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Open Archaeology, 2022 This article focuses on the Mesolithic occupation of mountain environments in Europe. The montane Mesolithic is a important aspect of the Mesolithic as a whole, but neither its significance nor its potential is fully recognised.
Warren Graeme
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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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Pioneer Archaeologists and the Influence of Their Scientific Relationships on Mesolithic Studies in North Iberia [PDF]
Open Archaeology, 2022 Count Vega del Sella’s research marked the beginning of the long tradition of Mesolithic studies in Asturias (North Spain). Another pioneer, L. Sierra, explored a number of caves in Cantabria with Mesolithic shell-middens, but no specific research line ...
Fano Miguel Ángel +2 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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High-resolution isotope dietary analysis of Mesolithic and Neolithic humans from Franchthi Cave, Greece. [PDF]
PLoS ONEFranchthi Cave, in the Greek Peloponnese, is a well-known Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic site, with several human burials. In many parts of Europe there is clear evidence from archaeological and isotopic studies for a diet change between the ...
Valentina Martinoia +4 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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Revue Archéologique de l’Est, 2022 The preventive archaeological excavation conducted in 2017 on the site of "Mont Saint-Pierre" in Champigny (Marne) led to the discovery of Mesolithic remains on the left bank of the Vesle River.
Nicolas Garmond +4 more
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The Iron Gates Mesolithic in a Regional Context
Documenta Praehistorica, 2021 The specific character of the Iron Gates Mesolithic material culture derives from the geomorphological and ecological features of the Iron Gates gorge in the Early Holocene.
Dušan Mihailović
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Open Archaeology, 2023 The coastal areas of Southeast Norway underwent dramatic environmental changes throughout the Mesolithic period. Continuous postglacial land uplift/isostatic rebound lead to retreating shorelines turning former seabed into coastal hinterland.
Schülke Almut
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Several Lower Palaeolithic Sites along the Rhine Rift Valley, Dated from 1.3 to 0.6 Million Years
Humanities, 2019 The important discoveries of Lower Palaeolithic artefacts in stratigraphical context within Lower and early Middle Pleistocene deposits in the western continental part of Europe along the rift systeme of the Rhine Valley are pointing at the possible ...
Lutz Fiedler +4 more
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