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The first Palaeolithic discoveries in Romania were made in the 19th century in Mitoc (Botoșani department). Five main stations were excavated, yielding Middle and Upper Palaeolithic industries (including Aurignacian, Gravettian and Epipalaeolithic). Some have yielded mixed industries ; others were better preserved and understood, like Malu Galben., Primele descoperiri paleolitice în România au avut loc în secolul al XIX-lea, în zona Mitoc (județul Botoșani). Dintre acestea, cinci stațiuni principale au beneficiat de săpături sistematice, atestând prezența unor industrii caracteristice Paleoliticului mijlociu și celui Superior (Aurignacian, Gravettian și Epipaleolitic). Unele situri au scos la lumină industrii amestecate, altele, cum este Malu Galben, se caracterizează prin industrii mai bine conservate, studiate și înțelese., Chirica Vasile, Noiret Pierre, Nigst Philip R., Chirica Valentin-Codrin, Bosch Marjolein D., Libois Timothée. Les stations paléolithiques de Mitoc, sur le Prut (Roumanie). In: Materiale şi cercetãri arheologice (Serie nouã), H-S 2021. pp. 229-258.

International Workshop on Loess and Archeology : Geoarcheological and paleoenvironmental research in European loess-scapes : Abstract Book / Herausgeber: Prof. Dr. Frank Lehmkuhl, Lehrstuhl für Physische Geographie und Geoökologie ; Editoren: Dr. Janina Bösken, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Richter, Prof. Dr. Frank Lehmkuhl International Workshop on Loess and Archeology, WLA 2019, Aachen, Germany, 27 Nov 2019 - 29 Nov 2019; Aachen : Lehrstuhl für Physische Geographie und Geoökologie 80-81 (2019)., Published by Lehrstuhl für Physische Geographie und Geoökologie, Aachen

International Workshop on Loess and Archeology : Geoarcheological and paleoenvironmental research in European loess-scapes : Abstract Book / Herausgeber: Prof. Dr. Frank Lehmkuhl, Lehrstuhl für Physische Geographie und Geoökologie ; Editoren: Dr. Janina Bösken, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Richter, Prof. Dr. Frank Lehmkuhl International Workshop on Loess and Archeology, WLA 2019, Aachen, Germany, 27 Nov 2019 - 29 Nov 2019; Aachen : Lehrstuhl für Physische Geographie und Geoökologie 45-45 (2019)., Published by Lehrstuhl für Physische Geographie und Geoökologie, Aachen

The well-dated stratigraphic sequence of Willendorf II is a reference site for the Upper Palaeolithic in general and the Gravettian in particular. In 1993, a joint team of the Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique (Brussels, Belgium) and the University of Vienna carried out excavations at this loess site in the Danube valley known since the end of the 19th century. During the excavation season, the team recovered 391 artefacts. The majority attributed to AH 6 and 8. We performed a technological study based on an attribute analysis of the lithic artefacts. This study demonstrates that the assemblages of AH 6 and 8 differ significantly in terms of technology and techno-economy. AH 6 has a high proportion of non-local erratic flint. The unidirectional reduction strategy aimed at the production of bladelets, especially on high-quality raw materials, to further modify them into backed elements that could be used as projectiles. In addition to the unidirectional, volumetric reduction strategy, burins were also exploited as bladelet cores. Apart from the manufacture of backed elements, the tool spectrum contains burins, end scrapers and pieces with edge retouch. AH 8 is dominated by local raw materials, such as quartzite and siliceous limestone. The unidirectional reduction strategy aimed at the production of blades. The toolkit includes a range of different tool types. Splintered pieces occur most frequently. Furthermore, pointed blades, burins, end scrapers, edge retouches, truncations, a borer with edge retouch, and a notched piece are among the tools. The differences between AH 6 and AH 8 and the similarities of AH 6 to AH 5 and AH 6 of the old excavations highlight that the AH 6 and AH 8 of the 1993 excavations do not belong to the same phase of the Gravettian technocomplex. The hunter-gatherers of AH 6 show technological, techno-economic and socio-technological behaviours more likely to correspond to an early Gravettian, while AH 8 shows diagnostic features of the Pavlovian and thereby confirming the dominant view of researchers that AH 8 of Willendorf II belongs to the Pavlovian., P. R. Nigsts Forschungen wurden durch Fördermittel von folgenden Institutionen finanziert: Leakey Foundation, Europäische Kommission (EC FP7 Career Integration Grant, Projekt „NEMO-ADAP“, Nr. 322261), Sir Isaac Newton Trust, British Academy (British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grant), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Universität Wien, Hugo Obermaier Preis 2006, und Hochschuljubiläumsfonds der Stadt Wien. M. D. Boschs Forschungen wurden durch Fördermittel von der Europäische Kommission (EC H2020 Marie Skłodowska Curie program EF, Projekt „EU-Beads”, Nr. 656325) finanziert.

International Workshop on Loess and Archeology : Geoarcheological and paleoenvironmental research in European loess-scapes : Abstract Book / Herausgeber: Prof. Dr. Frank Lehmkuhl, Lehrstuhl für Physische Geographie und Geoökologie ; Editoren: Dr. Janina Bösken, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Richter, Prof. Dr. Frank Lehmkuhl International Workshop on Loess and Archeology, WLA 2019, Aachen, Germany, 27 Nov 2019 - 29 Nov 2019; Aachen : Lehrstuhl für Physische Geographie und Geoökologie 33-34 (2019)., Published by Lehrstuhl für Physische Geographie und Geoökologie, Aachen

This is a metadata record. The journal does not allow this manuscript to be shared freely., Les nouvelles fouilles de Mitoc- Malu Galben, entreprises �� partir de 2013, ont men�� �� la d��couverte de petits amas lithiques pour les ensembles attribu��s au "Gravettien II" (2013), "Aurignacien I" (2014) et "Aurignacien III" (2015). Ces ensembles sont ��tudi��s d'un point de vue technologique, ce qui est nouveau pour le site. En particulier, ce dernier ensemble s'est av��r�� riche en mat��riel et parfaitement en place; il peut d��sormais ��tre mis en parall��le chrono-stratigraphique avec le Gravettien ancien de Molodova V en Ukraine, assurant donc qu'�� l'est des Carpates, les deux traditions, Aurignacien et Gravettien, ont ��t�� partiellement contemporaines l'un de'autre.

Quartär – Internationales Jahrbuch zur Erforschung des Eiszeitalters und der Steinzeit, Bd. 55 (2008): Quartär. Internationales Jahrbuch zur Eiszeitalter- und Steinzeitforschung

Present-day hunter-gatherers (HGs) live in multilevel social groups essential to sustain a population structure characterized by limited levels of within-band relatedness and inbreeding.When these wider social networks evolved among HGs is unknown. To investigate whether the contemporary HG strategy was already present in the Upper Paleolithic, we used complete genome sequences from Sunghir, a site dated to ~34,000 years before the present, containing multiple anatomically modern human individuals.We show that individuals at Sunghir derive from a population of small effective size, with limited kinship and levels of inbreeding similar to HG populations. Our findings suggest that Upper Paleolithic social organization was similar to that of living HGs, with limited relatedness within residential groups embedded in a larger mating network.

The Neolithic transition in Europe was driven by the rapid dispersal of Near Eastern farmers who, over a period of 3,500 years, brought food production to the furthest corners of the continent. However, this wave of expansion was far from homogeneous, and climatic factors may have driven a marked slowdown observed at higher latitudes. Here, we test this hypothesis by assembling a large database of archaeological dates of first arrival of farming to quantify the expansion dynamics. We identify four axes of expansion and observe a slowdown along three axes when crossing the same climatic threshold. This threshold reflects the quality of the growing season, suggesting that Near Eastern crops might have struggled under more challenging climatic conditions. This same threshold also predicts the mixing of farmers and hunter-gatherers as estimated from ancient DNA, suggesting that unreliable yields in these regions might have favoured the contact between the two groups.

The Neolithic transition in Europe was driven by the rapid dispersal of Near Eastern farmers who, over a period of 3,500 years, brought food production to the furthest corners of the continent. However, this wave of expansion was far from homogeneous, and climatic factors may have driven a marked slowdown observed at higher latitudes. Here, we test this hypothesis by assembling a large database of archaeological dates of first arrival of farming to quantify the expansion dynamics. We identify four axes of expansion and observe a slowdown along three axes when crossing the same climatic threshold. This threshold reflects the quality of the growing season, suggesting that Near Eastern crops might have struggled under more challenging climatic conditions. This same threshold also predicts the mixing of farmers and hunter-gatherers as estimated from ancient DNA, suggesting that unreliable yields in these regions might have favoured the contact between the two groups. By synthesizing information on archaeological sites, palaeoclimate reconstructions and ancient DNA, Betti et al. show that the Neolithic expansion in Europe was not a continuous process of diffusion, but a series of climate-driven episodes of varying speeds.