Palegawra cave, alongside its neighbouring Zarzi, has been an emblematic site of the
Epipalaeolithic (Zarzian) cultural horizon in the NW Zagros of Southwest Asia ever since its …

The cultural use of pigments in human societies is associated with ritual activities and the
creation of social memory. Neolithic Çatalhöyük (Turkey, 7100–5950 cal BC) provides a …

Decorating the living space, objects, body and clothes with colour is a widespread human
practice. While the habitual use of red mineral pigments (such as iron-oxide, eg, ochre) by …

The Azraq oasis in the Eastern Desert of Jordan has produced considerable stone artefacts
attributed to the early Palaeolithic, yet relatively few data are available regarding the …

During the Late Epipalaeolithic and Early Neolithic, societies across the Levant transformed
their social, cultural and economic organisation, with new forms of food production …

Shamanism is a pervasive form of ritual practice documented within hunter-gathering and
farming societies throughout the world, and continuing within some present-day urban …

Objectives To study pre‐and early postnatal tooth formation and to analyze the effects of
physiological disturbances on enamel and dentin formation in deciduous teeth of infants …

The transition from hunter-gatherer to farming lifestyles involved changes in all aspects of
human lifeways: how food was acquired, technology, patterns of mobility, settlement size …

The Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük offers an exceptional dataset for studying pigment
usage over one-thousand years of the existence of the settlement. The inhabitants produced …

The use of animal bones to form figurative representations is well documented
ethnographically and archaeologically. In this paper, we describe an intriguing group of …