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Animal movements in the Kenya Rift and evidence for the earliest ambush hunting by hominins [PDF]

, 2015
Animal movements in the Kenya Rift Valley today are influenced by a combination of topography and trace nutrient distribution. These patterns would have been the same in the past when hominins inhabited the area.
A Deino, A Hurst, AK Behrensmeyer, D Sturdy, G Bailey, H Thieme, J Maskall, J Wallach, MJ Walter, NE Sikes, P Pinzuti, P Shipman, R Potts, R Potts, R Potts, R Potts, R Potts, R Potts, R Potts, R Rings, RB Owen, SC Reynolds, SJ McNaughton   +22 more
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Homo heidelbergensis: The Tool to Our Success [PDF]

, 2016
Homo heidelbergensis, a physiological variant of the species Homo sapien, is an extinct species that existed in both Europe and parts of Asia from 700,000 years ago to roughly 300,000 years ago (carbon dating). This “subspecies” of Homo sapiens, as it is
Burkard, Alexander
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Bridge over Olduvai Gorge: Capacity building and conservation of lithics and fossils [PDF]

, 2017
This paper explores decision-making processes involved in the conservation of lithics and fossils excavated at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. The site is renowned for discoveries of early humans from the Palaeolithic period, lithics and fossils that ...
Díaz Pila, E, F Peters, R, Ohara-Anderson, E   +2 more
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Human perception of symmetry, raw material and size of Palaeolithic handaxes. [PDF]

, 2017
It has often been assumed that handaxes were crafted and used primarily by adult males (Hawkes et al. 1997; Kohn & Mithen 1999; Niekus et al. 2012). However, there is no clear scientific or ethnographic evidence to support this.
Basell, L., Coward, Fiona, Tumler, D.
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La industria lítica del miembro estratigráfico medio de Ambrona (Soria, España) en el contexto del Paleolítico antiguo de la Península Ibérica

Zephyrus, 2009
RESUMEN: En el miembro estratigráfico medio de Ambrona se han reconocido industrias líticas no achelenses, con características tecnológicas propias del Paleolítico Medio.
Manuel SANTONJA, Alfredo PÉREZ-GONZÁLEZ   +1 more
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Estructura interna y características tecnológicas de las industrias achelenses en la cuenca media occidental del Duero

Zephyrus, 2009
RESUMEN: Se realiza aquí una aproximación general sobre las industrias achelenses del occidente de la Meseta norte española, atendiendo a aspectos puramente tecnológicos, tanto por lo que se refiere a su estructura interna como a las características de ...
José Ignacio MARTÍN BENITO
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Stable Isotope Analysis of Pleistocene Proboscideans from Afar (Ethiopia) and the Dietary and Ecological Contexts of Palaeoloxodon

Quaternary
The timing, cause, and magnitude of mammalian extinctions during the African Middle Pleistocene remain largely unresolved. The demise of Elephas/Palaeoloxodon recki, a lineage that had a great geographic and temporal span, represents a particularly ...
Julie Luyt, Yonatan Sahle, Deano Stynder
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The unsung heroes [PDF]

, 2009
This paper explores the roles played by local collectors, often little-known or rarely remembered, in the compilation of Britain’s Earlier (Lower and early Middle) Palaeolithic record, with reference to the work of C.E.
Hosfield, Robert Tyldesley
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Evidence for the earliest structural use of wood at least 476,000 years ago. [PDF]

Nature, 2023
Barham L, Duller GAT, Candy I, Scott C, Cartwright CR, Peterson JR, Kabukcu C, Chapot MS, Melia F, Rots V, George N, Taipale N, Gethin P, Nkombwe P.   +13 more
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Relationship and contacts of the pleistocene hunter-gatherer societies with mode-III technology between northern Africa and the southern Iberian Peninsula [PDF]

, 2013
We present the natural environment of the historic region of the Strait of Gibraltar. We evaluate the similarities in the south of the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa in geography, geology, environ- ment and resources. The paper shows a summary of
Ramos Muñoz, José Francisco
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