New Perspectives on the Problems of the Exploitation Area and the Prehistoric Use of the Buda Hornstone in Hungary by Norbert Faragó, Réka Katalin Péter, Ferenc Cserpák, Dávid Kraus, Zsolt Mester

“…The mountainous areas of the Carpathian basin have provided a wide spectrum of siliceous rocks for prehistoric people. Although the presence of outcrops of a kind of chert, named Buda hornstone was already known by geological and petrographic investigations, the developing Hungarian petroarchaeological research did not pay much attention to this raw material. …”
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Book review: Archaeological Concepts, Techniques, and Terminology for American Prehistoric Lithic Technology by Harry Joseph Lerner

“…Archaeological Concepts, Techniques, and Terminology for American Prehistoric Lithic Technology by Wm. Jack Hranicky AuthorHouse, Bloomington, Indiana, 2013, pp. 611, ISBN 978-1-4817-5173-5…”
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The Becoming of a Prehistoric Landscape: Palaeolithic Occupations and Geomorphological Processes at Lojanik (Serbia) by Camille Lesage, Alvise Barbieri, Jovan Galfi, Dragan Jovanović, Vera Bogosavljević Petrović

“…Lojanik in the Central Balkans is one of the largest Prehistoric quarrying areas known in Europe, showing numerous lithic raw material outcrops exploited from the Middle Palaeolithic to the Chalcolithic periods, over an area of 18 hectares. …”
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Evidence for prehistoric origins of the G2019S mutation in the North African Berber population. by Rafiqua Ben El Haj, Ayyoub Salmi, Wafa Regragui, Ahmed Moussa, Naima Bouslam, Houyam Tibar, Ali Benomar, Mohamed Yahyaoui, Ahmed Bouhouche

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Diversity of Treegourd (Crescentia cujete) Suggests Introduction and Prehistoric Dispersal Routes into Amazonia by Priscila A. Moreira, Xitlali Aguirre-Dugua, Cédric Mariac, Leila Zekraoui, Marie Couderc, Doriane P. Rodrigues, Alejandro Casas, Charles R. Clement, Yves Vigouroux

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Amerindian Cosmologies and European Prehistoric Cave Art: Reasons for and Usefulness of a Comparison by Enrico Comba

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The necropolis of the prehistoric Baley settlement (preliminary note on the results from the 2013 investigations) by Stefan Alexandrov, Georgi Ivanov, Tania Hristova, Nikolai Kazashki

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Stage and continuum approaches in prehistoric biface production: A North American perspective. by Michael J Shott

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The Impact of Rapid Climate Change on Prehistoric Societies during the Holocene in the Eastern Mediterranean by Bernhard Weninger, Lee Clare, Eelco Rohling, Ofer Bar-Yosef, Utz Böhner, Mihael Budja, Manfred Bundschuh, Angelica Feurdean, Hans Georg Gebe, Olaf Jöris, Jörg Linstädter, Paul Mayewski, Tobias Mühlenbruch, Agathe Reingruber, Gary Rollefson, Daniel Schyle, Laurens Thissen, Henrieta Todorova, Christoph Zielhofer

“…In this paper we explore the impact of Rapid Climate Change (RCC) on prehistoric communities in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Early and Middle Holocene. …”
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Heidegger, Heterotopic Dwelling and Prehistoric Art: An Initial Indication of a Field of Research by Philip Tonner

“…I suggest that there is something significant about human experience in caves and I attempt to make a connection between heterotopic space, dwelling, and the art of the last Ice Age in Europe in order to point towards a novel field of research: dwelling and prehistoric art.…”
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Magnitude and source area estimations of severe prehistoric earthquakes in the western Austrian Alps by P. Oswald, M. Strasser, J. Skapski, J. Moernaut

“…Plausible epicenters of paleo-earthquake scenarios coincide with the current enhanced seismicity regions. Prehistoric earthquakes with a minimum moment magnitude (<span class="inline-formula"><i>M</i>_w</span>) 5.8–6.1 have occurred around the Inn valley, the Brenner region, and the Fernpass–Loisach region and might have reached up to <span class="inline-formula"><i>M</i>_w</span> 6.3 at Achensee. …”
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GIANT STONE BUILDINGS (I) - MEGALITHIC PREHISTORIC BUILDINGS - DIVISION, ORIGIN AND SPREAD by Krešimir Šaravanja, Frano Oreč, Valerija Kopilaš

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Sustainability of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene: From Prehistoric Times to the Present Times and the Future by Andreas N. Angelakis, Andrea G. Capodaglio, Cees W. Passchier, Mohammad Valipour, Jens Krasilnikoff, Vasileios A. Tzanakakis, Gül Sürmelihindi, Alper Baba, Rohitashw Kumar, Benoît Haut, Maria G. Roubelakis, Zhang Min, Nicholas Dercas

Subjects: “…prehistoric and historical times…”
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Prehistoric Violence as Difficult Heritage: Sandby Borg – A Place of Avoidance and Belonging by Gustav Wollentz

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Chemical Analysis of Pottery Demonstrates Prehistoric Origin for High-Altitude Alpine Dairying. by Francesco Carrer, André Carlo Colonese, Alexandre Lucquin, Eduardo Petersen Guedes, Anu Thompson, Kevin Walsh, Thomas Reitmaier, Oliver E Craig

“…Here, we report on organic residue analysis of small fragments of pottery sherds that are occasionally preserved both at these sites and earlier prehistoric rock-shelters. Based mainly on isotopic criteria, dairy lipids could only be identified on ceramics from the stone structures, which date to the Iron Age (ca. 3,000-2,500 BP), providing the earliest evidence of this practice in the high Alps. …”
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Prehistoric population expansion in Central Asia promoted by the Altai Holocene Climatic Optimum by Lixiong Xiang, Xiaozhong Huang, Mingjie Sun, Virginia N. Panizzo, Chong Huang, Min Zheng, Xuemei Chen, Fahu Chen

“…Our geochemical results indicate a significantly warm and wet climate in the Altai Mountain region during 6.5–3.6 kyr, corresponding to the Altai Holocene Climatic Optimum (AHCO), which is critical for promoting prehistoric human population expansion and intensified cultural exchanges across the Central Asian steppe during the Bronze Age.…”
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The marine chert from Las Lezas (Biel, Zaragoza) and its prehistoric exploitation. by Luis Miguel García-Simón, Rafael Domingo, Lourdes Montes

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Repatriating prehistoric artefacts to Egypt: Fekri Hassan’s Naqada and Siwa study collections by Geoffrey Tassie, Joris Van Wetering, Ian Carroll

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'A Sea of Small Boats': places and practices on the prehistoric seascape of western Britain by Gary Robinson

“…It will be shown that the construction of the archaeological record of prehistoric coastal and island communities is intimately linked to the sea and that through such construction, experience of the later prehistoric landscape and seascape was manipulated and transformed.…”
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The first petrographic characterisation of a prehistoric rock crystal mine in the Swiss Alps by Thomas Hess, Josef Mullis, Leander Franz

“…Abstract Over the past decades, there has been increasing evidence for the prehistoric use of rock crystal in mountainous environments, including craft specialisation and long-distance exchange. …”
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