Lime plaster cover of the dead 12,000 years ago – new evidence for the origins of lime plaster technology [PDF]
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2019 The production of lime plaster is especially important as a technological development in human prehistory as it requires advanced knowledge and skills to transform rocks to a plastic yet durable material.
David E. Friesem +3 more
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From the Epipalaeolithic into the earliest Neolithic (PPNA) in the South Levant
Documenta Praehistorica, 2020 This paper examines the nature of initial neolithisation indications during the terminal Pleistocene and earliest Holocene in the Southern Levant. This interval corresponds to a period of significant and geographically variable environmental changes in ...
Anna Belfer-Cohen, Nigel Goring-Morris
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The problem of ‘Epipalaeolithic’ in the Carpathian Basin
Communicationes Archaeologicae HungariaeIn the 1950s, a few hundred knapped stone artefacts were found at the Hont-Várhegy site during field surveys. The characteristics of the finds led Miklós Gábori to conclude that the assemblage represents the ‘Epipalaeolithic’ and the survival of the ...
Kristóf István Szegedi +2 more
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Settling down in Southwest Asia: the Epipalaeolithic-Neolithic transformation
Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 2023 Permanent settlement began in southwest Asia across the end of the Pleistocene (the Epipalaeolithic) and the beginning of the Holocene (the Neolithic).
Trevor Watkins
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Feast or famine? Epipalaeolithic subsistence in the northern Adriatic basin
Documenta Praehistorica, 2001 In this paper I use a late glacial-early postglacial archaeological case study from Istria, Croatia, to develop methods for inferring the social contexts of food consumption from animal remains. A number of lines of evidence are suggestive of an increase
Preston Miracle
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Epipalaeolithic Ritual Practices at Gedikkaya Cave, Northwestern Türkiye
Anadolu AraştırmalarıThis paper examines the Epipaleolithic occupation of Gedikkaya Cave in northwestern Türkiye, which also served as a settlement during the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods. The Epipaleolithic marks a period of increased human mobility, likely influenced
Deniz Sarı
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A systematic review of wild grass exploitation in relation to emerging cereal cultivation throughout the Epipalaeolithic and aceramic Neolithic of the Fertile Crescent. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The present study investigates the occurrence of wild grasses at Epipalaeolithic and aceramic Neolithic sites in the Near East in order to assess their role in subsistence economies alongside the emergence of cereal cultivation.
Alexander Weide +3 more
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Lithic Miniaturization Provides a Signature of an MIS4-3 Southern Dispersal of Homo sapiens. [PDF]
Evol AnthropolABSTRACT Fossil and artefactual evidence shows Homo sapiens in Eurasia well before 75 ka. However, genetic evidence suggests all extant non‐African populations derive almost all of their ancestry from a dispersal that only diverged in the last 60–50 ka. In northern Eurasia, the Upper Paleolithic with its laminar blade knapping provides an archeological
Shipton C.
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The ‘Epipalaeolithic’ site Hont–Templomdomb of Northern Hungary revisited
Communicationes Archaeologicae Hungariae, 2023 This paper presents the results of the typological revision of Hont-Templomdomb site originally published in 1956 as Epipalaeolithic. Our observations contradict the Epipalaeolithic cultural and chronological position of the lithic material, which ...
Kristóf Szegedi +2 more
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Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology, 2021 A methodology for identifying prehistoric local learning communities is proposed. We wish to test possible relationships among communities based on continuity and variability in lithic reduction sequence technological traits with different visibility and
Francesco Valletta +2 more
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