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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A genetic history of the Balkans from Roman frontier to Slavic migrations
(Elsevier BV, 2023)
The rise and fall of the Roman Empire was a socio-political process with enormous ramifications for humanhistory. The Middle Danube was a crucial frontier and a crossroads for population and cultural movement.Here, we ...
The terracotta lamp in the shape of a gladiator's helmet from the Viminacium amphitheatre
(Institute Arheoloski Slovenska Academy of Science Arts, 2015)
The article discusses a terracotta lamp in the shape of a gladiator's helmet that was discovered inside the Viminacium amphitheatre. It was found near architectural structures probably devoted to a gladiatorial cult practice. ...
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. ...
Enclosing the Neolithic World A Vinca Culture Enclosed and Fortified Settlement in the Balkans
(Univ Chicago Press, Chicago, 2018)