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The archaeology of rock art in Northern Africa [PDF]
, 2017 The first reports on the rock art of north Africa were written in the mid-nineteenth century. Since then, rock art has become a key area of African archaeological research.
DI LERNIA, Savino
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Advancing Cave Survey Methods: High‐Precision Mapping in Drakotrypa Cave, Greece
Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Cave floor mapping plays a vital role across various scientific disciplines by enabling the identification and interpretation of features shaped by both natural processes and human activity. In cave archaeology, floor mapping is crucial to decode and reconstruct human‐induced morphological features.
Christos Pennos +5 more
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What is a lunar standstill III?
Documenta Praehistorica, 2016 Prehistoric monument alignments on lunar standstills are currently understood for horizon range, perturbation event, crossover event, eclipse prediction, solstice full Moon and the solarisation of the dark Moon.
Lionel Duke Sims
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World prehistory from the margins: the role of coastlines in human evolution [PDF]
, 2004 Conventional accounts of world prehistory are dominated by land-based narratives progressing from scavenging and hunting of land mammals and gathering of plants to animal domestication and crop agriculture, and ultimately to urban civilisations supported
Bailey, G.
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Demography and cultural innovation: A model and its implications for the emergence of modern human culture [PDF]
, 2001 In recent years there has been a major growth of interest in exploring the analogies between the genetic transmission of information from one generation to the next and the processes of cultural transmission, in an attempt to obtain a greater ...
Shennan, S
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Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Human life history is derived compared to that of our closest living relatives, the great apes. It has been suggested that these derived traits are causally related to aspects of our ecology, social behaviour and cognitive abilities. However, resolving this requires that we know the evolutionary trajectory of our distinctive pattern of growth,
Paola Cerrito +2 more
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Materiale și Cercetări Arheologice, 2015 Since its inception, the Romanian archaeological school of the Palaeolithic maintained the interpretation of archaeological layers through the lenses of the geomorphological data as an objective.
Cosac, M. +3 more
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Steps towards operationalizing an evolutionary archaeological definition of culture [PDF]
, 2011 This paper will examine the definition of archaeological cultures/techno-complexes from an evolutionary perspective, in which culture is defined as a system of social information transmission.
Riede, F
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Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Mediterranean is particularly sensitive to rapid climate changes (RCCs) during the Holocene. An increasing number of natural climate archives revealed that socio‐economic developments were influenced by such RCCs since the Palaeolithic. However, multi‐millennial and high‐resolution archives are still rare and often located in mountainous ...
Esra Reichert +7 more
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The Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Settlement of Northern Italy: Problems and Perspectives
QuaternaryThis paper considers some problems of the Late Palaeolithic and the Mesolithic periods in Northern Italy. More precisely, it deals with chronology, settlement pattern, techno-typological characteristics of knapped stone assemblages, and climatic changes ...
Paolo Biagi
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