Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Archaeology – Selected Topics

The course consists of selected topics. The discussed topics change from one year to another. Lectures are connected to the seminar. This course is regarding contents linked with the course Fieldwork.

Palaeolithic and Mesolithic in Slovenia and their connection to Europe, especially the Balkans, Apennine Peninsula, and Central Europe. Issues regarding the transition from the Middle and Later Palaeolithic in Europe – the arrival of the modern man and the extinction of the Neanderthal. Theories about cognitive abilities of the Neanderthal and modern man, and theories about the development of man’s symbolic thinking. Thorough acknowledgement of early artefacts and "Paleolithic art".

1. Farbstein, R., D. Radić, D. Brajković, and P. T. Miracle, 2012. First Epigravettian Ceramic Figurines from Europe (Vela Spila, Croatia). PLoS ONE 7(7): e41437. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.00414…
2. Hodgson, Derek in Helvenston, Patricija, 2006: The Emergence of the Representation of Animals in Palaeoart: Insights from evolution and the cognitive, limbic and visual systems of the human brain. Rock Art Research. 23/1. 3-40. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270448735_The_emergence_of_the…
Karavanić, Ivor in drugi, 2018: Paleolithic hominins and settlement in Croatia from MIS 6 to MIS 3: research history and current interpretations. Quaternary international 494, 152 – 166. https://doi-org.nukweb.nuk.uni-lj.si/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.09.034
4. Kuhn, Steven in Stiner, Mary, 2007: Body Ornamentation as Information Technology: Towards an Understanding of the Significance of Early Beads. V: Rethinking the Human Revolution: New Behavioural and Biological Perspectives on the Origin and Dispersal of Modern Humans (ur. Mellars, Paul; Boyle, Katie; Bar-Yosef, Ofer in Stringer, Chris). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 45-54. https://www.academia.edu/944232/Body_ornamentation_as_information_techn…
5. Lewis-Williams, David, 1997: Harnessing the Brain: Vision and Shamanism in Upper Paleolithic Western Europe. V: Beyond Art: Pleistocene Image and Symbol (ur. Conkey, Margaret; Soffer, Olga; Stratmann, Deborah; Jablonski, Nina). San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences. 321-342. https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/7399345/harnessing-the-brain-vis…-
6. Mussi, M. 2013. Earliest Italy. An Overview of the Italian Paleolithic and Mesolithic. New York: Springer: 402 str. . COBISS ID=166183939
7. Peresani, Marco in drugi, 2014: Symbolic or utilitarian? Juggling interpretations of Neanderthal behavior: new inferences from the study of engraved stone surfaces. Journal of anthropological sciences. 92. 233-255. https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.isita-org.com%2Fjass%2FC…
8. Petru, Simona, 2008: Paleolitska umetnost. Magija podobe ali podoba magije. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani. 125 str. COBISS.SI-ID – 241893632
9. Petru, , Simona, 2016: Ujeti v čas : epizodični spomin in razvoj modernega mišljenja, (Zbirka Razprave FF). Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani. 160 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 285771520
10. Riel-Salvatore J. in Gravel-Miguel C. 2013. Upper Palaeolithic Mortuary Practices in Eurasia: A Critical Look at the Burial Record. V: The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial (ur. L. Nilsson Stutz in S. Tarlow): 303-346. Oxford University Press. Oxford. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199569069.013.0017

Sprotni tematski članki.
Aubert, Maxime in drugi, 2018: Palaeolithic cave art in Borneo. Nature 564, 254–257.
Devièse, Thibaut in drugi, 2017: Direct dating of Neanderthal remains from the site of Vindija Cave and implications for the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114/40, 10606-10611.
Ruiz-Redondo, Aitor in drugi, 2019: Expanding the horizons of Palaeolithic rock art: The site of Romualdova Pećina. Antiquity 93(368), 297-312.