Neanderthals on the Lower Danube: Middle Palaeolithic evidence in the Danube Gorges of the Balkans. [PDF]
AbstractThe article presents evidence about the Middle Palaeolithic and Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition interval in the karst area of the Danube Gorges in the Lower Danube Basin. We review the extant data and present new evidence from two recently investigated sites found on the Serbian side of the Danube River – Tabula Traiana and Dubočka ...
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Becoming sedentary? The seasonality of food resource exploitation in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Danube Gorges [PDF]
In this paper, we investigate whether the Mesolithic-Neolithic sites in the Danube Gorges were occupied seasonally or all year round by looking at animal skeletal remains.
Vesna Dimitrijević +2 more
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Ageing in the Danube gorges population (9500-5500 BC): Tooth cementum annulation method [PDF]
Tooth cementum annulation, the microscopic method for the determination of an individual’s age, gives results that are highly correlated with the chronological age of an individual.
Radović Marija B.
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The data-set described here comprises cranial pathology data and cranial age assessment for 113 individuals from four Mesolithic-Neolithic sites in the Danube Gorges, Serbia.
Marija Radović +2 more
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In recent years, humanities have brought forward the idea of non-human agency; either in the form of meanings bestowed upon objects, animals and natural phenomena, or through deconstruction of ontological differences between ‘people’ and ‘things’.
Ivana Živaljević
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Une proposition de circuit géotouristique avec un guide des Gorges du Danube en Roumanie [PDF]
A proposal for a geotouristic circuit with guide in the Danube’s Gorges in Romania. In the previous issue of this journal we published a research on the geo(morpho)logic characteristics of the Iron Gates in Romania and the existing issues regarding
DANIEL IOSIF
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Wild cereal grain consumption among Early Holocene foragers of the Balkans predates the arrival of agriculture [PDF]
Forager focus on wild cereal plants has been documented in the core zone of domestication in southwestern Asia, while evidence for forager use of wild grass grains remains sporadic elsewhere.
Emanuela Cristiani +11 more
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Dancing in the Danube Gorge: Geography, dance, and interethnic perspectives [PDF]
This paper will look at dance practices of Romanian and Serbian villagers along the Danube Gorge which historically functioned as a natural and political boundary. Opportunities for dancing in all villages in the Gorge are still very common and frequented especially during the summer time.
Selena Rakočević
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Cromagnon in the Iron Gate Gorge of the Danube [PDF]
RADIOCARBON datings on human skeletons from the Padina site in the Iron Gate Gorge of the Danube in Yugoslavia have revealed that they belonged to a population at least 9,000yr old. This age is of especial importance because it is the earliest yet obtained by radiocarbon analysis for human bones from the region.
Srboljub Živanović
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Tourism development in the borderlands of Romania: A case study of the Danube Gorge–Iron Gates
Border areas are a real challenge for tourism development. Usually associated with the periphery from a socio-economic point of view, these areas often have natural potential and attractive landscapes that have been little transformed by human activity and numerous historical and cultural tourist attractions.
Andrei-Florin Băbăț, Sorin Pavel
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