Pre-Pottery Neolithic Clay Figurines from Nevali Çori, Turkey by Maria Thaís Crepaldi Affonso, Ernest Pernicka

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New Pre-Pottery Neolithic sites and cult centres in the Urfa Region by Gül Güler, Bahattin Çelik, Mustafa Güler

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The production of stone beads at the pre-pottery neolithic site of el-Hemmeh, Jordan by Raad, Danielle (Danielle Ranwa)

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Cultural hybridity in central and southern Jordan at the end of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A by Finlayson, B, Makarewicz, CA, Smith, SJ

Farming legumes in the pre-pottery Neolithic: New discoveries from the site of Ahihud (Israel). by Valentina Caracuta, Jacob Vardi, Ytzhak Paz, Elisabetta Boaretto

“…The legumes were collected from pits and other domestic contexts dated to the Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B. The legumes identified include Vicia faba L. …”
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Isotopic and proteomic evidence for communal stability at Pre-Pottery Neolithic Jericho in the Southern Levant by Xiaoran Wang, Baoshuai Zhang, Yufeng Sun, Tara Ingman, Stefanie Eisenmann, Mary Lucas, Erin Scott, Jana Ilgner, Gao Wu, Petrus le Roux, Xiaotong Wu, Xingxiang Zhang, Anchuan Fan, Patrick Roberts, Philipp W. Stockhammer

“…This study applies strontium (87Sr/86Sr), oxygen (δ18O) and carbon (δ13C) isotope analyses to the enamel of 52 human teeth from Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) layers of Jericho to directly study human diet and mobility and investigate the degree of consolidation and the flexibility of social organization of Jericho society in the PPN period. …”
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A new Pre-Pottery Neolithic site in Southeastern Turkey: Ayanlar Höyük (Gre Hut) by Bahattin Celik

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Human Hunting and Nascent Animal Management at Middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic Yiftah'el, Israel. by Lidar Sapir-Hen, Tamar Dayan, Hamoudi Khalaily, Natalie D Munro

“…The current view for the southern Levant is that wild game hunting was replaced by herd management over the course of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period, but there is significant debate over the timing, scale and origin of this transition. …”
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Landscape Alteration by Pre-Pottery Neolithic Communities in the Southern Levant - The Kaizer Hilltop Quarry, Israel. by Leore Grosman, Naama Goren-Inbar

“…It is evident that the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A inhabitants of the area changed their landscape forever, "stripping" the caliche surface and penetrating it in search of flint bedded in the bedrock.…”
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The absolute chronology of East Chia Sabz: a Pre-Pottery Neolithic site in Western Iran by Hojjat Darabi, Reza Naseri, Ruth Young, Hassan Fazeli Nashli

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Kaizer Hill (Modi'in), a pre-pottery neolithic a quarry site - the terraced slopes. by Naama Goren-Inbar, Anna Belfer-Cohen, Leore Grosman, Gadi Herzlinger, Aviad Agam

“…The research of the Kaizer Hill site (the Hilltop and its Terraces), recognized as a Pre Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) quarry site, involved studies of the rock damage associated with the quarrying activities as well as of the recovered material remains, mostly chipped stone artifacts. …”
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Beyond the Levant: first evidence of a pre-pottery Neolithic incursion into the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia. by Rémy Crassard, Michael D Petraglia, Adrian G Parker, Ash Parton, Richard G Roberts, Zenobia Jacobs, Abdullah Alsharekh, Abdulaziz Al-Omari, Paul Breeze, Nick A Drake, Huw S Groucutt, Richard Jennings, Emmanuelle Régagnon, Ceri Shipton

“…Pre-Pottery Neolithic assemblages are best known from the fertile areas of the Mediterranean Levant. …”
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Nascent craft specialization in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A? Bead making at Shubayqa 6 (northeast Jordan) by Mette Bangsborg Thuesen, Hala Alarashi, Anthony Ruter, Tobias Richter

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Squaring the circle. Social and environmental implications of pre-pottery neolithic building technology at Tell Qarassa (South Syria). by Andrea L Balbo, Eneko Iriarte, Amaia Arranz, Lydia Zapata, Carla Lancelotti, Marco Madella, Luis Teira, Miguel Jiménez, Frank Braemer, Juan José Ibáñez

“…The roof is part of a building excavated at Tell Qarassa (South Syria), assigned to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period (PPNB). The Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) period in the Levant coincides with the emergence of farming. …”
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The plastered skulls from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B site of Yiftahel (Israel)--a computed tomography-based analysis. by Viviane Slon, Rachel Sarig, Israel Hershkovitz, Hamoudi Khalaily, Ianir Milevski

“…Three plastered skulls, dating to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, were found at the site of Yiftahel, in the Lower Galilee (Israel). …”
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Emergence of corpse cremation during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Southern Levant: A multidisciplinary study of a pyre-pit burial. by Fanny Bocquentin, Marie Anton, Francesco Berna, Arlene Rosen, Hamoudi Khalaily, Harris Greenberg, Thomas C Hart, Omri Lernau, Liora Kolska Horwitz

“…Renewed excavations at the Neolithic site of Beisamoun (Upper Jordan Valley, Israel) has resulted in the discovery of the earliest occurrence of an intentional cremation in the Near East directly dated to 7031-6700 cal BC (Pre-Pottery Neolithic C, also known as Final PPNB, which spans ca. 7100-6400 cal BC). …”
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Religious Structures In Ain Ghazal(East Field) East of Jordan River during Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (LPPNB) by Alshimaa Nasser

Subjects: “…ain ghazal; temple; late pre-pottery neolithic b; east field; orthostat…”
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Long-distance trade In the middle east, From pre-pottery neolithic through Uruk period (ca. 9000-3000 bc). by Perpustakaan UGM, i-lib

“…Kata kunci: Long-Distance Trade - Middle East - Pre-Pottery Neolithic - Uruk Period.…”

Ancient mitogenomes from Pre-Pottery Neolithic Central Anatolia and the effects of a Late Neolithic bottleneck in sheep (Ovis aries) by Sandoval-Castellanos, E, Hare, AJ, Lin, AT, Dimopoulos, EA, Daly, KG, Geiger, S, Mullin, VE, Wiechmann, I, Mattiangeli, V, Lühken, G, Zinovieva, NA, Zidarov, P, Çakırlar, C, Stoddart, S, Orton, D, Bulatović, J, Mashkour, M, Sauer, EW, Kolska Horwitz, L, Horejs, B, Atici, L, Özkaya, V, Mullville, J, Parker Pearson, M, Mainland, I, Card, N, Brown, L, Sharples, N, Griffiths, D, Allen, D, Arbuckle, B, Abell, JT, Duru, G, Mentzer, SM, Munro, ND, Uzdurum, M, Gülçur, S, Buitenhuis, H, Gladyr, E, Stiner, MC, Pöllath, N, Özbaşaran, M, Krebs, S, Burger, J, Frantz, L, Medugorac, I, Bradley, DG, Peters, J

“…Occupied between ~10,300 and 9300 years ago, the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of Aşıklı Höyük in Central Anatolia went through early phases of sheep domestication. …”

Burying power: New insights into incipient leadership in the Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic from an outstanding burial at Ba'ja, southern Jordan. by Marion Benz, Julia Gresky, Denis Štefanisko, Hala Alarashi, Corina Knipper, Christoph Purschwitz, Joachim Bauer, Hans Georg K Gebel

“…In 2016, an extraordinary burial of a young adult individual was discovered at the Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (LPPNB, 7,500-6,900 BCE) settlement of Ba'ja in southern Jordan. …”
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