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Evolution of systems for obtaining resources between the end of the upper Magdalenian and the geometric Epipaleolithic of El Parco Cave (Alòs de Balaguer, La Noguera, Lleida)

Zephyrus, 2013
In this paper we analyze the changes in the way of obtaining lithic raw materials and eating ressources in the Upper Magdalenian and the Epipalaeolithic in El Parco Cave (Alòs de Balaguer, Lleida, Spain).
Javier MANGADO, Jordi NADAL, Josep María FULLOLA, Maria Àngels PETIT, Raül BARTROLÍ, Manuel CALVO   +5 more
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Juniper smoke, skulls and wolves' tails. The Epipalaeolithic of the Anatolian plateau in its South-west Asian context; insights from Pinarbaşi

, 2013
This paper discusses the only substantive evidence for the Epipalaeolithic of central Anatolia. This evidence allows revised understandings of phenomena often proposed as characteristic of the Epipalaeolithic of South-west Asia including the appearance ...
Baysal, Emma, Baird, Douglas, Jenkins, Emma, Lorentz, Kirsi, Baysal, Adnan, Pearson, Jessica, Carruthers, Denise, Asouti, Eleni, Pirie, Anne, Kabukcu, Ceren, Middleton, Caroline, Astruc, Laurence, Fairbairn, Andrew   +12 more
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Direct Dating and Physico-Chemical Analyses Cast Doubts on the Coexistence of Humans and Dwarf Hippos in Cyprus.

PLoS ONE, 2015
In the Mediterranean, the island dwarf megafaunas became extinct around the end of the Pleistocene, during a period of rapid and global climate change. In Cyprus, this coincided with the first human presence on the island, as attested by the rock shelter
Antoine Zazzo, Matthieu Lebon, Anita Quiles, Ina Reiche, Jean-Denis Vigne   +4 more
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Navigating Dichotomies and Labels: Identifying and Interpreting Ritual Artefacts in Prehistory

Etnoantropološki Problemi
Ritual artefacts are reported in most archaeological excavations from the Epipalaeolithic period of the Levant onwards. However, the topic of ritual remains a contentious issue in archaeology, especially regarding what it means for an artefact to be ...
Milena Gošić
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Can models of evolutionary transition clarify the debates over the Neolithic Revolution? [PDF]

Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2023
Shavit A, Sharon G.
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Hunting Specialisation and the Broad Spectrum Revolution in the Early Epipalaeolithic: Gazelle Exploitation at Urkan e-Rubb IIa, Jordan Valley

, 2012
This present research explores the impact of Flannery’s (1969) Broad Spectrum Revolution model within the context of the Levantine Epipalaeolithic, specifically the early (Kebaran) Epipalaeolithic.
Humphrey, Emma
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Northwest African Neolithic initiated by migrants from Iberia and Levant. [PDF]

Nature, 2023
Simões LG, Günther T, Martínez-Sánchez RM, Vera-Rodríguez JC, Iriarte E, Rodríguez-Varela R, Bokbot Y, Valdiosera C, Jakobsson M.   +8 more
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Late Epipalaeolithic Rock-Cut Installations and Groundstone Tools in the Southern Levant. Methodology and Classification System

, 2009
Groundstone tools in the Southern Levant were major implements in man’s life from the Epipalaeolithic onward. However, comparative studies of groundstone tools are still limited, and research on rock-cut installations is almost non-existent.
Eitam, David
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70 fechas para una cueva : revisión crítica de 70 dataciones C14 del Pleistoceno Superior y Holoceno de la Cueva de Nerja (Málaga, Andalucía, España)

Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie I, Prehistoria y Arqueología, 2008
Durante el Pleistoceno superior final y el Holoceno inferior ymedio se depositó en las salas de la entrada de la Cueva de Nerja (Málaga, Andalucía, España) una importante sucesión estratigráfica, que constituye una de las más importantes secuencias ...
Jesús Francisco Jordá Pardo, Juan Emilio Aura Tortosa   +1 more
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Debitage analysis of ʻUyun al-Hammâm : the reconstruction of epipalaeolithic reduction sequences

, 2008
The transition from a hunter-gatherer way of life to sedentary food-producing societies was a pivotal shift in human prehistory, affecting social, political, economic and ideological structures.
Macdonald, Danielle
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