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The Late Upper Palaeolithic and earliest Mesolithic evidence of burials in Europe [PDF]

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2018
Burials of the Late Palaeolithic (14 000–11 600 cal years before present, henceforth BP) are a rare phenomenon in Europe. Several sites possess burials of single and double individuals. As with the preceding Magdalenian, the burial of more than two individuals in the same grave cutting seems to be unusual, but does occur occasionally. The deposition of
Jörg Orschiedt
exaly   +5 more sources

Late Middle Palaeolithic and Early Upper Palaeolithic in Poland in the light of new numerical dating

Geographia Polonica
Although the first numerical dating of Middle and Upper Palaeolithic sites in Poland was applied at the beginning of the second half of the 20th century, it has only been in the last two decades that a data increase has been recorded, making it possible ...
Andrzej Wiśniewski, Dariusz Bobak, Marta Połtowicz-Bobak, Piotr Moska   +3 more
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Late Upper Palaeolithic ornaments from Vlakno cave, Croatia

Documenta Praehistorica
This paper presents the richest prehistoric assemblage of ornaments in the Eastern Adriatic discovered to date, found in the Late Upper Palaeolithic layers of Vlakno cave, Croatia.
Barbara Cvitkušić, Emanuela Cristiani, Dario Vujević   +2 more
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Gontsy (Ukraine), a settlement with mammoth bone dwellings of the late Upper Palaeolithic in Eastern Europe

UISPP Journal, 2018
The upper Palaeolithic settlement of Gontsy (near Lubny, Poltava region, Ukraine) is owned to the Mezinian culture, which occupied the middle and upper Dnieper basin in Eastern Europe during a short period around 15 000-14 000 BP.
François Djindjian, Anne-Marie Moigne, Evgeny Mashenko, Stéphane Konik, Jeanne Matviichina, Sophie Gregoire, Galina Sapojnikova   +6 more
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Earliest evidence of dental caries manipulation in the Late Upper Palaeolithic. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2015
AbstractPrehistoric dental treatments were extremely rare and the few documented cases are known from the Neolithic, when the adoption of early farming culture caused an increase of carious lesions. Here we report the earliest evidence of dental caries intervention on a Late Upper Palaeolithic modern human specimen (Villabruna) from a burial in ...
Oxilia G, Peresani M, Romandini M, Matteucci C, Spiteri CD, Henry AG, Schulz D, Archer W, Crezzini J, Boschin F, Boscato P, Jaouen K, Dogandzic T, Broglio A, Moggi-Cecchi J, Fiorenza L, Hublin JJ, Kullmer O, Benazzi S.   +18 more
europepmc   +6 more sources

Deglacial landscapes and the Late Upper Palaeolithic of Switzerland [PDF]

Quaternary Science Reviews, 2020
The presence of people in Switzerland in recently deglaciated landscapes after the Last Glacial Maximum represents human utilisation of newly available environments. Understanding these landscapes and the resources available to the people who exploited them is key to understanding not only Late Upper Palaeolithic settlement in Switzerland, but more ...
Reade, H, Tripp, JA, Charlton, S, Grimm, SB, Leesch, D, Müller, W, Sayle, KL, Fensome, A, Higham, TFG, Barnes, I, Stevens, RE   +10 more
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Getahovit-2. New evidence of an Upper Palaeolithic settlement in northern Armenia [PDF]

Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2022
The cave settlement at Getahovit-2 in Armenia has a proven record of human occupation from the Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages, making it the third prehistoric cave site, after Aghitu-3 and Kalavan-1, to be known from this region.
Irena Kalantaryan, Marcin Białowarczuk, Michał Przeździecki   +2 more
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Pre-Solutrean rock art in southernmost Europe: Evidence from Las Ventanas Cave (Andalusia, Spain). [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
The south of Iberia conserves an important group of Palaeolithic rock art sites. The graphisms have been mostly attributed to the Solutrean and Magdalenian periods, while the possibility that older remains exist has provoked extensive debate.
Miguel Cortés-Sánchez, José Antonio Riquelme-Cantal, María Dolores Simón-Vallejo, Rubén Parrilla Giráldez, Carlos P Odriozola, Lydia Calle Román, José S Carrión, Guadalupe Monge Gómez, Joaquín Rodríguez Vidal, Juan José Moyano Campos, Fernando Rico Delgado, Juan Enrique Nieto Julián, Daniel Antón García, M Aránzazu Martínez-Aguirre, Fernando Jiménez Barredo, Francisco N Cantero-Chinchilla   +15 more
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First Epigravettian ceramic figurines from Europe (Vela Spila, Croatia). [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
Recent finds of 36 ceramic artifacts from the archaeological site of Vela Spila, Croatia, offer the first evidence of ceramic figurative art in late Upper Palaeolithic Europe, c. 17,500-15,000 years before present (BP).
Rebecca Farbstein, Dinko Radić, Dejana Brajković, Preston T Miracle   +3 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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