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Exploitation of Rabbits at the Dawn of the Holocene: Evidence From the Font Voltada Site (Northeastern Iberia) Using Comparative Neotaphonomic Models

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the transition from the Pleistocene to the Holocene, hunter‐gatherer societies in the northeastern Iberian Peninsula increased the number of settlements and broadened their subsistence strategies. This period is marked by the appearance of terrestrial snail accumulations attributable to human harvesting, the expansion of specialized ...
Nadihuska Y. Rosado‐Méndez, Jordi Nadal, Lluís Lloveras   +2 more
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A Modern Metrical Baseline for Sexing Sheep Horn‐Cores

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sex determination is essential for reconstructing past livestock management, yet the limited skeletal sexual dimorphism of sheep hinders the identification of ewes, rams, and wethers in archaeological assemblages. Horn‐cores are the most sexually dimorphic element of the sheep skeleton, and here, we establish a new metrical baseline for ...
Julia Cussans, Sean Doherty, Naomi Sykes, Carly Ameen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mesolithic coastal community perception of environmental change in the southern North Sea basin [PDF]

, 2012
This thesis applies a multi-scalar, multi-disciplinary approach to evaluate the ways in which we have constructed the Mesolithic for the purposes of archaeological research.
Dewing, Elizabeth
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Sedimentary DNA from a submerged site reveals wheat in the British Isles 8000 years ago [PDF]

, 2015
The Mesolithic-to-Neolithic transition marked the time when a hunter-gatherer economy gave way to agriculture, coinciding with rising sea levels. Bouldnor Cliff, is a submarine archaeological site off the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom that has a ...
Smith, Oliver, Bates, Richard, Momber, G., Fitch, Simon, Fitch, S., Allaby, Robin G., Bates, C. Richard, Smith, O., Pallen, Mark J., Garwood, P., Allaby, R.G., Allaby, Robin G, Momber, Garry, Pallen, M., Momber, G, Gaffney, V., Garwood, Paul, Pallen, Mark, Gaffney, Vincent, Bates, R.   +19 more
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Foreword

Internet Archaeology, 2007
There is rather a special flavour to research into the Mesolithic period. Immersing ourselves in the study of dynamic, mobile communities facing ever changing environments, with interpretations resting on sparse, rather unimpressive evidence brings a ...
Penny Spikins
doaj   +1 more source

The Early Upper Palaeolithic in British caves: problems and potential Le Paléolithique supérieur ancien dans les grottes de Grande‐Bretagne : problèmes et potentiels

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Recent years have seen landmark progress in our understanding of early Homo sapiens occupation of Europe, owing to new excavations and the application of new analytical methods. Research on British sites, however, continues to lag. This is because of limitations inherent in existing cave collections, and limited options for new fieldwork at known sites.
Robert Dinnis
wiley   +1 more source

The Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in the Iron Gates, Southeast Europe:Calibration and dietary issues [PDF]

, 2009
This paper discusses an aquatic reservoir effect present in Mesolithic human bone samples from the Iron Gates section of the River Danube. Its magnitude has been calculated from a comparison of the 14C ages of human bones and terrestrial mammal bones ...
McSweeney, Kathleen, Bartosiewicz, Laszlo, Pickard, Catriona, Bonsall, Clive, Boroneanț, Adina, Cook, Gordon T.   +5 more
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Palaeoenvironmental investigations of a Mesolithic–Neolithic sedimentary sequence from Queen’s Sedgemoor, Somerset [PDF]

, 2017
A sediment core extracted from Queen’s Sedgemoor, Somerset, southwest England, has undergone high resolution radiocarbon dating, with subsequent directed palynological, diatom, calcareous microfossil and mollusca analyses focussing on the sedimentary ...
Bronk Ramsey, C, Ramsey, C.B., Law, M, Brunning, R, Reimer, P, Brunning, R., Bell, M., Whittaker, J., Hill, T, Bell, M, Whittaker, J, Dunbar, E, Marshall, P., Law, M., Hill, T., Marshall, P, Dunbar, E.   +16 more
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Arran pitchstone (Scottish volcanic glass): New dating evidence

Journal 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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125 years of exploration and research at Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK) 125 ans d'exploration et de recherches à Gough's Cave (Somerset, Royaume‐Uni)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Our understanding of the recolonization of northwest Europe in the period leading up to the Lateglacial Interstadial relies heavily on discoveries from Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK). Gough's Cave is the richest Late Upper Palaeolithic site in the British Isles, yielding an exceptional array of human remains, stone and organic artefacts, and butchered ...
Silvia M. Bello, Mark D. Lewis, Simon A. Parfitt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source