Abstract Hordeum vulgare var. nudum (naked barley) is one of the oldest and most common cereals found from Neolithic Fennoscandia. After Bronze Age, naked barley largely disappeared was replaced by (hulled other cereals. During early 19th century, Asian origins reintroduced to In this study, we have genetically characterized samples Fennoscandian landraces which were preserved in gene banks mus...

Neutron diffraction has been utilised as a noninvasive diagnostic tool to gain insight into the ancient metallurgic and manufacturing techniques employed for the production of three bronze age axes from archaic to late bronze age (20th to 13th Century BC). The analysed bronze artefacts are from the “Terramare” and other bronze age settlements near Modena, Italy. Neutron diffraction provides the...

‘New glume wheat’ (NGW) is an archaeobotanical type increasingly recognised at Neolithic–Bronze Age sites across Europe and Western Asia. NGW has been via aDNA morphological analyses of chaff remains as a member the Triticum timopheevii wheat group, recent cultivation which known only from western Georgia. This study combines geometric morphometric (GMM) analysis grains with updated results par...

In the article craniology of post-Catacomb and Middle Volga Abashevo populations in context cranial metric characteristics Neolithic Bronze Age groups continental Europe is discussed. The data on 2100 male skulls belonging to 95 samples was analyzed by means Mahalanobis distances (D²) matrix. results reveal high level similarity between series Catacomb East-Manych, Eastern Caucasus (Gintchi) Fa...

Abstract The Italian peninsula offers an excellent case study within which to investigate long-term regional demographic trends and their response climate fluctuations, especially given its diverse landscapes, latitudinal range varied elevations. In the past two decades, summed probability distributions of calibrated radiocarbon dates have become important method for inferring population dynami...

palaeoclimatology is a basic approach for the neolithic archaeology. the world-wide climate changes during the holocene ca. 10th millennia bc was an introduction to the neolithic revolution and the emergence of early villages. early holocene climate oscillations changed the biogeography of iran. consequently, its temperature, fauna and flora had been changed during ca. 12800- 3500 bc; and final...

the little zab river in northwestern iran rises from the mountains piranshehr and flows from the northwest to the southeast direction to join iraq from alan passage. the river basin contains a large number of ancient settlements, and its lower area that is close to the zab river has been the most interesting place for people in the neolithic age. an increasing population during chalcolithic age...