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The earliest Neolithic in the West Mediterranean: a new appraisal
Antiquity • 53 • Published In 1979 • Pages: 22-30
By: Guilaine, Jean.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Guilaine looks at early neolithic sites in the western Mediterranean. A table lists some of the earliest sites and gives their radiocarbon dates. Guilaine considers the fifth millennium b.c. to be the "Golden Age of the impressed ware groups of the West Mediterranean." Guilaine briefly describes the ceramic sequence from Gazel cave and goes on to discuss the transition to the middle Neolithic. He points out that the early Neolithic started much earlier than previously believed and that different groups had contrasting ceramic styles from the start.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Sociocultural trends
- Cultural participation
- Ceramic technology
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Impressed Ware
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- General Europe
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 1999
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 7000 BP - 6600 BP (5000 b.c. - 4600 b.c.)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Gazel cave (Salle les-Cabardes); Aude, France
- NotesAdditional notes
- Jean Guilaine
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 30)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 29021740
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Europe--Antiquities