Le mausolée turriforme d’une villa près de Carcassonne/Carcasso (Aude) by Richard Pellé

“…BC, around the time when Carcassonne acquired the title of city under Latin law, Montredon hill, located near the city and the via Aquitania, and occupied since the Neolithic, was completely transformed by the creation of a large rural villa-type area. …”
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Eyeing the Beholder by Tobias Lindström

“… Anthropomorphic clay figurines comprise an enigmatic category of finds associated with Pitted Ware culture sites during the latter part of the middle Neolithic period (c. 2900–2300 BC) in the Baltic Sea region. …”
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Infrastructures animales. Le cheval comme acteur de la transformation des territoires by Mathieu Mercuriali

“…The domestication of plants and animals began in the Neolithic era, over 5,000 years ago. This emancipation from the wilderness, occurring alongside the sedentarization of humans, generated a territorial reorganization that facilitated new relationships between species. …”
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Cultural Traditions in the Pottery of the Eneolithic Volga Population by Irina N. Vasilyeva

“…Conclusions are drawn about the emergence of new technologies and continuity with Neolithic pottery.…”
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Megalithic biographies. From partial closures to total closures and from single sealing to double sealing by Dominique Jagu, Claude Masset

“…In five megalithic monuments in the Paris Basin, major structural rearrangements occurred from the Neolithic, involving displacements and removals of orthostats. …”
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En poudre ou en blocs ? Matières colorantes et faciès funéraires dans la plaine d’Alsace au Néolithique ancien (5300 à 4950 av. n.è.) by Laura Waldvogel

“…In 1995, the study of the Linearbandkeramik’s (LBK) funerary practices, an archaeological culture of the Early Neolithic originating from the Danube basin, led to the identification of two funeral facies on its western areas. …”
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RURAL POPULATION DYNAMICS IN THE CURVATURE CARPATHIANS by DANIELA VIOLETA NANCU

“…This geographical area has been inhabited since the Palaeolithic and the Musterian (60,000 – 40,000 BC) a period that made the transition to the Neolithic Times. The analysis of the numerical evolution throughout the rural Curvature Carpathians covers one hundred years (1910–2011) and is based on census data. …”
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Quartz workshop of the Stone Age "Pereboiny" on the Seversky Donets (Rostov region) by Zorov Yu.N., Kolesnik A.V., Danilchenko A.Yu.

“…A significant part of the finds can be attributed to the Neolithic – Eneolithic period. Perhaps the workshop was visited in the Bronze Age. …”
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Beginning of the metal age in the central Balkans according to the results of the archeometallurgy by Jovanović B.

“…The technology employed is close to the former flint mining in the Late Neolithic; massive pebbles obtained from the neighboring alluvial deposits were used as mining hammers. …”
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Bœufs gaulois et bœufs français : morphologies animales et dynamiques économiques au cours de La Tène et des périodes historiques by Colin Duval, Benoît Clavel

“…Moreover, based on an important unpublished corpus of osteometric data, it provides new insights into changes in cattle morphology and their historical implications in France, from Neolithic to modern times. From the first decrease in livestock size as a consequence of domestication, to growth between the Iron Age and the Roman period, and small individuals during the Middle Ages to the heavy Charolais breeds currently grazing in our pastures, this study aims to link cattle morphology and economic variations in order to improve our vision of French pastoral history, based on archaeozoological remains. …”
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Apport de la micro-usure dentaire à la reconstitution du régime alimentaire des anciens Pascuans by Caroline Polet, Céline Bourdon, Martine Vercauteren, Jean-Louis Slachmuylder

“…A comparison with other populations previously studied (medieval and Neolithic populations in Belgium) indicates that the pattern of dental microwear of the Easter Islanders presents the most similarities with that of the Cistercians of the abbey of Dunes de Coxyde who consumed marine fish. …”
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE OF PREHISTORIC CAVES IN BA THUOC DISTRICT, THANH HOA PROVINCE: PRESERVATION AND PROMOTION by Khac Su Nguyen

“…The prehistoric inhabitants here contributed to the formation of Middle Neolithic cultures in North Central Vietnam. In addition, the caves in Ba Thuoc were also places for the mountain-dwelling inhabitants of the Dong Son culture to visit and bury their dead in the centuries before and after the beginning of the common era. …”
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Un monument funéraire du Haut-Empire aux confins de la cité des Carnutes à Boinville-en-Mantois (Yvelines) by Aurélie Laurey, Vanessa Brunet, Mélanie Demarest, Céline Mauduit

“…The rescue excavation of rue du Bois de la Planté, at Boinville-en-Mantois (78), carried out in 2016 over a surface of 1.5 ha, brought to light several diachronic occupations, dating from the Early Mesolithic, the Middle Neolithic, the First Iron Age and the Roman Period. …”
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Challenges and Shortcomings of “Settlement Patterns Analysis” Studies in the Archaeology of Iran: A Critical Evaluation and Some Suggestions by Saeed Amirhajloo

“…Accordingly, it is suggested here that the data collection and analysis could be done by using the combined method that considers the following items: the study of historical texts, full coverage survey of the region, and attention to off-site archaeology especially in Neolithic studies, regarding absolute chronologies before going through the settlement pattern analysis, analysis of animal and plant remains, soil analysis and geophysical methods, statistical analysis, use of models and analysis of economic relations between settlements, and finally, the spatial analysis of settlements based on up-to-date theories and models.…”
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Un établissement du début du premier âge du Fer en Eure-et-Loir : Sours, Les Ouches by Frédéric Dupont, Bruno Lecomte, Jérémie Liagre, Julie Rivière, Jonathan Simon

“…The excavation of the site of Ouches at Sours (28) has enabled the updating of an important settlement from the early Neolithic and the discovery, in the northern part of the site, of several structures datable to the beginning of the Iron Age (Hallstatt C). …”
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Reconstructing prehistoric lifeways using multi-Isotope analyses of human enamel, dentine, and bone from Legaire Sur, Spain. by Jacob I Griffith, Hannah F James, Javier Ordoño, Teresa Fernández-Crespo, Carina T Gerritzen, Christina Cheung, Rachèl Spros, Philippe Claeys, Steven Goderis, Barbara Veselka, Christophe Snoeck

“…The results from Legaire Sur reveal the complexity of the Late Neolithic-Chalcolithic transition in north-central Iberia, categorising yet another separate socio-economic group with distinctive lifeways inhabiting the region.…”
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Savoirs paysans autour des huiles d’olive, (zaytun, Olea europaea var. europaea) et d’oléastre, (əl-bərri, Olea europaea var. sylvestris) Rif, nord du Maroc by Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas, Dominique Caubet

“…They correspond to extraction processes ranging from the oldest millstones and mills dating from the Neolithic, to the most modern. This diversity suggests that farmers in Northern Morocco have old and significant types of knowledge and know-hows about olive trees and the oleaster, including the mastering of the oleaster grafting techniques. …”
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Starożytne źródła antropocentryzmu by Anita Ganowicz-Bączyk

“…Supposedly the critical phase for this process is the so-called Neolithic Revolution. Changes brought by this deeply influenced life of man. …”
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Le prédateur inconnu : engagement et distanciation dans les prédations marines by Estienne Rodary

“…The first victims of Neolithic and modern dynamics of ecumene expansion, they now seem to be regaining a legitimate place in the wild part of the world that ecology is calling for (Maris, 2018). …”
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La poétique de la pierre dans l'œuvre de Thomas Hardy : du livre de pierre au livre de vie by Annie Escuret

“…Back in Dorset, he was confronted with the Neolithic monuments of Stonehenge and other pagan monuments such as the tumuli on Egdon Heath and other landmarks. …”
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