29 articles in this issue
Alasdair Whittle, Alex Bayliss, Alistair Barclay, Bisserka Gaydasrka, Eszter Bánffy, Dušan Boric, Florin Drasovean Drasovean, János Jakucs, Miroslav Maric, David Orton, Ivana Pantovic, Wolfram Schier, Nenad Tasic, Marc Vander Linden
Recent work at Vinca-Belo Brdo has combined a total of more than 200 radiocarbon dates with an array of other information to construct much more precise narratives for the structural history of the site and the cultural materials recovered from it. In thi... see more
Mihael Budja
We present two parallel and 32 000 years long trajectories of episodic ceramic technology use in Eurasian pre-Neolithic hunter-gatherer societies. In eastern, Asian trajectory the pottery was produced from the beginning. Ceramic figurines mark the western... see more
Tristan Carter, Danica D. Mihailovic, Yiannis Papadatos, Chrysa Sofianou
Investigations at Livari (south-eastern Crete) produced a small Mesolithic chipped stone assemblage, whose techno-typological characteristics situate it within an ‘early Holocene Aegean island lithic tradition’ (9000–7000 cal BC). The material provides an... see more
Vesna Dimitrijevic, Ivana Živaljevic, Sofija Stefanovic
In this paper, we investigate whether the Mesolithic-Neolithic sites in the Danube Gorges were occupied seasonally or all year round by looking at animal skeletal remains. The hunting seasons of most important game animals have been determined on the basi... see more
Selena Vitezovic
The earliest Neolithic cultures in Southeast Europe brought significant changes in many aspects of everyday life, in subsistence, settlement patterns, architecture, and also ritual aspects. Technological changes are also very important – the introduction ... see more
Alexander Felix Gorelik, Andrej Tsybrij, Viktor Tsybrij
In this paper we present the migratory nature of an initial Neolithisation in the Sea of Azov area on the basis of an analysis of comparatively new and a revision of old materials from the Early Neolithic period. As the ‘ancestral land’ of elements of the... see more
Alexander Vybornov
In this paper, two groups of ancient sites located in the Lower Volga River basin are analysed. The first group is linked to the emergence of the oldest pottery in this region, which is one of the most ancient in Europe. The presence of this feature of th... see more
Agathe Reingruber
The transition from a (predominantly) mobile way of life relying on hunting, fishing and gathering to a (predominantly) sedentary life-style based on farming and animal husbandry is considered in the western Pontic archaeological tradition almost exclusiv... see more
Katarina Botic
The idea of the Neolithisation of the Sava-Drava-Danube interfluve has undergone very little change since S. Dimitrijevic's time. Despite their many shortcomings, new archaeological excavations and radiocarbon dates of Early Neolithic sites have provided ... see more
Lasse Sørensen
In this paper, it is argued that agriculture is a very complex technology, which takes a long time to learn, thus making it very difficult for agrarian practises to spread as ideas. Instead, based on a detailed survey of primary agrarian evidence (direct ... see more
Daniela Hofmann
Migration played a central role throughout the LBK culture. After summarising the motivations for migration in the earliest LBK, the article outlines how some of these factors remained relevant in later phases. Beyond continued westand eastward expansion,... see more
Cristina Gamba
The contribution of ancient DNA to the understanding of past events has been increasing exponentially in recent years. This is mainly due to the synergy of technical advances, such as the molecular technique of high-throughput DNA sequencing, which has al... see more
Eylem Özdogan
Our knowledge of the Neolithisation of Western Anatolia has increased considerably in recent years. Being located beyond, but on the border of the formative zone of Neolithisation, the region has acted as a buffer in the dispersal of the Neolithic way of ... see more
Hojjat Darabi
While the Neolithic revolution caused gradual basic changes in different dimensions of human life, including social structure, western Iran has so far mostly received attention in terms of the emergence of domestication and sedentarisation. Generally spea... see more
Ana Grabundžija, Emmanuele Russo
This study of prehistoric textile production on the Pannonian Plain is based on indirect evidence dated to the period between the 5th and 2nd millennium BC; the study of technological trends and changes that occurred in manufacturing traditions ... see more
Goce Naumov
Pelagonia is the biggest valley in the Republic of Macedonia, positioned in its mountainous southwestern area. It was first inhabited around 6000 BC by agricultural societies, which established the tell settlements in the region. Their villages were dense... see more
Boban Tripkovic, Vesna Dimitrijevic, Dragana Rajkovic
The focus of this paper is the ornament hoard from the Sopot culture site of Cepin-Ovcara in eastern Slavonia (the Republic of Croatia). The hoard contained pendants and beads made of shells of marine clam Spondylus gaederopus and scaphopod Antalis vulgar... see more
Monica Margarit, Cristian Eduard ?tefan, Valentin Dumitra?cu
The aim of this paper is to present an interesting archaeological assemblage discovered during archaeological research at the settlement of ?oimu?-La Avicola (Ferma 2) (Romania). So far, this is the only example of a Turda? culture osseous assemblage publ... see more
Kelly Reed, Emil Podrug
The archaeobotanical remains from Velištak are the first evidence of plant economies from an open-air settlement dating to the late Neolithic Hvar culture in Croatia (c. 4900–4000 cal BC). The results presented here are from the 2007–2013 field seasons. B... see more
Tjaša Tolar, Anton Velušcek
The results of plant macroremains studies of the Eneolithic (c. 3160–3100 cal BC) lakeshore settlement at Stare gmajne on the Ljubljansko barje in Slovenia are presented. Archaeobotanical material was collected in two different ways: (1) systematic surfac... see more
Bahattin Çelik
The present paper aims to assess the finds from Harbetsuvan Tepesi, which we consider a small-scale satellite settlement located some 7km southwest of Karahan Tepe. The paper also endeavours to show analogous characteristics of Harbetsuvan Tepesi by compa... see more
Stanislaw Iwaniszewski
FBC earthen long barrows were roughly oriented along the East-West axis, with deviations not exceeding the frame of the solar arc. Also, the Sandomierz Group monuments display this general pattern. The paper brings together archaeoastronomy, landscape arc... see more
Tomislav Bilic
Literary testimonies for the Greek concept of Apollo’s swan chariot and the accompanying set of ideas were often discussed alongside some comparable Central and North European iconographic representations. This study approaches the problem by collating, w... see more
Lionel Duke Sims
Prehistoric monument alignments on lunar standstills are currently understood for horizon range, perturbation event, crossover event, eclipse prediction, solstice full Moon and the solarisation of the dark Moon. The first five models are found to fail the... see more
A. César González-García, Marco V. García Quintela, Juan A. Belmonte
In this paper, we report on three areas of the Iberian Peninsula that were occupied at least during the Iron Age and the early stages of Romanisation, where observations of astronomical phenomena in the landscape, rock carvings, and Latin inscriptions poi... see more
Hong Chen, Yiren Wang, Chun Chen
Lithic use-wear analysis has become a principal approach for interpreting the function of stone tools and inferring human behaviour. This study presents the results of use-wear analysis on lithic tools excavated from the Upper Paleolithic sites of Xiachua... see more
Ji-Ying Liu, Hong Chen
Use-wear analysis has become an essential method for the functional study of lithic artefacts from prehistoric archaeological assemblages. On the basis of earlier research, this article discusses experiments and analyses of use-wear on quartzite artefacts... see more
Žiga Šmit
This review focuses on the technical and social details of production, training, and use of archery equipment by a Native American tribe, the Apaches. The study aims to understand the use of the bow in the Mesolithic and Early and Middle Neolithic societi... see more
Ivan Gatsov, Nikolay Sirakov
In the first half of the 1980s, lithic materials from the prehistoric settlement of Ovcarovo-Gorata in northern Bulgaria were studied by Vietnamese archaeologist Nguyen Van Binh. At that time, he was a doctoral student in the Department of Prehistory of t... see more