Pottery Making Technologhy from Neolithic to Chalcolithic (middle Bakun) period in Tappeh Rahmatabad based on Ceramographic and Chemical Analysis

O UR excavations at Nasik and more recently at Jorwe (District Ahmednagar, Maharashtra) revealed for the first time the existence of the chalco lithic phase in the prehistory of the Deccan (Sankalia and Deo 1955). The comparative stratigraphical position of this culture, however, was determined in our excavations at Nasik (Sankalia and Deo 1955); Subsequent explorations and excavations of selec...

this study assumes areas between the central zagros region and central plateau of to play an important role in the shaping social and economic complexity and the formation of urban infrastructure during the late chalcolithic period of the region. regarding the issue an archaeological survey conducted in the area, 39 sites were identified and were archaeologically analyzed. for spatial data anal...

Although archaeological research suggests that mining/metallurgy already started in the Chalcolithic (3rd millennium BC), the earliest atmospheric metal pollution in SW Europe has thus far been dated to ~3500-3200 cal.yr. BP in paleo-environmental archives. A low intensity, non-extensive mining/metallurgy and the lack of appropriately located archives may be responsible for this mismatch. We ha...

Archaeological cultural taxonomy is a practical necessity. It singles out more or less coherent patio-temporal entities and facilitates scholarly exchange communication. However, these conventions tend to take an independent life of their own, sometimes constrain creative research endeavors. well known that ―the name not the thing‖. taxa are relatively flexible entities, perfectly self-containe...