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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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Stone age diseases and modern AIDS [PDF]

Virology Journal, 2008
The great advantage of being a sexually transmitted disease is the ability to survive and specialize solely on a host species that is present in low numbers and widely distributed so that contact between infected and uninfected organisms by chance is ...
Koch Arthur L
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Regional variability in the Acheulian to Middle Stone Age transition in southern Africa [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Homo sapiens emerged in Africa around 300 − 200 thousand years ago (ka). Although the earliest H. sapiens fossils are associated with the Middle Stone Age (MSA), lithic technologies considered diagnostic of the MSA have been found alongside Acheulian ...
A. F. Blackwood, J. Wilkins, L. J. Arnold, M. Demuro, G. Boschian, M. V. Caruana, E. F. Lalunio, M. Spate, A. Hatton, R. A. Muir, C. G. Wilson, L. J. Quick, M. Meredith-Williams, A. I. R. Herries   +13 more
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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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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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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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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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The driving force behind tool-stone selection in the African Middle Stone Age [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Patrick Schmidt, Guillaume Porraz, Klaus Georg Nickel   +2 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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Late Mesolithic Individuals of the Danube Iron Gates Origin on the Dnipro River Rapids (Ukraine)? Archaeological and Bioarchaeological Records

Open Archaeology, 2022
In contrast to large-scale prehistoric migrations, associated with massive population shifts and changes in material culture, movements of small human groups or single individuals are barely visible but no less important.
Haskevych Dmytro
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