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

open access: yesJournal 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   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Mesolithic at the Danube’s Iron Gates: new radiocarbon dates and old stratigraphies

open access: yesDocumenta 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
doaj   +1 more source

Mesolithic Icoana revisited (II) – A reappraisal of the faunal remains

open access: yesMateriale 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
doaj   +1 more source

Mandibular morphology and the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in Westernmost Iberia

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
Neolithic farming and animal husbandry were first developed in the Near East ~ 10,000 BCE and expanded westwards, reaching westernmost Iberia no later than 5500 BCE. It resulted in major social, cultural, economic and dietary changes.
Ricardo Miguel Godinho   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Is the Mesolithic-Neolithic Subsistence Dichotomy Real? New Stable Isotope Evidence from the Danube Gorges [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The article presents new results of stable isotope analyses made on animal and human bones from the Mesolithic-early Neolithic sites of Lepenski Vir and Vlasac in the Danube Gorges of the Balkans.
Borić, Dušan   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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

open access: yesRadiocarbon: 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   +15 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Mesolittisk kronologi i Sørøst-Norge – et forslag til justering

open access: yesViking, 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
doaj   +1 more source

The Term Mesolithic [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 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 role of shellfish in human subsistence during the Mesolithic of Atlantic Europe: An approach from meat yield estimations

open access: yes, 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   +1 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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

open access: yesInternet 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   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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