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Where's the Fire? Detection of Combustions Features and Analysis of Hearth-Centered Activity Areas with Lithic Analysis from the Aurignacian in Salitrena peina, Serbia
(Springer nature, London, 2020)
One of the important aspects of human life during prehistory was fire. However, in situ detection of combustion features in Paleolithic sites can sometimes be difficult because of post-depositional processes and the geology ...
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 ...
Outlining the knapping techniques: Assessment of the shape and regularity of prismatic blades using elliptic Fourier analysis
(Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2021)
An important aspect of prismatic blade production is the choice of a knapping technique. This study tests the utility of elliptic Fourier analysis (EFA) for discriminating between different knapping techniques and offers ...
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 ...
Technology and function: Performance characteristics and usage aspects of the neolithic pottery of the central balkans
(Archaeopress, 2020)
Technology is usually defined as the processes and practices associated with production and consumption, from design to discard; hence, pottery use is a part of complex social interactions that constitute technological ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...