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Out in the cold? A review of Early Middle Palaeolithic settlements in northern Central Europe, age data and geological preconditions for site formation and preservation

Boreas, EarlyView.
The characteristics of settlement of Neanderthals in northern Central Europe during the earlier phases of the Middle Palaeolithic (Marine Isotope Stage 8–6) have been a matter of debate for decades, specifically regarding the population dynamics at such latitudes during the coldest phases. In this paper, we review the known archaeological record of the
Gianpiero Di Maida, Jutta Winsemann, Malte Hoffmann, Tobias Lauer, Utz Böhner, Thomas Terberger   +5 more
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Large Flake Acheulean in the Nefud Desert of Northern Arabia

PaleoAnthropology, 2014
Between the Levant and the Indian sub-continent only a few Acheulean sites have been documented, hampering models of hominin dispersals. Here we describe the first Acheulean sites to be discovered in the Nefud Desert of northern Arabia.
Ceri Shipton, Abdullah Alsharekh, Remy Crassard, Nicholas Drake, Tom S. White, Huw S. Groucutt, Richard Jennings, Paul Breeze, Ash Parton, and Michael D. Petraglia   +9 more
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A bifacial paradise—The site of Ochtmissen, Germany, and its lithic assemblage in the context of the last glacial (early MIS 4) in the north‐central European Lowland

Boreas, EarlyView.
The Palaeolithic site of Ochtmissen (Lower Saxony, Germany) was excavated in fluvial terrace deposits during the winter of 1993/1994. The current study presents, for the first time, a thorough analysis of the lithic assemblage, encompassing its primary technological and typological characteristics, as well as the type and age of the fluvial deposits ...
Gianpiero Di Maida, Jutta Winsemann, Markus Fuchs, Niklas von Soest, Thomas Terberger   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Woodstock Rocks: From Acheulean to Iron Age in the Waterberg, Limpopo Province, South Africa

Southern African Field Archaeology, 2023
The cliff terrace site, Woodstock Rocks, was exploited occasionally by hominins from the Earlier Stone Age to the Iron Age. A small excavation uncovered an Acheulean quartzite workshop with many flakes, but lacking large cutting tools and without ...
Lyn Wadley, Wim Biemond, Ghilraen Laue, Christine Sievers, Carolyn Thorp, Michiel de Kock   +5 more
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Mid‐infrared spectroscopy applied to a multi‐level cave system (Montmaurin, SW France): An innovative method for assessing sediment provenance

Sedimentology, Volume 73, Issue 5, Page 1722-1749, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Deciphering sediment provenance is essential to understand depositional patterns and dynamics. This question is particularly important in archaeological contexts to constrain the sedimentological history of unearthed material—an information critically needed, for example, to estimate the age of the deposits—or to apprehend sediment movement ...
Fuchs Coraline, Rambeau Claire, Ertlen Damien, Rixhon Gilles, Perrenoud Christian, Ponche Jean‐Luc, Trautmann Martine, Benarioumlil Sylvain, Vialet Amélie   +8 more
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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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The mirror cracked: Symmetry and refinement in the Acheulean handaxe [PDF]

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2015
Abstract The Acheulean is a stone tool industry that originates in Africa over 1.7 mya. It is characterised by the bifacially shaped handaxe as part of a group of tools commonly referred to as LCTs — large cutting tools. Traditionally, the Lower Palaeolithic/Early Stone Age Acheulean is seen as continuing throughout much of the Old World until c.
McNabb, John, Cole, James
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Valuing Behavioral By‐Products: Evolutionary Significance of Neutrally Drifting and Exaptive Cultures in Primates

American Journal of Primatology, Volume 88, Issue 7, July 2026.
Structural, functional, and evolutionary links between two behavioral by‐products (i.e., stone play and female‐to‐female mounting—FFM) and their putative corresponding behavioral adaptations (i.e., stone tool use and female‐to‐male mounting—FMM) in Balinese long‐tailed macaques and Japanese macaques.
Jean‐Baptiste Leca, Noëlle Gunst, Paul L. Vasey, Michael A. Huffman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing Acheulean biface variability at Jalindri: morphometric evidence for localized technological adaptations along the southeastern margins of the Thar Desert, Rajasthan

Frontiers in Earth Science
This study reports the newly discovered Acheulean site of Jalindri (JLD), along the Great Boundary Fault (GBF) zone at the southeastern margins of the Thar Desert.
Varun Vyas, Varun Vyas, Ajithprasad Pottentavida, Gopesh Jha, Gopesh Jha   +4 more
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The manipulative complexity of Lower Paleolithic stone toolmaking. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2010
Early stone tools provide direct evidence of human cognitive and behavioral evolution that is otherwise unavailable. Proper interpretation of these data requires a robust interpretive framework linking archaeological evidence to specific behavioral and ...
Aldo Faisal, Dietrich Stout, Jan Apel, Bruce Bradley   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source