Strontium isotope analysis of tooth enamel is a useful provenancing technique to investigate the childhood origins and residential mobility of ancient people. However, where different geographical target regions have similar biosphere Sr/Sr it is often difficult to resolve the Sr/Sr ranges of two different groups of people and establish what constitutes the local range at each site. Here a mult...

The article represents the materials of study site Beryozogrivsko-Alexeevskoe III that is situated in Low Kama region. earliest findings from this are associated with Kamskaya Neolithic culture. A somewhat later chronological position occupied by complexes represented pit-comb, Russko-Azibeyskaya and Novoil’inskaya ceramics. complex Garinskaya Eneolithic culture deserves special attention artic...

Wood. Forests were exploited from the very beginnings of Near Eastern civilization. Enough hints exist from such Aceramic Neolithic sites as Jericho in Israel and Çayönü, Asikli Höyük, Nevali Çori, and Hallan Çemi in Turkey to indicate that extensive forest use has a history in this region of at least ten thousand years. These sites provide ample burned evidence for architectural timbers used a...

The recent discovery of animal carvings in the Early Bronze Age burial cairn at Dunchraigaig (Kilmartin Glen, Scotland) prompts a re-evaluation current knowledge rock art Britain. deer and other quadrupeds represented monument are first unambiguous depictions prehistoric animals date Scotland, among earliest identified Britain Ireland. This contrasts with well-known abstract this region, charac...

In a large study on early crop water management, stable carbon isotope discrimination was determined for 275 charred grain samples from nine archaeological sites, dating primarily to the Neolithic and Bronze Age, from the Eastern Mediterranean and Western Asia. This has revealed that wheat (Triticum spp.) was regularly grown in wetter conditions than barley (Hordeum sp.), indicating systematic ...

Hunter-gatherer archaeology typically focusses on the details of subsistence strategies and material culture and, in case cemeteries, various aspects mortuary practices, beliefs, social differentiation. This paper aims to look rather at patterns change over time space how past hunter-gatherer cemeteries were used from Late Mesolithic Early Bronze Age (~8600–3500 cal BP) Cis-Baikal region Easter...