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Less of a bird’s song than a hard rock ensemble [PDF]

, 2017
Corbey et al. (2016) have written an interesting and thoughtful paper designed to provoke debate surrounding one of the most important and persistent Stone Age artefacts, the Acheulean handaxe.
Arsuaga, Ashton, Ashton, Ashton, Ashton, Bello, Binford, Binneman, Bridgland, Bridgland, Britton, Brumm, Cole, Cole, Conway, Corbey, Cruse, Dennell, Dennell, Dominguez-Rodrigo, Drake, Drake, Gamble, Gowlett, Gowlett, Hardaker, Hodgson, Hopkinson, Hubbard, Isaac, Jennings, Jones, Jones, Jones, Julien, Keeley, Keeley, Kempe, Klein, Lhomme, Lisiecki, Lycett, Lycett, Lycett, MacDonald, Machin, Marshall, McNabb, McNabb, Mitchell, Mithen, Moncel, Movius, Parfitt, Petraglia, Pitts, Pope, Preece, Roberts, Roe, Santonja, Schlereth, Sharon, Shaw, Shennan, Singer, Solodenko, Stout, Tester, Tocheri, Walker, Wang, Wenban-Smith, Wenban-Smith, White, White, White, White, White, White, Wymer, Yravedra   +81 more
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Drawing Animals in the Paleolithic: The Effect of Perspective and Abbreviation on Animal Recognition and Aesthetic Appreciation

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The majority of Pleistocene figurative cave art in Western Europe consists of line drawings depicting large herbivores from the side view, and outlines were sometimes abbreviated to the head‐neck‐dorsal line. It is often assumed that the side view was used because it facilitates animal recognition compared to other views, and that abbreviated ...
Murillo Pagnotta, Mateusz Psujek, Larissa M. Straffon, Riccardo Fusaroli, Kristian Tylén   +4 more
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Stone Age Archaeological Sites in the Landscape. Monumentalisation of Sites on the South Korea Example

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Archaeologica, 2019
The aim of the article is to show selected ways of presenting Stone Age archaeological sites in the landscape. The forms of prehistoric archaeological sites monumentalisation in South Korea served as an example here.
Marcel Bartczak
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Reframing the Chipped Edge: Combining Materiality, Ontology, and Embodiment to Rethink Stone Tool‐Making and Human Conscious Behavior in the Paleolithic Past

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT Combining different theoretical frameworks can lead to new insights into the role of material things in shaping human experience in the Paleolithic period. This paper first presents a historical review of three theoretical approaches in archaeology, anthropology, and the philosophy of mind: Material culture and materiality studies, the ...
Bar Efrati
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating interrelationships between Lower Palaeolithic stone tool effectiveness and tool user biometric variation: implications for technological and evolutionary changes [PDF]

, 2016
Lower Palaeolithic hominins are thought to have been dependent upon stone tools during the acquisition and processing of food resources. Hence, it is hypothesized that the evolutionary advantages provided by efficient stone tool use may have selected for
Key, Alastair J. M., Lycett, Stephen J.
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Insights into the Middle Pleistocene fauna of South Africa: Zooarchaeology, stable isotopes and dating of Pniel 6

Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 40, Issue 6, Page 1120-1139, August 2025.
ABSTRACT The Florisian Land Mammal Age (FLMA; 773‐12 ka) is characterised by specialist, often extinct, grazing as well as wetland species, many of which are no longer present in the southern African interior. Middle Pleistocene FLMA faunal assemblages are rare, particularly those associated with artefacts, limiting reconstruction of environmental ...
S. Sophia Politt, Helena Pribliczki, Marc R. Dickinson, Nils Andersen, Abenicia Henderson, David Morris, Cheryl A. Makarewicz, Kirsty Penkman, Michaela Ecker   +8 more
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Human perception of symmetry, raw material and size of Palaeolithic handaxes. [PDF]

, 2017
It has often been assumed that handaxes were crafted and used primarily by adult males (Hawkes et al. 1997; Kohn & Mithen 1999; Niekus et al. 2012). However, there is no clear scientific or ethnographic evidence to support this.
Basell, L., Coward, Fiona, Tumler, D.
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Dating the Middle Palaeolithic of Fumane Cave by the combined ESR/U‐series method

Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 40, Issue 5, Page 862-875, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Fumane Cave, located in Northern Italy, is a major prehistoric site for understanding late Neandertal and early modern human behaviours. The cave contains a 12‐m‐thick stratigraphic sequence of Middle and Upper Palaeolithic layers, which have yielded a number of flint artefacts and faunal remains.
Christophe Falguères, Giulia Gruppioni, Jean Jacques Bahain, Jean Michel Dolo, Marco Peresani   +4 more
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Life without the Movius Line: The structure of the East and Southeast Asian Early Palaeolithic [PDF]

, 2015
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA.The starting point of this paper is that the Movius Line is no longer an appropriate way of studying the Early Palaeolithic of East and Southeast Asia, and should be disregarded.
Bae, Bae, Bar-Yosef, Bar-Yosef, Barkai, Bartstra, Bergh, Brumm, Chardin, Chauhan, Ciochon, Colbert, Collings, Demeter, Demeter, Dennell, Dennell, Dennell, Dennell, Dennell, Dennell, Dennell, Gaillard, Gaillard, Groves, Hao, Hayden, Heekeren, Hou, Howell, Hutterer, Islamov, Jacob, Jia, Jia, Kappelman, Kleindienst, Koenigswald, Koenigswald, Kohn, Kuhn, Li, Lioubine, Liu, Lombera-Hermida, Lumley, Lycett, Lycett, Majid, Marwick, McBurney, Miller-Antonio, Mishra, Mishra, Moncel, Morwood, Movius, Movius, Nanda, Norton, Norton, Oppenheimer, Otte, Pappu, Parfitt, Parfitt, Pei, Petraglia, Pope, Pope, Pope, Prokopenko, Ranov, Reich, Rendell, Reynolds, Rightmire, Rightmire, Robin Dennell, Ronen, Ronen, Schick, Schwartz, Schwartz, Semaw, Sharon, Simanjuntak, Simanjuntak, Sohn, Subhavan, Sémah, Templeton, Templeton, Terra, Terra, Terra, Tougard, Wang, Wang, Watanabe, Weidenreich, Wolpoff, Wu, Wu, Yang, Yin, Zaidner, Zaidner   +107 more
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Examining the distribution of Middle Paleolithic Nubian cores relative to chert quality in southern (Nejd, Dhofar) and south‐central (Duqm, Al Wusta) Oman

Geoarchaeology, Volume 40, Issue 1, January/February 2025.
Abstract Lithic raw material properties are often invoked to explain the presence, absence, form, or ontogeny of Paleolithic stone tools. Here, we explore whether the frequency of the Middle Paleolithic Nubian core form and core‐reduction systems co‐varies with toolstone quality in two neighboring regions in Oman: the southern region of Nejd, Dhofar ...
Metin I. Eren, Michelle R. Bebber, David Singer, Chloe Pearson, Joseph D. Ortiz, Briggs Buchanan, Amir Beshkani, Dominik Chlachula, Rudolf Dellmour, Roman Garba, Anthony E. Marks, Vitaly Usyk, Jeffrey I. Rose   +12 more
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