Extensive farming in Estonia started through a sex-biased migration from the Steppe

L Saag, L Varul, CL Scheib, J Stenderup, ME Allentoft… - Current biology, 2017 - cell.com
The transition from hunting and gathering to farming in Europe was brought upon by arrival
of new people carrying novel material culture and genetic ancestry. The exact nature and …

S tone A ge settlement and H olocene shore displacement in the N arva‐L uga K lint B ay area, eastern G ulf of F inland

A Rosentau, M Muru, A Kriiska, DA Subetto… - Boreas, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Based on geological and archaeological proxies from NW R ussia and NE E stonia and on
GIS‐based modelling, shore displacement during the S tone A ge in the N arva‐L uga K lint …

Reflections of pre-and early-agrarian human impact in the pollen diagrams of Estonia

A Poska, L Saarse, S Veski - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2004 - Elsevier
High-resolution pollen profiles based on 30 cores taken from Estonian lake and mire
deposits were used to reconstruct the extent and type of land-use over most of the Holocene …

Stone Age hunter–fisher–gatherers at Zvejnieki, northern Latvia: radiocarbon, stable isotope and archaeozoology data

G Eriksson, L Lõugas, I Zagorska - Before farming, 2003 - liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
The Zvejnieki Stone Age1 complex in northern Latvia includes one of the most significant
hunter–fisher–gatherer cemeteries in northern Europe in terms of both the exceptional …

[PDF][PDF] Reading bones

J Storå - Stone Age Hunters and Seals in the Baltic. Stockholm …, 2001 - researchgate.net
This is a study of hunters and seals in the Stone Age in the Baltic. The ambition has been to
develop and utilize methods for osteological analyses of archaeological seal bones. The …

Palaeodiet of Mesolithic and Neolithic populations of Meuse Basin (Belgium): evidence from stable isotopes

H Bocherens, C Polet, M Toussaint - Journal of archaeological Science, 2007 - Elsevier
The human diet was investigated using the carbon and nitrogen isotopic signatures of 93
Mesolithic and Neolithic specimens (∼ 10,000–2000 BC) from the Meuse Basin (Belgium) …

A review of Neolithic multi-room housepits as seen from the Meskäärtty site in Virolahti parish, extreme south-eastern Finland

T Mökkönen - Eesti Arheoloogia Ajakiri, 2008 - ceeol.com
A three-room housepit at the Meskäärtty site is located in an area where housepits are
generally rare. Stone Age dwelling structures of comparable proportions are known mainly …

[PDF][PDF] New dates for the Late Neolithic Corded Ware Culture burials and early husbandry in the East Baltic region

L Lougas, A Kriiska, L Maldre - Archaeofauna, 2007 - academia.edu
The appearance of the Corded Ware Culture in the eastern Baltic area has been associated
with the beginning of animal husbandry in this region. The culture is quite well represented …

[HTML][HTML] The dIANA database–Resource for isotopic paleodietary research in the Baltic Sea area

H Etu-Sihvola, H Bocherens, DG Drucker… - Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Paleodietary research is a complex field, which requires large sets of background
information. Owing to increasing interest and activity in the field, a substantial amount of …

Touch not the fish: the Mesolithic-Neolithic change of diet and its significance

MP Richards, RJ Schulting - Antiquity, 2006 - cambridge.org
Stable isotope analysis has startled the archaeological community by showing a rapid and
widespread change from a marine to terrestrial diet (ie from fish to domesticated plants and …