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Stone axes throw new light on Baltic stone age mortuary rites [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Despite their ubiquity, Mesolithic lithic tools given as funerary offerings have rarely been studied in detail. Whereas personal ornaments (e.g. beads, pendants) are commonly interpreted as markers of social identity and status, archaeologists have ...
Anđa Petrović, Aija Macāne, Ivars Strautnieks, Laimdota Kalniņa, Elisabeth Holmqvist, Emily M. Hunter, Diederik Pomstra, Helen Goodchild, Ana Harto Villén, Ilga Zagorska, Mark Edmonds, Kerkko Nordqvist, Aimée Little   +12 more
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A new method for birch tar making with materials available in the Stone Age. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2022
Koch TJ, Schmidt P.
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Influence of Age and Geography on Chemical Composition of 98043 Urinary Stones from the USA

European Urology Open Science, 2021
Background: Urolithiasis is a growing issue globally, but it is heterogeneous, with a different epidemiology and pathophysiology for each different stone composition.
Jonathan E. Katz, Nachiketh Soodana-Prakash, Anika Jain, Madhumita Parmar, Nicholas Smith, Oleksandr Kryvenko, Glenn W. Austin, Hemendra N. Shah   +7 more
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Raw material optimization and stone tool engineering in the Early Stone Age of Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania). [PDF]

J R Soc Interface, 2020
Key A, Proffitt T, de la Torre I.
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Buried at home? Stable isotope analysis of the late hunter-gatherer cemetery population at Tamula, SE Estonia [PDF]

Eesti Arheoloogiaajakiri, 2023
The function of European Stone Age forager sites with several burials has been debated for decades. One little-known site of this kind is the 4th–3rd millennium cal BC Tamula I (hereinafter Tamula) in south-eastern Estonia.
Mari Tõrv, Gunilla Eriksson
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Two new Later Stone Age sites from the Final Pleistocene in the Falémé Valley, eastern Senegal. [PDF]

PLoS One
Ndiaye M, Lespez L, Tribolo C, Rasse M, Hadjas I, Davidoux S, Huysecom É, Douze K.   +7 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDIES IN THE ILMENY STATE RESERVE, SOUTH URALS [PDF]

Минералогия, 2020
The paper describes two stages of archeological studies at the territory of the Ilmeny State Reserve. Stage 1 is related to expedition of L.Ya. Krizhevskaya in 1961–1970, which resulted in finding of more than 40 settlements and sites of the Stone Age ...
V.S. Mosin
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A unique funerary and ritual complex at the border zone of the Northern and Eastern European Plains as a record of cultural and social changes at the turn of the Neolithic and Bronze Age

Documenta Praehistorica, 2023
In the 3rd millennium BC, the area of the Masurian Lake District, located at the border zone of the North and Eastern European Plains, was still dominated by hunter-gatherers.
Dariusz Manasterski, Katarzyna Januszek, Aleksandra Cetwińska, Katarzyna Kwiatkowska   +3 more
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Raw material provenance of silicite artefacts: Korobchyne-kurhan, Central Ukraine

Journal of Lithic Studies, 2021
Korobchyne-kurhan stone age site in the Velyka Vys River basin, in Central Ukraine is investigated for raw material and contacts. The surrounding geography and the site are presented.
Helena Wehren, Oleksandr Nezdolii, Jehanne Affolter   +2 more
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Stone Age Equilibrium [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009
We introduce the notion of a stone age equilibrium to study societies in which property rights are absent, bilateral exchange is either coercive or voluntary, and relative strength governs power relations in coercive exchange. We stress the importance of free disposal of goods which allows for excess holdings larger than consumption, thereby modelling ...
Houba, H.E.D., Weikard, H.P.
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