The Natufian culture in the Levant, threshold to the origins of agriculture
- O. Bar‐Yosef
- Economics
- 1998
The question of why the emergence of farming communities in the Near East was an inevitable outcome of a series of social and economic circumstances that caused the Natufian culture to be considered the threshold for this major evolutionary change is addressed.
States of preservation of bones from prehistoric sites in the Near East: A survey
- S. Weiner, O. Bar‐Yosef
- Geography, Environmental Science
- 1 March 1990
Differential Burning, Recrystallization, and Fragmentation of Archaeological Bone
- M. Stiner, S. Kuhn, S. Weiner, O. Bar‐Yosef
- Environmental Science
- 1 March 1995
Abstract This paper presents research on the conditions under which progressive levels of burning may occur to archaeological bone, and how burning damage changes bones' crystal structure and…
Upper Palaeolithic genomes reveal deep roots of modern Eurasians
- E. Jones, G. González-Fortes, D. Bradley
- Geography, Environmental ScienceNature Communications
- 16 November 2015
It is found that Caucasus hunter-gatherers (CHG) belong to a distinct ancient clade that split from western hunter- Gatherers ∼45 kya, shortly after the expansion of anatomically modern humans into Europe and from the ancestors of Neolithic farmers ∼25 KYa, around the Last Glacial Maximum.
Early Pottery at 20,000 Years Ago in Xianrendong Cave, China
- Xiaohong Wu, Chi Zhang, O. Bar‐Yosef
- HistoryScience
- 29 June 2012
The dating of the early pottery from Xianrendong Cave, Jiangxi Province, China, and the micromorphology of the stratigraphic contexts of the pottery sherds and radiocarbon samples show that pottery was first made and used 10 millennia or more before the emergence of agriculture.
The origins of sedentism and farming communities in the Levant
- O. Bar‐Yosef, A. Belfer‐Cohen
- Geography, Environmental Science
- 1 December 1989
Particular geographic features of the Mediterranean Levant underlie the subsistence patterns and social structures reconstructed from the archaeological remains of Epi-Paleolithic groups. The…
From Africa to Eurasia — early dispersals
- O. Bar‐Yosef, A. Belfer‐Cohen
- Environmental Science
- 2001
The Big Deal about Blades: Laminar Technologies and Human Evolution
- O. Bar‐Yosef, S. Kuhn
- Geography
- 1 June 1999
Despite the rapid expansion of archaeological knowledge of the Paleolithic over the past several decades, some generalized interpretive frameworks inherited from previous generations of researchers…
The Faunas of Hayonim Cave, Israel: A 200,000-Year Record of Paleolithic Diet, Demography, and Society
- M. Stiner, O. Bar‐Yosef
- Environmental Science
- 2005
The Faunas of Hayonim Cave, Israel, is a great example of how scientific methods can be utilized to paint a more accurate picture of humanity. Stiner uses highly specialized zooarchaeological…
Radiocarbon dating of charcoal and bone collagen associated with early pottery at Yuchanyan Cave, Hunan Province, China
- E. Boaretto, Xiaohong Wu, S. Weiner
- Geography, Environmental ScienceProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 16 June 2009
The radiocarbon ages of the sediments based on analyses of charcoal and bone collagen show that the age of the ancient pottery ranges between 18,300 and 15,430 cal BP, which provides some of the earliest evidence for pottery making in China.
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