"Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East: A Guide surveys the lithic record for the East Mediterranean Levant (Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Jordan, and adjacent territories) from the earliest times to 6,500 years ago. It is intended both as an introduction to this lith…
Les montagnes sont souvent perçues comme des espaces peu et tardivement peuplés, en marge des grands axes d'échanges. Cependant, les recherches récentes ne cessent de faire reculer dans le temps et augmenter en altitude les plus anciennes traces de présence humaine en milieu mon…
Les dix-neuf textes que comporte ce volume sont issus du colloque organisé dans le cadre du 141ème Congrès du CTHS « L'animal et l'homme » qui s'est déroulé à Rouen du 11 au 16 avril 2016. Proposé par la section préhistoire et protohistoire du CTHS, ce colloque avait pour object…
Stone axe studies
Textile production is one of the most important crafts in Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age societies and recent interdisciplinary and collaborative work offers crucial new perspectives into this field. The new and updated catalogue of archaeological textile finds pres…
Neolithic bodies
by Bickle, Penny, Sibbesson, Emilie
fromNeolithic studies group seminar papers
"This volume, building on the Neolithic Studies Group conference in 2014, captures the variety of debates taking place across research into Neolithic bodies of the Near East and Europe. Papers are divided into three themes: living bodies, the body in death, and representations o…
In the exciting book Peter J. Wilson takes domestication as the starting point for his continued inquiry into human evolution. Wilson argues that settling down into a built environment was the most radical and far-reaching innovation in human development and that it had a crucia…
In this study Clive Gamble presents and questions two of the most famous descriptions of change in prehistory. The first is the 'human revolution', when evidence for art, music, religion and language first appears. The second is the economic and social revolution of the Neolithi…