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Rewilded horses in European nature conservation - a genetics, ethics, and welfare perspective. [PDF]

Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc
ABSTRACT In recent decades, the integration of horses (Equus ferus) in European rewilding initiatives has gained widespread popularity due to their potential for regulating vegetation and restoring natural ecosystems. However, employing horses in conservation efforts presents important challenges, which we here explore and discuss.
Lovász L, Sommer-Trembo C, Barth JMI, Scasta JD, Grancharova-Hill R, Lemoine RT, Kerekes V, Merckling L, Bouskila A, Svenning JC, Fages A.   +10 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

A multiproxy approach to studying a large prehistoric enclosure in Ojców, Kraków Upland, Poland

Archaeological Prospection, Volume 28, Issue 4, Page 543-563, October/December 2021., 2021
Abstract Due to the presence of multiple caves and rock shelters as well as flint outcrops, Ojców Upland is a region with an exceptionally high concentration of prehistoric human settlement traces. It has attracted archaeologists for over 150 years, leading to what was considered to have been a proper prospection of the area.
Michał Leloch, Michał Jakubczak, Marcin Przybyła, Katarzyna Pyżewicz, Marcin Szeliga, Michał Wojenka, Grzegorz Czajka, Małgorzata Kot   +7 more
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Geoarchaeological evidence on a Late Bronze Age earthquake, Ohrid Basin (North Macedonia)

Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 36, Issue 6, Page 1003-1012, August 2021., 2021
ABSTRACT Geoarchaeological investigations on the northeastern shore of Lake Ohrid revealed 3.5 m thick deepwater lacustrine sediments overlying terrestrial vegetation macrofossils, worked wood and abundant potsherds dated to the Late Bronze Age (LBA).
J. Hošek, M. Verčík, P. Pokorný, J. Beneš, V. Komárková, T. Radoměřský, N. Atanasoska, V. Todoroska, P. Ardjanliev   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Genetic Variability of Present-Day Bulgarians Captures Ancient and Recent Ancestral Contributions. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
ABSTRACT Objectives Thanks to its pivotal crossroad position, Bulgaria played a fundamental key role during all the migration processes that interested the continent through time. While the genetic variability of the country has been deeply investigated using uniparental markers, previous genome‐wide autosomal‐based surveys mainly consisted of wider ...
Sarno S, Piccini F, Abondio P, Cilli E, Kuyumdjian EM, Dimitrov NA, Dilov CD, De Fanti S, Ciani G, Gentilini D, Boattini A, Sazzini M, Pettener D, Luiselli D.   +13 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Neolithic and Eneolithic settlement of the Karlovy Vary Region [PDF]

, 2023
The diploma thesis Neolithic and Eneolithic Settlement of the Karlovy Vary Region is based mainly on the analysis of the typical finds of this period, i.e. cut and chipped stone industry in the area of the region under study.
Tajer, Jan
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Unknown knowns. Eneolithic findings from Kietrz-Łęgi and Racibórz-Studzienna [PDF]

, 2014
The author carried out a thorough re-analysis of two eneolithic grave assemblages from Upper Silesia. Both burials discussed in the text yielded culturally and chronologically distinct vessels with discoid attachments of handles (Germ.
Chmielewski, Tomasz, Tomasz Chmielewski
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The origin of farming in the Lower Volga Region

Documenta Praehistorica, 2015
The paper focuses on the results of archaeological, palaezoological, and radiocarbon analyses of Neolithic and Eneolithic sites in the Northern Caspian and Lower Volga regions.
Alexander Vybornov, Pavel Kosintsev, Marianna Kulkova   +2 more
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Mullino II Settlement on the Ik-Belaya Interfluve: material culture, stratigraphy and radiocarbon chronology

Археология евразийских степей, 2022
Mullino II settlement has become widely popular in archaeological literature due to the work carried out at the site by A.P. Shokurov and G.N. Matyushin in the second half of the 20th century. The material culture of the settlement studied by the authors,
Victor V. Morozov, Anton V. Lyganov, Alexander A. Vybornov, Alexey L. Smirnov, Nadezhda S. Batueva   +4 more
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Vadniur I/7 — the final Neolithic and Eneolithic site of the Vychegda River [PDF]

Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2020
The author presents the results of his own survey of the Vadniur I settlement carried out in 2017. The site is located on the right bank of the Vychegda River in the Syktyvkar city, the Komi Republic (north-eastern Europe).
Karmanov V.N.
doaj   +1 more source

Ancient Genomes Reveal Unexpected Horse Domestication and Management Dynamics

BioEssays, Volume 42, Issue 1, January 2020., 2020
Ancient DNA preserved in horse fossil specimens has allowed the sequencing of extensive genome time series. These have illuminated the domestication process by which the characteristics of modern horses were first tamed, and further selected and exchanged by past breeders during history.
Ludovic Orlando
wiley   +1 more source