Unconformist Archaeology Papers in honour of Paolo Biagi

Edited by

Elisabetta Starnini

BAR International Series 25282013

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BAR S2528

Unconformist Archaeology: Papers in honour of Paolo Biagi

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CONTENTS

Preface

Italy

1. Rapid Rivers, Slow Forests: Early Neolithic charcoal from northern Italy

Renato Nisbet

Europe

2. Mesolithic Obsidian Networks in the Aegean

Małgorzata Kaczanowska, Janusz K. Kozłowski

3. Climate Changes and Social Responses in the Early Prehistory of Greece: a complex and dynamic

interaction

Nikos Efstratiou

4. The 1965–1968 Excavations at Schela Cladovei (Romania) Revisited

Adina Boroneanț, Clive Bonsall

5. The Neolithic Transition in Europe: some comments on gaps, contacts, arrhythmic model, genetics

Jean Guilaine

6. Remains of a Special ‘Personality’ from the Copper Age of the Eastern Carpathian Basin

Pál Raczky

7. Pass the Skeleton Key… Animals in an Early Copper Age inhumation burial from Pusztataskony–Ledence I,

Hungary

László Bartosiewicz, Zsófia Eszter Kovács, Balázs Farkas

8. Small but Special: the island of Palagruža in the 3rd millennium BC Adriatic

Stašo Forenbaher

9. The Birth of the Hero: the emergence of a social type in the 4th millennium BC

Svend Hansen

10. The Sibylline Book of European Ethnoarchaeology

John Nandriş

Asia

11. Three End-scrapers from Mohenjo-Daro (Pakistan)

Massimo Vidale, Anna Siviero, Giancarlo Sidoti, Giuseppe Guida, Gianfranco Priori

12. Multiple Technological Choices for the Ceramic Bangles of the Early and Mature Indus Civilization

(Pakistan)

Michela Spataro

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