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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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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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Diet in Mesolithic Europe: New evidence from dental microwear
Internet Archaeology, 2007 Palaeodietary reconstruction is a key to understanding Mesolithic lifeways. Dental microwear analysis is a tool for investigating palaeodiet using microscopic tooth wear patterns.
T. Rowan McLaughlin
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Open Archaeology, 2022 The region Kleinwalsertal (Vorarlberg, Austria) represents one of the numerous little-known archaeological areas of the Austrian Alps. Here, over 90 sites were found since the 1980s, including surficial flint scatters as well as excavated sites, mainly ...
Posch Caroline
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Поволжская археология, 2013 A widespread thesis concerning population continuity in the Lower Kama region during the Late Mesolithic and the Early Neolithic is challenged in the article.
Viskalin Aleksandr V.
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Consumers, not Contributors? The Study of the Mesolithic and the Study of Hunter-Gatherers
Open Archaeology, 2022 This article examines the relationship between the archaeology of the Mesolithic and the broader archaeology and anthropology of hunter-gatherers. Bibliographic reviews of articles presented at past MESO conferences and recent high-ranking Mesolithic ...
Elliott Ben, Warren Graeme
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Nature, 1933 ARCHAEOLOGISTS, of whom I am one, are really quite remarkable people. It is notorious that the nomenclature of their study is already in a sad condition, yet, recently, they have gone out of their way to make confusion more confounded. It has now become the practice to describe early neolithic flint implements by the term mesolithic, a term which means,
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Mesolithic Human Bones from the Upper Volga Basin: Radiocarbon and Trace Elements [PDF]
, 2009 Human bones from 3 Mesolithic sites in the Upper Volga basin were analyzed for trace elements, and dated by accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS). The radiocarbon dates of the bones correspond to the Mesolithic era.
Alexandrovskaya, E.I., +7 more
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The Mesolithic at the Danube’s Iron Gates: new radiocarbon dates and old stratigraphies
Documenta Praehistorica, 2007 In this paper we present 31 new AMS radiocarbon dates from the Mesolithic Iron Gates sites. The new dates allowed for a total reconsideration of the chronological sequences, and offer new insights for a reinterpretation of both Upper Paleolithic ...
Alexandru Dinu +2 more
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Mesolithic Icoana revisited (II) – A reappraisal of the faunal remains
Materiale și Cercetări Arheologice, 2021 Located in southwestern Romania in the Iron Gates Gorges, Icoana was among the sites submerged following the building of the Iron Gates I dam and hydro-power station. Eight trenches were excavated with a total area of 91m2 and a maximum depth of ca.
Bălășescu, A. +3 more
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