A total of seventeen annular transparent blue glass beads and one cylindrical bead with opaque grey-white decoration were found at a site near Stotfold, in Bedfordshire, England. The part cremation burial (without an urn), associated small fragments gold sheet bone, the latter carbon dated to 1303-1052 calBC 95% probability. Analysis (quantitative using SEM-EDS qualitative XRF) that are made fr...

This paper presents new archaeobotanical data from the Lower Cerovačka Cave located in Dalmatia, Croatia. At site a high density of carbonized plant remains was recovered, indicating remnants burnt crop store dating to Late Bronze Age. Overall, assemblage is dominated by lentil (Lens culinaris) and free-threshing wheat (Triticum aestivum/durum), lesser extent, emmer dicoccum), einkorn monococcu...

Pumice fragments recovered from an archeological excavation on the Greek mainland have been correlated by means of index of refraction measurements with the Late Bronze Age volcanic eruption on the island of Thera (Santorini) in the Aegean Sea. Pottery from the strata containing the pumice dates from the 15th century B.C.

Sheep were one of the first livestock species domesticated by humans. After initial domestication in the Middle East they were spread across Eurasia. The modern distribution of endogenous Jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus insertions in domestic sheep breeds suggests that over the course of millennia, successive introductions of improved lineages and selection for wool quality occurred in the Mediterr...

The transition from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age in Central Europe has often been considered as a supra-regional uniform process, which led to the growing mastery of the new bronze technology. Since the 1920s, archaeologists have divided the Early Bronze Age into two chronological phases (Bronze A1 and A2), which were also seen as stages of technical progress. On the basis of the early...

This document comprises a Stage 2 resource assessment and draft research agenda for the Neolithic and Bronze Age (Early – Middle) of the East Midlands. It builds upon the assessments for Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire presented at a seminar at County Hall, Leicester on 28.1.1999 (Bishop 1999; Chapman 1999, Clay 1999a; Membury 1999; Myers ...