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The Politics of Pottery: How Ceramics Mapped the Borders of El Argar’s Bronze Age World

Anthropology.net

The study of pottery production and distribution provides a unique perspective on how political and economic boundaries were established in the European Bronze Age," says Adrià Moreno Gil, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and lead author of the study. This contrast was not just economic but political.

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Empire in a Shell: How Iron Age Craftspeople on the Carmel Coast Turned Snails into Royal Power

Anthropology.net

. “This is the first time we’ve been able to document half a millennium of continuous, large-scale production of mollusk-based purple dye in a single place,” said Golan Shalvi, lead author of the study and director of excavations at the University of Haifa’s Zinman Institute of Archaeology. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0321082

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Farming Inequality: How Ancient Land Use Split Societies

Anthropology.net

A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers 1 one of the most detailed archaeological analyses to date of the roots of economic inequality. Despite their size, archaeological evidence suggests relatively even distribution of house sizes and public investment in civic infrastructure. "We

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Insights from the Early Neolithic: Complex Livestock Practices in the High Mountain Settlements

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(B) Plan view of Coro Trasito cave, showing the location of the 2011 and 2013 test-pit and the area of the extended excavation. Credit: Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology (2023). Notably, the study highlighted the increasing economic significance of pigs during the Neolithic period. The isocotes indicate every 20 cm.

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Six reasons you may not graduate on time

The Hechinger Report

To help address the problem, in 2013 CUNY designated that three courses in each of its most popular majors would count toward requirements on every campus.). Archaeology of Human Origins” may sound interesting, but if you wait too long to focus on your economics major, you may not get in all the requirements you need.

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Unearthing Equality: How Early Farmers in Central Europe Lived Without Hierarchy

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Spanning over 250 individuals, the study integrates genetics with archaeological and dietary evidence, shedding new light on the egalitarian nature of LBK societies. Source: Torrossa , 2013. We have successfully found distant relatives in Slovakia and others in Western Germany," notes lead author Pere Gelabert.