Acheulean Bifaces from Khor Shambat, Omdurman (Sudan), Comparative Studies in the Nubian Context
Archaeologia Polona, 2020 This work presents Acheulean material discovered in Khor Shambat (Omdurman, Sudan), situated on the left-bank Nile valley a few km. north of Khor Abu Anga and about 7 km from the Nile valley, 10 km to the north-west of the confluence of the Blue and ...
Mirosław Masojć +4 more
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Making tools and making sense: complex, intentional behaviour in human evolution [PDF]
, 2009 Stone tool-making is an ancient and prototypically human skill characterized by multiple levels of intentional organization. In a formal sense, it displays surprising similarities to the multi-level organization of human language. Recent functional brain
Chaminade, T., Stout, D.
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Life without the Movius Line: The structure of the East and Southeast Asian Early Palaeolithic [PDF]
, 2015 © 2015 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA.The starting point of this paper is that the Movius Line is no longer an appropriate way of studying the Early Palaeolithic of East and Southeast Asia, and should be disregarded.
Bae +107 more
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Technological Responses of Neanderthals to Macroclimatic Variations (240,000–40,000 BP) [PDF]
, 2009 Using a database of 499 archaeological assemblages from 332 sites in Europe, we statistically test a model of the economic reactivity of the hunter-gatherer production system to climatic variations.
Bocquet-Appel, Jean-Pierre +1 more
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Pattern recognition of universal mathematical constants in Acheulean biface formats
Journal of Lithic Studies, 2015 The similar design formats of many Acheulean bifaces has prompted several studies into the use of ‘mental templates’, leading to controversial claims that there may be a relation between length and width equal to the Golden Ratio.
Alan Edward Cannell
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Behaviour and process in the formation of the North European Acheulean record: Towards a Unified Palaeolithic Landscape Approach [PDF]
, 2016 The Acheulean record of northern France and southern Britain has long been acknowledged as internationally important, having played an important historical role in the development of the discipline.
Blundell, L +3 more
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Geochemical “fingerprints” for Olduvai Gorge Bed II tuffs and implications for the Oldowan–Acheulean transition [PDF]
, 2016 Bed II is a critical part of early Pleistocene Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Its deposits include transitions from humid to more arid conditions (with associated faunal changes), from Homo habilis to erectus, and from Oldowan to Acheulean technology. Bed II (~
de la Torre, I +3 more
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Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.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 +4 more
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The geology and geochronology of Al Wahbah maar crater, Harrat Kishb, Saudi Arabia [PDF]
, 2014 Al Wahbah is a large (∼2.2 km diameter, ∼250 m deep) maar crater in the Harrat Kishb volcanic field in western Saudi Arabia. It cuts Proterozoic basement rocks and two Quaternary basanite lava flows, and is rimmed with an eroded tuff ring of debris from ...
Abdel Wahab, Antar +4 more
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Lithic analysis in African archaeology: Advances and key themes
Archaeometry, EarlyView.Abstract Stone artifacts (lithics) preserve for extended periods; thus they are key evidence for probing the evolution of human technological behaviors. Africa boasts the oldest record of stone artifacts, spanning 3.3 Ma, rare instances of ethnographic stone tool‐making, and stone tool archives from diverse ecological settings, making it an anchor for ...
Deborah I. Olszewski +2 more
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