Archaeological evidence for two culture diverse Neanderthal populations in the North Caucasus and contacts between them [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 Neanderthals were widespread during the Middle Palaeolithic (MP) across Europe and Asia, including the Caucasus Mountains. Occupying the border between eastern Europe and West Asia, the Caucasus is important region regarding the Neanderthal occupation of
Ekaterina V. Doronicheva +3 more
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Modelling Neanderthals’ dispersal routes from Caucasus towards east [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 The study of the cultural materials associated with the Neanderthal physical remains from the sites in the Caucasus, Central Asia and Siberian Altai and adjacent areas documents two distinct techno-complexes of Micoquian and Mousterian.
Elham Ghasidian +4 more
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From Tradition to Innovation: The Pioneers of Mountain Entrepreneurship in the Lesser Caucasus
Mountain Research and DevelopmentIn recent years, Georgia has witnessed a shift in its general policy orientation from agricultural to rural development, resulting in a transformation of household-based economic activities.
Annina Helena Michel +2 more
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The Caucasus is neither a cradle nor a museum of diversity of the land snail genus Helix (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora, Helicidae), while Crimea is home to an ancient lineage [PDF]
Zoosystematics and Evolution, 2023 The Caucasus and the adjacent Pontic Mountains in north-eastern Anatolia are home to numerous endemic land snail genera and species. The diversity of the region is the result of both intra-regional speciation and the persistence of relict lineages.
Ondřej Korábek +4 more
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New data on the formation of local variations in the Upper Paleolithic of the Caucasus [PDF]
Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2023 As of today, very few Upper Paleolithic sites are known on both the southern and the northern slopes of the Caucasus. Their materials allow tracing settlement dynamics in the region from 40/39 to 20 cal ka BP.
Golovanova L.V. +2 more
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Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2021 Extension within a continental back‐arc basin initiates within continental rather than oceanic lithosphere, and the geochemical characteristics of magmatic rocks within continental back‐arcs are poorly understood relative to their intraoceanic ...
Dylan A. Vasey +2 more
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Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 1-26., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Richard E. Ernst +8 more
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Geosciences, 2020 Landslide hazard analyses in Armenia require consideration of the seismotectonic context of the Lesser Caucasus. As it is located near the center of the Arab-Eurasian collision, the Lesser Caucasus is characterized by its complex geology, dense fault ...
Alice O. Matossian +5 more
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Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2023 An assemblage of seven brachiopod species belonging to the orders Rhynchonellida, Atrypida and Spiriferida are studied from three localities (Ertych, Djravank and Noravank) of Central Armenia.
Vahram Serobyan +6 more
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A new millipede genus and species of the tribe Pachyiulini from the Caucasus (Diplopoda, Julida, Julidae) [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2022 A new genus and species of the millipede tribe Pachyiulini, Bellatoiulus golovatchi gen. et sp. nov., is described from the Lesser Caucasus, Azerbaijan. Cybertypes of the new species are created from the physical holotype male and from a paratype female.
Aleksandr P. Evsyukov +3 more
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