggested that it was the work of Trajan, others of Alexander the Great. Following the establishment of the French colonial empire in Southeast Asia three centuries later, and in the absence of any information on prehistoric societies, the civilization of Angkor was seen as the result of Indianization, whereby Indian rel

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Papadopoulos, John K. "Minting Identity: Coinage, Ideology and the Economics of Colonization in Akhaina Magna Graecia." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 12, no. 1 (2002): 21–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774302000021.

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This article focuses on the early coinage of the Akhaian cities of South Italy — Sybaris, Kroton, Metapontion, Kaulonia, Poseidonia — against the backdrop of colonization. Minting an early and distinctive series of coins, these centres were issuing coinage well before their ‘mother-cities’, a phenomenon that has never been fully appreciated. With its origins in a colonial context, the Akhaian coinage of Magna Graecia not only differs from that of the early coin-minting states of the Greek mainland, it offers a case study that challenges long-held assumptions and potentially contributes to a be

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Britnell, William, Jenny Britnell, Timothy C. Darvill, et al. "The Collfryn Hillslope Enclosure, Llansantffraid Deuddwr, Powys: Excavations 1980–1982." Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 55, no. 1 (1989): 89–134. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0079497x00005351.

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The report on partial rescue excavations of the Collfryn enclosure between 1980–82 presents a summary of the first large-scale investigation of one of the numerous semi-defensive cropmark and earthwork enclosure sites in the upper Severn valley in mid-Wales. Earlier prehistoric activity of an ephemeral nature is represented by a scattering of Mesolithic and Late Neolithic or early Bronze Age flintwork, and by a pit containing sherds of several different Beaker vessels. The first enclosed settlement, constructed in about the 3rd century bc probably consisted of three widely-spaced concentric di

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Mansrud, Anja, and Inger Marie Berg-Hansen. "Animist Ontologies in the Third Millennium BCE? Hunter-Gatherer Persistency and Human–Animal Relations in Southern Norway: The Alveberget Case." Open Archaeology 7, no. 1 (2021): 868–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opar-2020-0176.

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Abstract This article aims to contribute novel data and perspectives into the long-standing debate about economic strategies in the fourth and third millennium in South Norway, by introducing novel results from a Pitted Ware coastal site in Agder County, southern Norway. The analysis of artifactual and faunal assemblages as well as lipid analysis from ceramics indicate a varied subsistence economy with terrestrial hunting, gathering, and specialized marine fishing strategies, targeting Atlantic bluefin tuna and seals. These procurement strategies were maintained throughout the middle and into

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Díaz-Guardamino, Marta, Leonardo García Sanjuán, David W. Wheatley, et al. "Rethinking Iberian ‘warrior’ stelae: a multidisciplinary investigation of Mirasiviene and its connection to Setefilla (Lora del Río, Seville, Spain)." Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11, no. 11 (2019): 6111–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12520-019-00909-1.

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Abstract Iberian ‘warrior’ stelae have captured the imagination of researchers and the public for more than a century. Traditionally, stelae were considered ‘de-contextualised’ monuments, and research typically focused on the study of their iconography, paying little or no attention to their immediate contexts. As a result, despite the large number of these stelae known to date (c. 140) and the ample body of literature that has dealt with them, fundamental questions remain unanswered. This paper aims to demonstrate the potential of a multidisciplinary and contextual approach to push forward th

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Legarra Herrero, Borja. "Recent developments in the study of Early Bronze Age Crete (Early Minoan period)." Archaeological Reports 65 (November 2019): 87–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s057060841900005x.

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The production and publication of new research on the Cretan Early Bronze has accelerated tremendously in recent decades. This article aims to present the highlights and main trends of the last 15 years: the sites, excavations, research projects and main publications. Moreover, it explores how the new data interlink with the extremely large body of information available from more than 100 years of archaeological studies on Crete. The aim of such a review is to identify patterns of research, popular themes and the strengths and weaknesses of the data recovered, and to consider the place of Earl

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Cosmopoulos, Michael B. "Reconstructing Cycladic Prehistory: Naxos in the Early and Middle Late Bronze Age." Oxford Journal of Archaeology 17, no. 2 (1998): 127–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0092.00055.

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J. Hudson, Mark. "Towards a prehistory of the Great Divergence:." Documenta Praehistorica 46 (December 6, 2019): 30–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/dp.46-2.

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This essay argues that the primary socio-economic formations of premodern Japan were formed in the Bronze Age via processes of ancient globalisation across Eurasia. Multi-crop cereal agriculture combining rice, millet, wheat and barley with a minor contribution from domesticated animals spread from Bronze Age Korea to Japan at the beginning of the first millennium BC. This agricultural system gradually expanded through the archipelago while engendering new economic niches centred on trade, raiding and specialised fishing. From the fifth century AD the horse became widely used for warfare, tran

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J. Hudson, Mark. "Towards a prehistory of the Great Divergence:." Documenta Praehistorica 46 (December 6, 2019): 30–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/dp.46.2.

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This essay argues that the primary socio-economic formations of premodern Japan were formed in the Bronze Age via processes of ancient globalisation across Eurasia. Multi-crop cereal agriculture combining rice, millet, wheat and barley with a minor contribution from domesticated animals spread from Bronze Age Korea to Japan at the beginning of the first millennium BC. This agricultural system gradually expanded through the archipelago while engendering new economic niches centred on trade, raiding and specialised fishing. From the fifth century AD the horse became widely used for warfare, tran

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Forenbaher, Stašo. "Radiocarbon dates and absolute chronology of the central European Early Bronze Age." Antiquity 67, no. 255 (1993): 218–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00045336.

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It is more than forty years now since the first radiocarbon dates began the reconciliation of conventional and absolute chronologies for later prehistory. This pioneering radiocarbon chronology for the Bronze Age sequence in Central Europe brings that process nearer to a close, by filling the last major gap in the radiocarcbon chronology of the European continent.

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Shennan, Stephen. "Cost, benefit and value in the organization of early European copper production." Antiquity 73, no. 280 (1999): 352–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x0008830x.

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How can archaeologists evaluate the ‘cost of production’ in prehistory? Stephen Shennan explores ethnographic examples, Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage and archaeological evidence from the eastern Alps in a stimulating discussion of Bronze Age production and exchange.

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Haughton, Mark. "Seeing Children in Prehistory: A View from Bronze Age Ireland." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 31, no. 3 (2021): 363–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774321000032.

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Despite growing strength in recent decades, an archaeology of childhood has often been overlooked by those studying prehistory. This is concerning because communities are enlivened by their children, and conversations with and about children often provide a critical arena for the discussion of aspects of societies which prehistorians are comfortable addressing, such as social structure, identity and personhood. Through an exploration of childhood as expressed in the Earlier Bronze Age burials from Ireland, this article demonstrates that neither written sources, artistic depictions nor toys are

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Allen, Carol, and David Hopkins. "Bronze Age Accessory Cups from Lincolnshire: Early Bronze Age Pot?" Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 66 (2000): 297–317. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0079497x00001833.

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Sixteen accessory or pygmy cups of the Early Bronze Age front Lincolnshire are illustrated and discussed for the first time: many were previously unpublished. The possible origins of the cups are considered and it is suggested that they had organic counterparts in domestic use more suitable for the lifestyle of the early 2nd millennium BC. The use of grog tempered fabrics is considered, leading to the concept of ritual use of the cups in traditional rites connecting society with its past. In the Early Bronze Age it seems very likely that the use of pottery was restricted to special occasions,

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Bulatovic, Aleksandar. "The phenomenon of prehistoric ritual pits: Several examples from the central Balkans." Starinar, no. 65 (2015): 7–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/sta1565007b.

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In recent years, the phenomenon of pits with special deposits, i.e. ritual pits, seems to have, once again, attracted attention both in Europe and in the Balkans. In the central Balkans, scientific literature related to this topic is still deficient, hence one of the objectives of this paper is to change the current state and rekindle interest in the study of this form of manifestation of the spiritual culture of prehistoric man. It appears that one of the oldest reasons for sacrificial offerings is primal, instinctive fear. The fear of the transience of life or of death compelled our ancient

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Yener, K. Aslihan. "Bulgarmaden: Thoughts about iron, Bolkardağ and the Taurus mountains." Iraq 72 (2010): 183–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021088900000644.

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It has long been suspected that the use of iron predated the so-called meteoric and smelted iron of the later stages of prehistory. Certainly small objects of iron such as awls and pins are found from the Chalcolithic period onwards and the rightly famous iron swords from Alaca Höyük demonstrate skills in making larger weapons in the Early Bronze Age. I document the use of iron ore for hammers and maces at Early Bronze Age sites in the Taurus Mountains and early Chalcolithic Tell Kurdu in the Amuq valley. This intensive understanding of materials and their properties led, millennia later, to t

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Steinberg, John M. "Ploughzone sampling in Denmark: isolating and interpreting site signatures from disturbed contexts." Antiquity 70, no. 268 (1996): 368–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00083332.

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Are sites in lowland Europe destroyed when they are ploughed many times? In north Denmark, many Neolithic and Early Bronze Age sites are now reduced to just lithic scatters, but distinctive ‘site signatures’ persist. A lithic economic prehistory from the ploughsoil is possible and instructive.

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Mallory, Jim. "The saving of Navan." Antiquity 61, no. 231 (1987): 64–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00072501.

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Navan, Co. Armagh, is one of the major ritual sites of Irish and of European prehistory. Its 2.5 square km encompass the bronze- and iron-age Navan ‘fort’, the bronze-age ritual pond of the King's Stables, the bronze-/iron-age Haughey's fort, and the iron-age ritual lake of Loughnashade – and, surely, other sites not yet detected. It figures largely in the early history of Ireland as the ancient capital of Ulster. For years, a limestone quarry has been eating into the archaeological landscape; its erosion was finally halted last year, thanks to the vigour with which the Friends of Navan fought

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Sestieri, Anna Maria Bietti. "Italy in Europe in the Early Iron Age." Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 63 (1997): 371–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0079497x00002498.

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In the field of European recent prehistory it is generally agreed that, from the Early Orientalising period, Etruria played a central role in long distance trade, also acting as a link between the Aegean and east Mediterranean and trans-Alpine Europe. A widely acknowledged implication is that this primary status of the Etruscans among the indigenous peoples of Italy was a secondary effect of the Greek and Phoenician colonisation in the central Mediterranean. It is the aim of this paper to show that, as early as the Late Bronze Age, Etruria emerged as a complex territorial, political, and econo

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Cherry, Haydon. "Digging Up the Past: Prehistory and the Weight of the Present in Vietnam." Journal of Vietnamese Studies 4, no. 1 (2009): 84–144. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/vs.2009.4.1.84.

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This essay argues that prehistory in Vietnam has been powerfully shaped by the contemporary social and political circumstances in which it has been produced, both during the French colonial period and in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. It argues that in both periods the degree of professionalism in the field and the prevailing political ideology shaped the kind of prehistory produced. The discussion focuses particularly on the Bronze Age culture of Đông Sỏn and its link to the Hùng kings and their kingdom of Văn Lang.

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Dever, William G., and Douglas L. Esse. "Subsistence, Trade, and Social Change in Early Bronze Age Palestine." Journal of the American Oriental Society 112, no. 3 (1992): 495. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/603091.

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Morris, Sarah P. "Dairy Queen. Churns and milk products in the Aegean Bronze Age." Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome 7 (November 2014): 205–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-07-12.

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This article assembles examples of an unusual vessel found in domestic contexts of the Early Bronze Age around the Aegean and in the Eastern Mediterranean. Identified as a “barrel vessel” by the excavators of Troy, Lesbos (Thermi), Lemnos (Poliochni), and various sites in the Chalkidike, the shape finds its best parallels in containers identified as churns in the Chalcolithic Levant, and related vessels from the Eneolithic Balkans. Levantine parallels also exist in miniature form, as in the Aegean at Troy, Thermi, and Poliochni, and appear as part of votive figures in the Near East. My interpr

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Leighton, Robert. "Rock-cut Chamber Tombs and the Reproduction of Locality in Later Sicilian Prehistory." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 30, no. 2 (2019): 295–311. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774319000635.

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This article explores the archaeology of place and memory from the standpoint of research on large cemeteries of chamber tombs cut out of the rock in southern Sicily. Burials of this kind were integral to the configuration of major settlements dating from the Early Bronze Age to the Iron Age (c. 2200–600 bc) and are a distinctive feature of Sicilian cultural landscapes. Rock-cut tombs at the four key sites of Castelluccio, Thapsos, Pantalica and Cassibile, representing successive phases of the Bronze and Iron Ages, are discussed in relation to terrain and layout. One aim is to identify recurre

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Higham, Charles. "The Bronze Age of Southeast Asia: New Insight on Social Change from Ban Non Wat." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 21, no. 3 (2011): 365–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774311000424.

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The expansion of copper-base metallurgy in the mainland of Eurasia began in the Near East and ended in Southeast Asia. The recognition of this Southeast Asian metallurgical province followed in the wake of French colonial occupation of Cambodia and Laos in the nineteenth century. Subsequently, most research has concentrated in Thailand, beginning in the 1960s. A sound chronology is the prerequisite to identifying both the origins of the Bronze Age, and the social impact that metallurgy may have had on society. This article presents the revolutionary results of excavations at the site of Ban No

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Higham, Charles Franklin, Thomas Franklin Higham, and Katerina Douka. "DATING THE BRONZE AGE OF SOUTHEAST ASIA. WHY DOES IT MATTER?" Journal of Indo-Pacific Archaeology 43 (December 19, 2019): 43. http://dx.doi.org/10.7152/jipa.v43i0.15411.

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<p class="BasicParagraph"><em>We have dated human bone, freshwater shell, charcoal and rice grains from key sites in mainland Southeast Asia in order to establish the chronological scaffolding for later prehistory (ca 2500 BC-AD 500). In a recent report on the metal remains from the site of Ban Chiang, however, this chronology has been challenged. Here, we respond to these claims and show that they are unfounded and misleading. We maintain the integrity of the Bayesian-modelled radiocarbon results that identify the arrival of the first rice and millet farmers in mainland Southeast

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Pásztor, Emília. "The significance of the Sun, Moon and celestial bodies to societies in the Carpathian basin during the Bronze Age." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 5, S260 (2009): 127–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921311002213.

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AbstractCelestial events often exerted a great or even decisive influence on the life of ancient communities. They may provide some of the foundations on which an understanding of the deeper meaning of mythologies, religious systems and even folk tales can be based. These influences are reflected and may be detected in the archaeological material as well. There is good evidence that celestial (especially solar and perhaps lunar) phenomena played a particularly important rôle in the worldview of prehistoric Europe. To reveal the social and ideational significance of concepts relating to the cel

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Foulds, Elizabeth. "Personal ornaments in prehistory: an exploration of body augmentation from the Palaeolithic to the Early Bronze Age." Archaeological Journal 177, no. 2 (2020): 476–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00665983.2020.1736825.

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Jennifer M. Webb and David Frankel. "Cultural Regionalism and Divergent Social Trajectories in Early Bronze Age Cyprus." American Journal of Archaeology 117, no. 1 (2013): 59. http://dx.doi.org/10.3764/aja.117.1.0059.

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Rosen, Arlene Miller. "The Social Response to Environmental Change in Early Bronze Age Canaan." Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 14, no. 1 (1995): 26–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jaar.1995.1002.

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Cheung, Christina, Zhichun Jing, Jigen Tang, and Michael P. Richards. "Social dynamics in early Bronze Age China: A multi-isotope approach." Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 16 (December 2017): 90–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.09.022.

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Cassidy, Lara M., Rui Martiniano, Eileen M. Murphy, et al. "Neolithic and Bronze Age migration to Ireland and establishment of the insular Atlantic genome." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, no. 2 (2015): 368–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1518445113.

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The Neolithic and Bronze Age transitions were profound cultural shifts catalyzed in parts of Europe by migrations, first of early farmers from the Near East and then Bronze Age herders from the Pontic Steppe. However, a decades-long, unresolved controversy is whether population change or cultural adoption occurred at the Atlantic edge, within the British Isles. We address this issue by using the first whole genome data from prehistoric Irish individuals. A Neolithic woman (3343–3020 cal BC) from a megalithic burial (10.3× coverage) possessed a genome of predominantly Near Eastern origin. She h

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