Neolithic Dispersals from the Levantine Corridor: a Mediterranean Perspective

Peltenburg, Edgar; Colledge, Sue; Croft, Paul; Jackson, Adam; McCartney, Carole; Murray, Mary Anne

doi:10.1179/007589101790217300

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“…2001). During the Cypro-Iate PPNB changes to the lithic assemblage appeared, which may be more related to the realities of island culture, rather than to the isolation of the popUlation (Peltenburg et al 2001).…”

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confidence: 96%

“…The greatest similarity between Cyprus and the mainland seems to be with the earliest settlements of Kissonerga-Mylouthkia (hereafter Mylouthkia), Parakklisha-Shillourokambos (hereafter Shillourokambos) (loth millennium B.C.) and the later Khirokitia culture (6 th millennium B.C) (Mellaart 1965;Stanley Price 1977b;Peltenburg 1978;Peltenburg et al 2000a;Peltenburg et al 2001). There are many direct connections between lOth millennium Cyprus and the mainland while by the 6 th millennium Cyprus had adapted the original culture to suit the constraints of an island existence (Peltenburg et al 2000a;Peltenburg et al 2001).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…and the later Khirokitia culture (6 th millennium B.C) (Mellaart 1965;Stanley Price 1977b;Peltenburg 1978;Peltenburg et al 2000a;Peltenburg et al 2001). There are many direct connections between lOth millennium Cyprus and the mainland while by the 6 th millennium Cyprus had adapted the original culture to suit the constraints of an island existence (Peltenburg et al 2000a;Peltenburg et al 2001). By the 6 th millennium, Anatolia and the Levant had moved on to other customs while on Cyprus they were practicing 7th millennium mainland customs (Stanley Price 1977a;1977b;Peltenburg et al 2001).…”

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“…There are many direct connections between lOth millennium Cyprus and the mainland while by the 6 th millennium Cyprus had adapted the original culture to suit the constraints of an island existence (Peltenburg et al 2000a;Peltenburg et al 2001). By the 6 th millennium, Anatolia and the Levant had moved on to other customs while on Cyprus they were practicing 7th millennium mainland customs (Stanley Price 1977a;1977b;Peltenburg et al 2001). According to Simmons (1994:1): " ... there are few sociocultural antecedents with the mainland to explain Neolithic Cyprus."…”

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“…Certain features of the stone tool tradition first identified from Tell Mureybet on the middle Euphrates, have long been regarded as highly diagnostic of the PPNB culture in the Levant (Peltenburg et al 2001). According to Peltenburg: "By about 9200 BP, this lithic package (Big Arrowhead Industries) had appeared in southeast Anatolia, the south Levant, and now Cyprus."…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Biological Affinities of the Eastern Mediterranean in the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age: A Regional Dental Non-metric Approach

Parras¹

2004

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This study investigated biological population affinities amongst Eastern Mediterranean Chalcolithic and Bronze Age human skeletal samples. Seven hundred and eighty-six human remains from eight different sites in Cyprus, Greece and Syria were studied. The sites range in age from the Cypriot Chalco lithic (Souskiou-Vathyrkakas, Lemba-Lakkous and Kissonerga-Mosphilia) to Cypriot Late Bronze Age (Enkomi and Ayios Iakovos), Syrian Early Bronze (Jerablus-Tahtani) and Greek Middle Bronze Ages (Lema and Asine). Age, sex and non-metric traits from the dentition, crania and post-crania were recorded. Using the non-metric dental data the biological affinities of these sites were determined. Two statistics were utilised with the non-metric traits to determine biological affinities, the Mean Measure of Divergence (MMD) and the Coefficient of e (D.e). The comparisons bet\veen the sites from southwest Cyprus show all three sites, which are in close spatial proximity, to be statistically biologically similar. Also they appeared to show some relation to the Syrian Early Bronze age site of Jerablus-Tahtani. These findings are in contrast to the different material cultures of these two regions, which may suggest the biological relation may be based on the ancestral contact between Cyprus and the mainland. The Cypriot Late Bronze sites show a mixed relation with the Chalco lithic samples with some relations with the Middle Bronze Age Greek samples and Syria. Where geographical distance is usually a factor in these types of comparisons, this study suggests time may also be a factor.

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Section: Earliest Connections With the Mainlandmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Earliest Connections With the Mainlandmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Earliest Connections With the Mainlandmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Biological Affinities of the Eastern Mediterranean in the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age: A Regional Dental Non-metric Approach

Parras¹

2004

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Microarchaeological approach to underwater stratigraphy of submerged settlements: A case study of Atlit‐Yam Pre‐Pottery Neolithic site, off the Carmel Coast, Israel

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The investigation of submerged archaeological sites faces numerous logistical challenges in the recovery of stratigraphic sequences and, as a result, is often restricted to surface deposits limiting the application of geoarchaeology. This paper outlines a new integrated field and microanalytical methodological protocol to investigate deep stratigraphic sequences (up to 2 m) within the submerged Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) site of Atlit-Yam (9267-7970 cal. B.P. [calibrated years before the present]). A new coring method for the extraction of deep underwater stratigraphy was developed to extract three cores: two between architectural remains within the site and one outside the site. The cores were analysed using Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, phytolith and pollen analysis and archaeological micromorphology to detect anthropogenic signals and undertake paleoenvironmental reconstruction. Our results indicate anthropogenic evidence at 95 cm depth based on the presence of heat-altered sediments, high phytolith concentrations and micromorphological observations of archaeological remains. Radiocarbon analysis indicates the oldest anthropogenic layers date to the Mid Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) and Late PPNB (9859-9323 cal. B.P.), bearing implications for reassessing the emergence of the first coastal Neolithic villages in the Mediterranean. Our integrated field and multiproxy micro-geoarchaeological protocol offers a new approach to detecting and studying submerged archaeological sites worldwide.

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Game management in early prehistoric Cyprus

Croft

2002

Zeitschrift für Jagdwissenschaft

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Neolithic Dispersals from the Levantine Corridor: a Mediterranean Perspective

Cited by 12 publications

References 23 publications

The Biological Affinities of the Eastern Mediterranean in the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age: A Regional Dental Non-metric Approach

The Biological Affinities of the Eastern Mediterranean in the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age: A Regional Dental Non-metric Approach

Microarchaeological approach to underwater stratigraphy of submerged settlements: A case study of Atlit‐Yam Pre‐Pottery Neolithic site, off the Carmel Coast, Israel

Game management in early prehistoric Cyprus

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