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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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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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The Late Upper Palaeolithic and earliest Mesolithic evidence of burials in Europe [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2018 Burials of the Late Palaeolithic (14 000–11 600 cal years before present, henceforth BP) are a rare phenomenon in Europe. Several sites possess burials of single and double individuals. As with the preceding Magdalenian, the burial of more than two individuals in the same grave cutting seems to be unusual, but does occur occasionally. The deposition of
Jörg Orschiedt
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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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Open Archaeology, 2023 The notion of style has been the subject of much research and theoretical development in prehistoric archaeology. This vast concept touches several fields, including the morphology of artefacts, technical gestures and their function.
Gregor Marchand
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Flexibility and diversity in subsistence during the late Mesolithic
Danish Journal of Archaeology, 2014 In 2007, excavations at the late Mesolithic (Ertebølle) coastal site of Asnæs Havnemark recovered a wealth of flint, bone, and ceramic artefacts. A comprehensive analysis of the faunal remains resulted in over 50,000 identified specimens.
Kenneth C. Ritchie +2 more
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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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