I Kuijt
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3202 |
|---|---|
| NOME | I Kuijt |
| PRENOMES | I |
| SOBRENOME | Kuijt |
| ASSINATURA | KUIJT I |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Notre Dame |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8912-0062 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 63 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 643 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 63 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Understanding Fortress‐Cities
From the 5th through 14th century, fortress‐cities dominated the landscape along the South Caucasus, including the Republic of Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, northern Iran and eastern Turkey. Drawing upon an airborne LiDAR survey of Samshvildé, Republic of Georgia, this study offers new insights into the organization, construction and long‐term development of medieval fortress‐cities in the South Caucasus. Results from the LiDAR survey reveal a se…
Burial Histories, Bodies, and Pots
Reconsidering narratives of household social inequality
How many people lived in the world's earliest villages? Reconsidering community size and population pressure at Neolithic Çatalhöyük
The tools of war
The military invasion of Ukraine has destroyed and damaged extensive built cultural heritage, including churches, museums and monuments. Based on site visits conducted since the invasion, we outline damage to the eleventh-century sites of Boldyni Hory, Chernihiv, and the church, citadel and graveyard at Oster, Chernihiv Oblast
Sensational Ensembles
Drawing on posthumanist and sensory archaeology, this paper explores ensemble practices as an alternative to Eurocentric conceptions of ritual as a heuristic of cross-cultural comparison. We identify ensemble practices as the gathering of assemblages that create meaning for participants through their comingling with evocative juxtapositions of bodies, objects, comestibles, built spaces, landscapes, and environmental forces. The sensorial intensit…
Divergent population dynamics in the middle to late Holocene lower Fraser valley and mid-Fraser canyon, British Columbia
Space making and home making in the world’s first villages
New understandings of the sea spray effect and its impact on bioavailable radiogenic strontium isotope ratios in coastal environments
Archaeological chemists compare the radiogenic strontium isotope ratios of humans to those of the environment in order to assess paleomobility in contexts across the world, spanning from periods before modern humans to current forensic applications. These methods rely on the variability of bioavailable strontium isotope ratios that is typically attributed to the age and composition of the geology, among other environmental factors. One such facto…
The Good Death and the Materiality of Mourning
Different Roles, Diverse Goals
Lithic Technological Organization and Hafting in Early Villages
Hafting is an important part of lithic technology that can increase our understanding of socioeconomic behavior in the past. In this article, we develop a holistic approach to studying hafting by using the concept of curation within a broader assessment of lithic technological organization in early villages. Early villages were loci of socioeconomic transformation as part of the shift from mobile foraging to more sedentary cultivation lifeways. W…
New insights on plant domestication, production intensification, and food storage
We present detailed accounts of the archaeobotanical remains recovered from the excavations of the southern Levantine Pre-Pottery Neolithic A site of Dhra‘, including metric and morphological analysis of barley grains. Comparisons with other early Epi-Palaeolithic and Neolithic sites indicate that the Dhra‘ grains are larger than recorded wild specimens, but fall at the lower range of domestic species, consistent with intermediary pre-domesticati…
Jericho Archaeological Site
Dreaming Beyond Gini
Along the Margins? The Later Bronze Age Seascapes of Western Ireland
This article presents the results of multi-scalar investigations into the Later Bronze Age (LBA; 1500–600 bc ) landscape of Inishark in County Galway, Ireland. The European LBA along the Atlantic coast was characterized by the development of long-distance maritime exchange systems that transformed environmentally marginal seascapes into a corridor of human interaction and movement of goods and people. Archaeological survey, test excavation, and r…
Material Geographies of House Societies
This paper explores how people within Neolithic villages were connected to co-resident multi-family households, and considers the potential material footprint of multi-family households within Neolithic villages. Drawing upon data from Çatalhöyük, I suggest that Neolithic communities were organized around multiple competing and cooperating Houses, similar to House Societies, where house members resided in clusters of abutting buildings, all large…
Differing in status, but one in spirit
Early medieval seascapes in Western Ireland and the geochemistry of ecclesiastical cross stones
Dynamic places, durable structures
The Neolithic refrigerator on a Friday night
The prehistoric development of food storage represents a major evolutionary transition, one potentially more important than the initial domestication of plants. Researchers, however, have yet to really deal with some of the critical practical questions related to the materiality of food storage and decision-making. Drawing upon experimental research this paper seeks to identify and model some of the critical interconnections between anticipated f…
Early Holocene woodland vegetation and human impacts in the arid zone of the southern Levant
Palynological archives dating from the Pleistocene–Holocene transition are scarce in the arid zone of the southern Levant. Anthracological remains (the carbonized residues of wood fuel use found in archaeological habitation sites) provide an alternative source of information about past vegetation. This paper discusses new and previously available anthracological datasets retrieved from excavated habitation sites in the southern Levant dating to t…
Vectors of Improvement
Early Human Decapitation, 11,700-10,700 cal bp, within the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Village of Tell Qaramel, North Syria
The process and timing of skull removal remains poorly understood by researchers. New archaeological and skeletal analysis from two skeletons from the early Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of Tell Qaramel, northern Syria, highlights that Neolithic villagers used stone tools to physically decapitate the dead. Drawing upon cutmarks on the axis and the mandible from primary and secondary burials, we employed a scanning electron microscope to document how…
Transformation by Fire
"This edited volume explores crematory practices as both an archaeological phenomenon and social practice, within cultural constructs. This exploration aims to illustrate the need to view cremation as a study of not only mortuary practices, but also of a dynamic social process that deals with 'death, movement of the body, and final deposition of remains' (Kuijt)"--Provided by publisher
Foraging, Farming, and Social Complexity in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Southern Levant
The Regeneration of Life
The social construction of identity and memory can be expressed through public ritual. The organization of mortuary practices, the repetitive use of imagery and figurines, and the long-term reuse of human skulls in the Near Eastern Neolithic illustrate how household ritual linked the living to the dead. Secondary mortuary practices and the plastering and painting of human skulls as ritual heirlooms served as a form of memorialization and erasure …
What Do We Really Know about Food Storage, Surplus, and Feasting in Preagricultural Communities
In studying the origins of agriculture it is critical that we envision food production as a long-term human process that centers on the control and management of cycles of plant reproduction, including the harvesting, storage, and planting of seed stock. Drawing upon a growing body of literature illustrating multiple trajectories and pathways to agriculture, I see domestication as developing through coevolution between human beings and the resour…
The changing Neolithic household
Seated Memory
Despite a long history of field research in the Neolithic of the Near East, archaeologists have a remarkably poor understanding of the degree of variation in mortuary practices within and between major Neolithic settlements. Such an understanding is critical for reconstructing the social, economic, and ritual interconnections between people in villages and, by extension, how researchers model social organization in early agricultural villages. Mo…
New Evidence from Southern Jordan
The development of architecture and settlement is central to discussions concerning the Neolithic transformation as the very visible evidence for the changes in society that run parallel to the domestication of plants and animals. Architecture has been used as an important aspect of models of how the transformation occurred, and as evidence for the sharp difference between huntergatherer and farming societies. We suggest that the emerging evidenc…
Sickle blade life-history and the transition to agriculture
Early Holocene woodland vegetation and human impacts in the arid zone of the southern Levant
Palynological archives dating from the Pleistocene–Holocene transition are scarce in the arid zone of the southern Levant. Anthracological remains (the carbonized residues of wood fuel use found in archaeological habitation sites) provide an alternative source of information about past vegetation. This paper discusses new and previously available anthracological datasets retrieved from excavated habitation sites in the southern Levant dating to t…
Place, Death, and the Transmission of Social Memory in Early Agricultural Communities of the Near Eastern Pre-Pottery Neolithic
Lithic Inter-Assemblage Variability and Cultural-Historical Sequences
Présentation détaillée des outils en silex et des objets en pierre recueillis dans deux secteurs du site PPNA de Dhra' (Jordanie). Les outils en silex de ces deux zones sont caractérisés par une grande proportion de pointes de projectiles ; pilons et bols constituent la collection d'objets en pierre obtenus par polissage ou piquetage. Deux différences importantes peuvent être observées entre les outils et ustensiles recueillis dans ces deux secte…
Early Neolithic use of upland areas of Wadi El-Yabis
Les fouilles qui se sont déroulées dans la grotte d'Iraq ed-Dubb (grotte de l'Ours), située dans les montagnes boisées du Wadi El-Yabis, en Jordanie du nord-ouest, ont révélé la présence de constructions en pierre et d'autres restes de culture matérielle datés par le C14 de 9.950 +/- 100 BP. Parmi les restes matériels de cette occupation PPNA, ont été mis au jour une construction ovale en pierre au sol en terre battue et deux sépultures, et recue…
Results from the 2001 Excavations at Dhra', Jordan
Présentation de l'industrie lithique recueillie en 2001 lors d'une campagne de fouilles de six semaines sur le site PPNA de Dhra ' au sud de la Jordanie. Les fouilles sur ce site ont produit un assemblage lithique qui est comparable ou même surpasse par sa qualité celui de Netiv Hagdud. L 'analyse étant en cours nous présentons ici une discussion détaillée de la technologie, de la typologie et de la répartition dans le site de l'assemblage lithiq…
The Neolithic refrigerator on a Friday night
The prehistoric development of food storage represents a major evolutionary transition, one potentially more important than the initial domestication of plants. Researchers, however, have yet to really deal with some of the critical practical questions related to the materiality of food storage and decision-making. Drawing upon experimental research this paper seeks to identify and model some of the critical interconnections between anticipated f…
People of the Middle Fraser Canyon
The Middle Fraser Canyon contains some of the most important archaeological sites in British Columbia, including the remains of ancient villages that supported hundreds, if not thousands, of people. How and why did these villages come into being? Why were they abandoned? In search of answers to these questions, Anna Marie Prentiss and Ian Kuijt take readers on a voyage of discovery into the ancient history of the St' t'imc, or Upper Lillooet peop…
Home is where we keep our food
Les archéologues ont longtemps considéré que le développement du système de stockage constituait une étape majeure dans le processus socio-économique de néolithisation, contribuant à la domestication des plantes, à des modes de vie sédentaires allant en s’accroissant et à une nouvelle organisation sociale. Dans le même temps notre compréhension du matériel associé au stockage des aliments est restée peu développée et dans de nombreux cas les arch…
Pottery Neolithic landscape modification at Dhra
This report of the discovery of low walls running across the slopes east of the Dead Sea presents an important landmark in the history of farming, for these were terrace walls put in place to conserve soil and control water around 6000 cal BC. The authors point to some of the implications of what they see as early landscape modification at the scale of a small community or household
Early Human Decapitation, 11,700-10,700 cal bp, within the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Village of Tell Qaramel, North Syria
The process and timing of skull removal remains poorly understood by researchers. New archaeological and skeletal analysis from two skeletons from the early Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of Tell Qaramel, northern Syria, highlights that Neolithic villagers used stone tools to physically decapitate the dead. Drawing upon cutmarks on the axis and the mandible from primary and secondary burials, we employed a scanning electron microscope to document how…
Vectors of Improvement
Reconsidering the Cause of Cultural Collapse in the Lillooet Area of British Columbia, Canada
The potential interconnections between human settlement systems, subsistence practices, and rapid, high-magnitude transformation of the physical landscape (e.g., earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and landslides) is an important issue of discussion in archaeology. This paper critically examines the argument that prehistoric abandonment of Classic Lillooet pithouse villages of south-central British Columbia, Canada, at approximately 1200-1000 B.P., …
Tur Imdai Rockshelter, Jordan
Neolithic Skull Removal
Kuijt Ian. Neolithic Skull Removal: Enemies, Ancestors, and Memory. In: Paléorient, 2009, vol. 35, n°1. pp. 117-120
Space making and home making in the world’s first villages
Material Geographies of House Societies
This paper explores how people within Neolithic villages were connected to co-resident multi-family households, and considers the potential material footprint of multi-family households within Neolithic villages. Drawing upon data from Çatalhöyük, I suggest that Neolithic communities were organized around multiple competing and cooperating Houses, similar to House Societies, where house members resided in clusters of abutting buildings, all large…
Dhra
Dhra' is an Early Neolithic village site located on the east side of the Dead Sea, and roughly contemporaneous with the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A period occupations at Jericho and Netiv Hagdud. Situated on an alluvial terrace near the springs of 'Ain Waida' Dhra' was a relatively large pre-agricultural community covering an area of approximately 80 m × 50 m, with a high concentration of oval or circular stone and mud structures. Excavations along t…
Chronological Frameworks and Disparate Technology
Est présentée ici une analyse détaillée de l’industrie lithique des occupations du Natoufien final et du PPNA d'Iraq ed-Dubb, Jordanie. Les fouilles conduites sur ce gisement ont permis de recueillir des artefacts provenant de dépôts datés par le radiocarbone, les uns se situant avant, les autres après la transition chasseurs-cueilleurs/ producteurs; un hiatus a été constaté dans l’occupation du site entre les deux. Aussi est-il apparu important …
Early Neolithic use of upland areas of Wadi El-Yabis
Les fouilles qui se sont déroulées dans la grotte d'Iraq ed-Dubb (grotte de l'Ours), située dans les montagnes boisées du Wadi El-Yabis, en Jordanie du nord-ouest, ont révélé la présence de constructions en pierre et d'autres restes de culture matérielle datés par le C14 de 9.950 +/- 100 BP. Parmi les restes matériels de cette occupation PPNA, ont été mis au jour une construction ovale en pierre au sol en terre battue et deux sépultures, et recue…
Tur Imdai Rockshelter, Jordan
Tell Es-Sukhne North
Outside of the Jordan Valley, the Early Bronze Age II of northern Jordan remains largely uninvestigated, though surveys have identified EB II sites throughout the region. Surface collections and test excavations at Tell es-Sukhne North in the central Zarqa Basin provide evidence of settlement and economic organization at a multi-component EB II site : identified extensive architectural remains, significant lithic and ceramic materials, including …
Negotiating Equality through Ritual
Dhra
Dhra' is an Early Neolithic village site located on the east side of the Dead Sea, and roughly contemporaneous with the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A period occupations at Jericho and Netiv Hagdud. Situated on an alluvial terrace near the springs of 'Ain Waida' Dhra' was a relatively large pre-agricultural community covering an area of approximately 80 m × 50 m, with a high concentration of oval or circular stone and mud structures. Excavations along t…
People and Space in Early Agricultural Villages
Lithic Inter-Assemblage Variability and Cultural-Historical Sequences
Présentation détaillée des outils en silex et des objets en pierre recueillis dans deux secteurs du site PPNA de Dhra' (Jordanie). Les outils en silex de ces deux zones sont caractérisés par une grande proportion de pointes de projectiles ; pilons et bols constituent la collection d'objets en pierre obtenus par polissage ou piquetage. Deux différences importantes peuvent être observées entre les outils et ustensiles recueillis dans ces deux secte…
Place, Death, and the Transmission of Social Memory in Early Agricultural Communities of the Near Eastern Pre-Pottery Neolithic
Reconsidering the Cause of Cultural Collapse in the Lillooet Area of British Columbia, Canada
The potential interconnections between human settlement systems, subsistence practices, and rapid, high-magnitude transformation of the physical landscape (e.g., earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and landslides) is an important issue of discussion in archaeology. This paper critically examines the argument that prehistoric abandonment of Classic Lillooet pithouse villages of south-central British Columbia, Canada, at approximately 1200-1000 B.P., …
Foraging, Farming, and Social Complexity in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Southern Levant
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and Late Natufian at 'Iraq ed-Dubb, Jordan
Results from the 2001 Excavations at Dhra', Jordan
Présentation de l'industrie lithique recueillie en 2001 lors d'une campagne de fouilles de six semaines sur le site PPNA de Dhra ' au sud de la Jordanie. Les fouilles sur ce site ont produit un assemblage lithique qui est comparable ou même surpasse par sa qualité celui de Netiv Hagdud. L 'analyse étant en cours nous présentons ici une discussion détaillée de la technologie, de la typologie et de la répartition dans le site de l'assemblage lithiq…
Excavations at 'Ain Waida', Jordan
Excavations conducted at the site of 'Ain Waida ', on the north side of the Wadi Dhra ', Jordan, have exposed the remains of a Pottery Neolithic village. Test excavations reveal at least two phases of occupation at 'Ain Waida ', with good preservation of extensive architectural, lithic, and ceramic materials. The earliest occupation of the site has been dated by radiocarbon to 6,100 BP uncalibrated (5,240-4,940 cal. ВС), in the Late Pottery Neoli…
Dhra', Excavation Project, 2002 Interim Report
This is an interim report on the second season of fieldwork and post-excavation analysis on the Pottery Neolithic and Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of Dhra', near the southern end of the Dead Sea in Jordan. Excavations to date have produced rich assemblages of pottery and lithics. In addition sets of features that can be attributed to each phase have been identified. Those from the PPNA are generally better preserved than those of the Pottery Neolit…
Between Foraging and Farming
Hem yeni gelismekte olan hem de daha onceleri yayinlanan malzemelerin tekrardan degerlendirilmesine dayanarak. Guney Levant’tan ele gecen radiometrik. mimari ve olu gomme adetlerine ait verilerin incelenmesi Canak Comleksiz Neolitik A / Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) ile Orta Canak Comleksiz Neolitik B / Middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (MPPNB) evreleri arasinda zaman ve kultur bakimindan guclu bir surekliligin bulundugunu onermekteyim. Bundan bask…
Sha'ar Hagolan 1
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and Late Natufian at 'Iraq ed-Dubb, Jordan
Excavations at the cave of Traq ed-Dubb, Jordan, help clarify our understanding of the transition from foraging to farming in the Near East. The people who occupied the site in the Late Natufian period (13,500–11,500 B.P) were a relatively mobile group who used the cave as a temporary base camp for local foraging and hunting. In contrast, the occupants in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A period (11,500–10,500 B.P) constructed at least two stone reside…
Chronological Frameworks and Disparate Technology
Est présentée ici une analyse détaillée de l’industrie lithique des occupations du Natoufien final et du PPNA d'Iraq ed-Dubb, Jordanie. Les fouilles conduites sur ce gisement ont permis de recueillir des artefacts provenant de dépôts datés par le radiocarbone, les uns se situant avant, les autres après la transition chasseurs-cueilleurs/ producteurs; un hiatus a été constaté dans l’occupation du site entre les deux. Aussi est-il apparu important …
Pottery Neolithic landscape modification at Dhra
This report of the discovery of low walls running across the slopes east of the Dead Sea presents an important landmark in the history of farming, for these were terrace walls put in place to conserve soil and control water around 6000 cal BC. The authors point to some of the implications of what they see as early landscape modification at the scale of a small community or household
Perforation with Stone Tools and Retouch Intensity
A measure of retouch intensity, the EKCI, was devised based upon function and archaeological context. To arrive at the function of Pre-Pottery Neolithic A el-Khiam points from the Near East, controlled experiments were performed to determine the relative density of the contact material, which could affect use and retouch patterns. It was shown that el-Khiam points were likely used to pierce and scrape soft materials such as leather. The EKCI was …
Lithic Core Reduction Techniques
We define diversity in core reduction systems as the degree of deviation from the most efficient means to proceed from the start to the end product exhibited in a given core reduction system. Because lithic core reduction systems are often characterized along a continuum of high or low degree of diversity, some archaeologists have suggested that assemblage diversity is linked to raw material availability and quality. In this paper we provide a mo…
The Regeneration of Life
The social construction of identity and memory can be expressed through public ritual. The organization of mortuary practices, the repetitive use of imagery and figurines, and the long-term reuse of human skulls in the Near Eastern Neolithic illustrate how household ritual linked the living to the dead. Secondary mortuary practices and the plastering and painting of human skulls as ritual heirlooms served as a form of memorialization and erasure …
Niche Construction, Macroevolution, and the Late Epipaleolithic of the Near East
Evidence for food storage and predomestication granaries 11,000 years ago in the Jordan Valley
Food storage is a vital component in the economic and social package that comprises the Neolithic, contributing to plant domestication, increasingly sedentary lifestyles, and new social organizations. Recent excavations at Dhra′ near the Dead Sea in Jordan provide strong evidence for sophisticated, purpose-built granaries in a predomestication context ≈11,300–11,175 cal B.P., which support recent arguments for the deliberate cultivation of wild c…
Sickle blade life-history and the transition to agriculture
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