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Journal of Lithic StudiesThe Oolitic chert is an important raw material for large blade production in Betic Cordillera (Spain) during 4th-3rd mill. BCE. These blades are part of a long-distance trade network of artefacts found in Chalcolithic settlements of southwestern Iberia ...
Patrícia Jordão +3 more
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Geological Journal, EarlyView.New zircon ages reveal that lacustrine sedimentation initiated in the Late Miocene (Messinian), revising earlier Pliocene age assignments. The study results support the interpretation of the northern BFSZ as a broad left‐lateral transtensional shear zone rather than a discrete sinistral fault or simple extensional graben array.
İrem Elitez +3 more
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Global Chert Database: A summary record of global chert samples
Geoscience Data JournalChert is a sedimentary rock abundant and conspicuous throughout the geologic record. It serves as an essential geological archive and is vital for palaeogeographic reconstruction. The Chert Database Working Group is part of the OneSediment Working Groups
Chenyu Wang +5 more
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Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2009 The late Cambrian - late Tremadocian La Silla Formation is a carbonate unit of the eastern Precordillera in Argentina whose facies indicate a shallow platform environment. Until this moment, there were no studies that referred to the diagenetic evolution
Mariana M. Raviolo +2 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Over the last 25 years, perceptions of the early prehistory of Northwest Africa have undergone radical changes due to new fieldwork projects and a corresponding growth in scientific interest in the region. Much of this work has been focused in Morocco, known for its extremely rich fossil and archaeological records in caves and rock shelters.
Nick Barton +3 more
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Geochemical Data of Scaglia Bianca Chert from Central Italy for Provenance Studies
Journal of Open Archaeology DataThis work presents the first geochemical characterization data of Scaglia Bianca Fm chert from Central Italy. The dataset is part of the chert reference collection (SiliROck) of Sapienza, University of Rome, and includes 110 chert samples collected from ...
Elena Carletti +5 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Our understanding of the recolonization of northwest Europe in the period leading up to the Lateglacial Interstadial relies heavily on discoveries from Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK). Gough's Cave is the richest Late Upper Palaeolithic site in the British Isles, yielding an exceptional array of human remains, stone and organic artefacts, and butchered ...
Silvia M. Bello +2 more
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Estudios Atacameños, 2004 Un alto porcentaje de los artefactos líticos que han sido recuperados en los sitios arqueológicos de la cuenca superior del Arroyo Tapalqué (Olavarría, Buenos Aires, Argentina) han sido confeccionados sobre ftanita o chert. Esta materia prima aparece en
María Paula Barros +1 more
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Raw material studies of West Central Serbia
Journal of Lithic Studies, 2014 This paper deals with raw material problems in the territory of West Central Serbia geologically determined as the Čačak-Kraljevo (or West Morava) basin. Our research is presented through the most striking case studies, Lojanik, Vlaška Glava and Lazac.
Vera Bogosavljević Petrović +1 more
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021 The end-Permian mass extinction (EPME) was the most severe mass extinction event of the Phanerozoic, and was associated with the development of global oceanic anoxia.
Tetsuji Onoue +2 more
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