Violence trends in the ancient Middle East between 12,000 and 400 bce

J Baten, G Benati, A Sołtysiak - Nature human behaviour, 2023 - nature.com
How did interpersonal violence develop in early human societies? Given that homicide
records are only available for the more recent period, much of human history remains …

Metal consumption of a middle-range society in the late 3rd millennium BC Anatolia: A new socioeconomic approach

G Dardeniz, T Yıldırım - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
This article discusses the socioeconomic dynamics of metal consumption patterns in the 3rd
millennium BC north-central Anatolian site of Resuloğlu (Çorum, Turkey). The socio-political …

From stone to metal: The dynamics of technological change in the decline of chipped stone tool production. A case study from the southern Levant (5th–1st Millennia …

F Manclossi, SA Rosen, E Boëda - Journal of Archaeological Method and …, 2019 - Springer
The shift from stone to metal has been considered one of the main technological
transformations in the history of humankind. In order to observe the dynamics underlying the …

Patterns of metal procurement, manufacture and exchange in Early Bronze Age northwestern Anatolia: Demircihüyük and beyond

M Massa, O McIlfatrick, E Fidan - Anatolian Studies, 2017 - cambridge.org
This paper adds a new interpretive layer to the already extremely well-investigated site of
Demircihüyük, a small Early Bronze Age settlement at the northwestern fringes of the central …

[PDF][PDF] Metal artefacts in Chalcolithic Cyprus: new data from western Cyprus

V Klinkenberg, C Paraskeva… - Mediterranean …, 2018 - maajournal.com
METAL ARTEFACTS IN CHALCOLITHIC CYPRUS: NEW DATA FROM WESTERN CYPRUS
Page 1 Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry, Vol. 18, No 1, (2018), pp. 11-25 …

Antemortem cranial trauma in ancient Mesopotamia

A Sołtysiak - International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
As a result of a review of the available literature and some unpublished sources, data on
ante mortem cranial trauma have been gathered for 25 archaeological sites from …

A Bronze to Iron Age fishing economy at Kalbāʾ 4 (Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates)

K Lidour, MJ Beech, D Eddisford… - Arabian Archaeology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This paper represents a study of archaeological fish remains retrieved from the excavations
conducted by CS Phillips between 1993 and 2001 at Kalbāʾ 4 (Emirate of Sharjah, UAE) …

Archaeometallurgical investigations in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan: what does the evidence from Late Chalcolithic Ovçular Tepesi tell us about the beginning of extractive …

N Gailhard, M Bode, V Bakhshaliyev… - Journal of Field …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Late Chalcolithic (4400–3950 bc) occupation levels from Ovçular Tepesi
have yielded a significant assemblage of copper objects and remains of copper production …

Transformative copper metallurgy in Chalcolithic Cyprus: a reappraisal

BS Düring, S De Ceuster, P Degryse, V Kassianidou - Antiquity, 2021 - cambridge.org
The extraction and smelting of the rich copper ore deposits of Cyprus and the manufacture of
copper objects on the island are thought to have begun during the Philia phase (c. 2400 …

Middle Bronze Age metal artefacts and metallurgical practices at the sites of Tell Arqa, Mougharet el-Hourryieh, Yanouh and Khariji in Lebanon

Z El Morr, M Mödlinger - Levant, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The aim of this paper is to provide new data on metallurgical activity in Lebanon during the
Early Bronze Age IV and the Middle Bronze Age by examining metal artefacts discovered at …