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Revising the hypodigm of Homo heidelbergensis: A view from the Eastern Mediterranean
(ElsevierInternational Union for Quaternary Research, 2018)
The hominin mandible BH-1 from the Middle Pleistocene cave of Mala Balanica suggested the possibility that human populations in this part of the continent were not subject to the process of Neanderthalization observed in ...
Was the Dog Locally Domesticated in the Danube Gorges? Morphometric Study of Dog Cranial Remains From Four Mesolithic-Early Neolithic Archaeological Sites by Comparison With Contemporary Wolves
(Wiley, Hoboken, 2015)
In this article, we test a hypothesis about local dog domestication in the Danube Gorges of the central Balkans in the course of the Mesolithic period. Morphometric features of dog mandibles and teeth from Mesolithic-Early ...
On-site and off-site inwestern Serbia: A geoarchaeological perspective of Obrovac-type settlements
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, 2017)
The end of Neolithic is in western Serbia marked with a specific type of sites not known in other parts of the central Balkan area. These are small tell-like mounds, usually up to 50 m in diameter, called Obrovactype ...
Age of Mammuthus trogontherii from Kostolac, Serbia, and the entry of megaherbivores into Europe during the Late Matuyama climate revolution
(Cambridge Univ Press, New York, 2015)
At the Drmno open-pit coal mine near Kostolac in Serbia, a nearly complete skeleton of Mammuthus trogontherii (nicknamed Vika) was discovered in a fluvial deposit overlain by a loess-paleosol sequence where a second ...
Between-group Differences in the Patterning of Musculo-skeletal Stress Markers: Avoiding Confounding Factors by Focusing on Qualitative Aspects of Physical Activity
(Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, 2013)
This paper presents a method for studying between-group differences in physical activity patterns through the analysis of musculo-skeletal stress markers (MSM). The specific aim was to develop a method that could overcome ...
Cave bears (Carnivora, Ursidae) from the Middle and late Pleistocene of Serbia: A revision
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, 2014)
Cave bear remains are known from 36 caves and other karst features, and from one open-air site in Serbia. The sites vary greatly by their morphology and size, position, altitude, stratigraphy and diversity of the fossil ...
Living off the land: Terrestrial-based diet and dairying in the farming communities of the Neolithic Balkans
(Public Library Science, San Francisco, 2020)
The application of biomolecular techniques to archaeological materials from the Balkans is providing valuable new information on the prehistory of the region. This is especially relevant for the study of the neolithisation ...
Crop choice, gathered plants and household activities at the beginnings of farming in the Pelagonia Valley of North Macedonia
(Cambridge University Press, 2020)
A combined archaeobotanical and micro-refuse analysis is being implemented at two Early Neolithic tells currently under excavation in the Pelagonia Valley: Vrbjanska Čuka and Veluška Tumba. The first results suggest ...
Bone spoons for prehistoric babies: Detection of human teeth marks on the Neolithic artefacts from the site Grad-Starcevo (Serbia)
(Public Library Science, San Francisco, 2019)
Around 8000 years ago, throughout the Neolithic world a new type of artefact appeared, small spoons masterly made from cattle bone, usually interpreted as tools, due to their intensive traces of use. Contrary to those ...
Effects of Residential Mobility on the Ratio of Average House Floor Area to Average Household Size: Implications for Demographic Reconstructions in Archaeology
(Sage Publications Inc, Thousand Oaks, 2012)
The aim of this article is to test the hypothesis that mobile or predominantly mobile societies have a lower ratio of average house floor area to average household size. The analysis is performed on a cross-cultural sample ...