Third millennium BC ditched enclosures in central Iberia

Craft Specialization at Shahdad: Pottery Production during the third millennium BC

Many potteries have been discovered from excavations and a surface survey at Shahdad, but few works have beendone to examine craft specialization in pottery production at this important site. Different types of potteries, some ofwhich bearing potter marks demonstrate that craftsmen of the site had involved in manufacturing of centralized potteryproduction. A number of kilns and many waste of po...

Knowledge of Planets in the Third Millennium BC

Recent advances in archaeology, chronobiology, and history of science have made it possible to decipher hitherto obscure passages related to planets in the Indian books of the third millennium BC. A brief summary of this knowledge is presented. It is argued that the period of Mercury was obtained near the end of the Vedic age in India. This was celebrated in terms of the famous myth of Vishnu s...

gir3-gen-na and ∑ulgi’s “Library”: Liver Omen Texts in the Third Millennium BC (I)

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