In this paper, we discuss the occurrence of lions, bears and leopards in south Levantine archaeological assemblages between last glacial maximum ( c. 25,000 years ago) Iron Age 2500 ago). We argue that these large carnivores constitutes a significant long-term cultural feature begins with first settled hunter-gatherer communities Natufian culture. Importantly, show carnivoran species representa...

Abstract In this investigation, we use a socio-environmental multi-proxy approach to empirically test hypotheses of recurrent resilience cycles and the role climate forcing in shaping such on Iberian Peninsula during mid-Holocene times. Our combines time series reconstructions societal environmental variables from southern across 3000 yr interval (6000–3000 cal BP), covering major reorganisatio...

Since their domestication, dogs have adapted to a diverse portfolio of roles within human societies, and changes in dog size, shape, behavior are often key indicators these changes. Among pastoral agropastoral societies almost ubiquitous as livestock guardians herding aids. Archaeological data demonstrate that incoming Neolithic farmers brought with them own morphologically distinct when they s...

The emergence of houses is a social revolution around the world. Over past several decades, Chinese archaeologists have excavated many Neolithic to Bronze Age houses, but there still great amount uncertainty about and environmental factors driving differences between these house structures in Yellow River Basin. In this paper, we summarize data from excavation reports on shape size Neolithic-Br...

The Beaker phenomenon in Britain is typically represented by a particular form of pottery and its inclusion graves with flexed or crouched inhumations referred to as burials. Analysis the full range burial evidence, however, reveals high degree variability funerary rites including cremation skeletal disarticulation. Summed probability distribution analysis radiocarbon dates provides evidence fo...

Isotope data from a sacrificial ass and several ovicaprines (sheep/goat) from Early Bronze Age household deposits at Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel provide direct evidence for the movement of domestic draught/draft and husbandry animals between Old Kingdom Egypt (during the time of the Pyramids) and Early Bronze Age III Canaan (ca. 2900-2500 BCE). Vacillating, bi-directional connections between Egyp...