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Five Middle Palaeolithic occupations from the Early Weichselian glacial: the Soindres deposit (Yvelines). Stratigraphy and lithic industries.

Gallia Préhistoire, 2021
. The excavation of the Middle Palaeolithic site of Soindres has made possible to observe an exceptionally dilated pedosedimentary sequence, related to the last glaciation.
Jean-Luc Locht, Christine Chaussé
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The use-wear studies on the lithic industries

Palethnologie, 2019
1 - Sampling and study method With the exception of Les Pradelles, the lithic industries from the sites included in the research project were the subject of use-wear analyses. For Les Pradelles, functional data was nonetheless available concerning the material from the older excavations (Beyries, 1987a, 1988a).
Émilie Claud, Céline Thiébaut, Marianne Deschamps, Aude Coudenneau, Cristina Lemorini, Vincent Mourre, Flavia Venditti   +6 more
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Jacques Tixier (1925-2018)

Journal of Lithic Studies, 2018
Jacques Tixier was an internationally known prehistorian and the founder of the technological “reading” of lithic industries. The first approach to this interpretation is based on experiments and the recognition of the chronological order of technical ...
Marie-Louise Inizan, Hélène Roche
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Dating of the Upper Pleistocene Lithic Industry of Sardinia [PDF]

Radiocarbon, 1989
During an excavation of 1986 and 1987, a joint team from Utrecht, Siena and the Soprintendenza di Sassari e Nuoro, found a pre-Neolithic lithic industry in Corbeddu Cave, Oliena, Sardinia, which was dated to 8000–17,000 bp. The artifact typology is different from that of the mainland of the same period.
G Klein Hofmeijer, C Alderliesten, K Van Der Borg, C M Houston, A F M de Jong, Fabio Martini, Mario Sanges, P Y Sondaar, J A de Visser   +8 more
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A reappraisal of the Middle to Later Stone Age prehistory of Morocco Réévaluer la préhistoire du Maroc, du Middle Stone Age au Later Stone Age

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Over the last 25 years, perceptions of the early prehistory of Northwest Africa have undergone radical changes due to new fieldwork projects and a corresponding growth in scientific interest in the region. Much of this work has been focused in Morocco, known for its extremely rich fossil and archaeological records in caves and rock shelters.
Nick Barton, Abdeljalil Bouzouggar, Stacy Carolin, Louise Humphrey   +3 more
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125 years of exploration and research at Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK) 125 ans d'exploration et de recherches à Gough's Cave (Somerset, Royaume‐Uni)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Our understanding of the recolonization of northwest Europe in the period leading up to the Lateglacial Interstadial relies heavily on discoveries from Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK). Gough's Cave is the richest Late Upper Palaeolithic site in the British Isles, yielding an exceptional array of human remains, stone and organic artefacts, and butchered ...
Silvia M. Bello, Mark D. Lewis, Simon A. Parfitt   +2 more
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Initial Upper Palaeolithic lithic industry at Cueva Millán in the hinterlands of Iberia

Scientific Reports
The extended period of coexistence between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in Europe coincided with the emergence of regionally distinctive lithic industries, signalling the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic.
Policarpo Sánchez-Yustos, Ana B. Marín-Arroyo, Lee J. Arnold, Luis Luque, Martin Kehl, José Antonio López-Sáez, Ángel Carrancho Alonso, Martina Demuro, Alicia Sanz-Royo, Michael Buckley, José Manuel Maíllo-Fernández, Felipe Cuartero-Monteagudo, Javier Llamazares-González, Mónica Ruiz-Alonso, Reyes Luelmo-Lautenschlaeger, Ernesto García-Soto, Manuel Alcaraz-Castaño   +16 more
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The Swanscombe fossil at 90: revisiting its phylogeny, taxonomy, and place in human origins Le fossile de Swanscombe, 90 ans après : retour sur sa place phylogénique, taxonomique et dans les origines de l'humanité

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The year 2025 marked the ninetieth since a fossil hominin occipital bone was discovered in Swanscombe, southeast England. In subsequent years, its parietal bones were found, producing what remains the oldest partial cranium from Britain today. In the earliest analyses, it was interpreted as a descendant of the infamous fraudulent fossil Piltdown Man ...
Emma E. Bird, Chris Stringer
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Lithic Industries Of The Aegean Upper Mesolithic

, 2016
Recent research at Areta in the northern side of Chalki Island (Dodecanese) has revealed an enormous quantity of lithics of the Mesolithic period. It is the first time that such an old settlement is located in the area of the Dodecanese, thus extending to the southeast of the Aegean the already known Mesolithic network of sites and creating a sea route
Sampson, A., Kozlowski, J. K., Kaczanowska, M.   +2 more
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Gough's Cave and biomolecular archaeology: a story of evolving interpretation Archéologie biomoléculaire à la grotte de Gough's Cave : une interprétation en constante évolution

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Gough's Cave is a key archaeological site that has been at heart of British archaeology for the past century. Professor Chris Stringer, whom this special issue honours, has been a key figure in excavations and research projects at the site for many decades.
William A. Marsh
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