Radiocarbon and stable isotope evidence of dietary change from the Mesolithic to the Middle Ages in the iron gates: New results from Lepenski Vir [PDF]
, 2004 A previous radiocarbon dating and stable isotope study of directly associated ungulate and human bone samples from Late Mesolithic burials at Schela Cladovei in Romania established that there is a freshwater reservoir effect of approximately 500 yr in ...
Radovanovic, I. +5 more
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Antlerworking Practices in Mesolithic Britain [PDF]
, 2012 This thesis aims to characterise the use of antler in the British Mesolithic, and to place this within the broader context of human and deer relations during the period.
Elliott, Benjamin
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Woodland clearance in the Mesolithic: the social aspects. [PDF]
, 2005 Did Mesolithic people regard the woodland as a wilderness or park? Previous models have portrayed the hunter-gatherers of the Mesolithic as in tune with nature and making use of clearings to attract game.
John G Robb +6 more
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Evol AnthropolABSTRACT This paper reconceptualizes fashion as a deep‐time system of bodily communication rather than a byproduct of modern consumer societies. We define fashion as a socially transmitted system of bodily display in which patterned variation occurs within shared conventions of appearance.
d'Errico F, Rigaud S.
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Ancient DNA Reveals Limited Hunter-Gatherer Ancestry in the Cerny Culture (Middle Neolithic, France) Despite Hunting-Associated Practices. [PDF]
Am J Biol AnthropolABSTRACT The arrival of the Neolithic way of life in Europe is associated with the migration of Anatolian farmers and their admixture with local hunter‐gatherers. In the Paris Basin (Northern France), the Middle Neolithic Cerny culture (4700–4300 bce) combines agricultural practices with funerary items linked to hunting, suggesting a particular ...
Sauvage J +10 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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The organizational and structural dimensions of hunter-gatherer lithic technology : theoretical perspectives from ethnography and ethnoarchaeology applied to the Mesolithic of mainland Britain with a case study from northern England. [PDF]
, 1987 The organizational (procurement, manufacture, maintenance/discard) and structural (composition, diversity, complexity) dimensions of contemporary hunter-gatherer technological strategies are discussed in terms of the selective advantages for limiting ...
Myers, Andrew M
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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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Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 2021 Stable isotopic data (δ13C; δ15N) were obtained from Mesolithic human and faunal remains from north- eastern Italy in order to document the human diet and provide information on the relationship between landscape use and subsistence strategies.
Valentina Gazzoni +7 more
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The Site Groß Fredenwalde, NE-Germany, and the Early Cemeteries of Northern Europe
Open Archaeology, 2023 The Mesolithic burial site Groß Fredenwalde, NE-Germany, discovered in 1962, had remained a poorly understood part of the Mesolithic burial record for decades. Since 2012, the site has been under re-investigation.
Kotula Andreas +5 more
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