Sheep and goats (caprines) were domesticated in Southwest Asia in the early Holocene, but
how and in how many places remain open questions. This study investigates the initial …

A major topic of debate in Old World prehistory is the relative importance of population
movement versus cultural diffusion in explaining the spread of agriculture into and across …

This article aims to provide a critical evaluation of the influence of the culture-historical
paradigm in the Neolithic archaeology of Western Asia through the re-assessment of …

This study consists of a contextual analysis of a group of Central Anatolian Neolithic
settlements that includes the sites of Aşıklı Höyük, Canhasan III, Çatalhöyük, Erbaba, and …

This paper details the chemical sourcing of 135 obsidian artefacts from Çatalhöyük, a
Neolithic site in central Anatolia, the trace-elemental analyses being undertaken in two …

A review of selected Mesolithic blade and trapeze complex series in the north-western
Mediterranean reinforces the hypothesis of a common use of pressure techniques for …

To assess the analytical accuracies and precisions of archaeometric elemental analyses by
different techniques, a relatively homogeneous material such as obsidian must be studied …

The Göllüdağ obsidian lava flow system is relatively complex. More than ten different
obsidian outcrops and knapping workshops have been identified around this volcano. Their …

The Mediterranean Context of Early Greek History p>“Drawing extensively on the latest
archaeological data from the entire Mediterranean basin, Nancy Demand offers a …

Sicily is a key region for understanding the agricultural transition in the Mediterranean
because of its central position. Here, we present genomic and stable isotopic data for 19 …