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Best known not only for its early cardial pottery & neolithic occupation, but also controversial cannibalism, or complex mortuary practices. Fontbrégoua is one of the most remarkable cave sites in the western Mediterranean
home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Grotte de Fontbrégoua is a limestone cave overlooking a small valley of the Bresque River. Near the Mediterranean hinterlandLocated in the Salernes, Var department. In the Provence region of southeastern France. Excavations were conducted primarily by Henry de Lumley and later by…
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Châteauneuf-les-Martigues is one of the most important early cardial neolithic sites in southern France. It helps show what early farming life looked like on the northwestern Mediterranean coast, around 5800–5200 BCE
home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Châteauneuf-les-Martigues is also called “l’Abri du Puits de Châteauneuf-les-Martigues.” It is located in the Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence, near MarseilleIt was a small but dense cardial farming hamlet, representing one of the earliest neolithic occupations in southern France The environment is low limestone terraces,…
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Grotte Camprafaud is a well known neolithic site with cardial levels and cave
home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > In the commune of Ferrières-Poussarou, Camprafaud is a cardial neolithic cave/rock-shelter site near Saint-Chinian, HéraultIt has a long stratified sequence that includes early pottery occupation phases. Systematic excavations were done in the 20th century. Notably by Rodríguez, 1967–1973, and earlier collectors. They…
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Often written Baume d’Oullins, baume d’Oulen, or Baume d’Oulins. It is a rock shelter cave with a long, well stratified sequance. That includes an early cardial occupation
home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > One of the key cardial (or, impressed wear pottery) occurrences exists in the lower Rhône and Ardèche valley of SE FranceThis site preserves stacked occupation layers, including multiple hearths and typical cardial lithics; as well as ceramics. But it is a rockshelter…
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Also known as Isorella-Cascina Bocche, the neolithic site of Isorella is located in the central Po plain of northern Italy, near Brescia
home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Associated with the Vhò culture, a variant of the early neolithic cardial ware tradition. Isorella was discovered in 1992, following deep ploughing in a crop fieldExcavations have provided valuable insights into the early Neolithic communities of the region. Archaeobotanical analyses have identified…
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In the Po Plain of northern Italy, Fiorano, Fiorano culture, or the Fiorano Modenese area is unique. An early neolithic phenomenon
home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Roughly contemporary with, or slightly later than, early LBK/Transdanubian groups. Fiorano was known for characteristic pottery types, pit-structured settlements, episodes of large animal/food deposits, and simple timber/wattle architecture Dwellings were primarily perishable (timber/wattle) with pits, palisades/ditches and occasional structural traces.Early neolithic settlements…
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Usually published as Vhò di Piadena, Vhò, or, the early neolithic group from the central Po plain. Vhò has characterized unique pit architecture and impressed ware pottery. Contrasting neighbouring Fiorano and Adriatic groups
home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Vhò is an early neolithic occupational complex in the central Po plain (Vhò di Piadena)Excavations and recent syntheses treat it as a distinct “Vhò aspect”. Characterized by pit-features, hut-floors, impressed/early neolithic pottery and contacts with neighboring Fiorano and Adriatic groups. Excavations document…
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The Almizaraque site in Almería, southeastern Spain, maybe known more for its later chalcolithic or copper age occupation, rather than the cardial neolithic period
home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > The Almizaraque settlement, which was primarily occupied during the third millennium BCE, is an important example of copper age culture, though it does contain some materials from earlier periods. Unlike the cave sites of the early neolithic, Almizaraque was an open-air settlement…
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The cardial neolithic period, open-air site of Mas d’Is, in Alicante, Spain, was a substantial & long-term settlement for early farming communities. It represents a crucial development in the neolithic way of life
home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Unlike the cave dwellings of sites like Cova de l’Or, Mas d’Is was a planned village. Marked by unique architectural features. And, open air site, rather than caveThe cardial inhabitants built a permanent village in the Penàguila valley. Archaeological fieldwork has uncovered…