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Peuplements préhistoriques au Brésil

open access: yesLes Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2008
Franco-brazilian researchs in Mato Grosso is pointing out two periods of settlements. The first one, dated around 25 000 years ago is characterized by the lithic industry, found with bones of a Glossotherium in a level of Santa Elina Shelter.
Àgueda Vilhena Vialou, Denis Vialou
doaj   +1 more source

The Tay Landscape Partnership Scheme: Report on the assessment of Mesolithic lithic artefacts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The archaeological record for Mesolithic events in Perth and Kinross has proved elusive. On behalf of the Tay Landscape Partnership Scheme an investigation of the lithic assemblages from Perth and Kinross held in the collections of the National Museums ...
Wright, Dene
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Edge Sharpness Does Not Vary Between Palaeolithic Flake Technologies, With the Possible Exception of Levallois Débitage

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Investigating why hominins adopted particular flake technologies during the Mid‐to‐Late Pleistocene is essential to understanding patterns of lithic innovation. This period witnessed the emergence of Levallois technologies (~350–250 ka) and later blades, each “replacing” earlier forms.
Anna Mika, Alastair Key
wiley   +1 more source

Lithic Technology in Italy. Reflections on the Study of Prehistoric Lithic Industries after 30 Years of "Eric Boëda Method"

open access: yesIpoTESI di Preistoria, 2018
During last three decades, the technological approach confirmed to be a useful tool to understand stone tools. This approach is mostly based on the well known methodology proposed by the French scholar E. Boëda.
Stefano Grimaldi, Fabio Santaniello
doaj   +1 more source

The Organization of Novaculite Tool Production: Quarry-Workshop Debitage Comparisons [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Arkansas novaculite, outcropping in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma, has been an important regional lithic resource for thousands of years.
Trubitt, Mary Beth D.
core   +1 more source

Autism, the Integrations of 'Difference' and the Origins of Modern Human Behaviour [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
It is proposed here that the archaeological evidence for the emergence of 'modern behaviour' (160,000-40,000 bp) can best be explained as the rise of cognitive variation within populations through social mechanisms for integrating 'different minds ...
Spikins, Penny
core   +1 more source

What Do Lithics Tell Us About Cultural Evolution? Insights From the Central African Record

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While Western historical narratives often incorporate a biased vision of human evolution—driven by a progressive view tied to a progressively evolving state of culture—this paper proposes combining archaeological lithic data with epistemological reflections to critique the modern regime of historicity, where progress is assumed as rational ...
Isis Isabella Mesfin
wiley   +1 more source

Estilo Tecnológico e as Indústrias Líticas do Alto Vale do Rio dos Sinos: Variabilidade Artefatual entre Sistemas de Assentamentos Pré-coloniais no Sul do Brasil

open access: yesCadernos do LEPAARQ, 2012
O estilo tecnológico é o resultado de escolhas culturalmente determinadas que se refletem na seleção das matérias primas, nas técnicas e seqüências de produção e nos resultados materiais destas escolhas. A comparação de estilos tecnológicos de diferentes
Adriana Schmidt Dias
doaj  

Early Levallois and the beginning of the Middle Paleolithic in central Italy.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2017
In the second half of the 19th century Pleistocene faunas were discovered in two sites, Sedia del Diavolo and Monte delle Gioie, contained in deposits of the Aniene River in the area of Rome (Latium, Italy). Fieldwork by A.C.
Sylvain Soriano, Paola Villa
doaj   +1 more source

Secuencias inferopaleolíticas en la cuenca media del Duero [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Síntesis de posibles secuencias de terrazas fluviales pleistocénicas, en la cuenca del Duero, con industrias líticas datables en el Paleolítico Inferior.Synthesis of the presumed sequences of pleistocaenic fluvial terraces in theDuero basin (Spain) with ...
Benito del Rey, Luís   +1 more
core   +2 more sources

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