Intentional cranial modification from the Houtaomuga Site in Jilin, China: Earliest evidence and longest in situ practice during the Neolithic Age

2019 ◽  
Vol 169 (4) ◽  
pp. 747-756 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qun Zhang ◽  
Peng Liu ◽  
Hui-Yuan Yeh ◽  
Xingyu Man ◽  
Lixin Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neolithic Age ◽  
Cranial Modification ◽  
The Neolithic Age

scholarly journals Some New Heritage Discoveries in The Central Highlands, Vietnam

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
La The Phuc ◽  
Nguyen Khac Su ◽  
Luong Thi Tuat ◽  
Vu Tien Duc ◽  
Bui Van Thom ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cutting Tools ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Field Trips ◽  
Conservation Strategy ◽  
Stone Tool ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Neolithic Age ◽  
Archaeological Artifacts ◽  
Central Highlands ◽  
The Neolithic Age

A series of new heritage discoveries were found during several field-trips from November 2018 to May 2019 in whole area of The Central Highlands with supporting from the project, coded TN17/T06. The most remarkable discoveries are two archaeological sites: The first one is located on Ho Tre crater in Krong Ana district, Dak Lak province and the second one – along the Ba river ancient valley, in Phu Thien district, Gia Lai province. On Ho Tre crater, we collected many types of archaeological artifacts, including stone hand-axes in oval and short shapes, stone cores, flakes, grind-stones, making-fire stones (?), and several broken fragments pieces of pottery, which featured for the shape and technique types in the Neolithic Age. In archaeological sites in Phu Thien district, a series of stone tools, including uni-facial and bi-facial tools, rough-cutting tools such as side-chopper, end-chopper scrapers, spearhead tools, flake tools, etc., characterized as the shape and technique types in duration the Paleolithic Age were found. These findings play an important role in science to clarify development process of human history since pre-history up to now in Vietnam and in the region as well. Moreover, it is more significant to possibly establish a conservation strategy and to locally develop tourism. Keywords: Archaeological site, stone tool, Paleolithic, Neolithic, The Central Highlands.

scholarly journals Materials of the Neolithic settlement of the Komarin 5 in the Verkhny Dnepr River basin (Gomel Podneprovie), on the basis of excavations 1998, 2005-2007, 2011

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-163
Author(s):  
Igor Nicolaevich Ezepenko ◽  
Oleg Vasilievich Voronenko
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Neolithic Period ◽  
Cultural Community ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Neolithic Age ◽  
Introductory Part ◽  
Archaeological Materials ◽  
Absolute Dating ◽  
The Neolithic Age

In the article the authors summarize the archaeological studies of the Neolithic settlement Komarin 5 in vicinity of Rogachev, Gomel region. The settlement is situated in the northern periphery of the area of the Dnepro-Donetsk ethno-cultural community. In the introductory part of the article the authors present the main approaches in interpreting of the Neolithic monuments with comb-stroke ceramics in the upstream of the Dnepr. The excavations were carried out in the southern part of the man site during 4 field seasons. There is a brief description of the stratigraphy of the studied settlement, the most representative burial and utility objects of the excavation-2 in 2006, the main categories of flint tools, and the ceramic complex of the Neolithic period in the article. With the help of the ceramic complexes we can fix several stages of the development of the territory, from the Neolithic Age till the Late Middle Ages. The overwhelming part of the archaeological materials, especially ceramics, is considered in the context of the III stage of the development of the Dnepro-Donetsk culture and covers a chronological interval within the IV millennium BC. This is confirmed by the only absolute dating of 478090 BP (Кі-15033) with the soil from the pit filling in the utility building (object 2 of the excavation in 2006). The issues of relative and absolute dating of the monument Komarin-5, in particular the top chronological boundary of the Neolithic Dnepro-Donetsk culture, are considered.

scholarly journals Different Human–Dog Interactions in Early Agricultural Societies of China, Revealed by Coprolite

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunan Zhang ◽  
Guoping Sun ◽  
Dong Zhang ◽  
Xiaoyan Yang ◽  
Xiaohong Wu
Keyword(s):  
Fatty Alcohols ◽  
Hunting Dogs ◽  
Neolithic Age ◽  
Huai River ◽  
Agricultural Societies ◽  
High Concentrations ◽  
Early Farmers ◽  
Agricultural Site ◽  
Chain Lengths ◽  
The Neolithic Age

Dogs served in a variety of capacities in prehistory. After their domestication in Paleolithic hunter-gatherer societies, the emergence of agriculture shifted their partnerships with people. However, the associations between dogs and early farmers are not readily visible in the archaeological record. In the present study, dog coprolites, uncovered from two groups of early agricultural societies in China during the Neolithic Age, the early rice agricultural site of Tianluoshan in the lower Yangtze River, and three early millet-rice mixed agricultural sites of Shuangdun, Yuhuicun, and Houtieying along the middle Huai River, were examined based on the comparisons of lipid and palynological results to reveal different relationships of dogs and humans. The Tianluoshan dogs showed a plant-dominated diet with higher contents of plant sterols and fatty alcohols with longer chain lengths. Dogs may have lived on foraging or been provisioned with refuse for the cleanness purpose. On the contrary, dogs from the sites of Shuangdun, Yuhuicun, and Houtieying showed a meat-dominated diet with higher proportions of animal sterols and short-chain fatty alcohols. It most probably referred to their assistance in hunting and thus being provisioned with meat. Furthermore, activity areas of the dogs also reflect different deployment strategies and agricultural systems, evidenced by pollen spectra from the coprolites. Dogs at Tianluoshan mostly appeared in the rice field area, in correspondence with the labor-consuming rice cultivation as the main targeted resource, showing their participation in daily agricultural activities. On the other hand, high concentrations of pollen from forest and grassland revealed that hunting dogs played a regular role in the early millet-rice mixed farming societies, probably related to the importance of hunting activities in the daily subsistence.

The Neolithic remains of the Shuangta Site in Baicheng City, Jilin

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Phase I ◽  
Phase Ii ◽  
Northeast China ◽  
Jilin Province ◽  
Research Center ◽  
Local Characteristics ◽  
Human Bones ◽  
Neolithic Age ◽  
Burial Customs ◽  
The Neolithic Age

AbstractFrom August to October 2007, the Research Center for Chinese Frontier Archaeology of Jilin University and Jilin Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology conducted a joint rescue excavation in the western part of the Shuangta Site in Baicheng, Jilin Province. Remains from the Phases I and II of the site belonged to the Neolithic Age. The remains of the Phase I include pits, ditches, postholes, potsherd deposits and burials. The surfaces of most of the pottery wares are plain and the shapes are not very regular, and part of the wares’ surface showed that they were constructed by clay barcoiling method. The 14C analysis of the human bones and the TL measurements of the potsherds showed that the date of these remains was at least 10ka BP, which are the earliest Neolithic remains discovered so far in Northeast China. The remains of Phase II found in this excavation were only four burials. The grave goods include pottery wares and jades; the style of the jades is very similar to that of the Hongshan Culture, but the pottery wares have distinctive local characteristics very different from that. The tombs’ structures and the burial customs have even greater differences with that of the Hongshan Culture. Therefore, these remains certainly belonged to a new archaeological culture.

scholarly journals The Archaeological Search for Tartessos-Tarshish-Atlantis and Other Human Settlements in the Donana National Park

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rainer Kühne
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
National Park ◽  
Doñana National Park ◽  
Human Settlements ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
The Third ◽  
South West ◽  
Neolithic Age ◽  
The Neolithic Age ◽  
The Middle Ages

Adolf Schulten suggested that Tartessos-Tarshish was the model for Plato's Atlantis. I argued that its capital was situated in what is now the Marisma de Hinojos within the central part of the Andalucian Donana National Park in south-west Spain. This article reports about the preliminary results of an archaeological expedition to test this theory. The preliminary results of the expedition include evidence of either a tsunami or a storm flood during the third millenium BC and evidence of human settlements from the Neolithic Age to the Middle Ages.

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