Two examples of pressure blade production with a lever: recent research from the southern Caucasus (Armenia) and Northern Mesopotamia (Syria, Iraq)

J Chabot, J Pelegrin - The Emergence of Pressure Blade Making: from …, 2012 - Springer
Due to their optional and not ubiquitous characters, blade productions by pressure,
particularly with the use of a lever, merit being distinguished as they are important cultural …

The first eastern migrations of people and knowledge into Scandinavia: evidence from studies of Mesolithic technology, 9th-8th millennium BC

M Sørensen, T Rankama, J Kankaanpää… - Norwegian …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper a team of Scandinavian researchers identifies and describes a Mesolithic
technological concept, referred to as 'the conical core pressure blade'concept, and …

[PDF][PDF] New AMS-dates for the Upper Volga Mesolithic and the origin of microblade technology in Europe: Neue AMS-Daten zum Mesolithikum der oberen Wolga und …

S Hartz, T Terberger, M Zhilin - … und der Steinzeit, 2010 - journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de
In the last 20 years several new peat bog sites have been detected in the Upper Volga area.
The article presents a first series of AMS-dates for the Stanovoje 4 site. They assign the early …

The arrival and development of pressure blade technology in Southern Scandinavia

M Sørensen - The emergence of pressure blade making: from origin …, 2012 - Springer
The first pressure blade concept in southern Scandinavia is identified within the
Maglemosian techno-complex 3, dated to the Boreal-Atlantic transition, in the 8th millennium …

[PDF][PDF] Early Mesolithic bone arrowheads from the Volga-Oka interfluve, central Russia

M Zhilin - Fennoscandia archaeologica, 2015 - journal.fi
Several different types of bone arrowheads were produced and used during the Early
Mesolithic in the Volga-Oka interfluve. In this paper, recent research on these artefacts is …

A technological crossroads: Exploring diversity in the pressure blade technology of Mesolithic Latvia

H Damlien, IM Berg‐Hansen, I Zagorska… - Oxford Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A long‐standing debate in archaeology concerns the sources of technological diversification
among prehistoric hunter‐gatherers. This includes the study of the emergence and spread of …

[PDF][PDF] Welt und Umwelt frühmesolithischer Jäger und Sammler: Mensch-Umwelt-Interaktion im Frühholozän in der nordmitteleuropäischen Tiefebene

D Groß - 2014 - macau.uni-kiel.de
Basierend auf moorgeologischen Untersuchungen (Kloss 1987b), die im Rahmen der
Ausgrabungen der benachbarten Station Friesack 4 gemacht wurden, wird für die …

The Dawn of the Mesolithic on the Plains of Poland

T Płonka, D Bobak, M Szuta - Journal of World Prehistory, 2020 - Springer
In this article we take a fresh look at the population dynamics of the Polish Plain in the
transition from the Pleistocene to the Holocene, using Bayesian analysis and modelling of …

Fishing with lure hooks at the Late Neolithic site of Vinča–Belo Brdo, Serbia

E Cristiani, V Dimitrijević, S Vitezović - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2016 - Elsevier
The authors present an early evidence for the use of complex fishing techniques for
obtaining variable fish resources in prehistoric south-east Europe as recovered at the …

Mesolithic mobility and contacts on areas of the Baltic Sea watershed, the Sudety, and Carpathian Mountains

Z Sulgostowska - Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2006 - Elsevier
Mesolithic mobility across the region including the Sudety and Carpathian Mountains is
explored through several lines of evidence, including site seasonality as recorded primarily …