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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 ...
My mother was a tailor ... Women from the Middle La Tene culture cemetery Zvonimirovo-Veliko polje who made the spinning threads and clothes
(Inst Arheoloski Slovenska Acad Sci Arts, Ljubljana, 2019)
The Zvonimirovo-Veliko polje cemetery, located in the Middle Drava valley, close to Virovitica, is the only systematically researched cemetery of the La Tene culture in northern Croatia. On the basis of its finds, it can ...
A New Bronze Age Mega-fort in Southeastern Europe: Recent Archaeological Investigations at Gradiste Idos and their Regional Significance
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, Abingdon, 2020)
A newly discovered network of later Bronze Age fortified sites of unusually large size are discussed, with a primary focus on results of excavations at the site of Gradiste Idos. Closely associated with the rivers Mures, ...
On-site and off-site inwestern Serbia: A geoarchaeological perspective of Obrovac-type settlements
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, 2017)
The end of Neolithic is in western Serbia marked with a specific type of sites not known in other parts of the central Balkan area. These are small tell-like mounds, usually up to 50 m in diameter, called Obrovactype ...
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 ...
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 ...
Late Pleistocene voles (Arvicolinae, Rodentia) from the Baranica Cave (Serbia)
(Slovak Acad Sciences Geological Inst, Bratislava, 2012)
Baranica is a cave system situated in the south-eastern part of Serbia, four kilometers south to Knjazevac, on the right bank of the Trgoviski Timok. The investigations in Baranica were conducted from 1994 to 1997 by the ...
Crvena Stijena revisited: The Late Mousterian assemblages
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, 2017)
Crvena Stijena represents one of the key Middle Paleolithic sites in southeastern Europe. In the course of earlier investigations, the upper part of the Mousterian sequence was excavated on two occasions: in 1956 and 1958 ...