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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 ...
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 ...
Archaeological Traces of the Mongol Invasion on the Territory of Serbia
(High Anthropological Sch Univ, Kishinev, 2020)
During the Mongolian invasion of 1241-1242, parts of the territory of present-day Republic of Serbia have suffered its consequences in different ways. The worst situation was in the region north of the Sava and Danube ...
New ams c-14 dates for human remains from stone age sites in the iron gates reach of the Danube, southeast europe
(Univ Arizona Dept Geosciences, Tucson, 2015)
Archaeological investigations in the Iron Gates reach of the Lower Danube Valley between 1964 and 1984 revealed an important concentration of Stone Age sites, which together provide the most detailed record of Mesolithic ...
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, ...
Evaluating Social Complexity and Inequality in the Balkans Between 6500 and 4200 BC
(Springer, New York, 2019)
The subject of this paper is the social structure and sociocultural evolution of Balkan Neolithic and Eneolithic societies between 6500 and 4200 BC. I draw on archaeological evidence from three major regions of the Balkans ...
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 ...
The first Neanderthal specimen from Serbia: Maxillary first molar from the Late Pleistocene of Pesturina Cave
(Academic Press Ltd- Elsevier Science Ltd, London, 2019)
Neanderthals were the only human group in Europe throughout the Late Pleistocene until the arrival of modern humans, and while their presence has been confirmed in the surrounding regions, no Neanderthal fossils are known ...
Connections between the Levant and the Balkans in the late Middle Pleistocene: Archaeological findings from Velika and Mala Balanica Caves (Serbia)
(ElsevierAcademic Press, 2022)
Major changes in the technological, economic, and social behavior of Middle Pleistocene hominins
occurred at the onset of the Middle Paleolithic, 400e200 ka. However, until recently it was not possible
to establish when, ...
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 ...