A snapshot of Late Mesolithic life through death: An appraisal of the lithic and osseous grave goods from the Castelnovian burial of Mondeval de Sora (Dolomites, Italy). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 The Late Mesolithic in Southern Europe is dated to the 7th and the first part of the 6th millennia BCE and is marked by profound changes which are mostly evident in the technical know-how and tool-kit of the last hunter-fisher-gatherer societies.
Federica Fontana +5 more
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Open Archaeology, 2022 Lacking well-dated fifth millennium Mesolithic evidence and based on a consensus that late Mesolithic Britain was isolated from the continent, discussion of the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition has focused on the centuries around 4000 BC.
Lawrence Tom +4 more
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Cortical Bone Loss in Barcelona Across Time (1st Century CE-18th Century CE) and Its Potential Relationship With Linear Enamel Hypoplasia. [PDF]
Am J Biol AnthropolABSTRACT Objectives The purpose of this study is to conduct a diachronic analysis of cortical bone loss in Barcelona, spanning from the 1st to 18th century CE, assessing the relationship between cortical bone loss and early‐life stressors, as indicated by linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH) across Roman, Late Antiquity, Medieval, and Modern periods and ...
Cevallos A, Tarragó A, Rissech C.
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The Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Settlement of Northern Italy: Problems and Perspectives
QuaternaryThis paper considers some problems of the Late Palaeolithic and the Mesolithic periods in Northern Italy. More precisely, it deals with chronology, settlement pattern, techno-typological characteristics of knapped stone assemblages, and climatic changes ...
Paolo Biagi
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Technology and provenience of the oldest pottery in the northern Pannonian Basin indicates its affiliation to hunter-gatherers [PDF]
Scientific ReportsConsensus holds that pottery technology came to Central Europe from the Northern Balkans with independent pottery traditions existing concurrently in Eastern Europe.
Jan Petřík +11 more
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Поволжская археология, 2023 The article presents the results of a typological and functional analysis of flint assemblage from the Late Mesolithic layer (II half of the 7th – early 6th millennium cal BC) at the site Zamostje 2 (Volga-Oka region).
Lozovskaya Olga V. +3 more
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Genomic and dietary discontinuities during the Mesolithic and Neolithic in Sicily
iScience, 2022 Summary: Sicily is a key region for understanding the agricultural transition in the Mediterranean because of its central position. Here, we present genomic and stable isotopic data for 19 prehistoric Sicilians covering the Mesolithic to Bronze Age ...
He Yu +28 more
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Late Palaeolithic to Early Mesolithic transition in the Carpathian Basin
Communicationes Archaeologicae Hungariae, 2023 Szekszárd-Palánk is one of the handful in situ excavated sites from the Late Glacial period of East-Central Europe which is also supported by radiometric dating. However, the considerable time that has passed since its discovery necessitates a revision,
Attila Király, Róbert Kertész
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Quaternary, 2022 Palaeolake Flixton, in the eastern Vale of Pickering in northeast Yorkshire, UK, existed as open water during the Lateglacial and early to mid-Holocene, until hydroseral succession and gradual terrestrialisation changed it to an area of fen and basin ...
Ian G. Simmons +3 more
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Revisiting the chronological attribution of microlitic complexes of the Koksharovsky Hill and Vtoroy Poselok I [PDF]
Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2022 In this paper, we consider the reasons behind the attribution of microlitic complexes of the Koksharovsky Hill and the Vtoroy Poselok I site to the late Neolithic.
Serikov Yu.B.
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