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Nomads in Archaeology
Tony Wilkinson,Roger Cribb +1 more
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The early neolithic site of Ayn Abu Nukhayla, southern Jordan
Donald O. Henry,Carlos E. Cordova,J. Joel White,Rebecca M. Dean,Joseph E. Beaver,Heidi Ekstrom,Seiji Kadowaki,Joy McCorriston,April Nowell,Linda Scott-Cummings +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, three seasons of research at the Middle PPNB site of Ayn Abū Nukhayla indicate that it experienced intermittent, seasonal occupations spanning a period of ca. 200 years, centered on 8500 b. p.
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The zooarchaeology of exclusion and expropriation: Looking up from the lower city in Late Bronze Age Hazor
Nimrod Marom,Sharon Zuckerman +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the social conditions leading to the decline of the powerful Bronze Age city of Hazor, located in the northern Jordan Valley, Israel, and found that the exclusion of its residents from ideological use of animals and their impoverishment by elite livestock expropriation preceded other material manifestations of sociopolitical decline in the city.
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Increased Sedentism in the Central Oases of the Egyptian Western Desert in the Early to Mid-Holocene: Evidence from the Peripheries
TL;DR: Two locations adjacent to the great central oases of the Egyptian Western Desert experienced an unusual period of sedentism in the early to mid-Holocene as discussed by the authors, around the Southeast Basin near Dakhleh Oasis and in the Wadi el-Midauwara above Kharga.
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The Rise of Cattle Cultures in Bronze Age Anatolia
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the use of domesticated cattle as a material and symbolic source of power for these elites and discuss the symbolic role of cattle in gift exchange, iconography, ritual and display for creating narratives of power in which elites are situated in an elevated place within in a hierarchical cosmos.
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Social Inequality at Köhne Shahar, an Early Bronze Age Settlement in Iranian Azerbaijan
TL;DR: Social inequality at Köhne Shahar, an Early Bronze Age settlement in Iran, was studied in this paper, showing that social inequality was prevalent in early Bronze Age settlements.