Becoming sedentary? The seasonality of food resource exploitation in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Danube Gorges

• DOI: 10.4312/dp.43.4
• Publication Date: 2017-01-30T08:30:23Z
• Authors: Vesna Dimitrijević; Ivana Živaljević; Sofija Stefanović
• Keywords: Mesolithic; Antler; Seasonality; Three gorges; Animal Husbandry

In this paper, we investigate whether the Mesolithic-Neolithic sites in Danube Gorges were occupied seasonally or all year round by looking at animal skeletal remains. The hunting seasons of most important game animals have been determined on basis antler and teeth growth, supplemented into presence migratory fish birds. patterns food resource exploitation seem to indicate year-round occupation settlements, suggest that a significant degree sedentism existed prior to, independently of, adoption plant husbandry.