This paper reports the results of non-destructive energy dispersive x-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) analysis 186 obsidian artifacts from eight archaeological sites attributable to Alföld Linear Pottery Culture (c. 5600-4900 cal BC). is largest instrument-based study yet conducted and reported for (ALPC) Slovakia, where ALPC chipped lithic assemblages are almost entirely composed items. Results show ...

The subsistence practices of Holocene communities living in the Nile Valley Central Sudan are comparatively little known. Recent excavations at Khor Shambat, Sudan, have yielded well-defined Mesolithic and Neolithic stratigraphy. Here, for first time, archaeozoological, palaeobotanical, phytolith dental calculus studies combined with lipid residue analysis around 100 pottery fragments comparati...

Stone is often regarded as the ideal medium for long-term preservation of knowledge, it resistant to change. Early middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey has repeatedly been treated a prime example such external memorial storage durable stone. The present paper challenges this view. A close examination pillars and their reliefs Building F reveals fluid character imager...

'. t. •'...,/, ,.,.•::•! :• ,;.'•,;!•••..'',//( l/iis paper we propose an image-based pottery fragment identifier and classifier. We have successfiilly developed an automated, search engine system for pottery and potteiy fragment images. This system is designed to assist archaeologists and students in identifying pottery shape, color convention, and other relevant information quickly and accura...

During the third millennium bc, two new archaeological pottery styles expanded across Europe and replaced many of the more localized styles that had preceded them1. The expansion of the ‘Corded Ware complex’ in north-central and northeastern Europe was associated with people who derived most of their ancestry from populations related to Early Bronze Age Yamnaya pastoralists from the Eurasian st...

During the third millennium bc, two new archaeological pottery styles expanded across Europe and replaced many of the more localized styles that had preceded them1. The expansion of the ‘Corded Ware complex’ in north-central and northeastern Europe was associated with people who derived most of their ancestry from populations related to Early Bronze Age Yamnaya pastoralists from the Eurasian st...