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Exposing mammoths: From loess research discovery to public palaeontological park
(Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, 2015)
This paper is dedicated to the palaeontological and geoheritage potential and conservation values of recently discovered mammoth fossils in the Drmno open-cast mine area. These palaeontological resources provide an excellent ...
Prehistoric copper tools from the territory of Serbia
(Univerzitet u Beogradu - Tehnički fakultet u Boru, Beograd, 2009)
Around four hundreds prehistoric copper tools and weapons have been recorded in the territory of Serbia so far. They had been in use for a rather long period of time - from the end of the early phase of the Vinča culture ...
Placer Tin Ores from Mt. Cer, West Serbia, and Their Potential Exploitation during the Bronze Age
(Wiley, Hoboken, 2014)
Tin is a rare metal that is essential for making bronze, the defining technology of the Bronze Age. The source(s) of tin for Aegean bronze is undetermined but several small Bronze Age tin mines have been documented in the ...
Rethinking ruralization in terms of resilience: Subsistence strategies in sixth-century Caricin Grad in the light of plant and animal bone finds
(Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, 2019)
The modes of subsistence of the early Byzantine inhabitants of the Balkans are subject to intense discussion. The core of the problem is the lack of sites of a clearly discernible agricultural character after the collapse ...
Age of Mammuthus trogontherii from Kostolac, Serbia, and the entry of megaherbivores into Europe during the Late Matuyama climate revolution
(Cambridge Univ Press, New York, 2015)
At the Drmno open-pit coal mine near Kostolac in Serbia, a nearly complete skeleton of Mammuthus trogontherii (nicknamed Vika) was discovered in a fluvial deposit overlain by a loess-paleosol sequence where a second ...
A case study of vertebral fusion in a 19th-century horse from Serbia
(Elsevier Science Inc, New York, 2019)
Objective: To evaluate the etiology of skeletal changes noted in equid vertebrae from a 19th- century context near Belgrade, Serbia. Materials: A vertebral column consisting of 15 fused thoracic vertebrae (T2-T16), with ...
Absolute dating of copper and early bronze age levels at the eponymous archaeological site Bubanj (southeastern Serbia)
(Univ Arizona Dept Geosciences, Tucson, 2017)
This paper reports the first radiocarbon (C-14) dates obtained for the Eneolithic/Bronze Age site of Bubanj, Serbia. Despite featuring prominently in the existing typo-chronological schemes for southeastern Europe, the ...
Morphological appearance of muscle attachment sites on lower limbs: Horse riders versus agricultural population
(Wiley, Hoboken, 2018)
The present study analysed macromorphological characteristics of the muscle attachment sites of lower limbs, hypothesising that everyday physical activities influence the macromorphology of the bone at the entheses. Our ...
Archaeometric study of 17th/18th century painted pottery from the Belgrade Fortress
(Elsevier France-Editions Scientifiques Medicales Elsevier, Issy-Les-Moulineaux, 2018)
The chemical and mineralogical composition of ceramic bodies, glazes and pigments, as well as the firing temperatures of main groups of Austrian period painted pottery excavated at the Belgrade Fortress on the territory ...
Beyond relativism: rethinking comparability in cultural anthropology
(Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc, Malden, 2009)