We explore the Late Chalcolithic 3–4 to Early Bronze Age I pottery from Arslantepe by combining compositional, technological and morpho-typological analyses. The paper investigates what extent economic political changes affected organisation of production in terms natural resources, human labour, practices. wheel-finished vessels show a strong continuity raw materials, while labour changed with...

Understanding the distribution and expansion of Neolithic way life was one important research topics last century. Studies demonstrated that Anatolia, which originally excluded from 'core' region, played a key role in transition hunter-gatherers to settled food production. This article focuses on Düzkışla Höyük, discovered during Uşak Protohistoric Period Survey Project (UPDAP) 2019 provides va...

archaeologically, the hybrid and mythological motif of people-scorpion, as presented in both forms of man-scorpion and woman-scorpion, in the horizon of bronze age cultures in the plateau of iran, merely, is reported from the archaeological sites of jiroft in the halil rood basin, southwest iran. in mesopotamia, the people-scorpion is presented as the guardian monster for the gates of dead peop...

This analysis focused on one hundred and fifteen lithic arrowheads recovered from the Zambujeiro Mitra 2 dolmens, funerary monuments in Évora, Portugal. These were analyzed by noninvasive minimally invasive analytical techniques, including handheld X-ray fluorescence (hXRF), variable pressure scanning electron microscope coupled with energy dispersive spectrometry (VP-SEM-EDS), laser ablation i...

The appearance of red pigments in prehistoric burial sites is frequent. In the study presented herein, composition and provenance pigment sprinkled a dated between Late Neolithic Early Chalcolithic periods Cueva de la Sierra, Campodarbe (Huesca, Spain), were characterized through X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy coupled with energy-dispersive Raman powder diffractio...

Abstract Human skeletal remains are routinely used to examine cultural and biological aspects of past populations. Yet, archaeological specimens frequently fragmented/incomplete so excluded from analyses. This leads decreased sample sizes potentially biased results. Digital methods now restore/estimate the original morphology specimens. Such include 3D digitisation Geometric Morphometrics (GM)....