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Neanderthal settlement of the Central Balkans during MIS 5: Evidence from Pešturina Cave, Serbia
(Elsevier Ltd, 2021)
Recent research in the southern Central Balkans has resulted in the discovery of the first Middle Paleolithic sites in this region. Systematic excavations of Velika and Mala Balanica, and Pešturina (southern Serbia) revealed ...
Beyond the Bounds of Western Europe: Paleolithic Art in the Balkan Peninsula
(Springer, New York, 2020)
Paleolithic art offers unique perspectives on prehistoric societies and cultures. It is also considered a key component of modern human behavior. Until recently, Paleolithic artworks were thought to be geographically ...
Microbotanical evidence for the spread of cereal use during the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in the Southeastern Europe (Danube Gorges): Data from dental calculus analysis
(Academic Press Ltd- Elsevier Science Ltd, London, 2021)
Research increasingly suggests that natural and social environments shaped the Neolithic expansion of the farming niche into Europe. The Danube Gorges, on account of its position between the Mediterranean and more temperate ...
A New Bronze Age Mega-fort in Southeastern Europe: Recent Archaeological Investigations at Gradiste Idos and their Regional Significance
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, Abingdon, 2020)
A newly discovered network of later Bronze Age fortified sites of unusually large size are discussed, with a primary focus on results of excavations at the site of Gradiste Idos. Closely associated with the rivers Mures, ...
Stressful times for women-Reply to Edinborough et al. (2021)
(Academic Press Ltd- Elsevier Science Ltd, London, 2021)
This work is a reply to the comment by Edinborough et al. (2021) on our recently published paper (Penezic ' et al., 2020). In our original paper we presented the results based on the tooth cementum annulation analysis that ...
Percrocuta miocenica (Percrocutidae, Carnivora) from the middle Miocene of Brajkovac (Central Serbia)
(Elsevier France-Editions Scientifiques Medicales Elsevier, Issy-Les-Moulineaux, 2021)
This paper describes a well-preserved hemimandible of Percrocuta miocenica from Brajkovac (Lazarevac municipality, Central Serbia). Based on the faunal remains recovered so far, the site is attributed to Mammal Zone MN6 ...
Archaeological Traces of the Mongol Invasion on the Territory of Serbia
(High Anthropological Sch Univ, Kishinev, 2020)
During the Mongolian invasion of 1241-1242, parts of the territory of present-day Republic of Serbia have suffered its consequences in different ways. The worst situation was in the region north of the Sava and Danube ...
Lost in transition: Between late pleistocene and Early Holocene around the adriatic
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, 2020)
What happened at the transition between late Pleistocene and early Holocene in Italy and the Western Balkans remains up to now an unresolved question. While in recent years, research has been conducted in several re-gions, ...
Postcranial hominin remains from the Late Pleistocene of Pesturina Cave (Serbia)
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, 2020)
The Central Balkans represents a significant geographical gap in the human fossil record of Eurasia. Here we present two new human fossils from Pesturina Cave, Serbia: a partial atlas vertebra (C1) and a fragment of radial ...
Push-and-pull factors of the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in the Balkans
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, 2020)
Recent research into the Paleolithic in the Balkans has provided better insights into the push-and-pull factors that influenced the expansion of modern humans into Europe, and the processes which led to the demise of the ...