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PLoS ONE, 2018 Analysis of ca. 17,000 fish remains recovered from the late Upper Paleolithic/early Epi-Paleolithic (LGM; 23,000 BP) waterlogged site of Ohalo II (Rift Valley, Israel) provides new insights into the role of wetland habitats and the fish inhabiting them ...
Irit Zohar +4 more
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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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The Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition occupations from Cova Foradada (Calafell, NE Iberia).
PLoS ONE, 2019 The Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition in Europe covers the last millennia of Neanderthal life together with the appearance and expansion of Modern Human populations.
Juan I Morales +10 more
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Middle Paleolithic surface finds on the northern coast of the Taganrog Bay [PDF]
Cultural Heritage and Modern TechnologiesSystematic control over the area of the seashore on the administrative border between the Donetsk People's Republic and the Rostov region has led to the accumulation of a collection of stone tools of the Middle Paleolithic and a collection of Pleistocene
Kolesnik A.V. +4 more
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Constructing chronologies for the late Middle Paleolithic and Upper Paleolithic: limitations and means to overcome them [PDF]
World Archaeology, 2015 AbstractImprovements in our understandings of the timing and nature of millennial-scale climatic variability combined with improved dating methods and more accurate calibration curves have allowed researchers to better place archaeological cultures within their paleoenvironmental contexts.
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We present the application of a new quantitative approach to space study in Palaeolithic cave art. Using GIS, we analysed the distribution and position of hand stencils in El Castillo cave to track the gestures and behaviours of Palaeolithic societies.
Olga Spaey +7 more
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Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 2008 Recent advances in the application to the human fossil record of high-resolution microtomographic analytical techniques allow the noninvasive quantitative characterization of the inner dental structure. Compared to the extant human condition, Neanderthal
Priscillia Bayle
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Application of Multi‐Method Dating for Understanding the Gravettian North of Moravia, Central Europe
Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article presents the results of integrating three methods to assess the age of the Upper Palaeolithic site of Pietraszyn 11 (SW Poland), close to the Moravian Gate. Sediment chronology determined using optically stimulated luminescence produced promising, yet ambiguous results (51.0 ± 3.7 to 20.3 ± 0.7 ka).
A. Wiśniewski +16 more
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Esen-2 flint-working workshop in the light of new technical and typological research [PDF]
Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографииThis article analyzes new technical and typological studies of artifacts recovered from the Esen-2 flint-working workshop, located on the southwestern outskirts of the Barsa-Kelmes depression within the Ustyurt plateau.
Madreymov B.J.
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The hypotheses of Senonian flint to be a prime source of prehistoric “chalcedony” flint artefacts from the Negev Desert (Israel) was not investigated in detail thus far. By combining trace‐element profiling with statistical interpretation, ten flint items from Nahal Zahal, an Early Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B site in the northern Negev, were ...
Meir Finkel +5 more
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