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Cannibalism versus funerary defleshing and disarticulation after a period of decay: comparisons of bone modifications from four prehistoric sites
(Wiley, Hoboken, 2016)
Objectives: Humanly induced modifications on human and non-human bones from four archaeological sites of known funerary rituals (one interpreted as cannibalism and three interpreted as funerary defleshing and disarticulation ...
Yours ever ... or who was Katherine Brown? Investigations of prehistoric Vinca and British influences during and after World War I
(Univerzitet u Beogradu - Filozofski fakultet - Odeljenje za etnologiju i antropologiju, Beograd, 2016)
As the 110th anniversary of the beginning of the excavations at Vinca is nearing, the question arises as to how much we really know about the role and motives of a number of British subjects who in various ways played ...
Spavin in red deer: A case study from the Early Neolithic Blagotin, Serbia
(Elsevier Science Inc, New York, 2016)
Pathological modifications are rarely observed in the remains of wild animals from archaeological sites. We present one such specific, pathological change a case of spavin in a red deer specimen from the Early Neolithic ...
Marine shell hoard from the Late Neolithic site of Čepin-Ovčara (Slavonia, Croatia)
(Univerza v Ljubljani, 2016)
The focus of this paper is the ornament hoard from the Sopot culture site of čepin-Ov-čara in eastern Slavonia (the Republic of Croatia). The hoard contained pendants and beads made of shells of marine clam Spondylus ...
Seal-die of Prince Lazar from Rudnik
(Arheološki institut, Beograd, 2016)
The medieval settlement on the Rudnik Mountain was established, most
probably, in the final decades of the 13th century. Soon it evolved into one
of the best known mining and commercial centres in the Serbian state and
...
Vasic's law of periphery
(Univerzitet u Beogradu - Filozofski fakultet - Odeljenje za etnologiju i antropologiju, Beograd, 2016)
The understanding of the ways in which the pioneer of Serbian archaeology Miloje M. Vasic explained cultural changes is important for the archaeological tradition we work in. Consequently, the aim here is to detect the ...
Atenica: in search of lost pyre
(Univerzitet u Beogradu - Filozofski fakultet - Odeljenje za etnologiju i antropologiju, Beograd, 2016)
Symbolic and cult practices of a community undoubtedly play an important role in the formation of funerary contexts. On the other hand, in the absence of written records on these practices, archaeologists are inclined to ...
Physical Geographic Characteristics and Sustainable Development of the Mountain Area in Montenegro
(Springer Cham, 2016)
Montenegro is located in the Balkan Penninsula, which is extremely mountainous country. More than two thirds of the total area is mountainous. There are four macro relief units in the mountain area: mountain plains, valleys ...
Demography of the Early Neolithic Population in Central Balkans: Population Dynamics Reconstruction Using Summed Radiocarbon Probability Distributions
(Public Library Science, San Francisco, 2016)
The Central Balkans region is of great importance for understanding the spread of the Neolithic in Europe but the Early Neolithic population dynamics of the region is unknown. In this study we apply the method of summed ...
Beyond culture history: Coast Salish settlement patterning and demography in the Fraser Valley, BC
(Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science, San Diego, 2016)
The florescence of large, regional radiocarbon data sets allows archaeologists to examine fine-scale, local changes in demography and settlement that are not tied to regional culture historical frameworks. We compile 599 ...