Grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) is one of the emblematic crops Greece. Despite evidence early wine making in Aegean since Late Neolithic (ca 4500–4000 BC), hypothesis a local domestication grapevine this area hasn't be thoroughly investigated. In order to date first appearance domesticated and explore past cultivated diversity Aegean, morphometric analyses were performed on large data set 2223 ar...

Even today the remarkable culture of the Kotoko city-states, located south of Lake Chad, impresses visitors. According to oral traditions collected by anthropologists, the founders of the city-states were the Sao from whom the Kotoko claim to descend.1 Archaeologists discovered that the beginning of settlement in the southern Chad Basin was linked to Mega Chad’s desiccation and dated this retre...

Cattle dominate archaeozoological assemblages from the north-central Europe between the sixth and fifth millennium BC and are frequently considered as exclusively used for their meat. Dairy products may have played a greater role than previously believed. Selective pressure on the lactase persistence mutation has been modelled to have begun between 6000 and 4000 years ago in central Europe. The...

writing was invented in late 4th millennium bc in southern mesopotamia and consequently written documents were produced. legal documents are among the most important documents left to us from ancient mesopotamia. sumerian legal documents allow us to study the formation of law in the earliest urban societies. in this paper we study the edicts of uru-ka-gina (also read iri-ka-gina). old and new i...

A bout 120 new Mesopotamian mathematical cuneiform texts, all from the Norwegian Schøyen Collection, are published in the author’s book A Remarkable Collection of Babylonian Mathematical Texts, Springer (2007). Most of the texts are Old Babylonian (1900–1600 BC), but some are older (Sumerian), or younger (Kassite). In addition to the presentation and discussion of these new texts, the book cont...

Barker, Elton; Bouzarovski, Stefan; Isaksen, Leif and Pelling, Chris (2013). Extracting, investigating and representing geographical concepts in Herodotus: the case of the Black Sea. In: The Bosporus: Gateway between the Ancient West and East (1st Millennium BC–5th Century AD) (Tsetskhladze, Gocha R.; Atasoy, Sümer; Avram, Alexandru; Donmez, Sevket and Hargrave, James eds.), BAR International S...

In this article I present a new archaeological synthesis concerning the earliest formation of mobile pastoralist economies across central Eurasia. I argue that Eurasian steppe pastoralism developed along distinct local trajectories in the western, central, and (south)eastern steppe, sparking the development of regional networks of interaction in the late fourth and third millennia BC. The “Inne...

Recent study of Vlaho in Pelagonia confirms that it is the earliest known Neolithic settlement North Macedonia. Multidisciplinary research architecture and material reveals a complex enclosure site dating to seventh millennium BC, with dozens ditches, daub buildings, white painted pottery domesticated plants animals.