Journal of World Prehistory最新文献

The World Without Prehistory 没有史前的世界

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Journal of World Prehistory Pub Date : 2025-12-24 DOI: 10.1007/s10963-025-09204-5

Timothy Taylor

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Infrastructure Beyond Cities: Perspectives from the Americas 城市之外的基础设施：来自美洲的视角

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Journal of World Prehistory Pub Date : 2025-12-16 DOI: 10.1007/s10963-025-09203-6

Edward R. Henry, M. Grace Ellis, Carly M. DeSanto

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The Puzzling Pleistocene: Australian Foragers Before and Through the LGM 令人费解的更新世：在LGM之前和之后的澳大利亚觅食者

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Journal of World Prehistory Pub Date : 2025-12-06 DOI: 10.1007/s10963-025-09202-7

Kim Sterelny, Peter Hiscock

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Funerary Practices Among Central European First Farmers in the Light of New Radiocarbon Dates: The Case of Southern Moravia/Western Slovakia 根据新的放射性碳年代测定法，中欧第一批农民的丧葬习俗：以南摩拉维亚/西斯洛伐克为例

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Journal of World Prehistory Pub Date : 2025-12-05 DOI: 10.1007/s10963-025-09201-8

Alba Masclans, Peter Tóth, Zdeněk Tvrdý, Derek Hamilton, Penny Bickle, Marta Díaz-Zorita Bonilla, Berta Morell-Rovira

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The Earliest Vegetal Motifs in Prehistoric Art: Painted Halafian Pottery of Mesopotamia and Prehistoric Mathematical Thinking 史前艺术中最早的植物图案：美索不达米亚的哈拉菲陶器和史前数学思维

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Journal of World Prehistory Pub Date : 2025-12-05 DOI: 10.1007/s10963-025-09200-9

Yosef Garfinkel, Sarah Krulwich

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Unpacking the Neolithic: Assessing the Relevance of the Neolithic Construct in Light of Recent Research 拆解新石器时代：根据最近的研究评估新石器时代结构的相关性

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Journal of World Prehistory Pub Date : 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10963-025-09198-0

Melinda A. Zeder

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The Central Cemetery at Ingombe Ilede, Zambia: Chronology and Connections 赞比亚Ingombe Ilede中央公墓：年代和联系

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Journal of World Prehistory Pub Date : 2025-11-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10963-025-09194-4

David Killick, Jay Stephens, Maggie Katongo, Shadreck Chirikure, Ryan Mathur, Wayne Powell

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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

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