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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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Journal of Field Archaeology, 2018 Direkli Cave is an Epipalaeolithic site in the central Taurus mountain range in southeastern Turkey that was used by mobile hunter-gatherer communities.
Cevdet Merih Erek, Emma Louise Baysal
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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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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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Rock art of the Mediterranean basin on the Iberian Peninsula. From El Cogul to Kyoto [PDF]
Catalan Historical Review, 2013 Roca dels Moros in El Cogul is the first set of prehistoric paintings documented in Catalonia, and since its discovery in 1908 it has been a referent in prehistoric art on the Iberian Peninsula.
Gemma Hernández, Mauro S. Hernández
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A unique human-fox burial from a pre-Natufian cemetery in the Levant (Jordan). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 New human burials from northern Jordan provide important insights into the appearance of cemeteries and the nature of human-animal relationships within mortuary contexts during the Epipalaeolithic period (c.
Lisa A Maher +5 more
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Agia Marina and Peristereònas: Two New Epipalaeolithic Sites on the Island of Lemnos (Greece)
Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, 2022 The surveys carried out along the coasts of the island of Lemnos (Greece) have led to the discovery of new Late Epipalaeolithic sites at Agia Marina and Peristereònas. Peristereònas yielded a knapped stone assemblage that is strictly comparable with that
N. Efstratiou +4 more
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Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 38, Issue 8, Page 1279-1288, November 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT The extinction of Neanderthal populations has been attributed to the onset of cold and dry climatic conditions during Marine Isotope Stage 3 or their competition with anatomically modern humans for large game resources. However, decoupling climate from competition has long proved difficult.
Michaela Ecker +6 more
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Antiquity, 2023 In Iran, studies of the transition from hunting and gathering to farming and herding have focused on early developments in the Zagros Mountains. Here, the authors present new zooarchaeological data from Hotu Cave, which throw light on sheep/goat ...
Donna de Groene +2 more
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Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 34, Issue S1, Page S1-S21, November 2023., 2023 Abstract For over a decade, the French mission ‘Archaeology of the Arabian Seashores’ has been exploring the evolution of the Omani coastline, from hunter–gatherers to the rise of complex societies during the crucial passages from the culmination of the Pleistocene to the Early Bronze Age, passing through the Neolithic.
Vincent Charpentier +4 more
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