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Cave bears (Carnivora, Ursidae) from the Middle and late Pleistocene of Serbia: A revision
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, 2014)
Cave bear remains are known from 36 caves and other karst features, and from one open-air site in Serbia. The sites vary greatly by their morphology and size, position, altitude, stratigraphy and diversity of the fossil ...
The Janda cavity at Fruska Gora, the first cave assemblage from the southeast Pannonian lowland (Vojvodina, Serbia)
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, 2014)
The recently discovered Janda cavity yielded the first large mammal fossil assemblage of the Late Pleistocene age in the southeast Pannonian lowland (Vojvodina), outside the karst region of Serbia. The cavity is formed in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
A skeleton of 'steppe' mammoth (Mammuthus trogontherii (Pohlig)) from Drmno, near Kostolac, Serbia
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, 2012)
The Kostolac mammoth was discovered in 2009 in Pleistocene deposits adjacent to the Drmno open-cast lignite mine in the Serbian Danube Basin. On the basis of cranial and dental features, the individual is identified as 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, ...