Reply to Nehlich and Borić's “Response to Bonsall et al. ‘Food for Thought: Re-Assessing Mesolithic Diets in the Iron Gates’”

Bartosiewicz, László; Pickard, Catriona

doi:10.2458/azu_rc.57.18699

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“…A single Mesolithic level, found towards the entrance of the cave, contained a small lithic assemblage, and is radiocarbon dated to c. 9,800 cal BP (Jovanović et al, 2014). Otherwise, the available documentation is thus mostly confined to the exceptionally rich record of the Iron Gates, where excavations undertaken for several decades have revealed numerous well-preserved sites such as Lepenski Vir, Vlasac and Ogradena-Icoana (see recently Borić et al, 2014;Bonsall et al, 2015a, 2015b, Nehlich and Borić, 2015.…”

Section: Earlymentioning

confidence: 99%

A long hard road… Reviewing the evidence for environmental change and population history in the eastern Adriatic and western Balkans during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene

Birch

Linden

2018

Quaternary International

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The eastern Adriatic and western Balkans are key areas for assessing the environmental and population history of Europe during the Late Pleistocene and early Holocene. It has been argued that the Balkan region served as a Late Glacial refugium for humans, animals, and plants, much like Iberia and the Italian Peninsula and in contrast to the harsh conditions of Eastern and Central Europe. As post-glacial amelioration occurred and sea level rose, these regions to the north and west of the Balkan Mountains became forested and were populated by Mesolithic forager-fishers. Meanwhile, to the south, the domestication of plants and animals in the Near East began to cause large-scale environmental as well as lifestyle changes. Even as the Balkan Peninsula was a likely crossroads on the route for the spread of agriculture and herding from Southwest Asia into Europe, issues such as pre-Neolithic settlement, the discussion of human-environment interactions, and the role of climate events such as the 11.4, 9.3, and 8.2 ka cal BP in this critical landscape are often overlooked. Efforts to counter this challenge have been hampered by an apparent lack of data, so that the region hardly occurs in distribution maps. In part this is due to patchy research and a complicated political history, which have contributed to a fragmented archaeological and paleoecological record. Yet, as we show here, there is in fact plenty of evidence available for review. We present a survey of different proxies for environment and settlement throughout the Late Pleistocene and into the Early Holocene, combining radiocarbon data with zooarchaeological, lithic, and palynological records. By mapping this evidence, we are able to discuss the impact of climate change during the Pleistocene/Holocene transition and consider the role of environment and landscape on human population distribution at this crossroads in place and time.

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Section: Earlymentioning

confidence: 99%

A long hard road… Reviewing the evidence for environmental change and population history in the eastern Adriatic and western Balkans during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene

Birch

Linden

2018

Quaternary International

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“…There are only few individuals from the Danube Gorges for which we have stable isotope ratios of carbon and nitrogen, as part of AMS dating. Four burials from Lepenski Vir were dated mostly into the mid-15 th century (Bonsall et al 2015), while one individual from Vlasac (Burial 26) was dated into the 9 th -11 th century (Jovanović et al 2021). Their stable isotope values 5 are similar to the one obtained for the young adult from the site of Supska, and indicate a mixed diet, based mostly on C 4 plants and/or C 3 plants with an addition of aquatic resources (fig.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 61%

“…Only samples with C and N content ≥ 30% and 10%, respectively (Van Klinken 1999), C/N ratios between 2.9 and 3.6 (DeNiro 1985) were used for interpretation and discussion. The results obtained were compared with few available human stable isotope data from other sites (Bonsall et al 2015;Jovanović et al 2021).…”

Section: Stable Isotopesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Medieval Burial from the Site of Supska: An Anthropological and Contextual Analysis of the Skeletal Remains from Grave 1

Jovanović,

Bogosavljević-Petrović,

Bulatović

et al. 2023

Зборник Народног музеја Србије. Археологија = Recueil du Musée

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In 1956, the Institute of Archaeology and the National Museum in Belgrade carried out excavations at the site of Supska, near Ćuprija, in Central Serbia. Based on the material culture findings, the site is mostly known as a Late Neolithic one; however, archaeological findings from other periods were discovered too. In the 1956 excavations, the cultural layers, and archaeological features with the Vinča culture archaeological materials were examined, as well as one grave, marked as Grave 1. The results of this excavation have been previously published in one monograph; however, an anthropological analysis of the individual found in Grave 1 has not been conducted before. In this paper, we present the results of contextual, bioanthropological, stable isotopes and C 14 analyses of human skeletal remains found in Grave 1. The results showed that a young adult, who had experienced nonspecific metabolic stress during childhood, as evidenced by traces of linear enamel hypoplasia and porotic hyperostosis, was buried in this grave. AMS date revealed that this individual lived between 1280-1390 cal. AD, while the results of the stable isotope analyses suggested that it had mixed diet based on C 4 plants (such as millet) and/or C 3 plants, with larger amounts of animal protein, possible deriving from freshwater fish.

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“…1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,38,42,43,44,45,47,48,49,50,51,53,54,55. 1,3,4,5,8,10,11,15,16,17,21,22,27,29,…”

Section: Overview Of Mturkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Reverse-coded questions are common in all types of surveys as a method of detecting acquiescence bias. 10 Instructional Manipulation Checks (IMCs) are also quite common in surveys. 11 However, Hunt & Scheetz (2019) raise another participant naivety issue whereby workers seem to have become aware of these types of checks and now have higher pass rates than traditional study participants.…”

Section: In-survey Validity Checksmentioning

confidence: 99%

Amazon’s MTurk: A Currently Underutilised Resource for Survey Researchers?

Farrell

Sweeney

2021

Accounting, Finance &Amp; Governance Review

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A recent innovation in empirical academic research is the use of online labour markets as a source of data. One such market, Amazon's Mechanical Turk ("MTurk") has been used by studies published in high-quality accounting journals to source participants. Given the traction of this data source in high-calibre publications, it is timely to assess its current impact and future potential for accounting research. This paper examines the extent of adoption of MTurk as a data collection tool in leading accounting journals and specifically considers its adoption and suitability for survey research. Findings reveal that the use of MTurk in high-quality accounting publications is gathering momentum, with approximately the same number of articles published/accepted in 2019 as the total number of articles published in the preceding seven years. However, it is also found that nearly all the journal articles reviewed adopted MTurk for experimental research with only a limited presence in survey research. The study contributes to the literature by providing a comprehensive review of the adoption of MTurk in high-quality accounting journals by frequency, research method, and research participant type. Further, it analyses the unique methodological concerns that MTurk poses for survey-based accounting research, thereby providing researchers with guidance on its potential future usefulness and pitfalls to avoid. The paper concludes that difficulties in the availability of, and screening for, specific groups of participants may limit its potential for survey research until online labour market platforms are developed further.http://bit.ly/mturk1519, accessed in June 2020.

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Reply to Nehlich and Borić's “Response to Bonsall et al. ‘Food for Thought: Re-Assessing Mesolithic Diets in the Iron Gates’”

Cited by 4 publications

References 6 publications

A long hard road… Reviewing the evidence for environmental change and population history in the eastern Adriatic and western Balkans during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene

A long hard road… Reviewing the evidence for environmental change and population history in the eastern Adriatic and western Balkans during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene

A Medieval Burial from the Site of Supska: An Anthropological and Contextual Analysis of the Skeletal Remains from Grave 1

Amazon’s MTurk: A Currently Underutilised Resource for Survey Researchers?

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