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Technology and function: Performance characteristics and usage aspects of the neolithic pottery of the central balkans
(Archaeopress, 2020)
Technology is usually defined as the processes and practices associated with production and consumption, from design to discard; hence, pottery use is a part of complex social interactions that constitute technological ...
"Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe (vol 116, pg17231, 2019)
(National Academy of Sciences, 2020)
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 ...
Where's the Fire? Detection of Combustions Features and Analysis of Hearth-Centered Activity Areas with Lithic Analysis from the Aurignacian in Salitrena peina, Serbia
(Springer nature, London, 2020)
One of the important aspects of human life during prehistory was fire. However, in situ detection of combustion features in Paleolithic sites can sometimes be difficult because of post-depositional processes and the geology ...
A multi-phased burial mound in Novo Selo near Bijeljina
(Inst Arheologiju, Zagreb, 2021)
The first step of the investigations in Novo Selo near Bijeljina (Republic of Srpska), in the northeastern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina known as Semberija, took place between 2016 and 2019 in the frame of the project ...
Expansion of the Neolithic in Southeastern Europe: wave of advance fueled by high fertility and scalar stress
(Springer Heidelberg, Heidelberg, 2021)
What was driving the migrations of the first farmers across Europe? How were demography, society, and environment interconnected to give rise to the macroregional expansion pattern that archaeology is revealing? We simulate ...
Outlining the knapping techniques: Assessment of the shape and regularity of prismatic blades using elliptic Fourier analysis
(Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2021)
An important aspect of prismatic blade production is the choice of a knapping technique. This study tests the utility of elliptic Fourier analysis (EFA) for discriminating between different knapping techniques and offers ...
A string of marine shell beads from the Neolithic site of Vrsnik (Tarinci, Ovce pole), and other marine shell ornaments in the Neolithic of North Macedonia
(Publications Scientifiques Du Museum, Paris, Paris Cedex 05, 2021)
The study of ornaments made of marine shells has remarkable importance for understanding prehistoric societies. They tell us about fashion, aesthetic and cultural affinities of the individuals and social groups, as well ...
Winter temperature and forest cover have shaped red deer distribution in Europe and the Ural Mountains since the Late Pleistocene
(Wiley, Hoboken, 2021)
Aim The Expansion-Contraction model has been used to explain the responses of species to climatic changes. During periods of unfavourable climatic conditions, species retreat to refugia from where they may later expand. ...
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. ...