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Revising the hypodigm of Homo heidelbergensis: A view from the Eastern Mediterranean
(ElsevierInternational Union for Quaternary Research, 2018)
The hominin mandible BH-1 from the Middle Pleistocene cave of Mala Balanica suggested the possibility that human populations in this part of the continent were not subject to the process of Neanderthalization observed in ...
Neanderthal settlement of the Central Balkans during MIS 5: Evidence from Pešturina Cave, Serbia
(Elsevier Ltd, 2021)
Recent research in the southern Central Balkans has resulted in the discovery of the first Middle Paleolithic sites in this region. Systematic excavations of Velika and Mala Balanica, and Pešturina (southern Serbia) revealed ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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, ...
Postcranial hominin remains from the Late Pleistocene of Pesturina Cave (Serbia)
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, 2020)
The Central Balkans represents a significant geographical gap in the human fossil record of Eurasia. Here we present two new human fossils from Pesturina Cave, Serbia: a partial atlas vertebra (C1) and a fragment of radial ...