Aleksandar Medović's research while affiliated with Museum of Vojvodina and other places

... The average dimensions of emmer, NGW and spelt grains from Bronze Age Feudvar, Serbia, were included (Kroll 2016). Spelt grains from Iron Age Gomolava were also measured from figures in Medović et al. (2021) for comparison. Finally, measurements were taken of the illustrations of NGW identified by Jones et al. (2000) at three Bronze Age sites in northern Greece. ...

... However, isotope studies from both this dataset (Suppl. Figure 1) and previous studies showed that the consumption of C 4 plants in small to important proportions by whole communities or by small groups or single individuals is attested during (Leggett 2021a: 219-231;Leggett 2022;Lightfoot et al. 2012) but also long before the Early Middle Ages (Filipović et al. 2020;Kirleis et al. 2022;Lightfoot et al. 2013). Even though southern and eastern Europe represent the region with the most suitable environmental and climatic settings for millet cultivation (Filipović et al. 2020;Lightfoot et al. 2013;Miller 2015) and hence the most important input of millet in diet (Leggett 2022), C 4 crops were often used at least as complement to C 3 plants in other regions (Suppl. ...

... Evidence for nucleation, from dispersed settlements to loose clusters of settlements and eventually to nucleated sites, including both a tell or tell-like mound surrounded by houses, is seen in the Tiszazug and Körös regions Parkinson and Gyucha 2012b;Raczky and Füzesi 2016), the Polgár Island region of the northeastern Great Hungarian Plain (Mesterházy et al. 2019;Raczky and Anders 2016;Raczky et al. 2015), and the Serbian Vojvodina (Hofmann et al. 2019). Furthermore, these nucleated settlement clusters appear to have been placed at more or less even intervals along major waterways; for example, in the Tiszazug region (Raczky and Füzesi 2016) and the Körös region (Gyucha 2015). ...

... However, crop farming is not yet clearly verifiable at Vinga, apart from the existence of Poaceae pollen between 33 and 36 μm, possibly comprising cereals. The increased anthropogenic pressure correlates with a higher settlement density that has not only been postulated for the Timiş-Bega floodplains but also the wider Tisza-Danube region (Hofmann et al., 2019). Charcoal peaks during earlier phases of the Copper Age, often combined with the appearance of anthropogenic indicators, have also been proven by Magyari et al. (2012) in Hungary and by Feurdean et al. (2009Feurdean et al. ( , 2015 and Peters et al. (2019) in the northern part of Transylvania and the Apuseni Mountains between approximately 6000 and 5500/4700 cal. ...

... A coinciding lull in human environmental impact, generally centred at around 1600/1500 BCE, is also discernible across northern and central Germany (e.g. Hellmund et al. 2011;Jahns and Kirleis 2013;Kneisel 2013;Jahns et al. 2018). This period of low human environmental impact coincided with the archaeologically documented decrease in human presence/activity throughout central Europe (16th-15th centuries BCE) inferred from the decreased number of settlements from this period or the 'break in archaeological cultures' seen in the radiocarbon dates Risch and Meller 2015, 240). ...

... Focus 3 Socio-environmental components of change concentrates on specific factors or components of change, be they climate and human adaptation strategies (Butruille et al., 2017;Groß et al., this issue;Hinz et al., this issue;Schirrmacher et al., 2019); vegetation and faunal change, human impact, and resource management (Dal Corso et al., this issue, 2018;Feeser et al., this issue;Sommer et al., 2018;Wieckowska-Lüth et al., 2018); the dynamics of soils and erosion processes, demography, mobility and diseases (Capuzzo et al., 2018;Feeser et al., this issue;Fuchs et al., this issue;Furholt, 2017;Krause-Kyora et al., 2018;Müller and Diachenko, 2019); the development and impacts of subsistence practices (Filatova et al., 2019;Filipović et al., this issue, 2018;Jahns et al., 2018) or the social role of technologies and innovations (Bech et al., 2018;Brozio et al., this issue;Kirleis, 2019;Schaefer-Di Maida and Kneisel, this issue). ...

... The composition of charred wood singled out during the analyses indicates that the cereals were stored in mud-plastered granary-baskets, which has been the case at Čarnok (Medović, 2011(Medović, , 2006. The majority of wood consisted of young branches of seven different taxa, ranging from one to six years old (Table 1). ...

... and bitter vetch seeds found at the archaeological site of Hissar in South SerbiaMedovi c et al., 2011). A multidisciplinary team of scientists that he managed to bring together has continued the research on the charred pea(Smýkal et al., 2014). ...

... The PCR amplification protocol was applied as follows: 95 °C for 5 min as an initial denaturation cycle, followed by 30 cycles (94 °C for 30 s, 60 °C for 30 s, then 72 °C for 1 min) with a final extension at 72 °C for 10 min. TCG ATC TCG TA R2F GCC TGT TGC TGG AGA AGA GA 204 R2R TGG ATT CCG TGA GGA GGA CC R3F TTT CCA AGG TCC TCC TCA CG 190 R3R TGG TTG GGA GTT CAC ATT TTCA 26SrDNA (F) (Jovanović et al. 2011) TTC CCA AAC AAC CCG ACT C 150 26SrDNA (R) (Jovanović et al. 2011) GCC GTC CGA ATT GTA GTC TG IGSF (Li et al. 2011) CGC CAT GGA AAA CTG GGC AA 158/87 IGSR (Li et al. 2011) ACC TCT CGT ACC CGT TCA CGT The PCR reactions for the IGS region were performed in a 20 μl total volume containing 4 μl 5 × HOT FIREPol Blend Master Mix (Solis Biodyne, Estonia), 0.4 μl each primer pair, 10 ng template DNA (4 μl diluted DNA), and 10.2 μl sterile PCR grade water. The PCR protocol was adjusted as follows: 95 °C for 5 min as an initial denaturation cycle, followed by 40 cycles (94 °C for 1 min, 60 °C for 1 min, then 72 °C for 1 min) with a final extension at 72 °C for 10 min. ...

... 12 Medović et al. 2014;Stanković-Pešterac et al. 2014. ...