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Large-scale mitogenomic analysis of the phylogeography of the Late Pleistocene cave bear
(Nature Publishing Group, 2019)
The cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) is one of the Late Pleistocene megafauna species that faced extinction at the end of the last ice age. Although it is represented by one of the largest fossil records in Europe and has been ...
Cannibalism versus funerary defleshing and disarticulation after a period of decay: comparisons of bone modifications from four prehistoric sites
(Wiley, Hoboken, 2016)
Objectives: Humanly induced modifications on human and non-human bones from four archaeological sites of known funerary rituals (one interpreted as cannibalism and three interpreted as funerary defleshing and disarticulation ...
High-Resolution AMS Dating of Architecture, Boulder Artworks and the Transition to Farming at Lepenski Vir
(Nature Publishing Group, London, 2018)
The archaeological site of Lepenski Vir is widely known after its remarkable stone art sculptures that represent a unique and unprecedented case of Holocene hunter-gatherer creativity. These artworks were found largely ...
"Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe (vol 116, pg17231, 2019)
(National Academy of Sciences, 2020)
Earliest expansion of animal husbandry beyond the Mediterranean zone in the sixth millennium BC
(Nature Publishing Group, London, 2017)
Since their domestication in the Mediterranean zone of Southwest Asia in the eighth millennium BC, sheep, goats, pigs and cattle have been remarkably successful in colonizing a broad variety of environments. The initial ...
Demography of the Early Neolithic Population in Central Balkans: Population Dynamics Reconstruction Using Summed Radiocarbon Probability Distributions
(Public Library Science, San Francisco, 2016)
The Central Balkans region is of great importance for understanding the spread of the Neolithic in Europe but the Early Neolithic population dynamics of the region is unknown. In this study we apply the method of summed ...
Beyond culture history: Coast Salish settlement patterning and demography in the Fraser Valley, BC
(Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science, San Diego, 2016)
The florescence of large, regional radiocarbon data sets allows archaeologists to examine fine-scale, local changes in demography and settlement that are not tied to regional culture historical frameworks. We compile 599 ...
The spread of agriculture in south-eastern Europe: New data from North Macedonia
(y Cambridge University Press on behalf of Antiquity Publications Ltd., 2022)
North Macedonia is a crucial region for
understanding the spread of agriculture
into theMediterranean andCentral Europe.
To date, however, the area has been subject
to relatively limited archaeological research.
Here, ...
The Approximate Bayesian Computation approach to reconstructing population dynamics and size from settlement data: demography of the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition at Lepenski Vir
(Springer Heidelberg, Heidelberg, 2016)
Demographic aspects of prehistoric populations have an important role in current archaeological theory and empirical research. In this study, we develop a method to estimate population dynamics and population size and apply ...