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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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First encounters in the north: cultural diversity and gene flow in Early Mesolithic Scandinavia
Antiquity, 2021 Population genetic studies often overlook the evidence for variability and change in past material culture. Here, the authors use a Mesolithic example to demonstrate the importance of integrating archaeological evidence into the interpretation of the ...
Mikael A. Manninen +7 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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PLoS ONE, 2021 In the Western Mediterranean, the Neolithic mainly developed and expanded during the sixth millennium BCE. In these early phases, it generally spread through the displacement of human groups, sometimes over long distances, as shown, for example, by the ...
T. Perrin, C. Manen
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Science Advances, 2020 Shedding light on first encounters between late hunter-gatherers and early farmers in western Europe. Starting from 12,000 years ago in the Middle East, the Neolithic lifestyle spread across Europe via separate continental and Mediterranean routes ...
Maïté Rivollat +22 more
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Human and cervid osseous materials used for barbed point manufacture in Mesolithic Doggerland
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2021 Barbed bone points originally deposited in Doggerland are regularly collected from the shores of the Netherlands. Their typology and direct 14C dating suggest they are of Mesolithic age. However, the species of which the barbed points were made cannot be
J. Dekker +7 more
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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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Antiquity, 2021 The subsistence practices of Holocene communities living in the Nile Valley of Central Sudan are comparatively little known. Recent excavations at Khor Shambat, Sudan, have yielded well-defined Mesolithic and Neolithic stratigraphy.
J. Dunne +14 more
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Reconstructing Mesolithic social networks on the Iberian Peninsula using ornaments
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2021 Archaeologists have been reconstructing interactions amongst hunter-gatherer populations for a long time. These exchanges are materialised in the movements of raw materials and symbolic objects which are found far from their original sources.
Carolina Cucart-Mora +4 more
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, 2021 This paper explores the impact of environmental, e.g. sea level rise, and climatic events, e.g. abrupt cooling events, on Mesolithic populations (ca. 11,350 to 6600 cal BP) living in the western Scheldt basin of Belgium and Northern France.
Elliot Van Maldegem +8 more
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