Talk:Nebelivka (archaeological site)

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Population estimate[edit]

The only source for the population estimate is currently Harper, Chronika, but that's a grad student journal. I've no idea what its status in archeology is, but isn't there a better source for this kind of thing? I looked for Ellis 1984, referenced in the Antiquity paper, but it's not available online AFAICT. QVVERTYVS (hm?) 22:25, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Being a graduate student journal doesn't necessarily mean it isn't a RS. Harper's is the latest and most reliable estimate, because frankly few people both trying to estimate population figures for prehistoric societies (it's an extremely back-of-the-napkin exercise). I can access Ellis 1984 if need be, but I'm fairly certain she didn't estimate population, and after she did her estimate would be completely out of data – Nebelivka was only known from aerial photography and a very rough geophysical plan at the time. I'm going to go ahead and remove the tag. Joe Roe (talk) 21:45, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest[edit]

I have a minor COI with this article since I've excavated at the site and have an ongoing association with the Tripillia Mega-Sites Project. However since there are some outstanding copyvio issues I'm going to go ahead and edit it directly per WP:COIU.

If anyone is interested into this into a substantial article I'd be happy to throw references at them on this talk page. Joe Roe (talk) 21:53, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Please do! I restored some of the information you removed, but in quote marks. QVVERTYVS (hm?) 08:51, 18 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

New publication[edit]

A report on the 2012 excavations of the 'temple' ('mega-structure' would be a better term as its function hasn't been established yet) has just been published: http://www.jna.uni-kiel.de/index.php/jna/article/view/110/111

There's lots of information to expand this article with in there! Joe Roe (talk) 14:40, 26 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]