Unconformist Archaeology

Papers in honour of Paolo Biagi

Edited by

Elisabetta Starnini

BAR International Series 2528

2013

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BAR S2528
Unconformist Archaeology: Papers in honour of Paolo Biagi
Archaeopress and the individual authors 2013
Cover illustration: Small glacial lake with the Val Camonica (Brescia Province, Italy) in the background, in the
mountain watershed between Val Camonica and Val Trompia (Photo by E. Starnini, 2009)
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CONTENTS

Preface

iii

Italy
1. Rapid Rivers, Slow Forests: Early Neolithic charcoal from northern Italy
Renato Nisbet

Europe
2. Mesolithic Obsidian Networks in the Aegean
Magorzata Kaczanowska, Janusz K. Kozowski

17

3. Climate Changes and Social Responses in the Early Prehistory of Greece: a complex and dynamic
interaction
Nikos Efstratiou

27

4. The 19651968 Excavations at Schela Cladovei (Romania) Revisited

Adina Boronean, Clive Bonsall

35

5. The Neolithic Transition in Europe: some comments on gaps, contacts, arrhythmic model, genetics
Jean Guilaine

55

6. Remains of a Special Personality from the Copper Age of the Eastern Carpathian Basin
Pl Raczky

65

7. Pass the Skeleton Key Animals in an Early Copper Age inhumation burial from PusztataskonyLedence I,
Hungary
Lszl Bartosiewicz, Zsfia Eszter Kovcs, Balzs Farkas

77

8. Small but Special: the island of Palagrua in the 3rd millennium BC Adriatic
Stao Forenbaher

89

9. The Birth of the Hero: the emergence of a social type in the 4th millennium BC
Svend Hansen

101

10. The Sibylline Book of European Ethnoarchaeology

John Nandri

113

Asia
11. Three End-scrapers from Mohenjo-Daro (Pakistan)
Massimo Vidale, Anna Siviero, Giancarlo Sidoti, Giuseppe Guida, Gianfranco Priori

119

12. Multiple Technological Choices for the Ceramic Bangles of the Early and Mature Indus Civilization
(Pakistan)
Michela Spataro

131