The analysis of the Middle and Late Neolithic settlement pattern confirms thesis significant role middle Kamienna river basin in region Sandomierz Upland Iłża Forehills as base for banded flint mines area Krzemionki Opatowskie. Some settlements Funnel Beaker culture located northern central part could be related to exploitation processing the: Świeciechów raw materials. right-bank tributaries i...

Gender is under focus in prehistoric archaeology, with traditional binary models being questioned and alternatives formulated. Quantification, however, generally lacking, alternative are rarely tested against the archaeological evidence. In this article, we test hypothesis of gender for Central Europe based on a selection seven published burial sites dating from Early Neolithic to Late Bronze A...

Abstract This multi-proxy approach combines results of sedimentological, pollen and diatom studies on sediments Lake Wonieść, Greater Poland. enables reconstruction the natural anthropogenic drivers past environmental change. Several steps lake development are recorded, from a eutrophic to an oligotrophic stage, with increasing human influence back hypereutrophic one. Human in form eutrophicati...

2. These records principally refer to cropmarks and finds. The only upstanding remains are a henge monument at Gunthorpe 1 and some of the 6 earthworks included amongst the 24 and 14 sites which are respectively categorised as round mounds and round barrows. Evidence about landscape comes primarily from palaeoenvironmental data within deposits in river channels and alluvium which ranges from po...

The warp ikat method of making decorated textiles is one of the most geographically widespread in southeast Asia, being used by Austronesian peoples in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, and Daic peoples on the Asian mainland. In this study a dataset consisting of the decorative characters of 36 of these warp ikat weaving traditions is investigated using Bayesian and Neighbornet technique...