The phenomenon of northern pile dwellings has been found in different geographical zones and landscapes the Circum-Baltic region: sea on shores inland lakes rivers. Inland sites were established specific lacustrine landscapes, appearing within former post-glacial basins. revealed here are characterized by types wooden buildings, including structures with raised floors. They dated to 4th millenn...

The archaeological documentation of the development of sedentary farming societies in Anatolia is not yet mirrored by a genetic understanding of the human populations involved, in contrast to the spread of farming in Europe [1-3]. Sedentary farming communities emerged in parts of the Fertile Crescent during the tenth millennium and early ninth millennium calibrated (cal) BC and had appeared in ...

The period from the late third millennium BC to the start of the first millennium AD witnesses the first steps towards food globalization in which a significant number of important crops and animals, independently domesticated within China, India, Africa and West Asia, traversed Central Asia greatly increasing Eurasian agricultural diversity. This paper utilizes an archaeobotanical database (As...

Abstract Opium poppy ( Papaver somniferum L. subsp . ) was likely domesticated in the Western Mediterranean, where its putative wild ancestor is indigenous, and then spread to central northern Europe. While opium seeds are regularly identified archaeobotanical studies, absence of morphological criteria distinguish domestic forms prevents documentation their respective historical geographical oc...

One of the characteristic features Leilatepe archaeological culture Chalcolithic period (end 5th millennium BC - first half 4th BC) is a unique stone product. This was studied mainly on basis monuments in territory Azerbaijan. Extensive excavations were carried out Leilatepe, Beyuk Kesik I, Poylu II, Galayeri settlements belonging to and numerous tools discovered. Similar also discovered as res...

in the early of 1st millennium bc, in the region of lorestan, iran, the ellipi kingdom formed and played a significant role in regional developments, particularly in relation with two rival governments, assyria and elam. the political history reconstruction of the ellipi kingdom is more reliant on assyrian resources which cover just very short and particular part of its life. the first recorded...

This study focuses on the chronostratigraphic sequence of Cave Kaf Taht el-Ghar (Dar Ben Karrich, Tétouan, Morocco) excavated in 2012 framework AGRIWESTMED research project. The broad reveals a series occupations ranging from Pleistocene (Moroccan Aterian) to recent historical times. Our identifies rich Early Neolithic phase (sixth millennium cal BC) containing earliest pottery and domesticated...