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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 ...
Microbotanical evidence for the spread of cereal use during the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in the Southeastern Europe (Danube Gorges): Data from dental calculus analysis
(Academic Press Ltd- Elsevier Science Ltd, London, 2021)
Research increasingly suggests that natural and social environments shaped the Neolithic expansion of the farming niche into Europe. The Danube Gorges, on account of its position between the Mediterranean and more temperate ...
Fishing with lure hooks at the Late Neolithic site of Vinca - Belo Brdo, Serbia
(Academic Press Ltd- Elsevier Science Ltd, London, 2016)
The authors present an early evidence for the use of complex fishing techniques for obtaining variable fish resources in prehistoric south-east Europe as recovered at the Neolithic site of Vinta Belo Brdo in Serbia. In ...
External auditory exostoses and aquatic activities during the mesolithic and the neolithic in europe: Results from alarge prehistoric sample
(Anthropos Institute, 2014)
External auditory exostosis (EAE) appears to be a faithful marker of water-related activities. The frequency of this condition has been calculated for 449 European Mesolithic and Neolithic individuals from several geographic ...
Plant storage in Neolithic southeast Europe: synthesis of the archaeological and archaeobotanical evidence from Serbia
(Springer, New York, 2018)
This paper presents and evaluates the archaeobotanical and archaeological evidence of plant product storage from Early and Late Neolithic sites in Serbia, southeast Europe. The commonly stated and widely accepted archaeological ...
Megalovis balcanicus sp. nov. and Soergelia intermedia sp. nov. (Mammalia, Bovidae, Caprinae), new Ovibovini from the Early Pleistocene of Europe
(Revue de Paleobiologie, 2006)
The karstic cavern of Trlica, situated near the city of Pljevlja in Montenegro, has yielded a rich palaeontological assemblage of the Early Pleistocene age. Bovids remains are abundant and are represented by four species, ...
House Floor Area as a Correlate of Marital Residence Pattern: A Logistic Regression Approach
(Sage Publications Inc, Thousand Oaks, 2010)
The goal of this article is to reflect on the relationship between average house floor area and marital residence pattern. This article brings three novel elements to this research problem: (a) it combines cases from the ...
Radiocarbon test for demographic events in written and oral history
(Natl Acad Sciences, Washington, 2017)
We extend an established simulation-based method to test for significant short-duration (1-2 centuries) demographic events known from one documented historical and one oral historical context. Case study 1 extrapolates ...
Assessing continuity in the ancestral territory of the Tsleil-Waututh-Coast Salish, southwest British Columbia, Canada
(Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science, San Diego, 2018)
Archaeological interpretations of continuity and abandonment can have significant implications for descendent communities. Such interpretations are contingent on the social and spatial scale of analysis. We assess the ...
Trypillia Mega-Sites and European Prehistory 4100-3400 BCE
(Cambridge Univ Press, New York, 2018)