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The Palaeolithic record of Warsash, Hampshire, UK: implications for late Lower and early Middle Palaeolithic occupation history of Southern Britain [PDF]
, 2016 This paper presents new work on the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic assemblages recovered from Pleistocene gravels of the River Test at Warsash, Hampshire.
Ashton, N. +4 more
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Macro and microscopic wear analysis of the non-worked lateral edge of a large biface [PDF]
Traces in Time, 2014 The paper illustrates the results of an experimentation undertaken to test the hypothesis that characteristic wear is accrued on the non worked lateral edge of a stationary partially buried handaxe.
Andrea Zupancich, Tomos Profitt
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Journal of Archaeological Science, 2007 The morphology of Acheulean handaxes continues to be a subject of debate amongst Lower Palaeolithic archaeologists, with some arguing that many handaxes are over-engineered for a subsistence function alone. This study aims to provide an empirical foundation for these debates by testing the relationship between a range of morphological variables ...
Machin, A, Hosfield, RT, Mithen, S
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Lithic analysis in African archaeology: Advances and key themes
Archaeometry, EarlyView.Abstract Stone artifacts (lithics) preserve for extended periods; thus they are key evidence for probing the evolution of human technological behaviors. Africa boasts the oldest record of stone artifacts, spanning 3.3 Ma, rare instances of ethnographic stone tool‐making, and stone tool archives from diverse ecological settings, making it an anchor for ...
Deborah I. Olszewski +2 more
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Materiality and human cognition [PDF]
, 2019 In this paper, we examine the role of materiality in human cognition. We address issues such as the ways in which brain functions may change in response to interactions with material forms, the attributes of material forms that may cause change in brain ...
Overmann, Karenleigh, Wynn, Thomas
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Animal residues found on tiny Lower Paleolithic tools reveal their use in butchery [PDF]
, 2019 Stone tools provide a unique window into the mode of adaptation and cognitive abilities of Lower Paleolithic early humans. The persistently produced large cutting tools (bifaces/handaxes) have long been an appealing focus of research in the ...
Agam, Aviad +5 more
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Handaxe and non‐handaxe assemblages during Marine Isotope Stage 11 in northern Europe: recent investigations at Barnham, Suffolk, UK [PDF]
Journal of Quaternary Science, 2016 ABSTRACTBritain has an important geological, environmental and archaeological record for Marine Isotope Stage 11 (MIS 11), which makes a major contribution to understanding of the human occupation of northern Europe. New fieldwork at Barnham, Suffolk, UK, has identified through improved geological resolution the change in assemblages from simple core ...
Ashton, N +4 more
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Boreas, EarlyView.The characteristics of settlement of Neanderthals in northern Central Europe during the earlier phases of the Middle Palaeolithic (Marine Isotope Stage 8–6) have been a matter of debate for decades, specifically regarding the population dynamics at such latitudes during the coldest phases. In this paper, we review the known archaeological record of the
Gianpiero Di Maida +5 more
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Copying error, evolution, and phylogenetic signal in artifactual traditions: An experimental approach using "model artifacts" [PDF]
, 2016 This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the DOI in this record.Spatio-temporal patterns of artifactual variation are increasingly being studied via the explicit application of cultural evolutionary ...
Lycett, SJ, Mesoudi, A, Schillinger, K
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Boreas, EarlyView.Understanding the temperature variability of past interglacial cycles is essential to predict future climates. We present a new summer temperature reconstruction, based on the subfossil chironomid record from a small palaeolake adjacent to the Middle Palaeolithic site of Lichtenberg, northern Germany. The record spans from the Saalian late glacial over
Sonja Rigterink +10 more
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