Late Bronze Age Food Storage in Lower Cerovačka Cave, Croatia by Kelly Reed, Petra Radaković, Sara Essert, Dinko Tresić Pavičić

“…In general, the large botanical collection from Lower Cerovačka Cave fits with what is already known about Bronze Age agriculture in Croatia, yet the unique nature of this site brings to the fore questions around storage practices and the use of caves in prehistory. …”
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Settlement history of Iraqi Kurdistan: an assessment halfway into the project by Rafał Koliński

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L’organisation des savoirs enseignés et les difficultés d’apprentissage des élèves : l’effet du rapport au savoir de l’enseignant by Valérie Vincent

“…We address the problem by means of three exploratory and interdependent questions: 1) In what singular way does the teacher organize knowledge relating to prehistory within his or her teaching practice? 2) Within this singular organization, what is the form taken by the cognitive activity of students for whom the identitary, cognitive and epistemological relationship to knowledge may be problematic? …”
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Preceramic, Aceramic or Early Ceramic? The radiocarbon dated beginning of the Neolithic in the Aegean by Agathe Reingruber

“…This concept, which reflects a specific and quite unique stage in the development of human history, was introduced to Aegean prehistory under the term of Preceramic during the 1950’s (e.g., in Argissa Magoula and Sesklo). …”
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HISTORICAL - CULTURAL VALUE OF STONE - CRAFTING WORKSHOPS FROM THE LATE NEOLITHIC PERIOD IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS by Lê Xuân Hưng

“…Studying the remnants of late neolithic stone-crafting workshops in the Central Highlands plays a particularly important role in understanding this region's culture and prehistory. This article is the result of fieldwork carried out at 45 stone processing sites. …”
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BIBLICKÁ BABYLONSKÁ VEŽA A ANTICKÍ ĽUDIA. HĽADANIE VLASTNÝCH PREDKOV V STREDOVEKU by RYSZARD GRZESIK

“…The author describes how national “Prehistory” was presented in Hungarian chronicles and compares them with the general tendencies in medieval historiography to show the way in which native origins were created. …”
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The first petrographic characterisation of a prehistoric rock crystal mine in the Swiss Alps by Thomas Hess, Josef Mullis, Leander Franz

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A tale of two processes of Neolithisation: southeast Europe and Britain/Ireland by Schulting, R, Borić, D

“…The volume is presented to celebrate the enormous impact that Alasdair Whittle has had on the study of prehistory, especially the European and British Neolithic, and his rich career in archaeology.…”

Shell middens, ships and seeds: exploring coastal subsistence, maritime trade and the dispersal of domesticates in and around the ancient Arabian Peninsula by Boivin, N, Fuller, D

“…While regional specialisation has to some degree prevented consideration of the maritime prehistory of the peninsula as a whole, it is clear that there are interesting parallels, as well as important differences, between cultural trajectories in different parts of the peninsula.…”

Rumor communities, social media, and forthcoming innovations: the shaping of technological frames in product market evolution by Seidel, VP, Hannigan, TR, Phillips, N

“…Online product rumor communities influence product market evolution not only when products are released but also in the “prehistory” of product markets.…”

Multi-isotope evidence for the emergence of cultural alterity in Late Neolithic Europe by Fernández-Crespo, T, Snoeck, C, Ordoño, J, De Winter, N, Czermak, A, Mattielli, N, Lee-Thorp, J, Schulting, R

“…The co-existence of cultural identities and their interaction is a fundamental topic of social sciences that is not easily addressed in prehistory. Differences in mortuary treatment often reflect differences in lifestyle and beliefs, and can help approach this issue. …”

Hunter-gatherer movement patterns: causes and constraints by Grove, M

“…The relevance of these conclusions to more generic ecological theory is discussed in the context of evolutionary forces acting on hunter-gatherer mobility in prehistory.…”

Authorship and originality in seventeenth-century Iberia: Faria e Sousa’s Rimas Várias de Luís de Camoens by Park, S

“…Faria e Sousa's edition points to a prehistory of claims to author's rights and authorial originality before the introduction of copyright legislation and highlights the role that editors played in the construction of modern authorship, suggesting they might be as possessive of texts, if not more so, than writers themselves.…”

'Nothing new under the sun': rethinking recycling in the past - editorial by Sainsbury, VA, Liu, R

“…However, both the perception and practice of recycling can be traced back to prehistory through various archaeological records. Objects made of stone, jade, mortar, textiles, pottery and bones display evidence of physical reshaping and repair, as do objects of metal and glass. …”

Logodaedalus: word histories of ingenuity in Early Modern Europe by Garrod, R, Marr, A, Marcaida, JR, Oosterhoff, RJ

“…Through ingenuity and its family of related terms, early moderns sought to understand and appreciate differences between peoples, places, and things in an attempt to classify their ingenuities and assign professions that were best suited to one’s abilities. Logodaedalus, a prehistory of genius, explores the various ways this language of ingenuity was defined, used, and manipulated between 1470 and 1750. …”

The Traces of Buddisht Culture on the Walls of Acanta Caves: Viharas by Yalçın KAYALI

“…Historically, those belonging to prehistory periods are called as the first group whereas those carved in the 4th century AD are called as the second group. …”
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Baltic Archaeology, Cultural History, Ancient Lithuanian Symbolism, Old Europe, and the Archaeomythology of Marija Gimbutas by Joan Marler

“…Marija Gimbutas was thoroughly trained in Eastern European archaeology, Baltic prehistory, Indo-European linguistics, ethnology, history, folklore, mythology, and European languages taught by the most accomplished Lithuanian scholars in their fields. …”
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Complex Time for Chaoplex Systems: From Newton to Wiener by Boldur E. Barbat

“…After introducing the context and prehistory, the paper shows the threefold rationale for proposing an extension of conventional time, able to be used in modelling living systems: failure of atemporal modelling in ecology; unsuitability of Newtonian time for transdisciplinary research; requirements of service-oriented software engineering (SOSE). …”
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Mapping a Contested Space: Northeast India Through the Ages by Debajyoti Biswas

“…In this context, by referring to Rituparna Bhattacharyya’s edited volume Northeast India through the Ages: A Transdisciplinary Perspective on Prehistory, History, and Oral History and other research works, this commentary maps the transformation of the territory into a necrospace. …”
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Framing Feminicides—A Quantitative Content Analysis of News Stories in Four Colombian Newspapers by Franziska Pröll, Melanie Magin

“…By means of hierarchical cluster analysis, we identified four frames: “gender-based inequalities and discrimination against women”, “perpetrators in front of the court”, “prehistory and course of events of the feminicide”, and “reactions of neighbors, eyewitnesses, and villagers to the feminicide”. …”
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