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Anthropomorphic figurines from Vinca excavations 1998-2009
(Univ Ljubljani, Fak Filozofska, Ljubljana, 2011)
The paper presents figurines from excavations at Vinca 1998-2000 dated to the very end of the Late Neolithic. Along with a presentation and analysis of these objects, the paper addresses questions of the development of ...
An exercise in archaeological demography: estimating the population size of Late Neolithic settlements in the Central Balkans
(Univ Ljubljani, Fak Filozofska, Ljubljana, 2011)
This paper reflects on the methodology for estimating population size from settlement data. Archaeologists are faced with a static record of houses, which is the result of dynamic processes of population growth and house ...
Mesolithic cremations as elements of secondary mortuary rites at Vlasac (Serbia)
(Univ Ljubljani, Fak Filozofska, Ljubljana, 2009)
In the course of recent excavations of the Mesolithic-Neolithic site of Vlasac, new light has been shed on the mortuary practices and ritualistic behaviour of the Danube Gorges foragers on the basis of human remains with ...
The bioarchaeology of the Neolithic transition: Evidence of dental pathologies at Lepenski Vir (Serbia)
(Univerza v Ljubljani, 2013)
The Neolithic transition affected human biology, which is visible as a series of interrelated skeletal and dental pathological conditions. The population of Lepenski vir culture, which inhabited the region of the Danube ...
Becoming sedentaryZ the seasonality of food resource exploitation in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Danube gorges
(Univerza v Ljubljani, 2016)
In this paper, we investigate whether the Mesolithic-Neolithic sites in the Danube Gorges were occupied seasonally or all year round by looking at animal skeletal remains. The hunting seasons of most important game animals ...
New radiocarbon dates, stable isotope, and anthropological analysis of prehistoric human bones from the Balkans and Southwestern Carpathian Basin
(University of Ljubljana Press, Slovenia, 2021)
The paper provides a detailed overview of new radiocarbon dates, stable isotopes, and anthropological information obtained on prehistoric human remains (mostly Neolithic) from the Balkans and southwestern Carpathian Basin. ...
The domestication of human birth
(Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts), 2006)
Observations of the burial places of newborns at the prehistoric site at Lepenski Vir (Serbia) revealed the possibility that deliveries took place inside houses that were heated. Warm houses provided a thermally stable ...