Late Neolithic (Other Keyword)

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Cereals and Ceramics: Another Look at the Late Neolithic Development of the Butana Group in Eastern Sudan during the 4th Millennium BC (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Frank Winchell. Chris Stevens. Charlene Murphy. Louis Champion. Dorian Fuller.

This paper will discuss the new findings of domesticated sorghum along with the ceramics associated with the Butana Group at an archaeological site called, KG23. The Butana Group represents a cultural manifestation in the southern Atbai of the far eastern Sahel that dates around 3500-3000 BC, and was contemporary with other groups such as the Late Neolithic groups in the central Nile Valley, the pre-Kerma culture in Upper Nubia, the A-Group in Lower Nubia, and the Egyptian Predynastic cultures...

Strontium isotope evidence for Late Neolithic mobility in South-Central Portugal (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Vaughan Grimes. Rui Boaventura. Ana Maria Silva. Maria Hillier. António Carlos Valera.

During the end of the 4th and 3rd millennia BCE (Late Neolithic/Chalcolithic) in South-Central Portugal significant movement of people has been assumed due to the widespread distribution of ‘foreign’ artefacts found at coastal and inland archaeological sites. Counter to this, other archaeological evidence from the region seems to suggest a more sedentary lifestyle among these people at that time. Here we will present human strontium isotope data from three Late Neolithic tombs, namely the...