scholarly journals Early Neolithic pottery dispersals and demic diffusion in southeastern Europe

2009 ◽  
Vol 36 (0) ◽  
pp. 117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihael Budja
Keyword(s):  
Southeastern Europe ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Demic Diffusion ◽  
Neolithic Pottery

scholarly journals Seals, contracts and tokens in the Balkans Early Neolithic: where in the puzzle

2003 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 115-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihael Budja
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Southeastern Europe ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Population Replacement ◽  
Exchange Networks ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Selective Integration ◽  
Demic Diffusion

Paper discusses Early Neolithic seals, contracts and tokens in the context of Neolithization processes in southeastern Europe. Paper analyses the assemblages, contexts and the patterns of regional and interregional distributions. The results contradict traditional models as the objects appearance and distributions can no longer support the models of colonization, demic diffusion and population replacement in the context of the transition to farming in the Balkans. The paper argues they were well embeddedin the Early Neolithic Balkans koine, where the transformation of hunter- gathering into farming societies took place in an arena of selective integration of the new technologies and social practices as much as the result of intensive connections and exchange networks.

Excavations at South Cadbury Castle, 1969: A Summary Report

1970 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Alcock
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Summary Report ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Neolithic Pottery

SummaryContinued excavations at South Cadbury in July-August 1969 failed to confirm the Early Neolithic enclosed settlement hinted at in 1968, but added Late Neolithic pottery to the known cultural sequence. For the Iron Age, particular interest attaches to evidence for stake-built round houses; to a rich collection of iron and bronze arms and armour perhaps from a workshop; and to a rectangular shrine with animal sacrifices. The moment of the Roman Conquest is represented by a field oven with military bronzes. In the fifth-sixth centuries A.D. the plan of a timber hall was traced, and it was shown that timber and reused Roman masonry had played a large part in the rampart and gateway.

scholarly journals Early Neolithic pottery of Western Belarus: current state of research and its perspectives

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 110-116
Author(s):  
Aleh Yurjevich Tkachou
Keyword(s):  
Local Development ◽  
Left Bank ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
The North ◽  
Current State ◽  
Local Variant ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
Neolithic Pottery

The paper discusses the Early Neolithic pottery from the Western Belarus, pottery of Dubičiai type. The set of its most distinctive features includes organic temper in clay mass, a belt of deep round pits under a rim edge, strokes by round stick (hoofs), slantwise thin grooved lines or slantwise net ornament of such lines. Hypotheses on the origin of Dubičiai type pottery are under discussion as well. According to many scholars, the area of occurrence of Dubičiai type pottery includes Belarusian part of the River Neman region (except the River Viliya basin), the left-bank of the upper Prypiat River basin, the southern Lithuania, the part of the north-eastern Poland, and the northern part of Volhynia. At the same time D.Ya. Telegin, E.N. Titova, G.V. Okhrimenko distinguish the Volhynian culture in the region of the same name. It has many traits analogous to the Prypiat-Neman culture. The scale of differences between the Early Neolithic pottery from Western Polesia and Volhynia and Dubičiai type pottery from the River Neman region allows considering the Volhynian culture as not a separate culture but as a local variant of the Neman culture. Sokołwek type pottery has been discovered at the sites in Podlasie and in Belarusian part of the River Bug region. It is analogous to Dubičiai type pottery by morphology and ornamentation but has less of organic temper in clay mass. Most probably, it is a result of local development of the Early Neolithic traditions in the western part of Prypiat-Neman culture area.

scholarly journals A prehistoric cremation burial at Duns Law Farm, near Duns, Scottish Borders

2018 ◽  
Vol 147 ◽  
pp. 29-47
Author(s):  
Sue Anderson ◽  
Melanie Johnson ◽  
Ann Clarke ◽  
Mike Cressey ◽  
Mhairi Hastie
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Human Bone ◽  
Bone Sample ◽  
Pottery Production ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Valuable Contribution ◽  
Burial Practices ◽  
Water Main ◽  
Neolithic Pottery

A large prehistoric pit was uncovered during a watching brief on a water main installation. The pit was partially stone-lined and two small scoops were identified at the base. These contained one complete and one partial Beaker vessel. The fills of the pit produced a small quantity of cremated human bone which represented a minimum of four individuals (three adults and a juvenile). Also mixed into the fills were sherds of other Beaker vessels, a few lithics, a stone axehead, and fragments of Neolithic pottery. Radiocarbon determinations produced early Neolithic dates for four samples of human bone and a grain of wheat, and one human bone sample produced a Bronze Age date later than the generally accepted currency of Beaker pottery production in Scotland. Interpretation of this strange collection of material is discussed with reference to Neolithic and Bronze Age burial practices; the evidence for the use of this pit in the Neolithic for cremation burial is a rare find and provides a valuable contribution to our understanding of this period and type of monument.

The Early Neolithic Pottery and Fired Clay

2006 ◽  
pp. 263-282
Author(s):  
Alistair Barclay ◽  
Humphrey Case ◽  
Mark Copley ◽  
Chris Doherty ◽  
Richard Evershed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Neolithic Pottery
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