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Ivories in the Late Chalcolithic Period and Their Significance for Understanding Contacts Between Egypt and the Southern Levant 晚期查尔克利石时期的象牙及其对了解埃及与南黎凡特之间联系的意义

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Journal of World Prehistory Pub Date : 2024-09-12 DOI: 10.1007/s10963-024-09187-9

Danny Rosenberg, Rivka Chasan

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Circulation of Goods and Information in Southern Patagonia During the Late Holocene: An Integrated Analysis of Engravings and Black Obsidian Artefacts 全新世晚期巴塔哥尼亚南部的商品和信息流通：对雕刻和黑曜石文物的综合分析

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Journal of World Prehistory Pub Date : 2024-08-03 DOI: 10.1007/s10963-024-09185-x

Anahí Re, Gisela Cassiodoro, Josefina Flores Coni, Francisco Guichón

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Salt Mining and Salt Miners at Talkherud–Douzlākh, Northwestern Iran: From Landscape to Resource-Scape 伊朗西北部 Talkherud-Douzlākh 的盐矿和盐矿工人：从景观到资源景观

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Journal of World Prehistory Pub Date : 2024-06-17 DOI: 10.1007/s10963-024-09183-z

Thomas Stöllner, Abolfazl Aali, Nicole Boenke, Hossein Davoudi, Erich Draganits, Homa Fathi, Kristina A. Franke, Rainer Herd, Katja Kosczinski, Marjan Mashkour, Iman Mostafapour, Nima Nezafati, Lena Öhrström, Frank Rühli, Sahand Saeidi, Fabian Schapals, Nicolas Schimerl, Beate Sikorski, Hamed Zifar

{"title":"Salt Mining and Salt Miners at Talkherud–Douzlākh, Northwestern Iran: From Landscape to Resource-Scape","authors":"Thomas Stöllner, Abolfazl Aali, Nicole Boenke, Hossein Davoudi, Erich Draganits, Homa Fathi, Kristina A. Franke, Rainer Herd, Katja Kosczinski, Marjan Mashkour, Iman Mostafapour, Nima Nezafati, Lena Öhrström, Frank Rühli, Sahand Saeidi, Fabian Schapals, Nicolas Schimerl, Beate Sikorski, Hamed Zifar","doi":"10.1007/s10963-024-09183-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-024-09183-z","url":null,"abstract":"The Douzlākh salt deposit (region: Māhneshān, Zanjān Province, Iran) is unique for its pure and crystal rock salt and was an important supplier of culinary (‘table’) salt in Achaemenid, Sassanid and Middle Islamic times. At the same time, the site was of central importance to the economic life of the rural populations in the Talkherud Basin. This article focuses on the question of which strategies were decisive for the exploitation of the salt mountain and how a potential supra-regional interest in the culinary salt was perhaps reciprocally connected with a rural hinterland. This hinterland was recently investigated in greater detail by our ongoing research. Did a resource-scape based on salt develop with specific economic and social strategies and practices around the Douzlākh? And was this development triggered by state or imperial control and demand? These questions are being pursued from a perspective utilising a variety of subjects and methods in archaeology, archaeobiology, archaeometry and geoarchaeology. In addition to a detailed on-site artefact study, several on- and off-site datasets have been collected and analysed within a multidisciplinary framework. This article synthesises the results of a major 12-year project to identify the organisational principles and daily practices within this specific salt-scape. The sensational finds of the Douzlākh salt mummies, along with the generally outstanding preservation of organic ecofacts and artefacts, allow insights into antique lifeworlds that are otherwise hard to come by. The multidisciplinary study of on- and off-site data allows far-reaching insights into interdisciplinary topics, such as the social system, supply and logistics, or the presence of non-local or non-indigenous populations.","PeriodicalId":47061,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Prehistory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141333531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Prehistory to History: A New Archaeological Approach to Knowledge Transmission and the Inception of Literacy in Central Europe 从史前到历史：中欧知识传播和识字起源的考古学新方法

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Journal of World Prehistory Pub Date : 2024-05-22 DOI: 10.1007/s10963-024-09184-y

Jiří Macháček

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Patrilocality at the Beginning of Farming? An Isotopic Approach from SE Moravia 农耕伊始的父系社会？来自摩拉维亚东南部的同位素方法

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Journal of World Prehistory Pub Date : 2024-04-20 DOI: 10.1007/s10963-024-09181-1

Berta Morell-Rovira, Zdeněk Tvrdý, Marta Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, Penny Bickle, Peter Tóth, Michal Přichystal, Alžběta Bedáňová, Alba Masclans

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Correction to: The First Monumental Burials in the 5th Millennium BC: Unresolved Questions About the Emergence of the ‘Passy Phenomenon’ 更正：公元前五千年的第一批墓葬：关于 "帕西现象 "出现的未决问题

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Journal of World Prehistory Pub Date : 2024-04-12 DOI: 10.1007/s10963-024-09182-0

Philippe Chambon, Aline Thomas

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The Middle Paleolithic of the Balkans: Industrial Variability, Human Biogeography, and Neanderthal Demise 巴尔干半岛的旧石器时代中期：工业变异、人类生物地理学和尼安德特人的消亡

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Journal of World Prehistory Pub Date : 2023-12-17 DOI: 10.1007/s10963-023-09179-1

{"title":"The Middle Paleolithic of the Balkans: Industrial Variability, Human Biogeography, and Neanderthal Demise","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s10963-023-09179-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-023-09179-1","url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Abstract</h3> Europe is characterized by an uneven record of Middle Paleolithic occupations. Specifically, large parts of southeastern Europe display markedly lower site densities and less intensive evidence of human presence than is found elsewhere; this has often resulted in the exclusion of the Balkans from debates related to Pleistocene human adaptation. The discrepancy stems either from the lower population densities of southeastern Europe or an imbalance in research across Europe. Additionally, our understanding of Balkan Middle Paleolithic stone tool industries suffers from the use of Mousterian labels defined when Bordian typology was the chief method of lithic analysis. Industrial facies then defined and still in use include Balkan Charentian, Levallois Mousterian, Micromousterian, Denticulate Mousterian; their relation with the rest of the Eurasian record was and remains unclear. This paper sets aside the issue of scarcity of Pleistocene occupations and tries to address Neanderthal biogeography, and variations in Neanderthal technological behavior and subsistence, based on the available record. It reviews the current Middle Paleolithic record in the Balkans, presents the apparent temporal and spatial trends, and presents the provisional biogeography of hominins, including scenarios for the demise of Neanderthals at or soon after the arrival of modern humans in Europe. The paper ends with a discussion of perspectives for future research arising from this analysis of the available record and proposes some hypotheses regarding the role of the Balkans in the overall context of the occupational history of western Eurasia in the Middle/Late Pleistocene.","PeriodicalId":47061,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Prehistory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138679655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The First Monumental Burials in the 5th Millennium BC: Unresolved Questions About the Emergence of the ‘Passy Phenomenon’ 公元前 5 千年的第一批墓葬：关于 "帕西现象 "出现的未决问题

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Journal of World Prehistory Pub Date : 2023-12-16 DOI: 10.1007/s10963-023-09180-8

Philippe Chambon, Aline Thomas

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The Strength of Diversity: Macrolithic Artefacts and Productive Forces During the Chalcolithic of Southern Iberia 多样性的力量：伊比利亚南部铜矿时代的大石器时代艺术品和生产力

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Journal of World Prehistory Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.1007/s10963-023-09178-2

Marina Eguíluz, Selina Delgado-Raack, Roberto Risch

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Archaeological Evidence of the Development of a Regional Society in Santarém (AD 1000–1600), Lower Amazon: A Path to Understanding Social Complexity 亚马逊河下游Santarém（公元1000–1600年）地区社会发展的考古证据：理解社会复杂性的途径

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Journal of World Prehistory Pub Date : 2023-10-08 DOI: 10.1007/s10963-023-09177-3

Denise Maria Cavalcante Gomes, Angislaine Freitas Costa, Casimiro Sepúlveda Munita, João Paulo Lopes da Cunha

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