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Foreword
2015
preface to the volume Middle Euphrates
Conclusions to the volume: Middle Euphrates
2015
conclusions to the volume Middle Euphrates
Ancient DNA Reveals Key Stages in the Formation of Central European Mitochondrial Genetic Diversity
2013
The Origins of Europeans To investigate the genetic origins of modern Europeans, Brandt et al. (p. 257 ) examined ancient mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and were able to identify genetic differences in 364 Central Europeans spanning the early Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age. Observed changes in mitochondrial haplotypes corresponded with hypothesized human migration across Eurasia and revealed the complexity of the demographic changes and evidence of a Late Neolithic origin for the European mtDNA gene pool. This transect through time reveals four key population events associated with well-known archaeological cultures, which involved genetic influx into Central Europe from various directions at…
Morphometry of Middle Bronze Age palstaves by discrete cosine transform.
2009
9 pages; International audience; The Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) is a Fourier-related transform widely used in signal processing and well suited to the analysis of open outlines. This method was applied here to evaluate the discrimination power of the inner lateral rib for two palstave populations dating from the Middle Bronze Age, excavated in northwest France. A corpus of almost 400 palstaves (bronze axes) of the Breton and Norman types was processed, and compared to specimens found at Sermizelles in Burgundy. The procedure is robust and produces a discrimination in good agreement with the traditional typology. Besides the definition of a ‘standard' shape for each population, the morp…
Historical biogeography of olive domestication (Olea europaea L.) as revealed by geometrical morphometry applied to biological and archaeological mat…
2003
Aim This study intends to improve our understanding of historical biogeography of olive domestication in the Mediterranean Basin, particularly in the north-western area. Location Investigations were performed simultaneously on olive stones from extant wild populations, extant cultivated varieties from various Mediterranean countries, and archaeological assemblages of Spanish, French and Italian settlements. Methods A combination of morphometrics (traditional and geometrical) allowed us to study both the size and shape of endocarp structure. Concerning shape, a size-standardized method coupled with fitted polynomial regression analysis was performed. Results We found morphological criter…
Vēsture: Latvijas Universitātes Žurnāls, 2017, Nr.4
2017
L'ornementation des bracelets de l'âge du Bronze européen : analyse descriptive et perspectives
2013
This paper discusses the ornamental patterns of metal bracelets worn on the arms and legs of people during the European Bronze Age. A method has been specially created to study geometric patterns. Some sets of metal bands (bracelets métalliques) of Bronze Age reach a high level of complexity due to the use of combined patterns in an overall structure. This paper deals with an experimental criterion concerning this phenomenon. The methodology, developed for the purpose i.e. the experimental criterion developed for the purpose of this study, was to extract geometric patterns from the original media. The principle is to release the geometrical compositions of the deformations induced by the mo…
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.