Modern sophisticated archeometric instruments are increasingly capable of detecting the
presence of psychoactive plant sources in archeological contexts, testifying the antiquity of …

The origin of agriculture is one of the defining events of human history. Some 11-10,000
years ago bands of hunter-gatherers started to abandon their high-mobility lifestyles in …

Textile Production in Pre-Roman Italy Page 1 Page 2 TEXTILE PRODUCTION IN PRE-ROMAN
ITALY ANCIENT TEXTILES SERIES VOL. 4 Page 3 Page 4 TEXTILE PRODUCTION IN PRE-ROMAN …

The lakeshore site of La Marmotta is one of the most important Early Neolithic sites of
Mediterranean Europe. The site is famous for the exceptional preservation of organic …

The stages of the early Neolithic and the spread of agriculture in northern Italy are difficult to
determine and basically still unclear, since this region was influenced by deeply different …

Numerous researchers point out the emergence of human symbolism is related to the
evolution of the complexity of human cognition. Red mineral pigments have been used …

The archaeobotanical (seeds and fruits) dataset of the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula for
the Neolithic period is presented and discussed in this paper in order to approach how early …

This paper explores the first maritime westward expansion of crops across the Adriatic and
the northern coast of the western Mediterranean. Starting in Greece at c. 6500 cal BC and …

The Neolithic period in the North-East of the Iberian Peninsula has received the attention of
many archaeologists during the XXth and XXIst centuries, from the earliest humanists like …

Agriculture was introduced in the Iberian Peninsula in the mid-6th millennium cal BC. The
first Iberian farmer communities grew seven different cereal species (hulled and free …