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A Common Genetic Origin for Early Farmers from Mediterranean Cardial and Central European LBK Cultures
2015
Olalde, Iñigo et al.
Climate change and population dynamics during the late Mesolithic and the Neolithic transition in Iberia
2009
This paper explores how Early Holocene climate changes in the Western Mediterranean would have affected Late Mesolithic settlement distribution and subsistence strategies in Iberian Peninsula, thereby giving rise to various adaptive scenarios. The current radiocarbon data set concerning the Neolithisation process has revealed the rapidity of the spread of farming in Iberia. Considering both the implications of the last hunter-gatherers’ adaptation strategies and the population dynamics of agro-pastoral communities, we address the migration patterns underlying the Mesolithic- Neolithic transition. In conclusion, we propose that the initial colonization process was the result of two successiv…
Explorations, implantations et diffusions : le "phénomène" campaniforme en France méditerranéenne
2004
In the south-east of France, the first Bell Beaker expansion is manifested by the presence of isolated ceramics but also by a series of settlements established in contact with the indigenous populations. Analysis of the assemblages, their composition and their distribution makes it possible to propose a model of the appearance and development of the Bell Beaker phenomenon but also the probable origin of the elements present in this area.
Neolithic ceramic findings from western Sicily. Chemical – physical and mineralogical characterization
2001
This paper presents the results of a study that is part of a wider research program regarding the knowledge of the initial living phases of Sicilian agricultural and pastoral societies.Three ceramic samples attributed to the medium initial Neolithic (NEO1 and NEO2) and to the first neolithic (NEO3), recovered in two different archaeological sites of the western Sicily, have been analysed. Chemical, mineralogical and spectroscopic data point out a similarity between NEO1 and NEO3 samples; compositional and morphological differences instead have been observed in the NEO2 sample. The firing temperatures of the samples have been estimated by Mössbauer spectroscopy; they are lower than 500°C for…
An antler sickle from the Neolithic site of Costamar at Cabanes (Castellón) on the Mediterranean Spanish coast
2012
Archaeological excavations at the settlement of Costamar between 2006 and 2008 by the Fundació Marina d'Or uncovered an area of 57 905m² containing 683 archaeological features belonging to Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iberian, Roman, Islamic, late medieval, modern and contemporary times. The Neolithic features belong to two phases. The first, with 203 storage pits, is characterised by the presence of pottery with incised-impressed decoration combined with plastic decoration and pigmentation with red ochre. One outstanding nearly complete vessel is decorated with an anthropomorphic motif. This phase has been dated by a cattle bone (Bos Taurus) to 5996±38 (4990–4790 cal BC at 2σ) and by a grain of …
Phénomène, culture et tradition : statuts et r̂oles du Campaniforme au IIIe millénaire dans le Sud-Est de la France
1998
Abstract The "Bell Beaker " complex should not be globally perceived, because it seems to include several different entities, as shown by its variations in space and time. A regional approach, in south-eastern France, outlines the existence of a first " Bell Beaker Phenomenon " and its spread in Late Neolithic societies. This relatively marginal phenomenon quickly becomes an actual independent "Bell Beaker Culture ", with different geographical fades. These may have been in contact with surviving local cultures. In the Early Bronze Age, a "Bell Beaker Tradition " integrates some new elements brought in from outside, and seems to extend the Bell Beaker culture. The role of this " Bell Beaker…
Les Campaniformes dans le sud-est de la France
2004
The term "Bell Beaker", in the strict sense, designates a ceramic beaker form with an S-shaped profile that gives it the shape of an inverted bell. This type of drinking-vessel is characterized by both its very particular pattern of decoration and by the generally skilled execution of that decoration. By extension, the decoration characteristic of these beakers bas allowed the expansion of the category "Bell-Beaker" to include other pottery forms and even other types of decoration showing the same tradition, vvhich probably represent an evolution or reproduction of the original Bell Beaker pattern, The recognition of these objects and their definition as a class date to the nineteenth centu…
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…
La fin du Néolithique dans le sud-est de la France. Concepts techniques, culturels et chronologiques de 1954 à 2004
2006
The mediterranean France final Neolithic, between the end of Middle Neolithic Chasséen (3700-3500 Cal BC) and the end of the transitional period to the early Bronze Age, with the barbed Wire groups (1900-1800 Cal BC), is a complex period marked by the definition of almost about fifteen cultural groups and many of geographical facies and chronological phases. The chronological and technical concepts used are not less complex and varied according to researchers (Recent Neolithic or late Middle Neolithic or Final Neolithic 1, Final Neolithic and Copper Age or only Final Neolithic, and Copper Age-early Bronze Age...). If the Rhone constituted only seldom a real border during the Neolithic, it i…
Les campaniformes catalans et pyrénéens vus de Provence.: Contribution à une problématique historique du Campaniforme de l'Europe méridionale
2003
El campaniforme recent entre els Alps i Catalunya presenta una decoració incisa o bé inciso-estampada que ha estat dividida principalment en dos estils: El Pirinenc i el Ródano-Provençal. El primer ocupa el nord de Catalunya i el Llenguadoc Occidental, el segon comprèn el Sud-est francès des d'El Llenguadoc Oriental fins als Alps. La unitat del campaniforme recent s'ha palesat fa temps a partir de la similitud morfològica i tecnològica de les formes i les decoracions ceràmiques. Amb tot, molts estudis recents sobre la ceràmica domèstica d'aquest campaniforme i les tècniques de fabricació dels vasos han mostrat l'existència de contrastos entre regions veïnes. El desenvolupament del campanifo…