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What is "European Archaeology'? What Should it be?
(Cambridge Univ Press, Cambridge, 2017)
European archaeology' is an ambiguous and contested rubric. Rooted in the political histories of European archaeology, it potentially unites an academic field and provides a basis for international collaboration and ...
Beyond the Bounds of Western Europe: Paleolithic Art in the Balkan Peninsula
(Springer, New York, 2020)
Paleolithic art offers unique perspectives on prehistoric societies and cultures. It is also considered a key component of modern human behavior. Until recently, Paleolithic artworks were thought to be geographically ...
The end of the affair: formal chronological modelling for the top of the Neolithic tell of Vinca-Belo Brdo
(Cambridge Univ Press, Cambridge, 2015)
Bayesian statistical frameworks have been used to calculate explicit, quantified estimates for site chronologies, and have been especially useful for resolving the complex probability distributions of calibrated radiocarbon ...
Was the Dog Locally Domesticated in the Danube Gorges? Morphometric Study of Dog Cranial Remains From Four Mesolithic-Early Neolithic Archaeological Sites by Comparison With Contemporary Wolves
(Wiley, Hoboken, 2015)
In this article, we test a hypothesis about local dog domestication in the Danube Gorges of the central Balkans in the course of the Mesolithic period. Morphometric features of dog mandibles and teeth from Mesolithic-Early ...
Age of Mammuthus trogontherii from Kostolac, Serbia, and the entry of megaherbivores into Europe during the Late Matuyama climate revolution
(Cambridge Univ Press, New York, 2015)
At the Drmno open-pit coal mine near Kostolac in Serbia, a nearly complete skeleton of Mammuthus trogontherii (nicknamed Vika) was discovered in a fluvial deposit overlain by a loess-paleosol sequence where a second ...
Between-group Differences in the Patterning of Musculo-skeletal Stress Markers: Avoiding Confounding Factors by Focusing on Qualitative Aspects of Physical Activity
(Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, 2013)
This paper presents a method for studying between-group differences in physical activity patterns through the analysis of musculo-skeletal stress markers (MSM). The specific aim was to develop a method that could overcome ...
Exploring the Effects of Assemblage Accumulation on Diversity and Innovation Rate Estimates in Neutral, Conformist, and Anti-Conformist Models of Cultural Transmission
(Springer, New York, 2015)
Recent research has shown that accumulation and time averaging can affect the neutrality tests used in evolutionary archaeology. This study builds upon this line of research and explores the effects of assemblage accumulation ...
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 ...
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 ...
False Analogy: Transfer of Theories and Methods in Archaeology (The Case of Serbia)
(Cambridge Univ Press, Cambridge, 2016)
As an academic discipline, archaeology is deeply rooted in the cultural, social, and political practices of Western Europe of the nineteenth century. The emergence of local scholarly communities in other parts of the ...