Tales of middle Mesolithic cultural transformations and marine adaptation: by Birgitte Skar, Jørgen Rosvold, Pål Nymoen

“…In this article we present a Mesolithic hatchet made of bone that was found at the harbor floor at Kirkehavn in southern Norway in 1997. …”
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Genomic and dietary discontinuities during the Mesolithic and Neolithic in Sicily by He Yu, Marieke S. van de Loosdrecht, Marcello A. Mannino, Sahra Talamo, Adam B. Rohrlach, Ainash Childebayeva, Vanessa Villalba-Mouco, Franziska Aron, Guido Brandt, Marta Burri, Cäcilia Freund, Rita Radzeviciute, Raphaela Stahl, Antje Wissgott, Helen Fewlass, Antonio Tagliacozzo, Marcello Piperno, Sebastiano Tusa, Carmine Collina, Vittoria Schimmenti, Rosaria Di Salvo, Kay Prüfer, Cosimo Posth, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Detlef Gronenborn, Didier Binder, Choongwon Jeong, Wolfgang Haak, Johannes Krause

“…We find that Early Mesolithic hunter-gatherers (HGs) from Sicily are a highly drifted lineage of the Early Holocene western European HGs, whereas Late Mesolithic HGs carry ∼20% ancestry related to northern and (south) eastern European HGs, indicating substantial gene flow. …”
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Current debates on the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Britain and Ireland by Julian Thomas

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Mesolithic-Neolithic transitions: an isotopic tour through Europe by Schulting, R

Late Mesolithic-Early Neolithic Sealers: a case study on the exploitation of marine resources during the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in the south-western Baltic Sea by Aikaterini Glykou

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Mesolithic heritage in early Neolithic burial rituals and personal adornments by Eva Lenneis

“…Some burial rituals such as cremation or the use of colorants, especially ochre, have old roots in the preceding Mesolithic and even in the Palaeolithic. The evidence for these old rituals is more dense in central or western Europe than in south east Europe, whence most of the new Neo- lithic ideas came. …”
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The Vale of Pickering in the Mesolithic: uncovering the early post-glacial landscape by Tim Schadla-Hall

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Burial practices at the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Britain: change or continuity? by Emily Hellewell, Nicky Milner

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The Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Settlement of Northern Italy: Problems and Perspectives by Paolo Biagi

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Ritualized Mesolithic Hoarding in Southern Scandinavia: An under-recognised Phenomenon by Mathias Bjørnevad-Ahlqvist

“… Intentionally deposited groups of artefacts, here classified as hoards, form a relatively understudied aspect of the southern Scandinavian Mesolithic. Here analysis of 124 southern Scandinavian Mesolithic hoards is used to further the concept of ritualization, applying a holistic approach to the observed variability and patterning in their biographies. …”
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A small mesolithic site at Fife Ness, Fife, Scotland by Caroline R. Wickham-Jones, Magnar Dalland

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Mussi, Margherita. Earliest Italy. An Overview of the Italian Palaeolithic and Mesolithic by Manuel SANTONJA

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Diet in Mesolithic Europe: New evidence from dental microwear by T. Rowan McLaughlin

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(De)constructing the Mesolithic. A History of Hut Reconstructions in the Netherlands by Yannick de Raaff

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Bridging the gap. The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in a frontier zone by Bart Vanmontfort

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Timing the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition in the Iberian Peninsula: The Radiocarbon Dataset by Salvador Pardo-Gordó, Oreto García Puchol, Joan Bernabeu Aubán, Agustín Diez Castillo

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The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in western Scotland and its European context by C. Bonsall, D. E. Anderson, M. G. Macklin

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Building a method for the study of the Mesolithic Neolithic transition in Portugal by Mary Jackes, Christopher Meiklejohn

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Reassessing the Mesolithic\Neolithic ‘gap’ in Southeast European cave sequences by Dimitrij Mlekuž, Mihael Budja, Robert Payton, Clive Bonsall, Andreja Žibrat Gašparič

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Microblade Technology in Quartz during the Mesolithic in Eastern Middle Sweden by Fredrik Molin, Roger Wikell

“…Gcnerally speaking, the Mesolithic quartz materials from eastern middle Sweden are dominated by two methods ol'reduction; freehand-platform and bipolar-on-anvil. …”
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