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Seventy Years of Pottery Studies in the Archaeology of Mesolithic and Neolithic Sudan

open access: yesAfrican Archaeological Review, 2021
This review article examines seventy years of research and methodological approaches to the analysis of Mesolithic and Neolithic pottery in Sudan. It begins with the studies done by A. J.
G. D’Ercole
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Mesolithic Occupations During the Boreal Climatic Fluctuations at La Baume de Monthiver (Var, France)

open access: yesOpen 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
doaj   +1 more source

Several Lower Palaeolithic Sites along the Rhine Rift Valley, Dated from 1.3 to 0.6 Million Years

open access: yesHumanities, 2019
The important discoveries of Lower Palaeolithic artefacts in stratigraphical context within Lower and early Middle Pleistocene deposits in the western continental part of Europe along the rift systeme of the Rhine Valley are pointing at the possible ...
Lutz Fiedler   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mesolithic projectile variability along the southern North Sea basin (NW Europe) : hunter-gatherer responses to repeated climate change at the beginning of the Holocene [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This paper investigates how former hunter-gatherers living along the southern North Sea coast in NW Europe adapted to long-term and short-term climatic and environmental changes at the beginning of the Holocene.
Crombé, Philippe
core   +2 more sources

Diet in Mesolithic Europe: New evidence from dental microwear

open access: yesInternet 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
doaj   +1 more source

“Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” – Mesolithic Colonisation Processes and Landscape Usage of the Inner-Alpine Region Kleinwalsertal (Prov. Vorarlberg, Western Austria)

open access: yesOpen 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
doaj   +1 more source

Stone Tools Continuity of the Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic Population of the Lower Kama River Region

open access: yesПоволжская 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.
doaj   +1 more source

Consumers, not Contributors? The Study of the Mesolithic and the Study of Hunter-Gatherers

open access: yesOpen 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
doaj   +1 more source

An integrated analysis of Maglemose bone points reframes the Early Mesolithic of Southern Scandinavia

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2020
The extensive peat bogs of Southern Scandinavia have yielded rich Mesolithic archaeological assemblages, with one of the most iconic artefacts being the bone point. Although great in number they remain understudied.
T. Z. T. Jensen   +18 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Mesolithic Human Bones from the Upper Volga Basin: Radiocarbon and Trace Elements [PDF]

open access: yes, 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.,   +3 more
core   +4 more sources

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