By sequencing 727 ancient individuals from the Southern Arc (Anatolia and its neighbors in
Southeastern Europe and West Asia) over 10,000 years, we contextualize its Chalcolithic …

Here, we report genome-wide data analyses from 110 ancient Near Eastern individuals
spanning the Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age, a period characterized by intense …

The Kura-Araxes horizon is arguably the most long-lived and geographically expansive
archaeological complex of the prehistoric Near East, stretching from the Southern Caucasus …

River management is generally thought to have started at 5500 cal. BC within the
development of eastern Neolithic societies. In the Lesser Caucasus, evidence of early river …

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 …

Portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) has been demonstrated as a powerful tool to assign
obsidian artifacts to sources. Newer instruments can even match artifacts from some regions …

Within the framework of the F rench archaeological mission 'C aucasus', in a previous paper
we have presented new geochemical analyses on geological obsidians from the southern C …

Faecal spherulites are a common indicator of dung in archaeological deposits and most of
the basic processes of their formation and taphonomy have been explained. However, a …

This article presents our current state of knowledge on the Neolithic of the Caucasus based
on reviews of previous and continuing research. In this region, this period has generally …

An increasing number of field investigations in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia have
revealed that the Neolithic socio-economy in the Southern Caucasus had emerged by the …