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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 ...
High-Resolution AMS Dating of Architecture, Boulder Artworks and the Transition to Farming at Lepenski Vir
(Nature Publishing Group, London, 2018)
The archaeological site of Lepenski Vir is widely known after its remarkable stone art sculptures that represent a unique and unprecedented case of Holocene hunter-gatherer creativity. These artworks were found largely ...
The goodness of fit and statistical significance of seriation solutions
(Academic Press Ltd- Elsevier Science Ltd, London, 2013)
This paper presents a method for determining the statistical significance and goodness of fit of seriation solutions based on correspondence analysis. The basic assumption is that seriation solutions corresponding to ...
Physical activity and social status in Early Bronze Age society: The Mokrin necropolis
(Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science, San Diego, 2009)
This paper investigates the social structure of an Early Bronze Age society whose members were buried at the necropolis of Mokrin (Serbia, Southeastern Europe), by comparative analysis of musculo-skeletal markers (MSM) of ...
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 ...
Primary Teeth Bite Marks Analysis on Various Materials: A Possible Tool in Children Health Risk Analysis and Safety Assessment
(MDPI, Basel, 2019)
Background: All objects put into a child's mouth could be hazardous in terms of trauma and toxic substance exposure. The aims of this study were to evaluate morphological characteristics of the primary teeth bite marks ...
Last hunters-first farmers: new insight into subsistence strategies in the Central Balkans through multi-isotopic analysis
(Springer Heidelberg, Heidelberg, 2019)
This paper presents new results of stable isotope analysis made on human and animal bones from Mesolithic-Neolithic sites (9500-5200calBC) in the Central Balkans. It reconstructs dietary practices in the Mesolithic and ...
Sequential Incisions on a Cave Bear Bone from the Middle Paleolithic of Peturina Cave, Serbia
(Springer, New York, 2018)
We present the detailed analysis of a cervical vertebra from a cave bear, found at Peturina cave, Serbia, in a Mousterian archaeological level dated by radiocarbon at 43.5-44.6 kyr cal BP, and by ESR to between 93.5 and ...
Sulphur isotope evidence for freshwater fish consumption: a case study from the Danube Gorges, SE Europe
(Academic Press Ltd- Elsevier Science Ltd, London, 2010)
To explore the use of sulphur Isotopes as an indicator of the consumption of freshwater fish, we undertook sulphur isotope analysis on bone collagen extracted from humans and animals from five archaeological sites from the ...
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 ...