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REUSE OF PREHISTORIC LITHIC IMPLEMENTS IN HISTORICAL TIMES: CASE STUDIES FROM THE ALBAN HILLS
Flavio Altamura

COOKING, WORKING AND BURYING IN ANCIENT NEOLITHIC: THE OVENS OF PORTONOVO (MARCHE, ITALY)
Cecilia Conati Barbaro

– ESTIMATING FIRING TEMPERATURES OF PYROTECHNOLOGICAL PROCESSES IN THE NEOLITHIC SITE OF PORTONOVO
Italo M. Muntoni, Grazia Ruggiero

– AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE HUMAN REMAINS FROM THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATION OF PORTONOVO-FOSSO FONTANACCIA
Paola Catalano, Stefania Di Giannantonio

– BONE COLLAGEN CARBON (d13C) AND NITROGEN (d15N) STABLE ISOTOPE ANALYSIS OF HUMAN AND FAUNAL SAMPLES FROM PORTONOVO
Roberta Lelli

– ANTHRACOLOGICAL REMAINS FROM A NEOLITHIC SETTLEMENT IN THE CONERO NATURAL PARK
Alessandra Celant

– SEM-EDS AND XRF CHARACTERIZATION OF OBSIDIAN BLADELETS FROM PORTONOVO (AN) TO IDENTIFY RAW MATERIAL PROVENANCE
Pasquale Acquafredda, Italo M. Muntoni, Mauro Pallara

THE EDGE OF THE CITY: URBAN GROWTH AND BURIAL SPACE IN 4TH MILLENNIUM BC MESOPOTAMIA
Augusta McMahon, Adam Stone

ORGANIZATION OF PRODUCTION AND SOCIAL ROLE OF METALLURGY IN THE PREHISTORIC SEQUENCE OF ARSLANTEPE (TURKEY)
Gian Maria Di Nocera

NARMER, SCORPION AND THE REPRESENTATION OF THE EARLY EGYPTIAN COURT
Jorrit Kelder

BARREL-SHAPED VESSELS IN CONTEXT: A LONG-RANGE MODEL OF DAIRY PRODUCTION IN EASTERN AND CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN DURING THE LATE FOURTH AND EARLY THIRD MILLENNIA BC
Massimo Cultraro

THE HUMAN FACTOR IN THE TRANSFORMATION OF SOUTHERN ITALIAN BRONZE AGE SOCIETIES: AGENCY THEORY AND MARXISM RECONSIDERED
Alberto Cazzella, Giulia Recchia

ACORN GATHERERS: FRUIT STORAGE AND PROCESSING IN SOUTH-EAST ITALY DURING THE BRONZE AGE
Milena Primavera, Girolamo Fiorentino