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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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Ancient DNA Reveals Limited Hunter‐Gatherer Ancestry in the Cerny Culture (Middle Neolithic, France) Despite Hunting‐Associated Practices [PDF]
American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 191, Issue 1, September 2026.ABSTRACT 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 ...
Juliette Sauvage +10 more
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Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 35, Issue 3, September 2026.ABSTRACT 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.
Francesco d'Errico, Solange Rigaud
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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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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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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, 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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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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Open Archaeology, 2023 The Mesolithic technology in Western Europe depicts the last cultural expressions and adaptations of hunter-gatherers before the adoption of Neolithic agro-pastoral practices.
Ricci Giulia +7 more
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