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Late Acheulian stone-working by the riverbank: Patterns of continuity and change reflected in Jaljulia lithic assemblages, Israel. [PDF]

PLoS One
The Lower Paleolithic Late Acheulian marks an exceptional phase in human cultural evolution, encompassing notable transformations and innovations across Africa and Western Eurasia alongside the persistence of well-practiced Acheulian modes of adaptation.
Rosenberg-Yefet T, Agam A, Assaf E, Efrati B, Kedar Y, Litov V, Shemer M, Barkai R.   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Initial Upper Palaeolithic lithic industry at Cueva Millán in the hinterlands of Iberia. [PDF]

Sci Rep
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.
Sánchez-Yustos P, Marín-Arroyo AB, Arnold LJ, Luque L, Kehl M, López-Sáez JA, Carrancho Alonso Á, Demuro M, Sanz-Royo A, Buckley M, Maíllo-Fernández JM, Cuartero-Monteagudo F, Llamazares-González J, Ruiz-Alonso M, Luelmo-Lautenschlaeger R, García-Soto E, Alcaraz-Castaño M.   +16 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Technological variability in the Late Palaeolithic lithic industries of the Egyptian Nile Valley: The case of the Silsilian and Afian industries [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
Alice Leplongeon
exaly   +2 more sources

Lithic industries, modern tools, and language: An evolutionary perspective through fMRI

NeuroImage
Tool use is a defining cognitive ability of the human species, relying on technical reasoning—a causal and analogical understanding of physical principles.
Giovanni Federico, Emanuelle Reynaud, François Osiurak   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Techno-Cultural Characterization of the MIS 5 (c. 105 – 90 Ka) Lithic Industries at Blombos Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Katja Douze, Sarah Würz, Christopher Stuart Henshilwood   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Hominid Alluvial Corridor (HAC) of the Guadalquivir and Guadaíra River Valleys (Southern Spain): Geoarchaeological Functionality of the Middle Paleolithic Assemblages during the Upper Pleistocene

Geosciences, 2023
This research addresses the geomorphological connectivity existing amid the piedmont’s karstic fillings (Sierra de Esparteros) and the Guadaíra and Guadalquivir Rivers’ alluvial terraces (SW of Spain), spotted with vestiges of human activities (Middle ...
Fernando Díaz del Olmo, José A. Caro Gómez, César Borja Barrera, José M. Recio Espejo, Rafael Cámara Artigas, Aránzazu Martínez Aguirre   +5 more
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The Wadi Madamagh (Petra Region, Jordan) Late Upper Paleolithic and Initial/Early Epipaleolithic Lithic Components

PaleoAnthropology, 2022
Wadi Madamagh is a key site for the Late Upper Paleolithic and the Initial/Early Epipaleolithic in the Petra region of Jordan. First excavated in 1956 by Diana Kirkbride, it was subsequently tested in 1983, and excavated by two separate teams in the ...
Deborah I. Olszewski, Maysoon al-Nahar, Daniel Schyle, Brian F. Byrd, Hannah Parow-Souchon   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Technical traditions and individual variability in the Early Neolithic: Linear pottery culture flint knappers in the Aisne Valley (France).

PLoS ONE, 2022
For the Early Neolithic lithic industry in Western Europe (5500-4800 BCE), the study of technical behaviors, recognition of technical traditions, and even more so, idiosyncratic manifestations are not widespread.
Pierre Allard, Solène Denis
doaj   +2 more sources

New data on lithic technology of Early Neolithic in Northern Italy: refittings from Lugo di Grezzana (VR)

IpoTESI di Preistoria, 2020
Lithic technology is an uncommon research tool for investigating the Neolithic lithic industries of northern Italy. In fact, our knowledge about the lithic industries of this period is mainly related to typological descriptions.
Fabio Santaniello, Vanya Delladio, Anna Ferrazzi, Stefano Grimaldi, Annaluisa Pedrotti   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

EMERGENCE OF MICROLITHIC PRODUCTION IN MONGOLIA: RESEARCH TERMINOLOGY AND CHRONSTRATIGRAPHIC POSITION OF LITHIC INDUSTRIES IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN ASIA

Теория и практика археологических исследований, 2021
Territory of Mongolia is situated in the center of Asia, a crossroad of the potential migration routes, that connect different Eurasian macroregions. Here an example of earliest appearance and long-term existence of small blade and microblade production ...
А.М. Хаценович, Е.П. Рыбин, M.-Э. Ганболд, Д. Базаргур   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source