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    Recent excavations at Maadi (Egypt)

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    Studies in African Archaeology

    The Ubaid impact on the periphery: Mersin-Yumuktepe during the fifth millennium BC

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    Located at the north-western “margins” of the Ubaid world, Mersin-Yumuktepe yielded a consistent series of building layers covering the 5000-4200 BC time-span which offers a unique documentation on the long-term fifth millennium developments of Cilicia. From the celebrated Level XVI, characterised by a monumental fortified structure that hosted activities connected with smelted copper metallurgy, to the large architectural complex of the recently excavated Level XV, which hosted large-scale distributive activities, the cultural sequence of Yumuktepe indicates radical changes, not only in terms of the function of its monumental structures, but also in terms of the new political and cultural strategies, which radically affected the organisation of craft-production (clearly visible in the appearance of mass-produced Coba bowls). This new direction towards a staple-resources oriented economy and food-based social strategies is the sign of the impact that a new economic and political model partly rooted in the Mesopotamian Ubaid traditions exerted on this region around 4500 BC. This model provided a structural premise for the later developments leading to the rise of states and cities in southern Anatolia during the fourth millennium

    BEYOND TOOLS. REDEFINING THE PPN LITHIC ASSEMBLAGES OF THE LEVANT,PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD WORKSHOP ON PPN CHIPPED LITHIC INDUSTRIES

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    Il volume contiene aggiornamenti relativi a tre aspetti fondamentali dello studio delle industrie litiche del Neolitico preceramico del Vicino Oriente e del Levamte: 1. La tecnologia e la documentazione 2.L'interpretazione funzionale dei manufatti e dei contesti 3.La classificazione e la cronologia

    A combined analysis of lithic assemblages from Cayonu

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    L'articolo, descrive gli aspetti tecnologici, tipologici e funzionali delle industrie litiche di Cayonu, uno dei siti più importanti del Neolitico preceramico dell'Anatolia. Si tratta di una delle pubblicazioni relative ad un progetto decennale coordinato dalla prof.I.Caneva

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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