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This study of lithic artifacts from the Halaf site of Fistikli Höyük, located in Southeastern Turkey, is part of a larger body of scholarly work on Late Neolithic village cultures in the Middle East. My work expands on existing scholarship and provides new understandings of the …

The late Neolithic of North Mesopotamia has long been held up as the first example of a 'global' culture with aspects of shared material culture, most notably pottery styles and subsistence strategies, spread across North Mesopotamia, the Northern Levant, and parts of south-east…

The Late Neolithic (3000-2000 BCE) is characterized by the spread of the Longshan Culture Complex throughout the Huanghuai floodplain, covering all regions occupied by the earlier Yangshao and Dawenkou cultures. Definition of local Longshan phases is based primarily on minor sty…