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Pleistocene environments, climate, and human activity in Britain during Marine Isotope Stage 7: insights from Oak Tree Fields, Cerney Wick, Gloucestershire

Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 38, Issue 6, Page 840-865, August 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT Investigations at Oak Tree Fields, Cerney Wick, Gloucestershire, in western England have revealed a sequence of fluvial deposits dating from Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage (MIS) 7 to 5. At the base of the sequence, a series of gravel and sand facies were deposited, initially as part of a meandering river.
Joshua T. Hogue, Keith N. Wilkinson, Enid Allison, Thomas Hill, Monika V. Knul, Matthew Law, Marta Perez‐Fernandez, Hannah Russ, Danielle Schreve, Jennifer E. Sherriff, Philip Toms, Daniel Young, Lisa Westcott‐Wilkins, Brendon Wilkins   +13 more
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Middle Palaeolithic occupation of the southern North Sea Basin: evidence from the Sandscaping sediments emplaced on the beach between Bacton and Walcott, Norfolk, UK

Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 38, Issue 6, Page 866-890, August 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT During the summer of 2019, the Bacton to Walcott Coastal Management Scheme involved the emplacement on to the foreshore of 1.8 million cubic metres of sand and gravel dredged from the submerged sediments of the Palaeo‐Yare in the southern North Sea 11 km off Great Yarmouth.
Rob Davis, Nick Ashton, Rachel Bynoe, John Craven, Rob Ferguson, Ian Gardner, Tim Grimmer, Claire Harris, Marcus Hatch, Colin Johnson, Joanne Leonard, Simon Lewis, Darren Nicholas, Matt Stevens   +13 more
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Cumulative culture and complex cultural traditions

Mind &Language, Volume 37, Issue 3, Page 284-303, June 2022., 2022
Cumulative cultural evolution is often claimed to be distinctive of human culture. Such claims are typically supported with examples of complex and historically late‐appearing technologies. Yet by taking these as paradigm cases, researchers unhelpfully lump together different ways that culture accumulates.
Andrew Buskell
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Narrating Palaeolithic Human Settlement History : the case of the Imjin-Hantan River Area, Korea [PDF]

International Journal of Korean History, 2014
This article intends to furnish a narrative story-telling with the broad perspective on the human past rather than simply depending on the analytical examination of archaeological data.
Yongwook Yoo
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Acheulean Diversity in Britain (MIS 15-MIS11): From the Standardization to the Regionalization of Technology

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022
The appearance of the Acheulean and the production of new bifacial tools marked a revolution in human behavior. The use of longer and complex operative chains, with centripetal and recurrent knapping, adapted to different raw materials, created long ...
Paula García-Medrano, Paula García-Medrano, Paula García-Medrano, Paula García-Medrano, Ceri Shipton, Mark White, Nick Ashton   +6 more
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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, Lemorini, Cristina, N., Solodenko, O., Marder, R., Barkai, S., Nunziante Cesaro   +5 more
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The Late Middle Pleistocene mammalian fauna of Oumm Qatafa Cave, Judean Desert: taxonomy, taphonomy and palaeoenvironment

Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 37, Issue 4, Page 612-638, May 2022., 2022
ABSTRACT The Middle Pleistocene archaeological record of the southern Levant has proven key to understanding human evolution and intercontinental faunal biogeography. Knowledge of archaeological sites of that period in the southern Levant is biased, with most Middle Pleistocene localities in the Mediterranean areas in the north, despite the mosaic of ...
Nimrod Marom, Ignacio A. Lazagabaster, Roee Shafir, Filipe Natalio, Vera Eisenmann, Liora Kolska Horwitz   +5 more
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Plant wax biomarkers in human evolutionary studies

Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 30, Issue 6, Page 385-398, November/December 2021., 2021
Abstract Plant wax biomarkers are an innovative proxy for reconstructing vegetation composition and structure, rainfall intensity, temperature, and other climatic and environmental dynamics. Traditionally used in earth sciences and climate studies from “off‐site” ocean and lake records, biomarker research is now incorporated in archeology and ...
Robert Patalano, Patrick Roberts, Nicole Boivin, Michael D. Petraglia, Julio Mercader   +4 more
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Factors affecting Acheulean handaxe variation: Experimental insights, microevolutionary processes, and macroevolutionary outcomes [PDF]

, 2017
PublishedJournal ArticleThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Elsevier via the DOI in this record.The “Acheulean” is comprised of individual knapping events undertaken by individual hominins.
Eren, MI, Lycett, SJ, Mesoudi, A, Schillinger, K, von Cramon-Taubadel, N   +4 more
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Another Look at the Cuxton Handaxe Assemblage [PDF]

Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 2003
The well-known Palaeolithic site at Cuxton, Kent (TQ 710 665) is situated on a remnant of Pleistocene terrace deposits of the Medway, which lies on a chalk spur at the junction of the main river and one of its former tributaries (Fig. 1). These deposits have been known as a source of Palaeolithic artefacts since at least 1889 (Payne 1893, cited in ...
Shaw, A. D., White, M. J.
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