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Last name: IBAÑEZ
First name: Juan José
Rapport préliminaire de la fouille sur le site de Qarassa (Syrie) périodes natoufienne, néolithique PPNB, Chalcolithique, Bronze, Fer
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The removal of crania from burials, their ritual use and their disposal, generally in cranial caches, are the most particular characteristics of the funerary ritual in the transition to the Neolithic in the Near East. Despite the importance of this ritual, detailed studies of cranial caches are rare. This funerary ritual has traditionally been...
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The origin of cereal domestication is a key current issue of archaeological research in the Fertile Crescent. Archaeobotanical evidence highlights a complex scenario for when and where agricultural practices started. Gloss texture analysis of sickle blades with confocal microscopy represents a new contribution to the knowledge of this process....
Présentation du site natoufien de Qarassa Syrie du sud
This paper examines an alternative approach to previously proposed models of prehistoric exchange such as the law of monotonic decrement or the down-the-line exchange model developed by Renfrew (Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 34: 319–331, 1968, Renfrew 1977) to explain the distribution of obsidian across the Near East during the...
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les innovations économiques et sociales qui ont conduit à l'émergence du Néolithique. Pendant le Natoufien, les petits groupes de cabanes qui constituaient les habitats épipaléolithiques antérieurs, comme à Ohalo II1 ou à Kharaneh IV2, sont devenus des hameaux qui regroupaient un nombre plus important d'habitants. Les structures des cabanes...
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We present the results of the microstratigraphic, phytolith and wood charcoal study of the remains of a 10.5 ka roof. The roof is part of a building excavated at Tell Qarassa (South Syria), assigned to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period (PPNB). The Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) period in the Levant coincides with the emergence of farming. This...
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