In the four decades since the discovery that a discrete Bronze Age preceded the Iron Age in mainland Southeast Asia, much has been learned about the dating, technology, production, organization, and use of bronze metallurgy in the region, particularly in prehistoric Thailand. Although independent invention of copper smelting in Southeast Asia has not been considered likely by most regional arch...

ABSTRACT The Final Neolithic and the Bronze Age (3000–800 BC) are periods of great transformations in communities inhabiting area modern-day Belgium, as testified by archaeological evidence showing an increasing complexity social structure, technological transformations, large-scale contacts. By combining 599 available radiocarbon dates with 88 new 14 C from 23 funerary sites, this paper uses k...

Archaeological excavations in Romuald's Cave (Lim Channel, Istria, Croatia) have yielded evidence of human activity stretching back to the Middle Palaeolithic. This paper reports on recent Bronze Age/Early Iron Age discoveries uncovered during excavations as part of the Croatian National Science Foundation funded project: "Archaeological Investigations into the Late Pleistocene and Early Holoce...

This is an invited review of the new volume by Ayşe Gürsan-Salzmann (2016) entitled "The New Chronology of the Bronze Age Settlement of Tepe Hissar, Iran". University Museum Monograph 142, University of Pennsylvania Museum. 408 pages | 8 1/2 x 11 | 238 illus. ISBN 978-1-934536-83-4 | $69.95s | £45.50). In general, this reviewer finds the book to be of great interest to specialists and students ...

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...

Abstract Neolithisation was a relatively fast process that affected both the interior and coastal zones of Iberian Peninsula, but it also heterogeneous had diverse impacts on genomic cultural diversity. In Late Neolithic–Chalcolithic, change in funerary practices, material trade networks occurred, heterogeneity decreased, suggesting human mobility genetic admixture between different populations...

Systematic archaeological excavations at the multicultural site of Foeni-S?la? in Romanian Banat conducted during first half 1990s uncovered evidence that was inhabited Early Neolithic, Copper, Bronze, Iron, Late Antique and Medieval Ages. This paper summarises cultural history settlement describes relevant deposits material culture each period.