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A bifacial paradise—The site of Ochtmissen, Germany, and its lithic assemblage in the context of the last glacial (early MIS 4) in the north‐central European Lowland

Boreas, EarlyView.
The Palaeolithic site of Ochtmissen (Lower Saxony, Germany) was excavated in fluvial terrace deposits during the winter of 1993/1994. The current study presents, for the first time, a thorough analysis of the lithic assemblage, encompassing its primary technological and typological characteristics, as well as the type and age of the fluvial deposits ...
Gianpiero Di Maida, Jutta Winsemann, Markus Fuchs, Niklas von Soest, Thomas Terberger   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Magnitude of a Practice: Collection and Recycling of Patinated ‘Old’ Flint Items During the Levantine Late Lower Paleolithic

Quaternary
This study examines the prevalent practice of recycling patinated flint tools (“double patina”) of 18 lithic assemblages from three Late Lower Paleolithic sites in Israel.
Bar Efrati, Ran Barkai
doaj   +1 more source

Persistent Neanderthal occupation of the open-air site of 'Ein Qashish, Israel.

PLoS ONE, 2019
Over the last two decades, much of the recent efforts dedicated to the Levantine Middle Paleolithic has concentrated on the role of open-air sites in the settlement system in the region. Here focus on the site of 'Ein Qashish as a cases study. Located in
Ravid Ekshtain, Ariel Malinsky-Buller, Noam Greenbaum, Netta Mitki, Mareike C Stahlschmidt, Ruth Shahack-Gross, Nadav Nir, Naomi Porat, Daniella E Bar-Yosef Mayer, Reuven Yeshurun, Ella Been, Yoel Rak, Nuha Agha, Lena Brailovsky, Masha Krakovsky, Polina Spivak, Micka Ullman, Ariel Vered, Omry Barzilai, Erella Hovers   +19 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring late Paleolithic and Mesolithic diet in the Eastern Alpine region of Italy through multiple proxies. [PDF]

Am J Phys Anthropol, 2021
Oxilia G, Bortolini E, Badino F, Bernardini F, Gazzoni V, Lugli F, Romandini M, Radini A, Terlato G, Marciani G, Silvestrini S, Menghi Sartorio JC, Thun Hohenstein U, Fiorenza L, Kullmer O, Tuniz C, Moggi Cecchi J, Talamo S, Fontana F, Peresani M, Benazzi S, Cristiani E.   +21 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Late Paleolithic of Northeast Africa in the Light of Recent Research [PDF]

American Anthropologist, 1966
N THE past decade a considerable amount of new research in the Paleolithic range of prehistory has been accomplished in Northeast Africa, and particularly in the lower Nile Valley of Upper Egypt, Nubia, and Northern Sudan as a result of the salvage archeology program brought about by the construction of the High Dam at Aswan.
openaire   +1 more source

The Discourse of Equality in Spanish Museums. How Social Media Communicate International Women's Day

Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT International Women's Day on March 8th is an arena for discourse in contemporary Spain, highlighted by intra‐feminist tension and ideological polarization. In their role as sociocultural mediators, museums construct narratives of gender equality.
Héctor Navarro‐Güere, Jesica Menéndez‐Signorini, Maria Forga‐Martel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mining and processing of the Stránská skála-type chert during the Late Neolithic and Early Eneolithic periods

Archeologické Rozhledy, 2019
Stránská skála represents an important geological and archaeological site. It is also known for its rich deposits of Jurassic cherts that were utilized in various ways during different stages of Moravian prehistory.
Jaroslav Bartík, Petr Škrdla, Lubomír Šebela, Antonín Přichystal, Ladislav Nejman   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond Deterministic Fetal Programming: Intrauterine Exposures and the Multifactorial Origins of Adiposity

Obesity Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Excess adiposity is not a recently developed problem but has existed since at least the upper Paleolithic, allowing evolutionary selection pressures to adapt the physiology of the pregnant woman and the feto‐placental unit for maternal and fetal protection.
Gernot Desoye, Ursula Hiden, Evelyn Jantscher‐Krenn, Herbert Fluhr, Jonathan C. Wells, Sonja Entringer, Mireille N. M. van Poppel   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The ecomorphology of Caribou (Rangifer tarandus): a geometric morphometric study. [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

Open Research Europe
Paleolithic reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) was a key species for human populations in western and central Europe during much of the Paleolithic period. In Southwestern France, and in particular during the Magdalenian, reindeer frequently figures among the ...
Ariane Burke, Ana Belén GALÁN LÓPEZ, Sandrine Costamagno   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Origins of Fashion

Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 35, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper reconceptualizes fashion as a deep‐time system of bodily communication rather than a byproduct of modern consumer societies. We define fashion as a socially transmitted system of bodily display in which patterned variation occurs within shared conventions of appearance.
Francesco d'Errico, Solange Rigaud
wiley   +1 more source