Dusan Boric

TL;DR: It is shown that southeastern Europe continued to be a nexus between east and west after the arrival of farmers, with intermittent genetic contact with steppe populations occurring up to 2,000 years earlier than the migrations from the steppe that ultimately replaced much of the population of northern Europe.

TL;DR: The earliest direct evidence for copper smelting in Eastern Serbia dates to c. 7000 years ago, contemporary with the emergence of the first cast copper objects in the Vinca culture as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The results confirm that the combined effects of a major volcanic eruption and severe climatic cooling failed to have lasting impacts on Neanderthal or early modern humans in Europe and infer that modern humans proved a greater competitive threat to indigenous populations than natural disasters.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the use of sulphur isotopes as an indicator of the consumption of freshwater fish using bone collagen extracted from humans and animals from five archaeological sites from the Danube Gorges region dating from the Mesolithic to the middle Neolithic periods.

TL;DR: It is shown that southeastern Europe continued to be a nexus between East and West, with intermittent steppe ancestry, including in individuals from the Varna I cemetery and associated with the Cucuteni-Trypillian archaeological complex, up to 2,000 years before the Steppe migration that replaced much of northern Europe’s population.