Search results for "Stone Age"

Territories, identities and strategies in Forez from the sixth at the first front millenium BC in the upstream basin of the Loire (France)

2007

This thesis heading Territories, identities and strategies in Forez from the sixth at the first front millenium BC in the upstream basin of the Loire, relates to an extent in the north-Eastern part of the Massif central in contact with the Rhodanian corridor. This intramontane sector (current department of Loire 42) has allowed to build a consequent archaeological corpus which clarified behaviors having strong socio-economic and environmental implications. The archaeological study called upon various disciplines: agronomy, anthropology, archeometry (palynology, dating 14C, etc.), ceramology, geography, geomorphology, petrography, sedimentology, volumetry. It recuts several sets of themes : …

"Résumé de thèse, Le Forez du VIe au Ier millénaire av. J.-C. Territoires, identités et stratégies des sociétés humaines du Massif central dans le ba…

2009

Summary of thesis: Forez from the sixth to the first front millennium BC, Territories, identities and strategies of human societies in the upstream basin of the Loire (France) by Vincent GEORGES defended on 20th December 2007 at the University of Bourgogne; Joëlle Burnouf (reporter), Hervé Cubizolle (co-dir.), José Gomez de Soto (chair), Vincent Guichard (exam.), Claude Mordant (dir.), Pierre Pétrequin (reporter). This thesis is available online on www.tel.archives-ouvertes.fr.

Technologies of the Stone Age: the Coastal Dimension: Programme and Abstracts PrehCOAST Network Workshop, Riga, Latvia, 6-8 June 2023, Institute of L…

2023

This volume contains the programme and presentation abstracts of the international workshop “Technologies of the Stone Age: The Coastal Dimension”, held on 6–8 June 2023 at the Institute of Latvian History, University of Latvia, within the frame of the PrehCOAST network.

2000 years of parallel societies in Stone Age Central Europe.

2013

Farming or Fishing Evidence has been mounting that most modern European populations originated from the immigration of farmers who displaced the hunter-gatherers of the Mesolithic. Bollongino et al. (p. 479 , published online 10 October) present analyses of palaeogenetic and isotopic data from Neolithic human skeletons from the Blätterhöhle burial site in Germany. The analyses identify a Neolithic freshwater fish–eating hunter-gatherer group, living contemporaneously and in close proximity to a Neolithic farming group. While there is some evidence that hunter-gatherer women may have admixed into the farming population, it appears likely that marriage or cultural boundaries between the group…

4000 years of human dietary evolution in central Germany, from the first farmers to the first elites

2018

Investigation of human diet during the Neolithic has often been limited to a few archaeological cultures or single sites. In order to provide insight into the development of human food consumption and husbandry strategies, our study explores bone collagen carbon and nitrogen isotope data from 466 human and 105 faunal individuals from 26 sites in central Germany. It is the most extensive data set to date from an enclosed geographic microregion, covering 4,000 years of agricultural history from the Early Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age. The animal data show that a variety of pastures and dietary resources were explored, but that these changed remarkably little over time. In the human δ15N h…

Tracing the genetic origin of Europe’s first farmers reveals insights into their social organization

2014

Farming was established in Central Europe by the Linearbandkeramik culture (LBK), a well-investigated archaeological horizon, which emerged in the Carpathian Basin, in today's Hungary. However, the genetic background of the LBK genesis has not been revealed yet. Here we present 9 Y chromosomal and 84 mitochondrial DNA profiles from Mesolithic, Neolithic Starčevo and LBK sites (7th/6th millennium BC) from the Carpathian Basin and south-eastern Europe. We detect genetic continuity of both maternal and paternal elements during the initial spread of agriculture, and confirm the substantial genetic impact of early farming south-eastern European and Carpathian Basin cultures on Central European p…

Das Steinalter der Ostseeprovinzen Liv-, Est-, und Kurland und einiger angrenzenden Landstriche

1865

Subsistence strategies throughout the African Middle Pleistocene: Faunal evidence for behavioral change and continuity across the Earlier to Middle S…

2018

Abstract The African Middle Pleistocene (781–126 ka) is a key period for human evolution, witnessing both the origin of the modern human lineage and the lithic turnover from Earlier Stone Age (ESA) Acheulean bifacial tools to Middle Stone Age (MSA) prepared core and point technologies. This ESA/MSA transition is interpreted as representing changing landscape use with greater foraging distances and more active hunting strategies. So far, these behavioral inferences are mainly based on the extensive stone tool record, with only a minor role for site-based and regional faunal studies. To provide additional insights into these behavioral changes, this paper details a pan-African metastudy of 63…