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".

Andrefsky, W. 2005. Lithics : macroscopic approaches to analysis. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press. 301 str. COBISS.SI-ID - 35112546
Crandell, O. in drugi. 2013. Long-Distance Imported Lithic Raw Materials at the Upper Palaeolithic Sites of the Bistri?a Valley (Carpathian Mts.), Eastern Romania. Lithics: Journal of the Lithic Studies Society 34: 30-42. https://www.academia.edu/11504293/Long_Distance_Imported_Lithic_Raw_Mat…
Hallos, J. 2005. ‘‘15 Minutes of Fame’’: Exploring the temporal dimension of Middle Pleistocene lithic technology. Journal of Human Evolution 49: 155 – 179. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004724840500045X
Pelegrin, J. 2009. Cognition and emergence of language: A contribution from lithic technology. V: Cognitive Archaeology and Human Evolution (ur. de Beaune, Sophie; Coolidge, Frederick; Wynn, Thomas). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 95-108. https://cognitivearchaeologyblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/wynn-t-200…
Petru, S. 1997. Metode preiskav sledov uporabe na kamenih orodjih iz najdišč Zakajeni spodmol in Mala Triglavca. Poročilo o raziskovanju paleolitika, neolitika in eneolitika v Sloveniji 24: 79-97. COBISS.SI-ID - 17110279
Pohar, V. 1978. Tipologija in statistična obdelava mlajšepaleolitskih kamenih orodnih inventarjev. Poročilo o raziskovanju paleolita, neolita in eneolita v Sloveniji VI: 7-42. COBISS.SI-ID - 17110279
Pohar, V. 1979. Tehnika izdelave in tipologija staro – in srednjepaleolitskega kamenega orodja. Poročilo o raziskovanju paleolita, neolita in eneolita v Sloveniji VII: 15-80. COBISS.SI-ID - 17110279
Stone knapping : the necessary conditions for a uniquely hominin behaviour (edited by Roux, V. Bril, B.). 2005. Cambridge : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. 355 str. COBISS.SI-ID – 33838690
Stone tools and the evolution of human cognition (edited by Nowell, A. Davidson, I.). 2011. Boulder: University Press of Colorado. 234 str. COBISS.SI-ID – 51321186
Stout, D. in drugi. 2005. Raw material selectivity of the earliest stone toolmakers at Gona, Afar, Ethiopia. Journal of Human Evolution 48: 365-380. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2004.10.006