Publications

New publications:

Piličiauskas, G., Pranckėnaitė, E., Matiukas, A., Osipowicz, G., Peseckas, K., Kozakaitė, J., Damušytė, A., Gál, E., Piličiauskienė, G., & Robson, H. K. 2023. Garnys: An underwater riverine site with delayed Neolithisation in the southeastern Baltic. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports52, 104232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104232

Orłowska, J., Ćwiek, M., Osipowicz, G. 2022. Was it ground? A closer look at various prehistoric bone grinding techniques : an experimental and traceological study. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports46, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103675

Osipowicz, G., Orłowska, J., Zagorska, I. 2022. Towards understanding the influence of Neolithisation for communities using the Zvejnieki cemetery, Latvia : a technological and functional analysis of the osseous artefacts discovered in the Late Mesolithic burial no 57 and Neolithic burial no 164. Quaternary International, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2022.11.007

Earlier publications connected with osseous artefacts:

Osipowicz G. 2020. Towards an understanding the role of seals in the Subneolithic communities of the south-east coast of the Baltic Sea : the bacula from Šventoji 3 site. Archaeologia Lituana, Vol. 21: 27-40.
Osipowicz G., Orłowska J., Piličiauskas G., Piličiauskienė G. 2019a. The story of one harpoon. An example of the reutilization of osseous projectile weapon in the Subneolithic Šventoji (Lithuania). In: M.A. García, E.A García, (eds.), Spotlighting Bone Tools. Proceedings of the XII Meeting of the ICAZ Worked Bone Research Group in Granada. Cuadernos de Prehistoria y Arqueología de la Universidad de Granada, pp. 237–250.
Osipowicz G., Piličiauskas G., Piličiauskienė G., Bosiak M. 2019b. Seal scrapers” from Šventoji : in search of their possible function. J. Archaeol. Sci.: Report 27: 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101928.
Osipowicz G., Orłowska J., Piličiauskienė G., Piličiauskas G. 2020a. Frontlets from the south–east coast of the Baltic Sea? Seal craniums from Šventoji: A unique clue to understanding the symbolic culture of European middle Holocene hunter–gatherers. J. Archaeol. Sci.: Reports 34: 102638. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102638
Osipowicz G., Piličiauskienė G., Orłowska J., Piličiauskas G. 2020b. An occasional ornament, part of clothes or just a gift for ancestors? The results of traceological studies of teeth pendants from the Subneolithic sites in Šventoji, Lithuania. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Vol. 29: 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.102130
Osipowicz G., Orłowska J., Bosiak M., Manninen M., Targowski P. Sobieraj J. 2020c. Slotted bone point from Tłokowo – rewritten story of a unique artefact from Mesolithic Poland. Praehistorische Zeitschrift, 95(2): 334-349. https://doi.org/10.1515/pz-2020-0023
Osipowicz G., Orłowska J., Piličiauskas G., Piličiauskienė G., Bosiak M. 2020d. Osseous points and harpoon heads from Šventoji Subneolithic sites, coastal Lithuania. First traceological insight into the way they were produced and used. Lietuvos archeologija 46: 147-169, https://doi.org/10.33918/25386514-046005.
Osipowicz G., Orłowska J., Piličiauskas G., Piličiauskienė G., Rannamäe E., Cyrek K., Sylwestrzak M. 2020e. Stone Age technologies and human behaviors as reflected in decoration of osseous artefacts from the northern part of East-Central Europe, Quaternary International, Vol. 569-570: 66-83.