Mika Lavento

TL;DR: Examination of food residues in pottery reveals a transition at ca 2500 BC from the exploitation of aquatic organisms to processing of ruminant products, specifically milk, confirming Neolithic farming was practiced at high latitudes.

TL;DR: The authors applied a series of environmental tests developed in Fennoscandia to elaborate the patterns created by contemporary and past reindeer husbandry along the Zhuia River, Bodaibo district, Irkutsk oblast, Russian Federation.

TL;DR: In this paper, radiocarbon dates of charred food remains, charcoal, burned animals, and human bones from 14 Lithuanian prehistoric sites were dated by radiocaranels as part of a dating project oriented towards renewing the prehistoric ceramics chronology, which modified the dating of ceramic styles by hundreds to a thousand years.

TL;DR: Archaeology and linguistics both have multiple methodologies and research materials, some fundamental differences can be discerned between them already from the outset as discussed by the authors, while linguistics and archaeological research materials almost always have an absolute chronology in years, whereas linguistic shifts, changes and vocabulary layers can, in most cases, only be dated relatively, in a relation to other shifts and changes.

TL;DR: In this article, the continuity of settlement in the Early Metal Period as indicated by archaeological survey and pollen-analytical data was discussed, based on a sediment sequence taken from Lake Katajajarvi.