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Serialising, standardising, specialising: Investigating a techno-social nexus underlying social complexity

Sérialiser, standardiser, spécialiser : enquête sur un nexus techno-social à la base de la complexité sociale

Pamela Fragnoli, Francesca Balossi Restelli et Johnny Samuele Baldi
Notes de la rédaction
Francesca Balossi Restelli, Maria Bianca D’Anna, Pamela Fragnoli et Federico Manuelli
The Mass Production of Food Serving Bowls from the 4th to the 1st Millennium BCE at Arslantepe (Türkiye) 
La fabrication en série de bols de service du ive au ier millénaire av. n.è. à Arslantepe (Turquie)
Clélia Paladre
Craftsmen and Sponsors
Organization of Glyptic Productions in proto-Elamite Iran
Des artisans et des commanditaires. L’organisation de la production glyptique en Iran proto-élami
Marta Luciani
Beyond Beauty: Jewelry, Brands and the Creation of Identity in Arabia
Au-delà de la beauté : bijoux, marques et création de l’identité en Arabie
Lorenzo Cardarelli, Pamela Fragnoli et Maria Bianca D’Anna
Quantifying Morphological Standardization through Binary Matrices with an Application to the Ceramic Assemblage of an Early Complex Society
Quantification de la standardisation morphologique à partir de matrices binaires : l’assemblage céramique d’une société complexe ancienne
Gonca Dardeniz et Elif Akalın
Coloring Urartu: A Local Variety of Egyptian Blue in Anatolia
Colorer l’Urartu : une variété locale de bleu égyptien en Anatolie
Claire Padovani
Beyond Ceramic Product
Large-Scale Pottery Production and the Construction of Labour Networks in Mesopotamia (4th–3rd Millennium BCE)
En amont du produit céramique. Production céramique à grande échelle et construction des réseaux de travail en Mésopotamie (4e-3e millénaire av. n.è.)
Johnny Samuele Baldi
So Many Bowls… but in Which Sense?
On the Redistribution of Rations, Large Amounts of Bowls and Specialisation: Reassessing the Notions of Serial and Mass Production in Proto-Urban Mesopotamia
Plein de bols… mais dans quel sens ? Redistribution des rations, grandes quantités de bols et spécialisation : réévaluation des notions de production en série et de masse dans la Mésopotamie proto-urbaine

Varia

Steven A. Rosen, Samuel Atkins et Uri Davidovich
Cultic Activities at Mitzpe Shalem, Judean Desert: The Lithic Perspective

Corinne Castel, Jacques É. Brochier, Alexandre Authier, Jean-Luc Bertrand-Krajewski, Ninon Blond, Bérénice Chamel, Elsa Ciesielski, Inès Keuter, Taichi Kuronuma, Marylise Marmara, Georges Mouamar, Anaïs Ros, Séverine Sanz, Sabine Sorin et Waleed Awadh Harib al-Ghafri
Al-Arid, an Early Bronze Age Site in the Southern Foothills of the Hajar Mountains (Sultanate of Oman) 
New Results from Two Further Seasons of Excavation in 2022 and 2023

Gaia Cecconi, Pablo Betzer, Daniel Varga, Avshalom Davidesko et Ianir Milevski
Spindle Whorls from the Chalcolithic Village of Yavne East

Amal Al Kassem, Andreas Maier, Juergen Richter, Dennis T. Batz, Kristen Hopper et Ismael M. Ibraheem
Preliminary Results of Stratified Late Epipalaeolithic Sites within Looting Pits at Al Teibeh, Southern Syria

Sarah Dermech, Sophie Desrosiers et Eric Coqueugniot
A Study of the Geometric Decoration of the House of Paintings at Dja‘de el-Mughara (Syria, Final PPNA, 9th millennium BC)

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To Be or not to Be: The Early PPNB of the southern Levant, part II
Être ou ne pas être : le Néolithique précéramique B du Levant du Sud, part. II

Karin Bartl
The Late PPNA/Early PPNB Site of Mushash 163 in the Northwestern Badia of Jordan

Dörte Rokitta-Krumnow
Lost in Transition. Projectile Morphogenesis of the 9th millennium cal. BC in Mushash 163

Juan José Ibáñez, Khaled Abdo, Amaia Arranz-Otaegui, Ferran Borrell, Alejandra C. Ordóñez, Carolyne Douché, Eneko Iriarte, Lionel Gourichon, Aaron Morquecho, Juan Muñiz, Jonathan Santana et Luis Teira
The Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B in The Southern Levant. Contributions from Tell Qarassa North (Sweida, Syria) and Kharaysin (Zarqa, Jordan)

Hamudi Khalaily et Alla Yaroshevich
The Dawning of the Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B in the Southern Levant. The Ritual Perspective from Motza

Ferran Borrell, Christoph Purschwitz, Dörte Rokitta-Krumnow et Michal Birkenfeld
New Advances, Old Problems. The Early PPNB of the Southern Levant in Light of the Discoveries of Last Decades

Varia

Claire Padovani
Revisiting Kilns Typologies to Reconstruct Firing Traditions Transformations. A Comparative Analysis of Halaf and Ubaid Kilns in Context

Eliot Braun
Placing South Levantine Late Neolithic/Early Chalcolithic. Cist Burials within Cemeteries in their Proper Chrono-Cultural Context

Bonnie Nilhamn
The Beaded Rim: An Assessment of Functionality of Neolithic Plaster Ware and Pottery

Recensions

Maxence Bailly
Le Brun A. (dir.) 2021 – Fouilles récentes à Khirokitia (Chypre) 1993-2009, Nicosie, Département des Antiquités, Chypre, 444 p.

Paléorient 49.2

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In Memoriam

Luc Bachelot, Catherine Breniquet, Yves Calvet, Victoria de Castéja, Dominique Charpin, Christine Kepinski, Joël Suire et Régis Vallet
Jean-Louis Huot (1939-2023)

To Be or not to Be: The Early PPNB of the southern Levant, part I
Être ou ne pas être : le Néolithique précéramique B du Levant du Sud, part I

Michal Birkenfeld, Ferran Borrell, Christoph Purschwitz et Dörte Rokitta-Krumnow
To Be or not to Be: An Introduction to the Origins, Nature and Chronology of the EPPNB in the Southern Levant

Jacob Vardi, Hannah Parow-Souchon, Yossi Nagar, Ian Cipin, Danny Rosenberg, Lidar Sapir-Hen, Shirad Galmor, Heeli Schehter, Valentina Caracuta, Yitzhak Paz et Maayan Shemer
The Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Site of Aḥihud (Western Galilee, Israel) Preliminary observations

Maayan Shemer, Lena Brailovsky-Rokser et Michal Birkenfeld
The Early PPNB of Amqa (Upper Galilee, Israel) from a Regional Perspective

Michal Birkenfeld et Talia Abulafia
Nahal Zahal, an Early PPNB Site in the Northern Negev: A Preliminary Report on the First Excavation Season

Denis Štefanisko, Christoph Purschwitz et Hans Georg K. Gebel
`Ainab 1 and the Eastward Expansion of Early PPNB Traditions: Unveiling Neolithic Connections between the Levant and Arabia through the Lenses of Chipped Stone Industry

Sumio Fujii
Settlement Pattern and Periodization of the Jordanian Badia Early PPNB: A Fresh Approach to the PPNA/PPNB Transition Issue in the Southern Levant

Phillip C. Edwards
Innovations at the Margins: The Transmission of Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (EPPNB) Culture across the Levantine Interior

Bill Finlayson, Cheryl A. Makarewicz et Sam J. Smith
Cultural Hybridity in Central and Southern Jordan at the End of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A

Avi Gopher
Time to Go Beyond Chrono-Stratigraphy: The (EPPNB) Aswadian Culture of the Southern Levant

Recensions

Henri-Paul Francfort
Christoph Baumer, Mirko Novák et Susanne Rutishauser (éd.) 2022 – Cultures in Contact. Central Asia as a Focus of Trade, Cultural Exchange and Knowledge Transmission

Paléorient 49.1

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The Palaeolithic of the Arabian Peninsula: State of Research

Anthony Marks
Introduction: A Personal Trip into Arabian Prehistory: Past, Present and Future

Omry Barzilai, Maya Oron, Eli Cohen-Sasson, Gideon Ragolski et Yoav Avni
Handaxes and Cleavers on Flakes of Silicified Limestone at Nahal Barak, Southern Negev and Possible Connections to the Arabian Peninsula Acheulian

Amir Beshkani, Tara Beuzen-Waller, Seolmin Kim, Mathilde Jean et Martin Sauvage
Tracing Palaeolithic Populations across the Horn of Arabia: Northern Oman

Knut Bretzke et Klaus Herkert
Jebel Faya and the Middle to Late Pleistocene Transition: Settlement Continuity and Behavioural Flexibility

Jeffrey I. Rose, Vitaly I. Usyk, Yamandú Hilbert, Roman Garba, Amir Beshkani, Dominik Chlachula, Mohammed M. Jaboob et Anthony E. Marks
Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in Southern Oman from the Lower Palaeolithic to the Neolithic

Stéphanie Bonilauri, Amir Beshkani, Marina Pagli et Éric Boëda
Production and Structural Tendency of Levallois Points in the Late Middle Palaeolithic of the Near East Steppe Zones and Arabia

Yamandú H. Hilbert, Matthias López Correa, Claudio Mazzoli, Rémy Crassard, Fabio Negrino, Mauro Cremaschi, Ignacio Clemente-Conte et Thorsten Uthmeier
From Hunter-Gatherers to Farmers: Contributions of Traceology to the Study of Prehistoric Lithic Technology in Arabia

Jeffrey I. Rose
Conclusion: Progress Report on the State of Palaeolithic Research in Arabia

 

Varia

Maria Rousou
Vegetation History and the Exploitation and Use of Plant Resources in Aceramic Neolithic Cyprus: an Assessment of Recent Archaeobotanical Research

Roger Alcàntara, Alejandro Sierra, Lionel Gourichon, Maria Saña, Judit Alejandre, Luis Teira, Jacob Vardi et Ferran Borrell
Hunting at the Fringe of the Desert: Animal Exploitation at Nahal Efe (northern Negev, Israel) during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B

Lise Bender Jørgensen, Antoinette Rast-Eicher et Willeke Wendrich
Earliest Evidence for Textile Technologies

Anagnostis P. Agelarakis, Lisa M. DiFrancesco, Lukas Delasos, Julian Samodulski, Athanasia Kanta et Panayotis G. Agelarakis
A Rare Case of Chondroblastoma from Neolithic Crete of the 7th Millennium BCE

Klimonas

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An Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic Village in Cyprus

Un village néolithique pré-céramique ancien à Chypre

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Klimonas is the oldest Mediterranean island village. Occupied ca. 8 800 cal BC, it postpones by several centuries the Neolithic presence in Cyprus, at that time located more than 80 km offshore.
The village extended over more than 5,500 m2, facing the sea, 2 km from the famous pre-pottery site of Shillourokambos and near rich flint outcrops. Excavations (2009-2016) revealed that it was composed of circular or oval earthen buildings 3-6 m in diameter, notched into the slope, modestly fitted out and organised around a semi-buried 10 m communal building.
The construction techniques, the abundance of either knapped or polished stone material, together with ornaments, symbolic objects, and plants and animal remains, as well as the 52 radiometric dates, point to the end of the Levantine
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA). The presence of a communal building, rebuilt numerous times over the course of several decades, also points to the same conclusion.
The villagers gathered seeds and fruits and cultivated wild starch and einkorn, recently imported from the continent.
They primarily hunted small endemic wild boar, the only large mammal species attested on the island at that time and, secondarily, birds. They did not eat fish or marine shellfish. Domestic dogs, mice and cats brought from the continent also lived in the village.
The remains of this cultivator-hunter community testify to the early extension of the Near Eastern Neolithic and to unsuspected seafaring skills, substantially improving our knowledge of the Neolithic transition in the Mediterranean.

Klimonas est le plus ancien village insulaire de Méditerranée. Occupé autour de 8 800 av. n.è., il recule de plusieurs siècles le début de la présence néolithique à Chypre, à cette époque déjà située à plus de 80 km du continent.
Le village s’étendait sur 5 500 m2 au moins, face à la mer, à 2 km du célèbre site pré-céramique de Shillourokambos et au contact de riches sources de silex. Les fouilles (2009-2016) ont montré qu’il était composé d’édifices de terre crue (bauge) de 3 à 6 m de diamètre, circulaires ou ovalaires, encochés dans la pente, modestement aménagés, organisés autour d’un bâtiment communautaire semi-enterré de 10 m de diamètre.
Les techniques de construction, l’abondant mobilier de pierre taillée, le macro-outillage, les parures et objets symboliques, les restes de plantes et les ossements animaux, tout comme les 52 datations radiométriques renvoient à la fin du Néolithique pré-céramique A levantin (PPNA). La présence d’un bâtiment communautaire, plusieurs fois reconstruit en quelques décennies, le confirme.
Les villageois pratiquaient la cueillette et cultivaient l’amidonnier et l’engrain sauvages, récemment importés du continent. Ils chassaient un petit sanglier endémique, seule espèce de grand mammifère attestée sur l’île à cette époque, et, secondairement, des oiseaux. Poissons et coquillages marins n’étaient pas consommés. Des chiens domestiques, des souris et des chats de souche continentale vivaient dans le village.
Les vestiges de cette communauté d’agriculteurs-chasseurs témoignent de l’extension précoce du premier Néolithique du Proche-Orient et d’une maîtrise insoupçonnée de la navigation. Il enrichit de manière substantielle nos connaissances sur la transition néolithique en Méditerranée.

Paléorient 48.2

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Varia

 

In Memoriam

Olivier Aurenche et Éric Coqueugniot
Stefan K. Kozlowski (1938-2022)

Articles

Yoshihiro Nishiaki
Early Neolithic Chronology and Lithic Industry of Tepe Abdul Hosein, Central Zagros, Iran

Amir Gorzalczany
Adding to the Complexity of Documented Burial Customs in the Ghassulian Chalcolithic Cemetery at Palmaḥim (north), Southern Levant

Nimrod Getzov, Dina Shalem, Gil Haklay, Ianir Milevski, Anna Eirikh-Rose et Greg Leyfirer
Three Types of Early Chalcolithic Prestige Stone Vessels from the southern Levant

Emmanuel Baudouin, Alexia Decaix, Emmanuela Brunacci, Farhad Guliyev et Giulio Palumbi
Domed or flat? The case study of Building 21 at Kiçik Tepe (Middle Kura Valley, Azerbaijan) and a reconsideration of the Neolithic roofing architecture in the South Caucasus

Abbas Al-Hussainy, Khaled Abu Jayyab, Hussam Hadi, Ahmad Fliah et Ahmad Ali
An Early Uruk Site in Al-Qadisiya Governate (Iraq): Exploratory Site Survey at Jemdat Zabi

Recensions

Bérénice Chamel et Éric Coqueugniot
Tsuneki Akira, Hironaga Naoko et Jammo Sari (eds.) 2022. The Neolithic Cemetery at Aïn el-Kerkh

Paléorient 48.1

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Delineating the End of a World: Reassessing the Ubaid/post-Ubaid Transition in Greater Mesopotamia

 

Thematic Issue

Johnny Samuele Baldi et Khaled Abu Jayyab
Introduction

Khaled Abu Jayyab et Elizabeth Gibbon
Stability and Change in Potting Communities across Mesopotamia from the Early Ubaid to Late Chalcolithic 1: New Insights from Multivariate Statistics and Social Network Analysis

Johnny Samuele Baldi
Between an End and a New Beginning: Tracking the post-Ubaid ceramic transition as an indicator of social change

M. T. Fisher
Intrasite Variability and Changing Social Practices during the Ubaid-Late Chalcolithic Transition at Tell Zeidan, Syria

Jason R. Kennedy
The End of the Ubaid Period in the Upper Tigris River Valley

Catherine Marro
The View from the North: The Emergence and Spread of the Chaff-Faced Ware oikumenè as seen from the Caucasus (ca. 4600-3500 BCE)

Steve Renette
Defining Dalma: an Incipient Mountain Identity?

Giulia Russo
Pottery-Making Practices between the Ubaid and the Late Chalcolithic 1 and 2: Some Observations on Ceramics from the Balikh Valley, Syria

Luca Volpi
Revisiting the South: a Typochronological Approach to the Analysis of the Ubaid Pottery based on the New Data from Tell Zurghul (Dhi Qar, Iraq)

 

Recensions

Ferran Borrell
Makoto Arimura. The Neolithic Lithic Industry at Tell Ain El-Kerkh

Melania Zingarello
Steve Renette. Lagash I: The Ceramic Corpus from Al-Hiba, 1968-1990. A Chrono-Typology of the Pottery Tradition in Southern Mesopotamia during the 3rd and Early 2nd Millennium BCE

Paléorient 47.2

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Varia

 

In Memoriam

Régis Vallet, Suzanne Dibo, Philippe Abrahami, Catherine Breniquet, Brigitte Lion, Cécile Michel et Catherine Marro
Michèle Casanova (1960-2020)

Articles

Massimo Vidale, Francois Desset et Irene Caldana
The Ceramic Context of a “Jiroft” Style Chlorite Vessel: From a Damaged Grave of Mahtoutabad (Konar Sandal South, Kerman, Iran)

Jennifer Swerida, Eli N. Dollarhide et Reilly Jensen
Settlement and Chronology in the early Bronze Age of Southeastern Arabia: The view from Umm an-Nar period Bat, Oman

Michael Freikman, David Ben-Shlomo et Yosef Garfinkel
Architectural Models from Tel Tsaf, Central Jordan Valley, Israel: A Glimpse of the Superstructure and Roof of Late Prehistoric Buildings

Michael Freikman, David Ben-Shlomo et Yosef Garfinkel
The “Violin-Shaped” Figurines of Tel Tsaf: New Light on Anthropomorphic Imagery in the Late Prehistoric Southern Levant

Max Price, Michael Fisher et Gil Stein
Animal Production and Secondary Products in the Fifth Millennium BC in northern Mesopotamia: New Data from Tell Surezha (Iraqi Kurdistan)

Recensions

Johnny Samuele Baldi
Alain Le Brun (with the contribution of Naomi F. Miller), – Suse. Sondage stratigraphique de l’Acropole I couches 21 à 18 (campagnes 1977-1979)

Johnny Samuele Baldi
Giulio Palumbi and Isabella Caneva (eds.) – The Chalcolithic at Mersin-Yumuktepe. Level XVI Reconsidered

Didier Binder
Laurence Astruc, François Briois, Carole McCartney et Vasiliki Kassianidou (éd.) – Near Eastern lithic technologies on the move. Interactions and contexts in Neolithic traditions. 8th international conference on PPN Chipped and Ground Stone industries of the Near East, Nicosia, November 23rd-27th 2016

Guillaume Gernez
Bo Madsen – The Early Bronze Age Tombs of Jebel Hafit. Danish Archaeological Investigations in Abu Dhabi 1961-1971

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
Blanche Barthélemy de Saizieu – Parures de l’Indus Nausharo, Balouchistan, IIIe millénaire av. J.-C. Entre faire et dire, être et paraître

Augusta McMahon
Corinne Castel, Jan-Waalke Meyer and Philippe Quenet (eds.)  – Circular Cities of Early Bronze Syria

Trevor Watkins
Yoshihiro Nishiaki and Farhad Guliyev (eds.)  – Göytepe: Neolithic Excavations in the Middle Kura Valley, Azerbaijan

Paléorient 47.1

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Les populations du Proche-Orient et des régions voisines : évolution du régime alimentaire et de l’état de santé de la néolithisation au Bronze ancien

The populations of the Near East and nearby regions: evolution of diet and health status from the Neolithization to the Early Bronze Age

Sommaire

In Memoriam

Geneviève Dollfus (1938-2020) par A.-M. Tillier, B. Vandermeersch et V. de Castéja Ofer Bar-Yosef (1937-2020) par B. Vandermeersch, L. Meignen, A.-M. Tillier et F. Valla

Paul Sanlaville (1933-2021) by B. Geyer, R. Dalongeville, S. Muhesen, M. Traboulsi et É. Coqueugniot

Dossier thématique/Thematic issuecoordonné par/coordinated by F. Le Mort and A.-M. Tillier

J. Guilaine
Préface

A.-M. Tillier
Aspects of health status in Pre-Sedentism Populations of Southwestern Asia. Evidence from Qafzeh Site, Lower Galilee

J.  Stutz,  F.  Bocquentin,  B.  Chamel  and  M.  Anton
The  Effects  of  Early  Childhood  Stress  on  Mortality under Neolithization in the Levant: New Perspectives on Health Disparities in the Transition to Agriculture

Hershkovitz, R. Sarig and H. May
Trends in Ancient Populations’ Osteobiography during the Holocene: the Levantine Perspective

B Chamel
Dental health status changes during the Neolithisation in Syria: a diachronic perspective (9,820-6,000 cal. BC)

J. O. Baker, B. Chamel and O. Dutour
New paleopathological evidence of the presence of tuberculosis in immature skeletal remains from Tell Aswad (8,730-8,290 BC cal., Southern Syria)

F. Le Mort and H. Duday
Probable Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis (DISH) in Pre-Pottery Neolithic Cyprus: Evidence from Khirokitia

Y. S. Erdal
Tooth as a Tool: Activity Induced Dental Abrasion in Prehistoric Anatolia

E.  Herrscher,  M.  Poulmarc’h,  G.  Palumbi,  S.  Paz,  E.  Rova,  G.  Gogochuri,  C.  Longford,  M.  Jalabadze, L. Bitadze, N. Vanishvili, F. Le Mort, C. Chataigner, R. Badalyan and G. André
Dietary practices, cultural and social identity in the Early Bronze Age Southern Caucasus: The case of the Kura-Araxes culture

F. Le Mort et A.-M. Tillier
Conclusion

 

RECENSIONS

 

Paléorient 46.1-2

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Sommaire

 

In Memoriam

Henri de Contenson (1926-2019) par É. Coqueugniot

Robert H. Dyson Jr. (1927-2020) by C. P. Thornton and M. M. Voigt

Olivier Nieuwenhuyse (1966-2020) by R. Bernbeck

 

ARTICLES

K. Bretzke, E. Yousif, S. Jasim, K. Raith, A. Parton and A. Parker
On the diversity of the Palaeolithic record and patterns of Pleistocene palaeoenvironmental conditions in Southeast Arabia

G. Haklay and A. Gopher
Geometry, a measurement unit and rectangular architecture at early Neolithic Jerf el-Ahmar, Syria

M. Birkenfeld, U. Avner, D. E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, L. Scott Cummings, F. Natalio, F. H. Neumann, N. Porat, L. Scott, T. Simmons, M. B. Toffolo and L. K. Horwitz
Hunting in the skies: Dating, paleoenvironment and archaeology at the late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B site of Naḥal Roded 110, Eilat Mountains, Israel

C. A. Makarewicz and H. M. Mahasneh
Animal exploitation at a large late Pre-Pottery Neolithic settlement: The zooarchaeological record from es-Sifiya, Jordan

L. Peyronel and A. Vacca
Socio-economic complexity at the Late Chalcolithic site of Tell Helawa, Kurdistan Region of Iraq

S. Renette and S. Mohammadi Ghasrian
The central and northern Zagros during the Late Chalcolithic: An updated ceramic chronology based on recent fieldwork results in western Iran

K. Abu Jayyab, A. Glasser, M. Albesso, E. Gibbon, I. Schwartz, A. Taraqji and S. Razzaz
Late Chalcolithic occupation at Tell er-Ramadi (Syria): Results of the 2004-2006 salvage excavations

G. E. Ludvik, J. M. Kenoyer and M. Pieniążek
New evidence for interregional interaction in the 3rd millennium BCE Aegean: Indus-style carnelian beads at Aegina-Kolonna, Greece

O. Barge, W. Abu-Azizeh, J. É. Brochier, R. Crassard, E. Régagnon et C. Noûs
Desert kites et constructions apparentées : découvertes récentes et mise à jour de l’extension géographique

 

RECENSIONS

 

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