ABSTRACT In the absence of wood, bone, and other organics, one possible candidate for determining age a site is radiocarbon ( 14 C) dating pottery. central Europe during Early Neolithic, pottery was ubiquitous contained substantial quantities organic temper. However, attempts at direct inclusions raises lot methodological issues, especially when several sources carbon contribute to resulting ag...

Shortly after arriving in the Shetland archipelago early 4th millennium BC, communities began to quarry and make stone tools from riebeckite felsite, quarried Northmavine region of North Mainland. The effort expended traveling sites, extracting, making crafting was considerable indicating importance felsite Neolithic communities. Results Roe Felsite Project are presented this paper. quarrying d...

Abstract Western Iberia Early Neolithic has been described as an ultimate and very altered form of the Mediterranean Neolithisation process. Despite its Atlantic position, this territory – corresponding mainly to Central/Southern Portugal is, in physical cultural geography, a landscape deeply connected historical process arriving from beyond Strait Gibraltar. The presence cardial pottery led ar...

The process of Near Eastern neolithization and its westward expansion from the core zone in the Levant and upper Mesopotamia has been broadly discussed in recent decades, and many models have been developed to describe the spread of early farming in terms of its timing, structure, geography and sociocultural impact. Until now, based on recent intensive investigations in northwestern and western...