New Chronological Frame for the Young Neolithic Baden Culture in Central Europe (4th Millennium BC)

Direct evidence for the existence of dairying farms in prehistoric Central Europe (4th millennium BC).

The molecular and isotopic chemistry of organic residues from archaeological potsherds was used to obtain further insight into the dietary trends and economies at the Constance lake-shore Neolithic settlements. The archaeological organic residues from the Early Late Neolithic (3922-3902 BC) site Hornstaad-Hornle IA/Germany are, at present, the oldest archaeological samples analysed at the Insti...

The chronology of Neolithic dispersal in Central and Eastern Europe

We analyze statistically representative samples of radiocarbon dates from key Early Neolithic sites in Central Europe belonging to the Linear Pottery Ceramic Culture (LBK), and of pottery-bearing cultures on East European Plain (Yelshanian, Rakushechnyi Yar, Buh-Dniestrian, Serteya and boreal East European Plain). The dates from the LBK sites form a statistically homogeneous set with the probab...

A Vessel for Building Another Vessel. A Technical Template of the Late 4th Millennium BCE in the Central-Eastern of the Iranian Plateau?

Two vessels from different sites of the Iranian Plateau, dating to the late 4th or early 3rd millennium BCE are presented aspalaeotechnological case studies. In the fractures of the vessels’ walls, interfaces left by added clay parts (enhanced inthe two illustrations) are quite recognizable. It is proposed that in both cases potters, in order to construct the bases, usedto make bowls comparable...

Middle Holocene settlements at the western Foothills of Zagros Mountain in their Geographical setting (Survey of the relation between environmental setting and Geographical factors in the formation of the 4th millennium and early 3rd millennium BC si

Introduction The western foothills of the Zagros Mountains as a border area located between highlands of Iran and Mesopotamian lowlands, considered as an important archaeological study area. this area as a contact zone not only helping in better understand of the cultures located between this two different landscape of Near East (Mesopotamian lowlands and Zagros highlands), but by studying thei...

Session title: BECOMING EUROPEAN? THE TRANSFORMATION OF THIRD MILLENNIUM EUROPE – AND THE TRAJECTORY INTO THE SECOND MILLENNIUM BC