This is the blog of the project "Neo-Innova: The diffusion of Neolithic in the Central-Western Mediterranean: agriculture, technological innovations and radiocarbon dating" (HAR2016-75201-P). This research project focuses on one of the main turning points of human history: the diffusion of Neolithic. Even if it is well established that the Near East was the first focus of the invention of farming, around X-IX milenium BC, the mechanisms and the paths of its spreading in the rest of the Mediterranean are yet to be unfolded. During the last decades, the origin of European Neolithic has been explained as result of a diffusion process through two main axes: a Northern one, crossing central Europe, and a Southern one along the Mediterranean coasts. The current project is aimed to analyse the process of Neolithic diffusion through the Central-Western Mediterranean through analysis of the techniques and tools associated with the crop-harvesting and -processing tools. Analysis of those tools has to be supported by an extensive program of radiocarbon dating and a cross-analysis of the crop-harvesting/14C with the information proceeding from the environmental/ecological, the technological and the cereals consumed.

Wednesday 24 May 2017

Neolithic Sickles from Portugal

A few days ago we travelled to Lisbon for studying a series of Ancient Neolithic sites in Portugal. The results have been great, as we were able to obtain relevant results from three different sites, some of which have nor been ever published (then, the data about them is still unpublished).

We want to say thanks to Antonio Faustino Carvalho and Joao Cardoso because it was due to their good dispositions that we were able to study the sites of Pedreira de Amoreiras, Gafanheira and Carrascal.

The results will complete the ongoing image about the first Neolithic sickles in the westernmost area of the Mediterranean basin.

We want to say thanks, also, to Antonio, Joao and all our friends at Centro de Estudos Arqueológicos sited on Fábrica da Pólvora.






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