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Qal‘at ‘Aïsha is a fortress located in the Mount Lebanon range that was discovered during an archaeological survey by the author. Built on a rocky peak 2,219 m above sea level, this stronghold is surrounded by hostile rugged terrain and subject to extreme weather conditions, including low temperatures and abundant snow for six to seven months a year. Qal‘at ‘Aïsha enjoys a unique location with an unimpeded view of the coastline between Ras al-Bassit, Syria, and Batrun, Lebanon. The pottery sherds collected from the site are few, but these few fragments attest to human settlement and occupation
between the Chalcolithic and the Late Roman period.

- by Anis Chaaya
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- Chalcolithic Pottery, Iron Age, Hellenistic Pottery, Survey

Geoarchaeology of Lower River Loire in Western France.

- by Bertrand Poissonnier
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- Archaeology, Geoarchaeology, GeoArcheology, Landscape Archaeology
- by Kewin Peche-Quilichini and +1
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- Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Environmental Archaeology

"The megalithic tomb at Montelirio is off the scale in more ways than one. As well as being the largest example of its type known in Spain, the burial goods secreted in its subterranean chambers are unsurpassed in both quantity and... more

- by Leonardo García Sanjuán
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- Religion, Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Art History

The fundamental purpose of the monograph is to present the sources of two Neolithic cultures, i.e. TRB and GAC , obtained at the site of Wilkostowo 23/24, Aleksandrów Kujawski commune (POLAND). However, wide analytical possibilities of registered materials cause that it is not a typical monograph, but rather a case study showing analytical and interpretative possibilities of Neolithic sites situated in sandy soils environments.
Wilkostowo 23/24 is located in the north part of Kujavia (geographic coordinates: N - 52˚48᾿31.53᾿᾿; E - 18˚36᾿28.69᾿᾿), in a zone of so-called middle Tążyna river basin.
Within archaeologically recognized area wealthy remains of the TRB culture occupation were identified. They concentrate mainly on the culmination occupied by the site. Moreover, relics of the GAC culture occupation were recognized, although decidedly less numerous, which partly co-occur with the TRB culture materials.

- by Seweryn Rzepecki and +4
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- Archaeological GIS, Neolithic Archaeology, Neolithic & Chalcolithic Archaeology, Chalcolithic Pottery

محوطه باستانی احمدآباد کوزه‌گران مربوط به دورة روستانشینی پیشرفته (مس‌سنگی)، واقع در جنوب غربی روستای احمدآباد وسط (که به دلیل پیشینة حرفة سفالگری در این محل، موسوم به کوزه‌گران است) استقراری با قدمت بیش از ۶۰۰۰ سال می‌باشد که در جدول گاهنگاری مرکز فلات ایران هم افق با دورة سیلک III است. در این محوطه در زمستان ۱۳۹۱ با هدف تعیین قدمت و تشخیص دوره‌های استقراری، بررسی روشمند میدانی انجام گرفت. روش کار به این ترتیب بود که ابتدا کل سطح محوطه شبکه‌بندی شد و سپس نیمی از یافته‌های هر شبکه برداشت گردید تا طبقه‌بندی و گونه‌شناسی شوند. اکثر یافته‌ها متعلق به ظروف سفالی بودند و همچنین تعداد اندکی ابزار سنگی نیز بدست آمدند. هدف از این مقاله، ارایة نتایج حاصل از این بررسی میدانی است. مطالعه مزبور نشان داد که محوطة باستانی احمدآباد کوزه‌گران از نیمة دوم هزارة پنجم تا نیمه دوم هزارة چهارم ق.م، به مدت یک هزار سال بطور بی‌وقفه مسکون بوده است.

"Le passé de Sierentz est plutôt bien connu, notamment grâce aux nombreuses fouilles réalisées depuis la fin des années 70 dans la partie nord de la commune près de la petite chapelle de la Hochkirch (Tiergarten, Sandgrube, Zac HOELL). Le site des « Villas d’Aurèle » est lui situé au sud, il semblait donc intéressant de documenter une zone entièrement vierge de recherche. Qui plus est, le contexte topographique et géologique est sensiblement différent du secteur de la Hochkirch : on se trouve ici dans les premiers contreforts loessiques du Sundgau oriental.
A l’issue de l’opération d’évaluation, la problématique principale était de mieux appréhender l’occupation du Néolithique récent qui avait été repérée et qui se matérialisait principalement par un ensemble de fosses circulaires (dont une contenait des inhumations) et des fentes.
La fouille a permis la mise au jour de plusieurs occupations datant de différentes périodes, essentiellement néolithique mais aussi protohistoriques.
Le Néolithique moyen (groupe de Bruebach-Oberbergen) est représenté par trois fosses circulaires et surtout un ensemble de 34 fentes, incluant celles déjà repérées lors du diagnostic, dont l’organisation spatiale est inédite. Orientées sud-ouest / nord-est, elles sont disposées le long d’un couloir sud-est / nord-ouest d’une trentaine de mètres de large traversant la zone fouillée du nord au sud.
Objet principal de la problématique originelle, l’occupation du Néolithique récent repérée lors du diagnostic n’a été complétée que par cinq fosses circulaires dont une seule contenait une inhumation. L’étude de l’ensemble céramique qu’elles ont livré, associée à une série de datation au carbone 14, a permis d’alimenter la récente remise en question de la typo-chronologie de cette période.
La fin du Néolithique est marquée par quatre sépultures campaniformes. Disposées sur un axe nord-ouest / sud-est, elles contenaient les corps d’un enfant, d’une femme et de deux hommes. L’excellent état de conservation des tombes masculines a en outre permis la reconnaissance d’une architecture en bois. D’une manière générale, ce type de découvertes des années 60. Leur état de conservation et leur riche mobilier font des sépultures de Sierentz une découverte majeure de cette période dans la région.
Le site est ensuite occupé durant la Protohistoire, mais les indices qui ont pu être mis au jour lors de la fouille restent cependant assez réduits et la nature de ces occupations n’a pu être précisée.
Le Bronze final IIb est essentiellement représenté par un ensemble de 15 fosses circulaires et de fosses-silos. Certaines de ces fosses contenaient des dépôts de vases entiers et s’organisaient le long d’un axe sud-ouest / nord-est dans la moitié ouest de l’emprise. Six autres fosses et silos sont datés du Hallstatt D1. Il est possible que durant ces périodes, la zone d’occupation humaine principale soit plutôt à chercher dans la partie nord la commune.
Enfin quelques menus indices d’occupations postérieures, éventuellement romaines, ainsi qu’une probable aspergerie d’époque Moderne et/ou Contemporaine ont été mis en évidence"

- by Luc Vergnaud and +3
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- Neolithic & Chalcolithic Archaeology, Chalcolithic Pottery, Chalcolithic Archaeology, Bell Beakers (Archaeology)
- by Ilia Palaguta
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- Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Pottery (Archaeology), Neolithic Archaeology
- by Kudret Sezgin
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- Lycian, Chalcolithic Pottery, Roman Pottery, Byzantine Pottery
- by Viktoria Petrova
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- Chalcolithic Pottery, Chalcolithic Archaeology, Balkan prehistory

This chapter reviews the archaeological evidence
for the Vinča culture, the broader archaeological
context for the majority of the metal production and
metal artefacts extensively explored in Chapter 3, as
well as for the sites of Belovode and Pločnik, whose
investigation forms the core of The Rise of Metallurgy
in Eurasia project. The chapter will provide a lengthy
introduction to the current data and interpretations of
the Vinča culture that are subsequently developed in
far greater detail in the thematic overviews by many
of the leading specialists in later chapters (Chapters
39–52). This monograph seeks to address, at least
in part, the absence of a dedicated synthesis of the
Vinča culture since Chapman’s (1981) monograph (see
Chapman 2020b for a critical reflection).
The concept of archaeological cultures remains
problematic in European prehistory in terms of
definition and interpretation, yet extremely resilient
in the absence of comparable empirically orientated
alternatives (Roberts and Vander Linden 2011). Due
to competing national traditions of scholarship, the
culture history groupings and terminologies are
strikingly complex in the later prehistoric Balkans (Gori
and Ivanova 2017; Tsirtsoni 2016a). As such, the chapter
explores the historiography and complex debates that
surround the archaeological and temporal definitions
of the Vinča culture. The importance of the Vinča
culture lies not only in the evidence of early metallurgy
but also in the evidence for the expansion of material
culture production and circulation, the intensification
of agriculture and increase in sedentism and settlement
growth, which are all subsequently reviewed. The
chapter concludes by examining past and present
interpretations of the communities who lived and died
within what we now term the Vinča culture.

- by Miljana Radivojević and +1
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- Prehistoric Archaeology, Balkan Prehistory (Archaeology), Neolithic & Chalcolithic Archaeology, Chalcolithic Pottery

This paper presents a general overview of the current state of the art of archaeological research at the Valencina de la Concepción Copper Age site. The main aim is to put the contributions presented in this volume within a general perspective, with special reference to ongoing debates and promising avenues of research. First, a review is made of the research history of this site, assessing the general conditions of the currently available empirical evidence. Second, a series of topics are discussed, including the spatial organisation of the settlement, its chronology, subsistence economy, metallurgy, exchange and social complexity.

- by Leonardo García Sanjuán
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- Demography, Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Bioarchaeology

A general account of the salvage excavations at the Chalcolithic / Bronze Ade site of Bakla Tepe - Izmir, Turkey

- by Hayat Erkanal
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- Architecture, Anatolian Studies, Pottery (Archaeology), Anatolian Archaeology

In this study, the inter-period settlement typology of Delikkaya, located 3 km south of Melekli town in Iğdır province, was investigated. Melekli-Delikkaya is located on the northern extension of Mount Ararat. Although Chalcolithic Age, Early Bronze Age and Middle Iron Age data were obtained in the settlement, Early Iron Age findings have not been found yet. It was understood that the detected phases were not organized by stratification, but as a single phase at a distance of 30 to 77 m from each other. Although Melekli-Delikkaya has periodic similarities in Karagündüz,
Delikkaya and Van Castle mounds in the region, it differs from the others due to its horizontal stratification in terms of settlement model. The absence of Middle and Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age findings on the surface at Melekli-Delikkaya revealed that more data is needed in the
research area. In this context, during the field studies around the settlement, Late Bronze Age findings were found in Aşağı Erhacı, located 11 km southwest of Melekli-Delikkaya. Early Iron Age ceramics were found in Kasımtığı, 3.5 km south of Delikkaya. All these new data confirm that
there is an uninterrupted settlement in the region.

- by hüseyin metin and +1
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- Neolithic & Chalcolithic Archaeology, Chalcolithic Pottery, Chalcolithic Archaeology, Urartian Archaeology

Müller, J., Hofmann, R., Ohlrau, R., Shatilo, M., 2018. The social constitution and political organisation of Tripolye mega-sites: hierarchy and balance, in: Meller, H., Gronenborn, D., Risch, R. (Eds.), Überschuss ohne Staat - Politische... more

- by Johannes Müller and +2
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- Sociology, Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Environmental Archaeology

The paper is devoted to the interpretation of the Tripolye-Cucuteni culture pottery designs. In the last decades the abstract-geometric ornamental motifs were often treated on the basis of subjective associations as images of a «moon-faced Goddess», «World egg», «shells», etc. Various ethnographic analogies, usually rather distant from the material under study, were used to reconstruct the meaning of the designs.
Within the framework of the «structural-semiotic approach» the ornament is analyzed as a «sign system» or «proto-writing», where each element or motif is supposed to bear a particular meaning. However, the careful analysis of the dynamics inherent
in the development of ornamental motifs shows, that such interpretations lack solid grounds. Most signs prove to be elements of «technical design» (marking-out). The construction of ornaments mostly proceeds by way of dividing ornamental fields, not by creating sequemnces of signs like it is done in texts. What was meaningful was the ornament taken as such, as an integrated whole, and not its elements. Ethnographic evidence shows, that even the interpretation of identical ornamental figures may vary considerably within the same society. This is confirmed by the author’s observations on the variation of the Tripolye designs. They seem to have no unambiguous «reading». The main directions of future research lie in the realm of paleoethnological and paleoculturological studies, where ornamental designs are regarded as specific markers, reflecting reflecting changes in ethnic composition and social structure of past societies, and bearing information about contacts between representatives of different groups

- by Ilia Palaguta
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- Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Art History, Pottery (Archaeology)
- by Viktoria Petrova
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- Chalcolithic Pottery, Chalcolithic Archaeology, Balkan prehistory
- by Shlomo Guil
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- Ancient History, Archaeology, Archaeology of Ancient Israel, Levantine Archaeology

In this paper we present some preliminary observations concerning the ceramic horizon of the Late Chalcolithic period in the Shahrizor Plain, also referring to the previous Ubaid phase. We will discuss surface collections from 16 sites as well as finds from recently excavated contexts at Gird-i Shamlu and Begum. Using this new data, we shall highlight local trends and interregional connections, reflecting on chronological and general issues concerning the Late Chalcolithic period in Mesopotamia from the point of view of an inter-mountainous valley in the eastern Zagros piedmont.

- by Maria Bianca D'Anna
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- Pottery (Archaeology), Chalcolithic Pottery, Uruk Period, Late Chalcolithic
- by Viktoria Petrova
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- Chalcolithic Pottery, Chalcolithic Archaeology, Ceramics, Chalcolithic
- by Viktoria Petrova
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- Chalcolithic Pottery, Balkan prehistory, Graphite, Chalcolithic
- by Goce Naumov and +4
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- Prehistoric Archaeology, Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology), Neolithic & Chalcolithic Archaeology, Chalcolithic Pottery

In 1985, Ideal Narimanov at the All-Union Archaeological Conference held in Baku, made a report entitled "Ubeid tribes of Mesopotamia in Azerbaijan", where he presented materials obtained during excavations at the settlement of Leylatepe. On the basis of these materials, he singled out a new for the Caucasus Leylatyape archaeological culture (tradition according to Akhundov). Then this report was adopted somewhat cautiously, with an element of mistrust.
A new impetus to the study of the Leylatyape tradition was given by the discovery of the settlement of Boyuk Kesik and the following settlements of Poylu, Agyly Dere, Alkhantepe. Taking into account the results of new discoveries with the involvement of data, long-known, but differently interpreted monuments with similar materials, in 2007 the book "Leylatepe" was published. The last doubts about this tradition have disappeared [Narimanov, Akhundov, Aliyev 2007]. In this work, a gentle transition was made towards the Uruk tradition. Taking into account the continuity of Ubeid with Uruk, the expression Ubeid-Uruk tradition was used in this work [Narimanov, Akhundov, Aliyev 2007.p.61].

Unlike most of the areas of Western Europe, where the Bell Beaker
culture is at the centre of the patterns corresponding to the transition between the end of the Neolithic and the beginning of the Bronze Age, it is the Artenac culture which seems to hold this place in the north of the Aquitaine Basin and along its eastern margins. New field work on the site of La Perte du Cros (Saillac, Lot) calls for this scenario to be revised. The discovery of an important open-air settlement of the end of the Neolithic and
of a stratigraphic sequence in a cave covering this period and the Early Bronze Age brings new documentation. It shows a surprising insertion of this site in long-distance exchange networks of lithic materials and testifies to a complex cultural landscape. The ceramic productions are lacking the most outstanding features of the Artenac, Véraza or Treilles cultures, but are inspired by them, without however presenting characteristics of their own. The Bell Beaker culture also contributes to this cultural environment,
partly in its decorated form but especially by the common ware (Begleitkeramik). This patchwork of relations and influences is difficult to characterise through the traditional archaeological cultures. This complexity continues during the Early Bronze Age, when regional ceramic sets combine several stylistic components, whose geographical distribution overlaps only partially. These characteristics call for a reconsideration of the conceptual tools used to apprehend this transition phase.

- by Luc Vergnaud and +1
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- Neolithic & Chalcolithic Archaeology, Chalcolithic Pottery, Chalcolithic Archaeology, Bronze Age (Archaeology)

This monograph explores pottery making and communities during the Bakun period (c. 5000 – 4000 BCE) in the Kur River Basin, Fars province, southwestern Iran, through the analysis of ceramic materials collected at Tall-e Jari A, Tall-e Gap, and Tall-e Bakun A & B. Firstly, it reconsiders the stratigraphy and radiocarbon dates of the four sites by reviewing the descriptions of excavation trenches, then presents a new chronological relationship between the sites. The book sets out diachronic changes in the the Bakun pottery quantitatively, namely the increase of black-on-buff ware and the gradual shift of vessel forms. It also presents analyses of pottery-making techniques, painting skills, petrography, and geochemistry and clarifies minor changes in the chaînes opératoires and major changes in painting skill. Finally, the book discusses the organisation of pottery production from a relational perspective. It concludes that the more fixed community of pottery making imposed longer apprenticeship periods and that social inequality also increased. I thank Archaeopress for allowing me to upload this monograph to academia. (the publisher's link is https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781803270586)

- by Takehiro Miki
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- Actor Network Theory, Chalcolithic Pottery, Chalcolithic Archaeology, Archaeometry

Four chalcolithic residue pits where excavated in this site, revealing diverse finds, including pottery, loom-weights, arrowheads and lithic tools. All evidence points to a late stage of the Chalcolithic period, diverging from the early to full Bronze Age cronology verified on the nearby site of Casa Branca 2 – area B. The landscape sugests the agricultural nature of this community, confirmed by the presence of manual millstones exumed from the pits.

- by António Ginja
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- Chalcolithic Pottery, Chalcolithic Archaeology, Chalcolithic, Calcolítico

Decorative and applied art is born in the interaction of traditions and the constant search for new forms. The enormous potential of the knowledge gained over the past decades in the study of objects from archaeological excavations, ethnographic observations of the results often remain out of sight of contemporary artists. On the other hand, many scientific reconstructions remain speculative, and discoveries are unclaimed. Synthesis of theoretical and practical knowledge will allow to solve this problem. Conference aim is interaction of science and practice, the study of decorative and applied arts in archeology, ethnography, art history and the synthesis of traditions and innovations in contemporary art In the key topic of the theme "From Crafts to Art", it is planned to hold annual conferences within the framework of the cycle: — ceramics and glass; — textiles and other fabrics; — metalwork; — arts and crafts: traditions and innovations 2018 meeting topic is " CERAMICS: TECHNOLOGY, DECOR, STYLE " The following questions will be under discussion: — technology and technique of manufacturing and ornamentation of pottery; — interaction of technology, decor and form in ceramic products; — figurative and abstract shapes in pottery. A common theme for all conferences: — synthesis of technology and forms in various kinds of arts and crafts We invite practitioners, theoreticians, teachers, graduate students and undergraduates to participate in the conference. Proceedings of the conference will be issued in electronic and printed form.

- by Ilia Palaguta
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- Art History, Art Theory, Pottery (Archaeology), Ceramic Technology

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- by Luc Vergnaud and +1
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- Neolithic Archaeology, Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology), Neolithic & Chalcolithic Archaeology, Chalcolithic Pottery
- by Derya Yılmaz Tekin
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- Archaeology, Near Eastern Archaeology, Homer, Near Eastern Studies
- by Ilia Palaguta
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- Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Anthropology, Art History