Mediterranean prehistory

Neolithic Rock Art In Context: Landscape History and the Transition to Agriculture In Mediterranean Spain

by Sarah McClure

Testing Technological Practices: Neutron Activation Analysis of Neolithic Ceramics From Valencia, Spain

by Sarah McClure

Osteological and paleodietary investigation of burials from Cova de la Pastora, Alicante, Spain

by Sarah McClure

Objetos singulars/objetos foráneos: evidencias de circulación de artesanías en el depósito funerario de Cova de la Pastora (Alcoi, Alacant).

by Sarah McClure

Poster presented at Xarxes al Neolític: Congreso internacional Redes en el Neolítico. Gava y Bellaterra (Barcelona, España). February 2011.

Cavidades de uso funerario durante el Neolítico final/Calcolítico en el territorio valenciano: trabajos arqueológicos en Avenc dels Dos Forats o Cova del Monedero ( …

by Sarah McClure

Technological style, chaine opératoire and labor investment of early Neolithic pottery

by Sarah McClure

with Joan Bernabeu

Un habitat de l’âge du Bronze à Castidetta-Pozzone (Sartène)

by Kewin Peche-Quilichini

Co-authored with J. Cesari & P. Nebbia
Stantari, 29, 2012, pp. 55-56

I. Moschos, Evidence of Social Re-organization and Reconstruction in Late Helladic III C Achaea and Modes of Contacts and Exchange via the Ionian and Adriatic Sea

by Ioannis Moschos

Published in E. BORGNA – P. CÀSSOLA GUIDA (eds.), Dall’Egeo all’Adriatico: organizzazioni sociali, modi di scambio e interazione in età postpalaziale (XII-XI sec. a.C.) / From the Aegean to the Adriatic: Social Organisations, Modes of Exchange and Interaction in Postpalatial Times (12th–11th B.C.), Atti del Seminario internazionale (Udine, 1–2 dicembre 2006) / International Workshop (Udine, December 1st–2nd 2006), Studi e ricerche di protostoria mediterranea 8, Rome 2009, pp. 345-414.

La maison 6 de Cuciurpula (Sorbollano - Serra-di-Scopamena) et l'émergence des villages "ouverts"

by Kewin Peche-Quilichini

Stantari, 29, 2012, pp. 64-65

Some Observations on a North-Syrian/Cilician Jug in the Antalya Museum, Adalya 11, 2008

by Erkan Dündar

The jug published in this article was brought to the Antalya Museum (Turkey) in 1999, as a consequence of the arrest... more The jug published in this article was brought to the Antalya Museum (Turkey) in 1999, as a consequence of the arrest of people involved in illegal excavation, the confiscation of this jug by the security services who brought it to the museum The painted decoration of this trefoil mouthed and flat bottomed jug is quite attractive. The origin of some similar decorated painted pottery dating from the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2100 – 1750 B.C.) is thought to have been in the region of North-Syria/Cilicia and the Amuq Valley.

Breve aproximación al conocimiento del yacimiento arqueológico de Closos de Can Gaià

by David Javaloyas Molina

Draft only.
Published in: Prehistoria de las Islas Baleares. Registro arqueológico y Evolución social Antes de la Edad del Hierro.

Prehistory of the Balearic Islands Archaeological Record and Social Evolution before the Iron Age
Coordinador y Editor Víctor M. Guerrero Ayuso
BAR International Series 1690. 2007

Breve estudio de los principales aspectos arqueológicos del yacimiento arqueológico de la Edad del Bronce "Els... more Breve estudio de los principales aspectos arqueológicos del yacimiento arqueológico de la Edad del Bronce "Els Closos de Can Gaià"

Más información en: www.closos.org

Más que una casa. Los navetiformes de la Edad del Bronce Balear

by David Javaloyas Molina

Draft only.
Published in: En Belarte, C. (Ed.) “El espacio doméstico y la organización de la sociedad en la protohistoria del Mediterráneo occidental (Ier milenio aC). ArqueoMediterrània vol. 11, Tarragona: ICAC. ISBN: 978-84-936769-1-9

Resumen

Tradicionalmente los navetiformes, el edificio más común en los asentamientos de la Edad del Bronce... more Resumen

Tradicionalmente los navetiformes, el edificio más común en los asentamientos de la Edad del Bronce en Mallorca y Menorca, se han interpretado como casas. Sin embargo, estas visiones han fallado a la hora de considerar las principales características de estas construcciones. Entre éstas encontramos una prolongada ocupación a lo largo de varios siglos, una cambiante división espacial interna, diferentes visibilidades y accesos del exterior al interior así como diferentes actividades realizadas en el interior.
Se defiende que estos edificios no deben entenderse como una estructura física estática en la que la gente vivía sino que eran un elemento esencial en la configuración de la vida social de esas comunidades. Se propone que los navetiformes tuvieron un papel activo y cambiante en la constitución de los grupos domésticos y las relaciones entre los grupos que conformaban la comunidad. En este artículo se replantean los conceptos de casa, espacio público y espacio doméstico en relación con los navetiformes partiendo de la premisa de que son problemáticos y tienen diferentes significados en diferentes lugares y  momentos.

Abstract

Traditionally navetiformes, the most common construction in the settlements of Mallorca and Minorca during the Bronze Age, have been interpreted as regular houses. However, these views have failed to consider properly the main characteristics of these constructions. These include their often extending long-term occupation, over several centuries, a dynamic internal spatial division, inside/outside visibility and access as well as a range of activities carried out indoors. We argue that these buildings should not be seen as a static physical structure where the
people lived but that they were an essential element in shaping the social life of those communities. We propose that the navetiformes had an active and changing role in the constitution of domestic groups and in the relationships between the groups making up the community.
In this paper we want to rethink the concepts of house, domestic and public space in relation
to these navetiformes, because are problematic and have multiple meanings in any culture and time.

Cultura material, habitus, espacio y movilidad en el archipiélago Balear durante el Bronce Final I (c. 1400-1100 BC)

by David Javaloyas Molina

(2011) Butlletí de la Societat Arqueològica Lul·liana, 67:15-37

Co-authored with: Daniel Albero, Manel Calvo, Jaume Garcia Rosselló

Resumen: En el presente trabajo se defiende la existencia de un habitus compartido por las comunidades que habitaron... more Resumen: En el presente trabajo se defiende la existencia de un habitus compartido por las comunidades que habitaron Mallorca y Menorca durante el Bronce Final (c. 1400-1100 BC). Estas prácticas sociales interiorizadas surgen fruto de un incremento de los contactos que posibilitó la generación de una interacción social intensa entre las comunidades de ambas islas. Este habitus se configuró y reforzó mediante un uso concreto de ciertos elementos de la cultura material y de procesos de estructuración que son analizados en el texto.

Palabras clave: Movilidad, habitus, Islas Baleares, Teoría de la práctica, Cultura Material.

Abstract: Documented mobility strategies and observed contact between Mallorca and Menorca during the Late Bronze Age (c. 1400-1100 BC), together with the implementation of a high level of social interaction, support the existence of shared social practices among the communities of both islands. We argue that this social interaction promoted the existence of a shared habitus, which was strongly related to internalized social practices. This habitus was reinforced by the use of certain items of material culture and structuring processes analyzed in the paper.
Key words: Mobility, habitus, Balearic Islands, Theory of Practice, Material Culture.

Cronologia e Culture dell'arcipelago Maltese tra VI e IV Millennio Cal BC. Unpubl.Diss., Università Ca'Foscari, Venezia, 2009/10.

by Tiziano Fantuzzi

Cultura material, habitus, espacio y movilidad en el archipiélago balear durante el bronce final (c. 1400-1100 BC)

by Daniel Albero Santacreu

Albero Santacreu, D., García Rosselló, J., Javaloyas Molina, D., Calvo Trias, M. (2011) “Cultura material, habitus, espacio y movilidad en el archipiélago balear durante el bronce final (c. 1400-1100 BC)” Boletín de la Sociedad Arqueológica Luliana 67, pp. 15-37.

‘‘Travelling across ancient Anatolia: revealing a palimpsest of road use from the Early Bronze Age to the Achaemenid period”

by Murat Türkteki

The British Institute at Ankara (BIAA)
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The aim of this workshop is to bring together philologists, archaeologists and researchers on landscape studies... more The aim of this workshop is to bring together philologists, archaeologists and researchers on landscape studies working on pre-Classical Anatolia to develop a diachronic perspective on the use of the main Anatolian routes and roads from the Early Bronze Age to the end of the Iron Age (c.2500-550 BC). The themes of the papers include theoretical approaches to human geography and network structures, and various methods for identifying routes—from textual analysis to the study of artefact distribution, from targeted surveys and excavations to comparison with later roads and GIS landscape analysis.

Marine mollusc exploitation in Mediterranean prehistory: An overview

by Andre Carlo Colonese

Stable isotope analysis of Late Upper Palaeolithic human and faunal remains from Grotta del Romito (Cosenza), Italy

by Andre Carlo Colonese

Stable isotope composition of Late Pleistocene-Holocene Eobania vermiculata (Müller, 1774) (Pulmonata, Stylommatophora) shells from the Central Mediterranean basin: Data from Grotta d’Oriente (Favignana, Sicily)

by Andre Carlo Colonese

Mesolithic shellfish exploitation in SW Italy: seasonal evidence from the oxygen isotopic composition of Osilinus turbinatus shells

by Andre Carlo Colonese