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The European Upper Palaeolithic Palaeoecological and Archaeological Dataset for sites north of 50°N [PDF]

Scientific Data
The European Upper Palaeolithic Palaeoecological and Archaeological Dataset for sites north of 50°N (EUPPAD) presents a systematic collection of palaeoecological and archaeological data from Upper Palaeolithic sites across Europe north of 50°N.
Tilman Böckenförde
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What Is the Acheulean? [PDF]

Evol Anthropol
ABSTRACT The Acheulean represents the longest cultural period known to human history, lasting globally for more than 1.75 million years. It may have emerged as early as 1.95 Ma in Africa, spreading throughout much of the continent and then into Eurasia and lasting up to 350–200 ka in western Europe and South Asia, and even later in eastern Asia ...
Moncel MH, Cucart-Mora C, Arzarello M, Ashton N, Baena J, Barsky D, de la Torre I, Galanidou N, García-Medrano P, Hertler C, Herzlinger G, Ingicco T, Li H, Ma D, Mosquera M, Ollé A, Pappu S, Pei S, Tian C, Wang W, Bae CJ.   +20 more
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Large scale and regional demographic responses to climatic changes in Europe during the Final Palaeolithic. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
The European Final Palaeolithic witnessed marked changes in almost all societal domains. Despite a rich body of evidence, our knowledge of human palaeodemographic processes and regional population dynamics still needs to be improved.
Isabell Schmidt, Birgit Gehlen, Katja Winkler, Alvaro Arrizabalaga, Nico Arts, Nuno Bicho, Philippe Crombé, Berit Valentin Eriksen, Sonja B Grimm, Katarina Kapustka, Mathieu Langlais, Ludovic Mevel, Nicolas Naudinot, Zdeňka Nerudová, Marcel Niekus, Marco Peresani, Felix Riede, Florian Sauer, Werner Schön, Iwona Sobkowiak-Tabaka, Hans Vandendriessche, Mara-Julia Weber, Annabell Zander, Andreas Zimmermann, Andreas Maier   +24 more
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A revised radiocarbon chronology for the mammoth bone structures and associated features at Mezhyrich, Ukraine [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] [PDF]

Open Research Europe
Mammoth Bone Structures are a distinct archaeological phenomenon typically ascribed to the Late Pleistocene in East-Central Europe though their chronology and use remain debated.
Wei Chu, Andreas Maier, Pavlo Shydlovskyi   +2 more
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Tracking the emergence of the Upper Palaeolithic in western Asia and Europe: A Multiple Correspondence Analysis of Protoaurignacian and Southern Ahmarian lithics. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
Reconstructing changes in human behaviour during the Pleistocene, particularly when based on lithic or other artefact types, is often hindered by the traditional categorisation of these materials into discrete entities.
Jacopo Gennai, Armando Falcucci, Vincent Niochet, Marco Peresani, Jürgen Richter, Marie Soressi   +5 more
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Early European evidence of artificial cranial modification from the Italian Late Upper Palaeolithic Arene Candide Cave [PDF]

Scientific Reports
This study reports on early Eurasian evidence of artificial cranial modification (ACM) in a Late Upper Palaeolithic (LUP) individual (AC12) from Arene Candide Cave, Italy (ca. 12,620–12,190 Cal BP).
Tommaso Mori, Vitale Stefano Sparacello, Alessandro Riga, Giorgia Ciappi, Dario Ferrari, Francesca Seghi, Fabio Di Vincenzo, Monica Zavattaro, Filippo Pasquinelli, Roberto Carpi, Marco Peresani, Federica Fontana, Luca Sineo, Jacopo Moggi-Cecchi, Irene Dori   +14 more
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The Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Settlement of Northern Italy: Problems and Perspectives

Quaternary
This 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, Biagi Paolo
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Stará Ľubovňa – Lesopark. Late Palaeolithic site and the problems associated with raw material mining

Dissertationes Archaeologicae: Ex Instituto Archaeologico Universitatis de Rolando Eötvös Nominatae, 2021
A new archaeological site was discovered accidentally in year 2018. A surface survey revealed stone artefacts, which were generally dated to the Late Palaeolithic. Later, archaeological sondages were opened and newly found stone artifacts proved earliest
Maciej Wawrzczak, Zuzana Kasenčáková
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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]

PLoS ONE, 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.
Natalya Solodenko, Andrea Zupancich, Stella Nunziante Cesaro, Ofer Marder, Cristina Lemorini, Ran Barkai   +5 more
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Late Quaternary Proboscidean Sites in Africa and Eurasia with Possible or Probable Evidence for Hominin Involvement

Quaternary, 2022
This paper presents a list of >100 publicly known late Quaternary proboscidean sites that have certain or possible traces of hominin utilization in Africa, Europe, and Asia, along with a sample of references, chronometric or estimated ages, and brief ...
Gary Haynes
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