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Fire Use During the Last Glacial Maximum: Evidence From the Epigravettian at Korman' 9, Middle Dniester Valley, Ukraine

Geoarchaeology, Volume 40, Issue 2, March/April 2025.
ABSTRACT The Last Glacial maximum (LGM), spanning from 26.5 to 19 thousand years before present (ka bp), is a period of extreme climatic degradation associated with reduced biomass production and resource stress throughout Eurasia. Arguably, one of the most fundamental tools for human survival during this cold and arid period was the ability to create,
William Chase Murphree, Cruz Ferro‐Vázquez, Larissa Kulakovska, Vitalii I. Usyk, Olesia Kononenko, Marjolein D. Bosch, Paul Haesaerts, Freddy Damblon, Stéphane Pirson, Philip R. Nigst, Vera Aldeias   +10 more
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On the nature of ceramics technology: from Empedocles to Dawkins

Archaeometry, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 55-71, February 2025.
Abstract This contribution discusses salient aspects of the development of ceramics technology from its invention to the present, and the role ceramics have played during the cultural development and technological progress of ancient and modern societies. The conjecture is being advanced that the transformation of ceramic production modes from holistic,
Robert B. Heimann
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La grotte de Cussac (Dordogne)

Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2019
The recently discovered (2000) Cussac Cave is one of the major elaborately decorated caves for which the Ministry of Culture immediately invoked protective measures, including climatic controls and land and equipment purchases.
Jacques Jaubert, Catherine Ferrier, Valérie Feruglio, Nathalie Fourment, Camille Bourdier, Stéphane Konik, Sébastien Villotte   +6 more
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A multimethod analysis for tracing Gravettian red ochre provenance at Arene Candide Cave (NW Italy)

Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 36-52, January 2025.
ABSTRACT Arene Candide Cave, a key site for Western Mediterranean prehistory, is famous for the discovery of the richly adorned Mid–Upper Palaeolithic burial of the ‘Young Prince’ and for its use as a burial site at the end of the Pleistocene (Late Epigravettian).
I. Rellini, G. Martino, R. Cabella, E. Sessa, R. Maggi, J. Riel‐Salvatore   +5 more
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Population dynamics and socio-spatial organization of the Aurignacian: Scalable quantitative demographic data for western and central Europe.

PLoS ONE, 2019
Demographic estimates are presented for the Aurignacian techno-complex (~42,000 to 33,000 y calBP) and discussed in the context of socio-spatial organization of hunter-gatherer populations.
Isabell Schmidt, Andreas Zimmermann
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Les fossiles de Cro-Magnon (Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, Dordogne)

Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 2002
The Cro-Magnon skeletal remains discovered en 1868 near les Eyzies–de-Tayac (Dordogne) are generally attributed to the Aurignacian culture, and are dated to 30000 BP through comparison with the 14C date of the Aurignacian levels of the Pataud rock ...
Dominique Henry-Gambier
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Middle Pleistocene teeth from Arbreda Cave (Serinyà, northeastern Iberian Peninsula)

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 185, Issue 4, December 2024.
Right P3 ARB‐E5‐EC139‐2434 shown in occlusal, mesial, distal, inferior, lingual and buccal views. Abstract Objectives We report the discovery and description of three human teeth from the Middle Paleolithic archaeological levels of Arbreda Cave (Serinyà, Catalonia, NE Iberian Peninsula).
Marina Lozano, Joaquim Soler, Diego López‐Onaindia, Alba Solés, Ramon Julià, Dolors Ceperuelo, Carlos Lorenzo, Narcís Soler   +7 more
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Feral ecologies of the human deep past: multispecies archaeology and palaeo‐synanthropy

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 1062-1084, December 2024.
Abstract This article articulates recent advances in palaeo‐ecology with the goals and ambitions of multispecies archaeology. It centres the synanthropic nexus as a key context for the study of early human‐animal relationships and argues that its evolution yields important yet currently overlooked dynamics shaping the structure of the archaeological ...
Shumon T. Hussain
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Ochre and pigment use at Hohle Fels cave: Results of the first systematic review of ochre and ochre-related artefacts from the Upper Palaeolithic in Germany.

PLoS ONE, 2018
Though many European Upper Palaeolithic sites document early examples of symbolic material expressions (e.g., cave art, personal ornaments, figurines), there exist few reports on the use of earth pigments outside of cave art-and occasionally Neanderthal ...
Elizabeth C Velliky, Martin Porr, Nicholas J Conard   +2 more
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Environmental conditions in the Massif Central during the Upper Palaeolithic using stable isotope tracking (13C, 15N) of bone collagen from large herbivores

Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 729-744, July 2024.
ABSTRACT The environmental conditions experienced by hunter‐gatherers during the second part of the Upper Palaeolithic (ca. 28 000–15 000 cal bp) are poorly known in the mid‐elevation volcanic mountains of the Massif Central in southern France. The stable isotope ratios of carbon and nitrogen (13C/12C and 15N/14N expressed as δ13C and δ15N values) in ...
Dorothée G. Drucker, Laure Fontana
wiley   +1 more source