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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 Middle to Later Stone Age transition at Panga ya Saidi, in the tropical coastal forest of eastern Africa.

Journal of Human Evolution, 2021
The Middle to Later Stone Age transition is a critical period of human behavioral change that has been variously argued to pertain to the emergence of modern cognition, substantial population growth, and major dispersals of Homo sapiens within and beyond
C. Shipton, J. Blinkhorn, W. Archer, N. Kourampas, P. Roberts, M. Prendergast, Richard Curtis, A. Herries, E. Ndiema, N. Boivin, M. Petraglia   +10 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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Preservation of Archaeological and Natural Values. A Case Study of the North-Western part of Latvia

Internet Archaeology, 2023
The article is a review of specially designated nature protected areas and Stone Age settlements in north-western Latvia, called North Kurzeme. This area was chosen because it has a special environment.
Sandra Zirne, Egita Lūsēna
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Modelling Foraging Cultures According to Nature? An Old and Unfortunately Forgotten Anthropological Discussion

Open Archaeology, 2022
In a world of smart desktop approaches, it can be instructive to return to the roots of the discussion of whether it is possible to model the behaviour of small-scale human cultures based on environmental parameters.
Grøn Ole
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Specifics of Formation and Deformation of Stone Age Sites Cultural Layers in Steppe Zone of East European Plain

Поволжская археология, 2023
The modern theory of cultural layer is based on idea of indissoluble links of processes of formation and destruction of a layer of the cultural remains.
Kolesnik Alexander V.
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