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Crvena Stijena revisited: The Late Mousterian assemblages
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, 2017)
Crvena Stijena represents one of the key Middle Paleolithic sites in southeastern Europe. In the course of earlier investigations, the upper part of the Mousterian sequence was excavated on two occasions: in 1956 and 1958 ...
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 ...
Eucladoceros montenegrensis n. sp and other Cervidae from the Lower Pleistocene of Trlica (Montenegro)
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, 2015)
The fossil remains of cervids from Trlica in Montenegro are described and assigned to the elk or moose Alces cf. carnutorum, the roe deer ? Capreolus sp., the red deer Cervus elaphus, and Eucladoceros. The new species ...
Roman emperors and identity constructions in modern Serbia
(Taylor & Francis Inc, Philadelphia, 2015)
Drawing from the constructivist approach to heritage that defines it as a reflection of contemporary social circumstances, we attempt to outline the key agencies and processes shaping the reception of the Roman heritage ...
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 ...
What is "European Archaeology'? What Should it be?
(Cambridge Univ Press, Cambridge, 2017)
European archaeology' is an ambiguous and contested rubric. Rooted in the political histories of European archaeology, it potentially unites an academic field and provides a basis for international collaboration and ...
Spearheading into the Neolithic: Last Foragers and First Farmers in the Dinaric Alps of Montenegro
(Cambridge University Press, 2019)
This article presents a summary of new evidence for the Mesolithic in the Dinaric Alps of Montenegro. The region is one of the best areas in south-eastern Europe to study Early Holocene foragers and the nature of the ...
Late Pleistocene voles (Arvicolinae, Rodentia) from the Baranica Cave (Serbia)
(Slovak Acad Sciences Geological Inst, Bratislava, 2012)
Baranica is a cave system situated in the south-eastern part of Serbia, four kilometers south to Knjazevac, on the right bank of the Trgoviski Timok. The investigations in Baranica were conducted from 1994 to 1997 by the ...
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 ...
Spavin in red deer: A case study from the Early Neolithic Blagotin, Serbia
(Elsevier Science Inc, New York, 2016)
Pathological modifications are rarely observed in the remains of wild animals from archaeological sites. We present one such specific, pathological change a case of spavin in a red deer specimen from the Early Neolithic ...