Becoming sedentary? The seasonality of food resource exploitation in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Danube Gorges
In this paper, we investigate whether the Mesolithic-Neolithic sites in the Danube Gorges were occupied seasonally or all year round by looking at animal skeletal remains. The hunting seasons of most important game animals have been determined on the basis of antler and teeth growth, supplemented b...
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| author | Vesna Dimitrijević Ivana Živaljević Sofija Stefanović |
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In this paper, we investigate whether the Mesolithic-Neolithic sites in the Danube Gorges were occupied seasonally or all year round by looking at animal skeletal remains. The hunting seasons of most important game animals have been determined on the basis of antler and teeth growth, supplemented by looking into the presence of migratory fish and birds. The patterns of food resource exploitation seem to indicate year-round occupation of the settlements, and suggest that a significant degree of sedentism existed in the Danube Gorges prior to, and independently of, the adoption of animal and plant husbandry.
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| spelling | doaj.art-1af33f2c8a2b4119acc49f9ab6aabc5b2023-01-18T09:20:16ZengUniversity of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)Documenta Praehistorica1408-967X1854-24922016-12-014310.4312/dp.43.4Becoming sedentary? The seasonality of food resource exploitation in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Danube GorgesVesna Dimitrijević0Ivana Živaljević1Sofija Stefanović2Laboratory for Bioarchaeology, Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of BelgradeLaboratory for Bioarchaeology, Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of BelgradeLaboratory for Bioarchaeology, Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade In this paper, we investigate whether the Mesolithic-Neolithic sites in the Danube Gorges were occupied seasonally or all year round by looking at animal skeletal remains. The hunting seasons of most important game animals have been determined on the basis of antler and teeth growth, supplemented by looking into the presence of migratory fish and birds. The patterns of food resource exploitation seem to indicate year-round occupation of the settlements, and suggest that a significant degree of sedentism existed in the Danube Gorges prior to, and independently of, the adoption of animal and plant husbandry. https://journals.uni-lj.si/DocumentaPraehistorica/article/view/6172seasonalityarchaeozoologysedentismDanube GorgesMesolithic-Neolithic |
| spellingShingle | Vesna Dimitrijević Ivana Živaljević Sofija Stefanović Becoming sedentary? The seasonality of food resource exploitation in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Danube Gorges Documenta Praehistorica seasonality archaeozoology sedentism Danube Gorges Mesolithic-Neolithic |
| title | Becoming sedentary? The seasonality of food resource exploitation in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Danube Gorges |
| title_full | Becoming sedentary? The seasonality of food resource exploitation in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Danube Gorges |
| title_fullStr | Becoming sedentary? The seasonality of food resource exploitation in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Danube Gorges |
| title_full_unstemmed | Becoming sedentary? The seasonality of food resource exploitation in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Danube Gorges |
| title_short | Becoming sedentary? The seasonality of food resource exploitation in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Danube Gorges |
| title_sort | becoming sedentary the seasonality of food resource exploitation in the mesolithic neolithic danube gorges |
| topic | seasonality archaeozoology sedentism Danube Gorges Mesolithic-Neolithic |
| url | https://journals.uni-lj.si/DocumentaPraehistorica/article/view/6172 |
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