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 18 July 2018

Analysis of Neolithic sickles from northern Greece

At the end of June, we travelled to Thessaloniki to analyze several Neolithic sites in northern Greece. Thanks to professors Kostas Kotsakis and Maria Pappa we were able to study the deposits of Paliambela, Thermi and Kyparissi. 

To know more about the work of these two researchers, we invite you to consult their profiles in Academia.edu: 


https://auth.academia.edu/KostasKotsakis

The results have been superb and we hope to publish them in the near future.

We want to thank them for their collaboration, as well as the staff of the laboratories where we were working, and especially Angeliki Kita, for the help.

In the coming months, we will return to Greek lands to continue studying new deposits.

Niccolò Mazzucco and Angeliki Kita 



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