Edited by Gary O. Rollefson and Hans Georg K. Gebel (managing editors: Hans Georg K. Gebel 1994-2002, Jürgen Baumgarten 2003-2008, Dörte Rokitta-Krumnow 2009-today).
A Newsletter of Southwest Asian Lithic Research (appears since 1994, two issues per year, c. 40-50 pages each.
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Die jungsteinSITE bietet eine wissenschaftliche Informations- und Diskussionsplattform für aktuelle archäologische Fragestellungen und Forschungsprojekte. Das thematische Spektrum umfasst alle Aspekte der Jungsteinzeit-Forschung; der geographische Schwerpunkt liegt im mitteleuropäischen Raum. Die Beiträge stammen in der Regel aus erster Hand, d.h. von Wissenschaftlern, die in den dargestellten Projekten federführend bzw. in den jeweiligen Forschungsfeldern wissenschaftlich tätig sind.
The Journal of Neolithic Archaeology provides a scientific information platform on the archaeology of the Neolithic period. The articles are mainly in German and English, and for all articles English summaries and figure captions are available.
The GLOBALKITES research project is financed by the French Research Agency (ANR) (2013-2017). It has several important collaborations with international institutions and academics. It proposes to define the variability, dating, distribution and functionality of major archaeological stone-made structures called “desert kites”. Often considered as hunting traps, the kites could have been also used for animal domestication. In a broader archaeological context, where kites seem to have been used from the Neolithic to sub-contemporaneous times, we propose an interdisciplinary approach at the crossings of anthropology (archeology and ethnology), geomatics and geoarchaeological and bioarchaeological sciences.
Scaloria Cave, Grotta Scaloria, is in Apulia, where the Tavoliere Plain rises to meet the Gargano peninsula. Hundreds of villages were located there during the Neolithic period, the villagi trincerati first identified from aerial photographs taken by the British RAF during WW II. Certainly some of these Neolithic villagers of the Tavoliere visited Scaloria Cave, for refuge from the elements, and for the mysterious rituals held in both the Lower and Upper Chambers.
Grotta Scaloria was first discovered and explored in 1931, excavated briefly in 1967, and extensively from 1978–80 by a joint UCLA-University of Genoa team, but never fully published. The Save Scaloria Project was organized to locate this legacy data, and to enhance that information by application of the newest methods of archaeological and scientific analysis.
Finally, this important site is published, in one comprehensive volume that gathers together the archaeological data from the Upper and Lower Chambers of Scaloria Cave, which indicate intense ritual and quotidian use during the Neolithic (ca 5600-5300 BC). The Grotta Scaloria project is also important as historiography, since it illustrates a changing trajectory of research spanning three generations of European and American archaeology.
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Appendix 1: L’Eneolitico di Manfredonia nella Grotta di ‘Occhiopinto’ Appendix 2: The Heritage of Two Subsistence Strategies Appendix 3: “Cult of the Waters” 
Appendix 4b: Report on 1980 Research of 1979 Excavation of Grotta Scaloria at Manfredonia, Southeast Italy 
Appendix 4c: The Scaloria Cave Appendix 4a: Preliminary Report on 1979 Excavations at Scaloria Cave near Manfredonia, Italy 
Appendix 4d: Extracts Regarding Scaloria from "The Language of the Goddess" and "Civilization of the Goddess" 
Appendix 5: Interviews with Santo Tiné, Luigi Coppolecchia, Giulio Perotti, and Sergio Duda Appendix 6a-b: Letter from Enrico Davanzo to Santo Tiné Appendix 7: Daybook 1979 
Appendix 8: Field Catalogue: 1979 excavation season Appendix 9: Raw data from the 1980 lithic study 
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