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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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Unravelling neomorphism: recrystallization pathways in Proterozoic microfossiliferous chert
Frontiers in Earth ScienceEarly diagenetic chert serves as a critical archive of life on Earth, yet the mechanisms of chert formation and diagenesis remain uncertain. The present research deciphers chert formation and recrystallization through petrographic observations of ...
Kaitlyn Gauvey, Linda C. Kah
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2016 Archaeological Investigations at the T. M. Sanders Site (41LR2), Lamar County, Texas [PDF]
, 2017 On March 4th and 5th, 2016, Bo Nelson and Mark Walters returned to the T. M. Sanders site (41LR2) to inspect the property after Julia Trigg Crawford, the main landowner of the site, informed us that the fields at the site had been prepped for this year ...
Nelson, Bo +2 more
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New Results From the Pre‐Pottery Neolithic Site of Al Uyaynah, Tabuk, in Northwestern Saudi Arabia
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Al Uyaynah is a low sandstone mound on an alluvial plain, long known for its extensive surface remains of stone‐built circular and rectangular structures. Following test excavations in 2012, more detailed excavation was undertaken in 2016 within one of the largest rectangular stone structures.
Khalid Alasmari +6 more
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 Pelagic deep-sea siliceous successions in accretionary complexes preserve precious records of a vast deep seafloor that is now lost due to plate subduction.
Shun Muto +3 more
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Token Finds At Pre-Pottery Neolighic ‘Ain Ghazal, Jordan A Formal And Technological Analysis [PDF]
, 2013 ‘Ain Ghazal is a Neolithic site located near Amman, Jordan. It was excavated between 1982 and 1998 by an American-Jordanian team directed by Gary O. Rollefson, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wa.
Harry, Iceland
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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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Archaeometry, EarlyView.Abstract The use of stone hammers to produce sharp stone flakes—knapping—is thought to represent a significant stage in hominin technological evolution because it facilitated the exploitation of novel resources, including meat obtained from medium‐to‐large‐sized vertebrates. The invention of knapping may have occurred via an additive (i.e., cumulative)
Metin I. Eren +23 more
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The Comminution of Chert Gravel by Microwave Irradiation
ResourcesChert, a by-product rock of sand quarrying, has historically posed economic challenges for aggregate production, resulting in significant “waste” accumulation in quarries.
Mark Tzibulsky, Vladimir Frid
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Fossil bacterial forms in Early Proterozoic dolomite at Kiihtelysvaara in eastern Finland [PDF]
Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finland, 1987 The study deals with the bacterial type discovered in a Jatulian deposit at Kiihtelysvaara. The morphology of the microbic fossil, when compared with current forms, suggests that it is an early sulphur bacterium, named Hyypiana jatulica.
R. Tynni, O. Sarapää
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