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Prehistory of Serbia: A Breef Overview
(Cham : Springer, 2022)
esearch has shown that the territory present-day Serbia was continuously inhabited from the earliest prehistoric to historic times. Covering most of what is Serbia today, the Central Balkans acted as an important migration ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sulphur isotope evidence for freshwater fish consumption: a case study from the Danube Gorges, SE Europe
(Academic Press Ltd- Elsevier Science Ltd, London, 2010)
To explore the use of sulphur Isotopes as an indicator of the consumption of freshwater fish, we undertook sulphur isotope analysis on bone collagen extracted from humans and animals from five archaeological sites from the ...
Natural environment and resources, and the long life of the Neolithic settlement at Vina, southeast Europe
(Springer Heidelberg, Heidelberg, 2019)
The Neolithic settlement in Vina near Belgrade, Serbia, was occupied for more than a millennium (c. 5600-4500calBC); from about 5200calBC the occupation, associated with the regional Vina culture phenomenon, was uninterrupted. ...
Plant storage in Neolithic southeast Europe: synthesis of the archaeological and archaeobotanical evidence from Serbia
(Springer, New York, 2018)
This paper presents and evaluates the archaeobotanical and archaeological evidence of plant product storage from Early and Late Neolithic sites in Serbia, southeast Europe. The commonly stated and widely accepted archaeological ...
Pottery versus sediment: Optically stimulated luminescence dating of the Neolithic Vinca culture, Serbia
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, 2017)
Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating was applied to the Neolithic Vinca culture's type-site, Vinca Belo-Brdo, to establish best protocols for routine luminescence dating of similar Holocene sites, critical in ...
Evaluating Social Complexity and Inequality in the Balkans Between 6500 and 4200 BC
(Springer, New York, 2019)
The subject of this paper is the social structure and sociocultural evolution of Balkan Neolithic and Eneolithic societies between 6500 and 4200 BC. I draw on archaeological evidence from three major regions of the Balkans ...
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 ...
Vinča-Belo Brdo, Serbien: Die Zeiten Eines Tells / Vinča-Belo Brdo, Serbia: The times of a tell
(Verlag Philipp von Zabern GmbHs, 2015)
This paper presents formally modelled date estimates,within a Bayesian chronological frame-work, for the sequence of deposits and material at the great Neolithic tell of Vinca-Belo Brdo near Belgrade, Serbia, on the basis ...