Fat residue and use-wear found on Acheulian biface and scraper associated with butchered elephant remains at the site of Revadim, Israel [PDF]
, 2015 The archaeological record indicates that elephants must have played a significant role in early human diet and culture during Palaeolithic times in the Old World.
A., Zupancich +5 more
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Grotta Romanelli (Southern Italy, Apulia). Legacies and issues in excavating a key site for the Pleistocene of the Mediterranean [PDF]
, 2018 Grotta Romanelli, located on the Adriatic coast of southern Apulia (Italy), is considered a key site for the Mediterranean Pleistocene for its archaeological and palaeontological contents. The site, discovered in 1874, was re-evaluated only in 1900, when
Brilli, M +11 more
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Radiocarbon dates from the Oxford AMS system: archaeometry datelist 35 [PDF]
, 2014 This is the 35th list of AMS radiocarbon determinations measured at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU). Amongst some of the sites included here are the latest series of determinations from the key sites of Abydos, El Mirón, Ban Chiang, Grotte
Baker, D. +5 more
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Repeated aeolian deflation during the Allerød/GI-1a-c in the coversand lowland of NW Belgium [PDF]
, 2020 The results of multi-disciplinary research carried out on the deposits of the Moerbeke "Driehoek" site, located along the northern bank of the extensive Moervaart palaeolake (NW Belgium), are presented.
Bos, Johanna A.A. +3 more
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'Fire hardening' spear wood does slightly harden it, but makes it much weaker and more brittle [PDF]
, 2016 It is usually assumed that 'fire hardening' the tips of spears, as practised by hunter-gatherers and early Homo spp., makes them harder and better suited for hunting.
Chan, Tak Lok, Ennos, Antony Roland
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Did stranded whales attract Final Palaeolithic foragers to northern Jutland?
, 2023 Poster from the annual Hugo Obermaier Conference, held at Aarhus University in Denmark in April 2023 - includes abstract for the poster on page 2. All is also available via https://obermaier-gesellschaft.de/
Dalager, Helena N. +3 more
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Pattern of extinction of the woolly mammoth in Beringia. [PDF]
, 2012 Extinction of the woolly mammoth in Beringia has long been subject to research and speculation. Here we use a new geo-referenced database of radiocarbon-dated evidence to show that mammoths were abundant in the open-habitat of Marine Isotope Stage 3 (∼45-
Beilman, DW +7 more
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Simbolismo de la Edad del Bronce en la Meseta oriental: un depósito cerámico con Arte Pospaleolítico en la cueva del Cojillo (Checa, Guadalajara) [PDF]
Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia, 2021 Se presentan los primeros trabajos arqueológicos efectuados en la cueva del Cojillo (Checa, Guadalajara). Durante la intervención se extrajo un depósito cerámico in situ cuyo contenido ha aportado una fecha C14 que permite situarlo en el Bronce final ...
Javier Aragoncillo, Ignacio Triguero
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Population expansion in the North African Late Pleistocene signalled by mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U6 [PDF]
, 2010 Background <br/> The archaeology of North Africa remains enigmatic, with questions of population continuity versus discontinuity taking centre-stage.
Behar, D.M. +10 more
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, 2022 Since the stone tool assemblages identified at the site of Le Moustier in France at the end of the 19th century were given their name, Neanderthals have often been identified as ‘Mousterian man’. From the beginning of the 20th century until roughly its final quarter, cultural classifications were based primarily on typological features of lithic ...
Romagnoli, Francesca +18 more
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