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The Macrotools in the Acheulean Complexes of the South-East Dagestan

Teoriya i praktika arkheologicheskikh issledovaniy, 2020
В статье рассматривается развитие форм макроорудий в ашельских индустриях Юго-Восточного Дагестана. Группа памятников, из которых происходит рассматриваемый материал, расположена на границе равнины и предгорий на территории Дарвагчайского геоархеологического района (Республика Дагестан).
Rybalko A., Kandyba A.
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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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Les premiers peuplements humains de l’Est des Carpates et de leurs abords dans le contexte européen

Materiale și Cercetări Arheologice, 2021
The oldest human remains unearthed in Europe were discovered in the Iberian Peninsula. Their age is between 1.4 and 1.2 Ma. Lithic assemblages older than 1 Ma have been unearthed in southwestern Europe (Italy, southern France, Spain).
Tuffreau, A.
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Reframing the Chipped Edge: Combining Materiality, Ontology, and Embodiment to Rethink Stone Tool‐Making and Human Conscious Behavior in the Paleolithic Past

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT Combining different theoretical frameworks can lead to new insights into the role of material things in shaping human experience in the Paleolithic period. This paper first presents a historical review of three theoretical approaches in archaeology, anthropology, and the philosophy of mind: Material culture and materiality studies, the ...
Bar Efrati
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CHARACTERIZATION OF LITHIC COMPLEXES FROM BUIA (DANDIERO BASIN, DANAKIL DEPRESSION, ERITREA)

Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2004
This paper discusses a very partial sampling of the archeological evidence found in more than 200 sites containing lithic artefacts and faunal remains which have been surveyed in the Dandiero (Buia) Basin (Danakil Depression, Eritrea).
FABIO MARTINI, YOSIEF LIBSEKAL, OMAR FILIPPI, ASMERET GHEBRE/HER, HABTOM KASHAY, ASMERET KIROS, GABRIELE MARTINO, DAWIT OKUBATSION, AMAHA SEGID, TEKESTE SOLOMON, ZELALEM TEKA, DESSALE YOSIEF, SAMUEL YAMANE   +12 more
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Burn Selection: How Fire Injury Shaped Human Evolution

BioEssays, Volume 48, Issue 2, February 2026.
Intentional fire use exposed humans and their ancestors to high‐temperature burn injury, a risk rare in other species, bringing major survival benefits and technologies but also repeated exposure to extreme heat. The Burn Selection Hypothesis reframes this cost of fire mastery as a unique selective pressure, which shaped our evolution.
Joshua Cuddihy, Yuemin Li, Isobel Fisher, Zoltan Takats, Dominic Friston, Declan Collins, Marcela Vizcaychipi, Matteo Fumagalli, Istvan Nagy, Armand Leroi   +9 more
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Heavily eroded Pleistocene landscape and site-forming processes of the Acheulean artifacts-bearing Holocene sediments, Eastern Desert, Sudan

Quaternary Science Advances
Since the Middle Pleistocene, the Sahara region has undergone strong environmental changes resulting from climate changes. Dry periods, constituting an ecological barrier to human presence, alternated with wet periods when the Sahara area was covered ...
Mirosław Masojć, Ju Yong Kim, Hyeon-Seon Ahn, Jin Cheul Kim, Youn Soo Lee, Young Kwan Sohn, Grzegorz Michalec, Ahmed Nassr   +7 more
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The origin of early Acheulean expansion in Europe 700 ka ago: new findings at Notarchirico (Italy)

Scientific Reports, 2020
Notarchirico (Southern Italy) has yielded the earliest evidence of Acheulean settlement in Italy and four older occupation levels have recently been unearthed, including one with bifaces, extending the roots of the Acheulean in Italy even further back in
Marie-Hélène Moncel, Carmen Santagata, Alison Pereira, Sébastien Nomade, Pierre Voinchet, Jean-Jacques Bahain, Camille Daujeard, Antonio Curci, Cristina Lemorini, Bruce Hardy, Giacomo Eramo, Claudio Berto, Jean-Paul Raynal, Marta Arzarello, Beniamino Mecozzi, Alessio Iannucci, Raffaele Sardella, Ignazio Allegretta, Emanuela Delluniversità, Roberto Terzano, Pauline Dugas, Gwenolé Jouanic, Alain Queffelec, Andrea d’Andrea, Rosario Valentini, Eleonora Minucci, Laura Carpentiero, Marcello Piperno   +27 more
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Reconstructing the Classical and Post‐Classical Agricultural Landscape of the Udhruh Qanat in Wādī al‐Fiqai, Southern Jordan

Geoarchaeology, Volume 41, Issue 1, January/February 2026.
ABSTRACT The cities of Petra and Udhruh were administrative and cultural centers in southern Jordan from Nabataean through Roman and Byzantine times into the early Islamic periods (first century BCE to eighth century CE). These communities built water harvesting systems to be able to survive in this arid environment.
Marcel R. Hoosbeek, Ángel Velasco Sánchez, Roeland Emaus, Fawzi Abudanah, Mark J. Driessen   +4 more
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A morpho-technological analysis of bifaces from the Satani-Dar Locality in Armenia: a case study of the Late Acheulean with large flake bifaces in the Caucasus

UISPP Journal, 2022
In the Caucasus, one of the largest collections of Acheulean bifaces is known from the Satani-Dar locality in Armenia. Since the mid-20th century, bifaces from this site have been described using both traditional typological methods and a technological ...
Liubov V. Golovanova, Vladimir B. Doronichev, Ivan G. Shirobokov   +2 more
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