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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.
Davies, P, Ladbrook, D, Robb, J.G
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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., Bonsall, C., Cook, G.T., Pickard, C., Higham, T.F.G., Hedges, R.E.M.   +5 more
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Technology and provenience of the oldest pottery in the northern Pannonian Basin indicates its affiliation to hunter-gatherers [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Consensus holds that pottery technology came to Central Europe from the Northern Balkans with independent pottery traditions existing concurrently in Eastern Europe.
Jan Petřík, Karel Slavíček, Katarína Adameková, Victory A. J. Jaques, Martin Košťál, Peter Tóth, Libor Petr, Dalibor Všianský, Tomas Zikmund, Jozef Kaiser, Jozef Bátora, Penny Bickle   +11 more
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Typological Analysis and Assessment of the Bone-Working Stone Inventory of the Zamostje 2 Late Mesolithic Layer

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., Fedorova Daria N., Malyutina Anna А. , Taktasheva Snezhana D.   +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, Marieke S. van de Loosdrecht, Marcello A. Mannino, Sahra Talamo, Adam B. Rohrlach, Ainash Childebayeva, Vanessa Villalba-Mouco, Franziska Aron, Guido Brandt, Marta Burri, Cäcilia Freund, Rita Radzeviciute, Raphaela Stahl, Antje Wissgott, Helen Fewlass, Antonio Tagliacozzo, Marcello Piperno, Sebastiano Tusa, Carmine Collina, Vittoria Schimmenti, Rosaria Di Salvo, Kay Prüfer, Cosimo Posth, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Detlef Gronenborn, Didier Binder, Choongwon Jeong, Wolfgang Haak, Johannes Krause   +28 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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Lateglacial to Mid-Holocene Vegetation History in the Eastern Vale of Pickering, Northeast Yorkshire, UK: Pollen Diagrams from Palaeolake Flixton

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, Gaynor E. Cummins, Barry Taylor, James B. Innes   +3 more
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Investigating the diet of Mesolithic groups in the Southern Alps: An attempt using stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses

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, Gwenaëlle Goude, Giampaolo Dalmeri, Antonio Guerreschi, Elisabetta Mottes, Franco Nicolis, Fabrizio Antonioli, Federica Fontana   +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, Terberger Thomas, Jungklaus Bettina, Piezonka Henny, Schenk Thomas, Schopper Franz   +5 more
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Interpreting transfers of rocks during the Mesolithic in the West of France

Journal of Lithic Studies, 2020
The crystalline geological substratum of the Armorican Massif, in the West of France, is devoid of flint nodules in primary position. As a result, during Prehistory, humans developed different strategies for making their toolkits, either by adapting ...
Gregor Marchand
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