Bronze age sickles in diverse roles

Neolithic and Bronze Age

This document comprises a Stage 2 resource assessment and draft research agenda for the Neolithic and Bronze Age (Early – Middle) of the East Midlands. It builds upon the assessments for Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire presented at a seminar at County Hall, Leicester on 28.1.1999 (Bishop 1999; Chapman 1999, Clay 1999a; Membury 1999; Myers ...

The Bronze Age of science in Spain.

in conjunction with our results, demonstrate that in certain H. pylori strains, CagA plays an essential role in the activation of NF-κB. We acknowledge in our article that CagA may not be the only component that H. pylori uses to activate inflammation. Compelling evidence exists that under some circumstances other H. pylori factors can induce an inflammatory response. For example, CagA clearly ...

Bronze Age gold in Southern Georgia

This study represents a joint pilot project between archaeological and natural sciences, aimed at exploring the technology and provenance of gold artefacts, exemplified for the case of Georgia. It is focussed on the prehistoric gold mine of Sakdrisi. The study included the investigation of both Bronze Age gold artefacts and native gold by chemical and lead isotope analyses using ICP-mass spectr...

A European population in Minoan Bronze Age Crete

The first advanced Bronze Age civilization of Europe was established by the Minoans about 5,000 years before present. Since Sir Arthur Evans exposed the Minoan civic centre of Knossos, archaeologists have speculated on the origin of the founders of the civilization. Evans proposed a North African origin; Cycladic, Balkan, Anatolian and Middle Eastern origins have also been proposed. Here we add...

Cambridge World Archaeology European Societies in the Bronze Age