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Mesolithic period

On the ecological impact of prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Europe: Early Holocene (Mesolithic) and Last Interglacial (Neanderthal) foragers compared

Anastasia Nikulina, Anhelina Zapolska, Maria Antonia Serge, Didier M. Roche, Florence Mazier, Marco Davoli, Elena A. Pearce, Jens-Christian Svenning, Dave van Wees, Ralph Fyfe, Katharine MacDonald, Wil Roebroeks, Fulco Scherjon

published 22 Oct 2025

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Pressure knapping west of the Rhine during the Mesolithic? New evidence from Kerkhove (Belgium)

Hans Vandendriessche, Colas Guéret

published 24 Sep 2025

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The timing of the Castelnovisation of southwestern Europe: A Bayesian modelling insight from the Romagnano Loc III rock shelter sequence (Trento, Italy)

Salvador Pardo-Gordó, Alex Fontana, Vanessa Extrem-Membrado, Emilio Vacas-Fumero, Rossella Duches, Elisabetta Flor, Federica Fontana

published 16 Sep 2025

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High-resolution isotope dietary analysis of Mesolithic and Neolithic humans from Franchthi Cave, Greece

Valentina Martinoia, Anastasia Papathanasiou, Sahra Talamo, Rebecca MacDonald, Michael P. Richards

published 17 Jan 2025

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Weaving social networks from cultural similarities on the neolithisation process in the Western Mediterranean: Evolutionary trajectories using projectile tools

María Barrera-Cruz, Oreto García-Puchol, Joaquín Jiménez-Puerto, Alfredo Cortell-Nicolau, Joan Bernabeu-Aubán

published 30 Jul 2024

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Spatial organisation within the earliest evidence of post-built structures in Britain

Jessica Bates, Nicky Milner, Chantal Conneller, Aimée Little

published 15 Jul 2024

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A quantitative analysis of Final Palaeolithic/earliest Mesolithic cultural taxonomy and evolution in Europe

Felix Riede, David N. Matzig, Miguel Biard, Philippe Crombé, Javier Fernández-Lopéz de Pablo, Federica Fontana, Daniel Groß, Thomas Hess, Mathieu Langlais, Ludovic Mevel, William Mills, Martin Moník, Nicolas Naudinot, Caroline Posch, Tomas Rimkus, Damian Stefański, Hans Vandendriessche, Shumon T. Hussain

published 11 Mar 2024

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Vittrup Man–The life-history of a genetic foreigner in Neolithic Denmark

Anders Fischer, Karl-Göran Sjögren, Theis Zetner Trolle Jensen, Marie Louise Jørkov, Per Lysdahl, Tharsika Vimala, Alba Refoyo-Martínez, Gabriele Scorrano, T. Douglas Price, Darren R. Gröcke, Anne Birgitte Gotfredsen, Lasse Sørensen, Verner Alexandersen, Sidsel Wåhlin, Jesper Stenderup, Ole Bennike, Andrés Ingason, Rune Iversen, Martin Sikora, Fernando Racimo, Eske Willerslev, Morten E. Allentoft, Kristian Kristiansen

published 14 Feb 2024

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The dynamic lives of osseous points from Late Palaeolithic/Early Mesolithic Doggerland: A detailed functional study of barbed and unbarbed points from the Dutch North Sea

Alessandro Aleo, Paul R. B. Kozowyk, Liliana I. Baron, Annelou van Gijn, Geeske H. J. Langejans

published 02 Aug 2023

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Western visitors at the Blätterhöhle (city of Hagen, southern Westphalia) during the Younger Dryas? A new final palaeolithic assemblage type in western Germany

Michael Baales, Wolfgang Heuschen, Martin Kehl, Annika Manz, Nadine Nolde, Daniel Riemenschneider, Holger Rittweger, Jörg Orschiedt

published 03 May 2023

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Preservation of microscopic fur, feather, and bast fibers in the Mesolithic ochre grave of Majoonsuo, Eastern Finland

Tuija Kirkinen, Olalla López-Costas, Antonio Martínez Cortizas, Sanna P. Sihvo, Hanna Ruhanen, Reijo Käkelä, Jan-Erik Nyman, Esa Mikkola, Janne Rantanen, Esa Hertell, Marja Ahola, Johanna Roiha, Kristiina Mannermaa

published 27 Sep 2022

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Microlithic variation and the Mesolithic occupations of western India

Charusmita Gadekar, Juan José García-Granero, Marco Madella, P. Ajithprasad

published 22 Jun 2022

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Life before Stonehenge: The hunter-gatherer occupation and environment of Blick Mead revealed by sedaDNA, pollen and spores

Samuel M. Hudson, Ben Pears, David Jacques, Thierry Fonville, Paul Hughes, Inger Alsos, Lisa Snape, Andreas Lang, Antony Brown

published 27 Apr 2022

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