Mitochondrial DNA analysis of Atlantic European samples has detected significant latitudinal clines for several clusters with Paleolithic (H) and Neolithic (J, U4, U5a1, and U5a1a) coalescence ages in Europe. These gradients may be explained as the result of Neolithic influence on a rather homogeneous Paleolithic background. There is also evidence that some Neolithic clusters reached this borde...

Due to the presence of multiple caves and rock shelters as well flint outcrops, Ojców Upland is a region with an exceptionally high concentration prehistoric human settlement traces. It has attracted archaeologists for over 150 years, leading what was considered have been proper prospection area. Nonetheless, analysis airborne laser scanning recently brought surprising results. In very centre u...

Since the inception of discipline archaeology, figurines have been considered as basis for research into praehistoric social order and religious ideas. In spite numerous critiques, idea that they are reflection adoration Mother Goddess fertility cults, has persevered even to present day, mainly thanks work Maria Gimbutas. Her simplified approach praehistory, apart from giving rise pseudo-archae...

Stone vessels generally appear in chronological order dating back to the Epipaleolithic period. Although several and typological evaluations of made different types stones have been so far, there is little information about their production techniques. The focus this study marble as well on some other finds Ada Höyük, a settlement, which was investigated part Uşak Protohistoric Period Survey Pr...

...he came to a mouth of a passage covered with a square stone similar to that at [nearby] Plasnewydd, anxious to reap the fruits of his discovery he procured a light and crept forward on his hands and knees along the dreary vault, when lo! In a chamber at the further end a figure in white seemed to forbid his approach. The poor man had scarcely power sufficient to crawl backwards out of this d...

Lower limb entheseal changes are evaluated in order to reconstruct activity levels and more fully understand cultural and behavioral variation among the middle Holocene (ca. 9,000-3,000 years BP) foragers of Siberia's Cis-Baikal region. The four cemetery samples examined span a period of diachronic change characterized by an 800- to 1,000-year discontinuity in the use of formal cemeteries in th...