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Lithic economy in South Western France during the Neolithic: A case study from a coastal site - La Lède du Gurp (Aquitaine)

open access: yesJournal of Lithic Studies, 2021
The prehistory of South-western France is known worldwide for its rich record of Palaeolithic sites, especially from the Dordogne region. However, while research on the Palaeolithic is extremely prolific, the Neolithic was at the same time relegated to ...
Sofia Solanas
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Éléments lithiques Hamangia des sites de Ceamurlia de Jos et Baia – Golovița (dép. de Tulcea) / Hamangia lithic elements as observed at the sites of Ceamurlia de Jos and Baia – Golovița (Tulcea County)

open access: yesMateriale și Cercetări Arheologice, 2022
Following the recovery of the collections from D. Berciu’s excavations in Ceamurlia de Jos and Baia – Golovița, the lithic industries have been subjected to a characterization of the materials and to a technological and typological study.
Manolakakis, L., Mihail, F
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Aztec obsidian industries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Obsidian was the primary lithic or stone material used for cutting activities in Aztec society, including domestic food production, craft production, hunting, warfare, and ritual.
Carballo, David M., Pastrana, Alejandro
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The color of transformation: Investigations into heat treatment of Natufian artifacts from Hayonim Terrace (Israel) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In the Natufian lithic component at Hayonim, both in the cave and the terrace, numerous artifacts of pink/red color may be recognized. Cherts with similar appearance are not present in the geological environment surrounding the site in Northern Israel ...
Delage, C, Sunseri, JU
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Technological systems and style: the implications of this interrelationship in the study of lithic industries of southern Brazil.

open access: yesRevista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, 2001
Starting from the evaluation of the concepts of technological system and style, we will analyze the notion of technological style and its implications in the study of lithic industries.
Adriana Schmidt Dias   +1 more
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Lithic Points in the Epipaleolithic of the North-Western Caucasus: forms and functions (preliminary results based on materials from Mezmaiskaya Cave)

open access: yesПоволжская археология, 2022
The Epipaleolithic industries of the Caucasus, which have similar technical and typological characteristics, contain also a specific set of lithic points, which includes mainly symmetrically retouched points, the Gravette and microgravette points, and ...
Revina Elena I.   +3 more
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Two Acheuleans, two humankinds. From 1.5 to 0.85 Ma at Melka Kunture (Upper Awash, Ethiopian highlands) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The Acheulean is the longest-lasting human cultural record, spanning approximately 1.5 Ma and three continents. The most comprehensive sequences are found in East Africa, where, in large-scale syntheses, the Lower Pleistocene Acheulean (LPA) has often ...
Gallotti, Rosalia, Mussi, Margherita
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Lithic industries, territory and mobility in the western Linear Pottery Culture

open access: yesJournal of Lithic Studies, 2021
Territory is a complex notion whose definition varies depending on the discipline in which it is applied. Research on the notion of territory has often focused on the Palaeolithic.
Pierre Allard, Solène Denis
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Mesolithic projectile variability along the southern North Sea basin (NW Europe) : hunter-gatherer responses to repeated climate change at the beginning of the Holocene [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This paper investigates how former hunter-gatherers living along the southern North Sea coast in NW Europe adapted to long-term and short-term climatic and environmental changes at the beginning of the Holocene.
Crombé, Philippe
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Les premiers peuplements humains de l’Est des Carpates et de leurs abords dans le contexte européen

open access: yesMateriale și Cercetări Arheologice, 2021
The oldest human remains unearthed in Europe were discovered in the Iberian Peninsula. Their age is between 1.4 and 1.2 Ma. Lithic assemblages older than 1 Ma have been unearthed in southwestern Europe (Italy, southern France, Spain).
Tuffreau, A.
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