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Evidence for food storage and predomestication granaries 11,000 years ago in the Jordan Valley

Recent excavations at Dhra′ near the Dead Sea in Jordan provide strong evidence for sophisticated, purpose-built granaries in a predomestication context, which support recent arguments for the deliberate cultivation of wild cereals at this time.
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Architecture, sedentism, and social complexity at Pre-Pottery Neolithic A WF16, Southern Jordan

Recent excavations at Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) WF16 in southern Jordan have revealed remarkable evidence of architectural developments in the early Neolithic, allowing fresh insights into the development of increasingly sedentary communities and the social systems they supported.
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Hunter-gatherers transformed: the transition to agriculture in northern and western Euope

The quantity and quality of material from the late Mesolithic/early Neolithic in southern Scandinavia has dominated the study of this important period in northwest Europe. Recent evidence from the…
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Biggar Common, 1987-93 : an early prehistoric funerary and domestic landscape in Clydesdale, South Lanarkshire

A fieldwalking exercice by Lanark and District Archaeological Society on moorland recently ploughed for forestry revealed the presence of an extensive early Neolithic, late Neolithic and Early Bronze…

Early Holocene woodland vegetation and human impacts in the arid zone of the southern Levant

Palynological archives dating from the Pleistocene–Holocene transition are scarce in the arid zone of the southern Levant. Anthracological remains (the carbonized residues of wood fuel use found in…
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Excavation of a shell midden site at Carding Mill Bay near Oban, Scotland

Summary Rescue excavation of a shell midden was undertaken after its discovery during construction work. The site showed evidence of disturbance prior to excavation but it clearly consisted of two…
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Dating WF16: Exploring the Chronology of a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Settlement in the Southern Levant

A pre-requisite for understanding the transition to the Neolithic in the Levant is the establishment of a robust chronology, most notably for the late Epi-Palaeolithic and Pre-Pottery Neolithic A…
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Imposing the Neolithic on the past

Abstract The Neolithic, especially its revolution, has been amongst the most powerful concepts in prehistory, representing a new stage and a sharp break with what went before. Its long-term…
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The early prehistory of Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan : archaeological survey of Wadis Faynan, Ghuwayr and al-Bustan and evaluation of the pre-pottery neolithic A site of WF16

Introduction (Bill Finlayson) Part 1. Early Prehistory Landscape Archaeology of Wadi Faynan Long-term landscape evolution of Wadis Dana, Faynan and Ghuwayr (Richard Tipping) The archaeological survey…

Excavation of an Early Bronze Age cemetery and other sites a the West Water Reservoir, West Linton, Scottish Borders

An Early Bronze Age flat cist cemetery was excavated after it was exposed by reservoir erosion. Nine surviving cists were found, containing a mixture of inhumations and cremations. Grave goods…
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