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An Early Bronze Age tomb group from Tell Alawiyeh in the British Museum
2015
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Associated Regional Chronologies for the Ancient Near East – The Middle Euphrates Region, ARCANE vol. 4
2015
The Middle Euphrates region extends between Jezirah and Northern Levant; it follows the course of the Euphrates from the south flanks of the Taurus mountains in Turkey almost to the modern border with Iraq. The settlement area drawn out between steppes in the east and in the west owes its particular character to just that life line with its rich soil but also to the trade routes meeting at the Euphrates Bend and connecting Anatolia to Mesopotamia, and the Syrian east to the Levant. Especially for the 3rd millennium, finds and findings from the area under consideration show great cultural variety and demonstrate the different influences by the neighbouring regions that meet here at the Euphr…
Foreword
2015
preface to the volume Middle Euphrates
Conclusions to the volume: Middle Euphrates
2015
conclusions to the volume Middle Euphrates
La Périodisation du Campaniforme dans le Midi. Jean Guilaine avait raison.
2003
La périodisation du Campaniforme pour le Midi de la France, mise en place il y a plus de trente ans, consiste en une interprétation chronologique des styles de la céramique décorée, définis antérieurement. Répondant probablement en grande partie au vieux complexe naturaliste des archéologues (trier, classer et ordonner), elle est aussi et avant tout un outil d'interprétation à partir de laquelle les théories les plus récentes ont pu être élaborées.Naturellement fragile, comme toute interprétation archéologique, cette périodisation a fait l'objet, ces dernières années, de contestations et d'une remise en cause sans que d'autres propositions ne prennent le relais pour nous fournir un nécessai…
The Bell Beaker phenomenon in the souteast of France: The state of research and preliminary remarks about the TGV excavations and some other sites of…
1998
Publié : LEMERCIER O. (1998) – The Bell Beaker phenomenon in the Southeast of France : The state of research and preliminary remarks about the TGV-excavations and some other sites of the Provence, in : BENZ M., van WILLIGEN S. (eds.) : Some New approaches to The Bell Beaker Phenomenon, Lost Paradise...?, Proceedings of the 2nd Meeting of the « Association Archéologie et Gobelets », Feldberg (Germany), 18th-20th avril 1997, Oxford : Archaeopress, 1998, p. 23-41. (British Archaeological Report, I.S. 690).; In the southeast of France, especially in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region and the middle and lower Rhone valley, numerous rescue excavations have been made during the last few years p…
Du Néolithique récent à l'âge du Bronze dans le Centre Nord de la France : les étapes de l'évolution chrono-culturelle
2009
The collective work carried out since 2001 within the framework of a Programme Collectif de Recherche (PCR) on the Late Neolithic and the beginning of the Bronze Age in the central part of northern France leads today to a new periodisation in 8 stages for the period between 3600 and 1800 BC. Although several gaps remain, particularly for the transitions between the Middle Neolithic and the Late Neolithic on one hand and between the Late Neolithic and the Final Neolithic on the other hand, this more precise chronological frame allows to synchronize the main stages of the central part of northern France with those of the nearby regions, to propose a more dynamic vision of cultural phenomena.
Early pastoral communities in the mountains of Sicily. Prehistoric evidence from Vallone Inferno (Scillato) in the palaeoenvironmental framework of t…
2021
Abstract This paper discusses the Middle Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age phases of the occupation of a rock shelter at Vallone Inferno (Scillato, Palermo) in Sicily. Vallone Inferno is a key site for studying the early establishment and development of pastoralism in the prehistoric mountainous environments of Sicily. Seasonal use of the site as a shelter is documented for the earliest pastoral communities that exploited the Madonie mountain range. The results of the analysis of pottery and lithic assemblages contribute to the definition of two chronocultural frameworks that were linked by the same economic subsistence base. The special role of obsidian emerges, while the mobility pattern…
The small mammals (insectivores, bats and rodents) from the Holocene site of Vallone Inferno (Scillato, Sicily)
2013
The Vallone Inferno rock-shelter is an archeological site located at 770 m a.s.l. in the Madonie massif in Sicily. This massif is modeled into the Triassic and Oligocene sedimentary rocks of the Imerese Basin. Thearchaeological excavations conducted since 2008 have provided a long prehistoric and historic sequence from the Neolithic to the medieval period. From the four sedimentary complexes identified, only levels 3.4 to 3.1 from complex 3 and 4.2 from complex 4 have yielded small-mammal material. Level 4.2 is poor in remains and as yet without cultural ascription, though it has a radiocarbon age of 9450±50 years BP. Level 3.4 has yielded fragments of ceramic characteristic of the Middle N…
Sombrero lids’ and children’s pots. An Early Bronze Age shaft grave from Tell Shiyukh Tahtani
2006
Tell Shiyukh Tahtani is one of the ancient mounds in the upper Syrian Euphrates Valley, which has been recently investigated by a team of the University of Palermo as part of the Tishreen Dam Salvage project1. Apart from various levels of occupation, ranging from the early third millennium B.C. to classical and Islamic times, these excavations have brought to light a fairly large amount of graves (about 90), which, beside providing many interesting finds, allow us to undertake a detailed study of Bronze Age burial practices at the site and in northern Syria as a whole. In dedicating the present paper to Uwe Finkbeiner, who has, as an excavator, made a great contribution to the archaeology o…