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Arran pitchstone (Scottish volcanic glass): New dating evidence

open access: yesJournal of Lithic Studies, 2015
In the present paper, the author offers new absolute and contextual dating evidence for Scottish archaeological pitchstone. Much archaeological pitchstone from the Scottish mainland is recovered from unsealed contexts of multi-period or palimpsest sites,
Torben Bjarke Ballin
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Typological Analysis and Assessment of the Bone-Working Stone Inventory of the Zamostje 2 Late Mesolithic Layer

open access: yesПоволжская 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.   +3 more
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Polish Mesolithic Pots. Jasiu Kowalczyk – in memoriam

open access: yesArchaeologia Polona, 2019
The article deals with making of pottery among the European Mesolithic communities. The author, referring to the terminological proposal of Jan Kowalczyk – "ceramic Mesolithic”, follows in this respect the development of research and the evolution of ...
Stefan Karol Kozłowski
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Lateglacial to Mid-Holocene Vegetation History in the Eastern Vale of Pickering, Northeast Yorkshire, UK: Pollen Diagrams from Palaeolake Flixton

open access: yesQuaternary, 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   +3 more
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Archaeogenomics of humans from the layer of the Upper Volga Culture revealed their greatest genetic similarity with Eastern European hunter-gatherers and ancient representatives of Mesolithic/Neolithic Europe [PDF]

open access: yesВестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии
The genetic structure of the population of Northern Europe of the Mesolithic-Neolithic period currently remains poorly investigated due to the small number of materials available for research. For the first time, the complete genome of an individual from
Andreeva T.V.   +7 more
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Plant exploitation and subsistence patterns of the Mesolithic in arid China: New evidence of plant macro-remains from the Pigeon Mountain site

open access: yesFrontiers in Earth Science, 2023
The nature of the Mesolithic in China has not been studied much due to the few well-context sites discovered and excavated during this period. The situation also restricts the understanding of human subsistence in the Mesolithic period in China ...
Xuefang Zheng   +8 more
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The beginning of the Neolithic on the Upper Volga (Russia)

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2019
The appearance of the Neolithic in the Upper Volga region is to be associated with infiltrations of notch-ware pottery-makers into the indigenous Mesolithic populations. Most likely the first vessels were imported into the region as final goods.
Nataliya A. Tsvetkova
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Mesolithic and Neolithic Northern Cis-Caspian and Volga Steppe: Geometric Microliths

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2020
Introduction. The article examines segments with Helwan retouch discovered during various excavations in the Lower Volga. Those are a key marker of the Seroglazovka culture (Mesolithic — Early Neolithic) distinguished by A.
Alexander A. Vybornov   +2 more
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Palaeolithic and Mesolithic assemblages from Tunisia

open access: yesDissertationes Archaeologicae: Ex Instituto Archaeologico Universitatis de Rolando Eötvös Nominatae, 2022
With the following short review, we would like to remember our departed German friend and archaeologist Peter Nierling. He conducted several field trips in North Africa, Algeria, Lybia, and Tunisia, and on two occasions, in 1997 and 1998, one of us (A ...
Attila Péntek, Norbert Faragó
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