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First high resolution chronostratigraphy for the early North African Acheulean at Casablanca (Morocco) [PDF]

, 2021
The onset of the Acheulean, marked by the emergence of large cutting tools (LCTs), is considered a major technological advance in the Early Stone Age and a key turning point in human evolution.
Andrea Zerboni, Valérie Andrieu-Ponel, Daujeard, C., Rué, Mathieu, Jean‐Paul Raynal, Sanz-Laliberté, S., Mathieu Rué, Rué, M., Gallotti, Rosalia, Muttoni, G., Mohib, Abderrahim, Camille Daujeard, Degeai, Jean-Philippe, David Lefèvre, Zerboni, A., Andrieu-Ponel, Valérie, Jean-Paul Raynal, Lefèvre, David, Sanz-Laliberté, Séverine, Fernandes, P., Gallotti, R., Andrieu-Ponel, V., Paul Fernandes, Abderrahim Mohib, Jean‐Philippe Degeai, Perini, Serena, Daujeard, Camille, Geraads, D., Jean-Philippe Degeai, Fernandes, Paul, Denis Geraads, Matteo Maron, Mohssine El Graoui, Perini, S., Giovanni Muttoni, Zerboni, Andrea, Maron, Matteo, Magoga, Lionel, Raynal, Jean-Paul, Muttoni, Giovanni, El Graoui, M., Serena Perini, El Graoui, Mohssine, Mohib, A., Séverine Sanz‐Laliberté, Maron, M., Geraads, Denis, Valérie Andrieu‐Ponel, Magoga, L., Séverine Sanz-Laliberté, Degeai, J., Lefèvre, D., Raynal, J. ; https://orcid.org/, Rosalia Gallotti, Lionel Magoga   +54 more
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What Do Lithics Tell Us About Cultural Evolution? Insights From the Central African Record

Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue S3, Page S40-S49, June 2026.
ABSTRACT While Western historical narratives often incorporate a biased vision of human evolution—driven by a progressive view tied to a progressively evolving state of culture—this paper proposes combining archaeological lithic data with epistemological reflections to critique the modern regime of historicity, where progress is assumed as rational ...
Isis Isabella Mesfin
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On the Acheulean origin of mind and language

Theoria et Historia Scientiarum, 2012
Finally, we would like to restate that this paper is an exercise in thinking about what archaeological data mean in terms of cognition. As we said at the beginning, a more complex integration between theory of cognition and archaeological data is needed. This paper is a tentative step in that direction.
Rodrigo De Sá-Saraiva, Ana Isabel De Sá-Saraiva   +1 more
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"Two tribes": Handaxe shape variation shows distinct regional cultural groups in southeastern Britain between 424 000 and 374 000 BP

Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 602-621, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines regional and chronological variations in Acheulean handaxe morphology during Marine Isotope Stage 11 (c. 425–365 ka BP) in Britain. Using a data set of 737 handaxes from 13 securely dated sites in East Anglia and the Thames Valley, we apply three‐dimensional geometric morphometric analysis to examine morphological ...
Mark White, Frederick Foulds, Aaron Rawlinson, Ceri Shipton, Rob Davis, Nick Ashton   +5 more
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Insights into the late stages of the Acheulean technocomplex of Western Iberia from the Arbo site (Galicia, Spain)

, 2019
The arrival and disappearance of the Acheulean technocomplex in Europe, and specifically in the Iberian Peninsula, is a longstanding topic of discussion with relevance for unravelling the Middle Pleistocene human occupation dynamics of the continent ...
Santonja, M., Duval, M, Arnold, L., Duval, M., Méndez-Quintas, E, Méndez-Quintas, E., Pérez-González, A, Arnold, LJ, Santonja, M, Pérez-González, A., Demuro, M., Demuro, M   +11 more
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Occurrence of Crocuta (Carnivora, Hyaenidae) from a potential Middle Pleistocene site at Pirro Nord (Apricena, southern Italy)

Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 552-557, May 2026.
ABSTRACT The Pirro Nord quarry has yielded evidence of one of the earliest hominin presences in western Europe, accompanied by an extremely rich and diverse collection of vertebrate remains, including amphibians, reptiles, birds, and small and large mammals.
Alessio Iannucci, Dario Stefanelli, Jacopo Conti, Maria Marino, Raffaele Sardella   +4 more
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Large Flake Acheulean in the Nefud Desert of Northern Arabia

, 2014
International audienceBetween the Levant and the Indian sub-continent only a few Acheulean sites have been documented, hampering models of hominin dispersals.
Parton, Ash, White, Tom S., Jennings, R., Alsharekh, A., Shipton, C., Jennings, Richard P., White, Tom S, White, Tom,, Crassard, Rémy, Breeze, P., Drake, N., Groucutt, H., Drake, Nicholas, Jennings, Richard, Groucutt, Huw,, Petraglia, Michael D., Parton, A., Breeze, Paul, White, T., Crassard, R., Alsharekh, Abdullah, Shipton, Ceri, Petraglia, M., Groucutt, Huw S.   +23 more
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Nonhuman situational enmeshments—How participants build temporal infrastructures for ChatGPT

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract This paper investigates how participants recruit Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT as interactional co‐participants depending on their temporal enmeshment within an interactional flow. Using Charles Goodwin's co‐operative action framework, we analyze video data of human–AI interaction to trace the temporal structures established by ...
Nils Klowait, Maria Erofeeva
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Late Acheulean technology and cognition at Boxgrove, UK

, 2014
The Acheulean industrial complex combines technological variability with continuity on a scale unparalleled by more recent industries. Acheulean variability includes a widely recognized increase in biface refinement from the Early to Late Acheulean ...
Stout, Dietrich, Apel, Jan,, Commander, Julia, Lund University., Apel, Jan, Roberts, Mark   +5 more
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Drawing Animals in the Paleolithic: The Effect of Perspective and Abbreviation on Animal Recognition and Aesthetic Appreciation

Topics in Cognitive Science, Volume 18, Issue 2, April 2026.
Abstract The majority of Pleistocene figurative cave art in Western Europe consists of line drawings depicting large herbivores from the side view, and outlines were sometimes abbreviated to the head‐neck‐dorsal line. It is often assumed that the side view was used because it facilitates animal recognition compared to other views, and that abbreviated ...
Murillo Pagnotta, Mateusz Psujek, Larissa M. Straffon, Riccardo Fusaroli, Kristian Tylén   +4 more
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