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Between Anatolia and the Aegean: Epipalaeolithic and Mesolithic Foragers of the Karaburun Peninsula

Journal of Field Archaeology, 2020
The Epipalaeolithic and Mesolithic periods of Turkey are poorly understood. The discovery of two sites (Kocaman and Kayadibi) in the Karaburun Peninsula in coastal western Turkey opens a whole new window into our understanding of these periods in Turkey ...
Çiler Çilingiroğlu, M. Kaczanowska, J. Kozłowski, B. Dinçer, C. Çakırlar, Didem Turan   +5 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, Andrei Soficaru, Doru Miritoiu   +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., Radu, V., Boroneanț, A., Bonsall, C.   +3 more
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CREMATION VS. INHUMATION: MODELING CULTURAL CHANGES IN FUNERARY PRACTICES FROM THE MESOLITHIC TO THE MIDDLE AGES IN BELGIUM USING KERNEL DENSITY ANALYSIS ON 14C DATA

Radiocarbon: An International Journal of Cosmogenic Isotope Research, 2020
The adoption of a new funerary ritual with all its social and cognitive meanings is of great importance to understanding social transformations of past societies.
Giacomo Capuzzo, C. Snoeck, M. Boudin, S. Dalle, Rica Annaert, Marta Hlad, Ioannis Kontopoulos, Charlotte Sabaux, Kévin Salesse, Amanda Sengeløv, E. Stamataki, B. Veselka, E. Warmenbol, Guy de Mulder, D. Tys, M. Vercauteren   +15 more
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Mesolittisk kronologi i Sørøst-Norge – et forslag til justering

Viking, 2016
A reassessment of the Mesolithic chronology in SoutheastNorway In 1975, Egil Mikkelsen proposed a Stone Age chronology for southeastern Norway based on a small number of excavated sites.
Gaute Reitan
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The Term Mesolithic [PDF]

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,
openaire   +1 more source

The Resettlement of the British Landscape: Towards a chronology of Early Mesolithic lithic assemblage types

Internet Archaeology, 2016
During the Upper Palaeolithic Britain was visited intermittently, perhaps only on a seasonal basis, by groups often operating at the margins of their range. The Early Mesolithic, by contrast, witnessed the start of the permanent occupation of the British
Chantal Conneller, Alex Bayliss, Nicky Milner, Barry Taylor   +3 more
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The role of shellfish in human subsistence during the Mesolithic of Atlantic Europe: An approach from meat yield estimations

, 2020
In spite of the increased number of investigations of the Mesolithic period in Atlantic Europe, including studies that have focused on reconstructing human diets, the information about the role of shellfish in human subsistence strategies is still very ...
Asier García-Escárzaga, Igor Gutiérrez-Zugasti   +1 more
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The Mesolithic background for the Neolithisation process

Documenta Praehistorica, 2009
Most researchers today agree that the Early Neolithic is clearly related to the late Mesolithic and cannot be understood without its Mesolithic predecessors. Immigration is thus hardly an issue in the question of Neolithisation any longer.
Ebbe H. Nielsen
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A snapshot of Late Mesolithic life through death: An appraisal of the lithic and osseous grave goods from the Castelnovian burial of Mondeval de Sora (Dolomites, Italy)

PLoS ONE, 2020
The Late Mesolithic in Southern Europe is dated to the 7th and the first part of the 6th millennia BCE and is marked by profound changes which are mostly evident in the technical know-how and tool-kit of the last hunter-fisher-gatherer societies.
F. Fontana, E. Cristiani, Stefano Bertola, F. Briois, A. Guerreschi, S. Ziggiotti   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source