Abstract The spread of the Bell Beaker phenomenon across Europe is still strongly debated today. Small-scale technological studies investigating its integration in local contexts remain rare, even though these are crucial to observing disruptions traditions. In this article, we studied ceramic technology Final Neolithic, period, and Early Bronze Age settlements Upper Rhône valley Switzerland (3...

The article is devoted to the Neolithisation in forest zone of Middle Volga River basin. different conceptions process are considered. archaeological materials from sites located on this territory and neighbouring regions have been compared. question was raised regarding animal domestication its attributes region Neolithic period. hypothesis that pottery spread under influence cultures a forest...

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...

Abstract This article presents the mineral resource procurement territories of Early Neolithic settlements (LBK or Rubané ) in Aisne valley. Our study focuses on data from 15 LBK sites belonging to final central Europe; C14 dates for fall between 5100 and 4900 cal BC. The bulk pottery these seems have been produced using local raw materials that can be found over a large part valley; only dozen...

Anatolia and the Near East have long been recognized as the epicenter of the Neolithic expansion through archaeological evidence. Recent archaeogenetic studies on Neolithic European human remains have shown that the Neolithic expansion in Europe was driven westward and northward by migration from a supposed Near Eastern origin [1-5]. However, this expansion and the establishment of numerous cul...

During the past few years, many publications about computer applications in the field of drawing, classification and analysis of archaeological pottery have been presented at various congresses by various researchers. This paper will review and analyze the most relevant works published so far. It focuses on computer applications oriented towards the graphical visualization and analysis of data ...

Using the example of pottery imported into the Channel ports of southern England, an approach to examining the role of pottery in the emergence and mediation of coastal communities is proposed here. Building on recent scholarship, it is argued that it is no longer tenable to see pottery as a carrier of identity, or as part of a ‘cultural package’, with meaning emerging with identity as people i...

In this study, we examine the health and way of life of some of Taiwan’s earliest Neolithic peoples through studies of skeletons from the Nankuanli East (NKLE) site. The NKLE site is one of three oldest sites (ca. 4500-5000 BP) identified during salvage excavations in 2002-2003 in the Tainan Science Park (TSP) in Shanhua District, Tainan City, in southwestern Taiwan. Approximately 82 extended a...