466 research outputs found
Nahal Efe and the Neolithic ‘conquest’ of the Negev
No full textIntroduction The first excavations at the Neolithic site of Nahal Efe, in the semi-desert Negev region took place from 1 to 11 December, 2015. This was the first fieldwork season in the Spanish-Israeli undertaking “Nahal Efe project: Human environment interaction during the consolidation of agriculture in the arid margins of the Negev”, co-directed by two associate researchers at the CRFJ: Ferran Borrell (Instituto Internacional de Investigaciones Prehistóricas de Cantabria, Spain) and Jacob ..
Synchronous environmental and cultural change in the emergence of agricultural economies 10,000 years ago in the Levant
No full textThe commonly held belief that the emergence and establishment of farming communities in the Levant was a smooth socio-economic continuum during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic (ca. 12,000-9,000 cal BP) with only rare minor disruptions is challenged by recently obtained evidence from this region. Using a database of archaeological radiocarbon dates and diagnostic material culture records from a series of key sites in the northern Levant we show that the hitherto apparent long-term continuity interpreted as the origins and consolidation of agricultural systems was not linear and uninterrupted. A major cultural discontinuity is observed in the archaeological record around 10,000 cal BP in synchrony with a Holocene Rapid Climate Change (RCC), a short period of climatic instability recorded in the Northern Hemisphere.
This study demonstrates the interconnectedness of the first agricultural economies and the ecosystems they inhabited, and emphasizes the complex nature of human responses to environmental change during the Neolithic period in the Levant. Moreover, it provides a new environmental-cultural scenario that needs to be incorporated in the models reconstructing both the establishment of agricultural economy in southwestern Asia and the impact of environmental changes on human populations.Funding for this research was provided by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (Grant HAR2012-31036 and Project CSD2010-00034 “Social and environmental transitions: Simulating the past to understand human behavior”, see: http://www. simulpast.es) to J.A. Barceló. F. Borrell was supported by a Bettencourt-Schueller Foundation postdoctoral grant. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Peer reviewe
Barzilai O. 2010. Social Complexity in the Southern Levantine PPNB as Refl ected through Lithic Studies. The Bidirectional Blade Industries. Oxford (BAR Int. Ser. 2180)
No full textBorrell Ferran. Barzilai O. 2010. Social Complexity in the Southern Levantine PPNB as Refl ected through Lithic Studies. The Bidirectional Blade Industries. Oxford (BAR Int. Ser. 2180). In: Paléorient, 2011, vol. 37, n°2. pp. 205-207
Barzilai O. 2010. Social Complexity in the Southern Levantine PPNB as Refl ected through Lithic Studies. The Bidirectional Blade Industries. Oxford (BAR Int. Ser. 2180)
No full textBorrell Ferran. Barzilai O. 2010. Social Complexity in the Southern Levantine PPNB as Refl ected through Lithic Studies. The Bidirectional Blade Industries. Oxford (BAR Int. Ser. 2180). In: Paléorient, 2011, vol. 37, n°2. pp. 205-207
Social interaction at the end of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B: an inter-site analysis in the Euphrates Valley
No full textThis article discusses contact, social relationships, and social organization between sites at the end of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic in the Euphrates valley; all of which are of high importance for reconstructing and modelling social organization in consolidated agricultural villages. Our analysis has succeeded in identifying a complex range of overlapping levels and types of social interaction that occurred simultaneously and operated at different scales including the household, the community and inter-regional communities. This complex mixture of interacting spheres, together with the identification of cultural-social boundaries, enables us to understand and explain inter-site variation in material culture and mortuary practices. Moreover, they reflect the growing social complexity of large farming communities at the end of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic and the role played by settlement as the social unit through which these communities became more distinctive and self-consciously different.This work has been possible thanks to the support of the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (HAR2010-18612), the Generalitat de Catalunya (SGR-2009-00607) and to Istanbul University.Peer reviewe
Characterizing flint outcrops in secondary position. A study case : the Euphrates terraces and their exploitation during the 8th-7th millennia cal BC
No full textBorrell Ferran. Characterizing flint outcrops in secondary position. A study case : the Euphrates terraces and their exploitation during the 8th-7th millennia cal BC. In: Regards croisés sur l’étude archéologique des paysages anciens. Nouvelles recherches dans le Bassin méditerranéen, en Asie centrale et au Proche et au Moyen-Orient. Lyon : Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux, 2010. pp. 117-128. (Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, 56
Entre dos mundos: Jaime Ferran
No full textJaime Ferran, poet of the Generation of 50 and author of the Anthology Part, bringing together poets of the so-called School of Barcelona, is an author semidesconocido reader to the general public and even to most specialists poetry 50. a number of vital and literary circumstances, largely explain this almost forgotten where he has been the work of the poet of Cervera. Notable among them are the fact of having written most of his work outside of Spain. His professional life in Syracuse, USA, led him to build a work outside the concerns of their classmates and also regardless of the prevailing poetic fashions in Spain especially during the decades of the sixties and seventies. In this biographical fact we should add other life and literary adventures that have made Jaime Ferran a kind of outsider.Jaime Ferran, poeta de la Generación de los 50 y autor de la Antología Parcial, que reúne a los poetas de la llamada Escuela de Barcelona, es un autor semidesconocido para el gran público lector e, incluso, para la mayoría de los especialistas en la poesía de los 50. Hay una serie de circunstancias vitales y literarias que, en buena parte, explican este casi olvido en el que ha quedado la obra del poeta de Cervera. Entre ellas cabe destacar el hecho de haber escrito casi toda su obra fuera de España. Su vida profesional en Syracuse, EE.UU, lo llevó a construir una obra al margen de las inquietudes de sus compañeros de promoción y al margen también de las modas poéticas imperantes en España durante, sobre todo, las décadas de los sesenta y los setenta. A este hecho biográfico habría que añadir otras peripecias vitales y literarias que han hecho de Jaime Ferran una especie de outsider
Entre dos mundos : Jaime Ferran
No full textJaime Ferran, poeta de la Generación de los 50 y autor de la Antología Parcial, que reúne a los poetas de la llamada Escuela de Barcelona, es un autor semidesconocido para el gran público lector e, incluso, para la mayoría de los especialistas en la poesía de los 50. Hay una serie de circunstancias vitales y literarias que, en buena parte, explican este casi olvido en el que ha quedado la obra del poeta de Cervera. Entre ellas cabe destacar el hecho de haber escrito casi toda su obra fuera de España. Su vida profesional en Syracuse, EE.UU, lo llevó a construir una obra al margen de las inquietudes de sus compañeros de promoción y al margen también de las modas poéticas imperantes en España durante, sobre todo, las décadas de los sesenta y los setenta. A este hecho biográfico habría que añadir otras peripecias vitales y literarias que han hecho de Jaime Ferran una especie de outsider.Jaime Ferran, poet of the Generation of 50 and author of the Anthology Part, bringing together poets of the so-called School of Barcelona, is an author semidesconocido reader to the general public and even to most specialists poetry 50. A number of vital and literary circumstances, largely explain this almost forgotten where he has been the work of the poet of Cervera. Notable among them are the fact of having written most of his work outside of Spain. His professional life in Syracuse, USA, led him to build a work outside the concerns of their classmates and also regardless of the prevailing poetic fashions in Spain especially during the decades of the sixties and seventies. In this biographical fact we should add other life and literary adventures that have made Jaime Ferran a kind of outsider
Generació d'idees per innovar en la difusió del patrimoni cultural
No full textJosep M. Serrainat i Ferran Burch, de Prodigi/InnoMents, treballen la creativitat i la innovació en relació al patrimoni cultura
Diagram of the off-set bidirectional blade reduction sequence.
No full text<p>For details about the most diagnostic products and traits, see Borrell [<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0134810#pone.0134810.ref037" target="_blank">37</a>].</p
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