Tristan Carter

Middle Paleolithic Behavioral Insights from the Stelida Chert Source, Naxos (Greece)

This article provides the first detailed overview of Middle Paleolithic activity at the Naxian chert source of Stelida, based on an analysis of 780 artifacts collected from the …

Tristan Carter

Chronological and Post-Depositional Insights from Single-Grain IRSL Dating of a Palaeolithic Sequence at Stelida, Naxos (Greece)

Since 2015, the Stelida Naxos Archaeological Project (SNAP) has excavated a prehistoric site on what today is the northwest coast of Naxos, the largest island of the Cycladic …

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Cappadocian Obsidian Exchange Networks in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A: A Southern Levantine Perspective from El-Hemmeh (Jordan)

Anatolian obsidian is ubiquitous, but present in only scant amounts, in lithic assemblages recovered from Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) settlements of the southern Levant. These …

Tristan Carter

The Freston Causewayed Enclosure, Suffolk: Initial Insight and Hypothetical History

dots This paper details the large causewayed enclosure at Freston on the Shotley peninsula in dots Within this framework we primarily contextualise Freston within its East Anglian …

Tristan Carter

Matching Pragmatic Lithic Analysis and Proper Data Architecture: The QuARI R Shiny Database Interface

The documentation and analysis of archaeological lithics must navigate a basic tension between examining and recording data on individual artifacts or on aggregates of artifacts. …

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A New Minoan-type Peak Sanctuary on Stelida, Naxos

A long-recognised characteristic of Crete's later Bronze Age [BA] state-level society - the `Minoan civilization'of the 2nd millennium cal. BC - was the establishment of …

Tristan Carter

Earliest Occupation of the Central Aegean (Naxos), Greece: Implications for Hominin and Homo Sapiens' Behavior and Dispersals

We present evidence of Middle Pleistocene activity in the central Aegean Basin at the chert extraction and reduction complex of Stelida (Naxos, Greece). Luminescence dating places …

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The Stelida Naxos Archaeological Project (SNAP)

PI: Tristan Carter (McMaster U)

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