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The article presents in two aspects the flint material from the Final Palaeolithic Arch Backed Piece technocomplex from the site of Nowy Młyn Cypel at Rydno. The typological, morphological and technological analyses of the artefacts, show, among others, characteristic features of the so-called Kamienna variant of the ABP complex, probably an older component of the Arch Backed Piece assemblages, which may be a testimony to the local process of azilianisation in Poland. The undertaken attempt at reconstructing the spatial arrangement of the flint concentrations, associated with features with haematite coloured fill, allows determining the character and organisation of the campsites, as well as the types of flint processing and economic activities of the inhabitants. An artefact distribution analysis, the refitting method and Dick Stapert's ring and sector method were utilised in the study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 2019 season in Metsamor confirmed the functioning of the settlement in the Urartian period. House II, discovered during the fieldwork, is the first architectural structure built at the beginning of the Early Iron Age period which, after some possible rearrangements, retained control over the Araxes valley during the Urartian kingdom. Pottery discovered there confirms that the already excavated part of the settlement was extensively used after the fall of Urartu. A pit grave dated to the 7th century BC yielded a late Urartian cylinder seal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper discusses spatial analysis at site level. It is suggested that spatial analysis has to proceed in several levels, from global to more detailed questions, and that optimum resolution should be established when applying any quantitative methods in this field. As an example, the ring and sector method is applied to two hearths excavated at the Federmesser site of Andernach in Germany. One hearth can be shown to have been present inside a dwelling, while the second one was out in the open. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]