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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 ...
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 ...
The latest steppe mammoths (Mammuthus trogontherii (Pohlig)) and associated fauna on the Late Middle Pleistocene steppe at Nosak, Kostolac Basin, Northeastern Serbia
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, 2015)
In 2012, bones and tusks of mammoths and remains of other large mammals scattered in a line 130 m long have been discovered in the loess deposits at the Nosak mound in the Kostolac Basin (Northeastern Serbia). Preliminary ...
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 ...
Revealing the "hidden" Pannonian and Central Balkan Mesolithic: new radiocarbon evidence from Serbia
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, 2021)
With the exception of the well known Mesolithic sites in the Danube Gorges (or the Iron Gates), the wider areas of the Central Balkans and southern fringes of the Great Pannonian Plain still represent a terra incognita ...
Reconstruction of palaeoenvironment and ancient human activities at Obrovac-type settlements (Serbia) using a geochemical approach
(Elsevier Ltd, 2021)
This study aims to determine the palaeoenvironmental characteristics and activity patterns of Obrovac-type archaeological sites in Western Serbia, dated to the Late Neolithic/Early Eneolithic period, ∼5th millennium BC. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Observations on the origin and demography of the Vinča culture
(Elsevier Ltd, 2020)
The Vinča culture represents one the most important archaeological phenomena of the Neolithic and Eneolithic world in Southeastern Europe. As all other archaeological cultures, the Vinča culture is defined in the era of ...