The Aurignacian in northern Bosnia revisited [PDF]
Studia Praehistorica, 2023 Northern Bosnia is characterized by a large concentration of Paleolithic open-air sites; among them, 13 were dated as Early Upper Paleolithic or Aurignacian. This paper will consider their discovery, excavation, and publication in the second half of the
Sofija Dragosavac
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The first Homo sapiens in Catalonia, hunters and gatherers from the old Upper Palaeolithic [PDF]
Catalan Historical Review, 2016 At the end of the Middle Palaeolithic around 40,000 years ago, a population of archaic humans, Neanderthal men descended from the earliest settlers, lived in Europe. They were perfectly adapted to the land and its resources.
Narcís Soler, Joaquim Soler
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A 36,200-year-old carving from Grotte des Gorges, Amange, Jura, France [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 The earliest European carvings, made of mammoth ivory, depict animals, humans, and anthropomorphs. They are found at Early Aurignacian sites of the Swabian Jura in Germany.
Francesco d’Errico +12 more
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Reconstructing flexible pathways of Aurignacian blade and bladelet production at Vogelherd. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe beginning of the Upper Paleolithic represents a key period in human history. At this time, we can grasp the technological concepts that Homo sapiens used in the early Upper Paleolithic.
Benjamin Schürch +2 more
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Materiale și Cercetări Arheologice, 2021 The article represents our first article in a series planned by us, with some more following articles on Aurignacian, its industry types and possible industrial-chronological variability for a large region in the heart of Europe, the Carpathian Basin ...
Demidenko. Y. +4 more
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A pre-Campanian Ignimbrite techno-cultural shift in the Aurignacian sequence of Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe Aurignacian is the first European technocomplex assigned to Homo sapiens recognized across a wide geographic extent. Although archaeologists have identified marked chrono-cultural shifts within the Aurignacian mostly by examining the techno ...
Armando Falcucci +10 more
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Split-based points from the Swabian Jura highlight Aurignacian regional signatures. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 The systematic use of antlers and other osseous materials by modern humans marks a set of cultural and technological innovations in the early Upper Paleolithic, as is seen most clearly in the Aurignacian.
Keiko Kitagawa, Nicholas J Conard
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Aurignacian dynamics in Southeastern Europe based on spatial analysis, sediment geochemistry, raw materials, lithic analysis, and use-wear from Românești-Dumbrăvița [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 The Aurignacian is one of the first cultural-technological traditions commonly associated with the expansion of Homo sapiens in Europe. Early Homo sapiens demographics across the continent are therefore typically inferred using the distribution of ...
Wei Chu +6 more
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The use of carinated items in the Levantine Aurignacian-Insights from layer D, Hayonim Cave, W. Galilee, Israel. [PDF]
PLoS ONEA longstanding debate concerns the function of carinated elements in both, the Levantine, and European Aurignacian. The present study aims to contribute to this topic with the evaluation of the carinated assemblage from layer D in Hayonim Cave, Western ...
Hannah Parow-Souchon, Anna Belfer-Cohen
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An early Aurignacian arrival in southwestern Europe
Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Westernmost Europe constitutes a key location in determining the timing of the replacement of Neanderthals by anatomically modern humans (AMHs). In this study, the replacement of late Mousterian industries by Aurignacian ones at the site of Bajondillo Cave (Málaga, southern Spain) is reported.
Francisco José Jiménez-Espejo +2 more
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