Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Author "Boaretto, Elisabetta"

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    • 30,000 Years Old Wild Flax Fibers - Testimony for Fabricating Prehistoric Linen 

      Kvavadze, Eliso; Bar-Yosef, Ofer; Belfer-Cohen, Anna; Boaretto, Elisabetta; Jakeli, Nino; Matskevich, Zinovi; Meshveliani, Tengiz (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2009)
      A unique finding of wild flax fibers from a series of Upper Paleolithic layers at Dzudzuana Cave, located in the foothills of the Caucasus, Georgia, indicates that prehistoric hunter-gatherers were making cords for hafting ...

    • Nahal Ein Gev II, a Late Natufian Community at the Sea of Galilee 

      Grosman, Leore; Munro, Natalie D.; Abadi, Itay; Boaretto, Elisabetta; Shaham, Dana; Belfer-Cohen, Anna; Bar-Yosef, Ofer (Public Library of Science, 2016)
      The Natufian culture is of great importance as a starting point to investigate the dynamics of the transition to agriculture. Given its chronological position at the threshold of the Neolithic (ca. 12,000 years ago) and ...

    • Radiocarbon chronology of Manot Cave, Israel and Upper Paleolithic dispersals 

      Alex, Bridget Annelia; Barzilai, Omry; Hershkovitz, Israel; Marder, Ofer; Berna, Francesco; Caracuta, Valentina; Abulafia, Talia; Davis, Lauren E; Goder-Goldberger, Mae; Lavi, Ron; Mintz, Eugenia; Regev, Lior; Bar-Yosef Mayer, Daniella; Tejero, José-Miguel; Yeshurun, Reuven; Ayalon, Avner; Bar-Matthews, Mira; Yasur, Gal; Frumkin, Amos; Latimer, Bruce; Hans, Mark G.; Boaretto, Elisabetta (American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2017)
      The timing of archeological industries in the Levant is central for understanding the spread of modern humans with Upper Paleolithic traditions. We report a high-resolution radiocarbon chronology for Early Upper Paleolithic ...

    • Radiocarbon Dating of Charcoal and Bone Collagen Associated with Early Pottery at Yuchanyan Cave, Hunan Province, China 

      Boaretto, Elisabetta; Wu, Xiaohong; Yuan, Jiarong; Bar-Yosef, Ofer; Pan, Yan; Cohen, David; Jiao, Tianlong; Li, Shuicheng; Gu, Haibin; Goldberg, Paul S.; Weiner, Steve; Chu, Vikki; Liu, Kexin (National Academy of Sciences, 2009)
      Yuchanyan Cave in Daoxian County, Hunan Province (People's Republic of China), yielded fragmentary remains of 2 or more ceramic vessels, in addition to large amounts of ash, a rich animal bone assemblage, cobble and flake ...

    • Response to Comment by Bergfjord et al. 

      Bar-Yosef, Ofer; Kvavadze, Eliso; Belfer-Cohen, Anna; Boaretto, Elisabetta; Jakeli, Nino; Matskevich, Zinovi; Meshveliani, Tengiz (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2010)
      The comment by Bergfjord et al. expresses doubts concerning the possibility of identifying flax fibers on the basis of the morphology of their internal layers. The authors use microphotographs and descriptions of the ...