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Sequential Incisions on a Cave Bear Bone from the Middle Paleolithic of Peturina Cave, Serbia
(Springer, New York, 2018)
We present the detailed analysis of a cervical vertebra from a cave bear, found at Peturina cave, Serbia, in a Mousterian archaeological level dated by radiocarbon at 43.5-44.6 kyr cal BP, and by ESR to between 93.5 and ...
Stressful times for women- Increased physiological stress in Neolithic females detected in tooth cementum
(Academic Press Ltd- Elsevier Science Ltd, London, 2020)
We used the tooth cementum annulation method (TCA) to investigate physiological stress before and during the Neolithic demographic transition in Europe. Episodes of physiological stress are reflected as "stress layers" in ...
Birth and death: infant burials from Vlasac and Lepenski Vir
(Cambridge Univ Press, Cambridge, 2004)
Why were infants buried beneath house-floors at the Mesolithic and early Neolithic site of Lepenski Vir? Undertaking a new analysis of the neonate remains at Vlasac and Lepenski Vir the authors reject the idea of sacrificial ...
Late Mesolithic lifeways and deathways at Vlasac (Serbia)
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, Abingdon, 2014)
Recent excavations (2006-2009) at the Mesolithic-Neolithic site of Vlasac in the Danube Gorges region of the north-central Balkans have focused on a reevaluation of previous conclusions about site formation processes, ...
Last hunters-first farmers: new insight into subsistence strategies in the Central Balkans through multi-isotopic analysis
(Springer Heidelberg, Heidelberg, 2019)
This paper presents new results of stable isotope analysis made on human and animal bones from Mesolithic-Neolithic sites (9500-5200calBC) in the Central Balkans. It reconstructs dietary practices in the Mesolithic and ...
False Analogy: Transfer of Theories and Methods in Archaeology (The Case of Serbia)
(Cambridge Univ Press, Cambridge, 2016)
As an academic discipline, archaeology is deeply rooted in the cultural, social, and political practices of Western Europe of the nineteenth century. The emergence of local scholarly communities in other parts of the ...
Archaeology, Theory in
(Elsevier Inc., 2015)
From the inception of academic archaeology, the position of theory in the discipline has been marked by influences from other fields of research, both in terms of the concepts applied and the general outlook on the proper ...
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 ...
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 ...
Low Prevalence of Lactase Persistence in Bronze Age Europe Indicates Ongoing Strong Selection over the Last 3,000 Years
(Cell Press, Cambridge, 2020)
Lactase persistence (LP), the continued expression of lactase into adulthood, is the most strongly selected single gene trait over the last 10,000 years in multiple human populations. It has been posited that the primary ...