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Out in the cold? A review of Early Middle Palaeolithic settlements in northern Central Europe, age data and geological preconditions for site formation and preservation

Boreas, EarlyView.
The characteristics of settlement of Neanderthals in northern Central Europe during the earlier phases of the Middle Palaeolithic (Marine Isotope Stage 8–6) have been a matter of debate for decades, specifically regarding the population dynamics at such latitudes during the coldest phases. In this paper, we review the known archaeological record of the
Gianpiero Di Maida, Jutta Winsemann, Malte Hoffmann, Tobias Lauer, Utz Böhner, Thomas Terberger   +5 more
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Population expansion in the North African Late Pleistocene signalled by mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U6

BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2010
Background The archaeology of North Africa remains enigmatic, with questions of population continuity versus discontinuity taking centre-stage. Debates have focused on population transitions between the bearers of the Middle Palaeolithic Aterian industry
Costa Marta D, Pereira Joana B, Fernandes Verónica, Franco-Duarte Ricardo, Silva Nuno M, Pereira Luísa, Martins Haidé, Soares Pedro, Behar Doron M, Richards Martin B, Macaulay Vincent   +10 more
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Chironomid‐based summer temperature reconstruction of the Eemian–Weichselian transition at Lichtenberg, northern Germany

Boreas, EarlyView.
Understanding the temperature variability of past interglacial cycles is essential to predict future climates. We present a new summer temperature reconstruction, based on the subfossil chironomid record from a small palaeolake adjacent to the Middle Palaeolithic site of Lichtenberg, northern Germany. The record spans from the Saalian late glacial over
Sonja Rigterink, Bartosz Kotrys, Michael Hein, Xuan Li, Neda Rahimzadeh, Agnieszka Gruszczyńska, Marcel Weiss, Brigitte Urban, David Colin Tanner, Tobias Lauer, Antje Schwalb   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Sopeña Rockshelter, a New Site in Asturias (Spain) bearing evidence on the Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic in Northern Iberia [PDF]

Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia, 2012
Iberia has become a major focus of modern human origins research because the early dates for the Aurignacian in some sites in northernSpain seem to preclude an ‘Aurignacian invasion’ from east to west.
Vakiparta, J., Macías-Rosado, R., Reed, K., Miller, A., Andrews, P., Skinner, A.R., Blacwell, B., Pinto-Llona, A.C., Clark, G., Karkanas, P.   +9 more
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Towards an ‘absolute’ timing of biostratigraphic and environmental phases from the Saalian late glacial to the Weichselian pleniglacial in central Europe—Insights from a lacustrine succession in Lichtenberg, northern Germany

Boreas, EarlyView.
Palynological records are central to the biostratigraphic subdivision of the Late Pleistocene in central Europe. Yet many interglacial and interstadial phases—such as the Eemian, Brörup and Odderade—remain only poorly constrained in time due to limited numerical dating.
Michael Hein, Thomas Kasper, Alexis Badai Samudra, Martin Theuerkauf, Markus Lothar Fischer, Neda Rahimzadeh, Maria Sekar Proborukmi, Sonja Rigterink, Agnieszka Gruszczyńska, Christian Zeeden, Simon Parfitt, David John Horne, Lucy Roberts, Dustin White, Lisa Brogmus, Hans von Suchodoletz, Tobias Lauer, Marcel Weiss, David Colin Tanner, Brigitte Urban   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

The use of stone at Ohalo II, a 23,000 year old site in the Jordan Valley, Israel

Journal of Lithic Studies, 2016
A wide range of stones were found at the 22,000-24,000 year old lakeshore camp of Ohalo II, the Sea of Galilee, Israel. The well-preserved camp includes the floors of six brush huts, several open-air hearths, a grave, a midden, and small installations ...
Polina Spivak, Dani Nadel
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The Early Upper Palaeolithic open‐air site of Friedrichsdorf‐Seulberg, Germany, in the context of the northern central European Aurignacian

Boreas, EarlyView.
Our knowledge of the Early Upper Palaeolithic occupation in northern central Europe is very limited, and recent research at the open‐air site of Friedrichsdorf‐Seulberg in Hesse, Germany, provides important new information on the Aurignacian. The site is rather small (26.5 m2) and spatial analysis identified a central hearth with two associated ...
Tilman Böckenförde, Gabriele Russo, Neda Rahimzadeh, Felix Bittmann, Nikolitsa Nikolakopoulou, Thomas Terberger   +5 more
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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
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Drying Meat Today as During the Late Glacial Period

EXARC Journal, 2013
Western Europe during the Upper Palaeolithic, between 42,000 years ago and 12,000 years ago, was sparsely wooded, but later there was an increase in the percentage of specimens of birch, abies, fagus and tilia hosting wildlife similar to that already ...
Edoardo Ratti and Valeria Cosma, Valeria Cosma   +1 more
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Rediscovered Late Upper Palaeolithic Painted Imagery at Bacon Hole, Gower Peninsula, South Wales

Quaternary
Recent and ongoing fieldwork at Bacon Hole, located on the Gower Peninsula, South Wales, is being conducted by an international team of researchers. This work includes pigment analysis and a chronometric dating programme focused on a vertical painted ...
George H. Nash, Hipólito Collado, Hugo Gomes, Sara Garcês, Virginia Lattao, Pierluigi Rosina, Elena Marrocchino, Negar Eftekhari, Barbara Oosterwijk, Alistair W. G. Pike, Dirk L. Hoffmann, Christopher D. Standish, John F. Hiemstra, Qingfeng Shao   +13 more
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