Middle Paleolithic Lithic Industry from Qaleh Kurd Cave, Qazvin Province,Iran [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies, 2022 This paper focuses on the lithic finds from two seasons of excavations at Qaleh Kurd (QK), a cave site inwestern Central Plateau. Through sedimentological studies, Holocene and Pleistocene deposits were identifiedduring the excavations.
Zahra Kamrani +7 more
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Neanderthal footprints in the "Matalascañas trampled surface" (SW Spain): new OSL dating and Mousterian lithic industry [PDF]
, 2023 In the Huelva Coast of SW Spain erosion by recent marine storms revealed the presence of a paleosol where an extensive tracksite known as “Matalascañas Trampled Surface” (MTS) has been documented. The MTS includes tracks and trackways of large species of
Toscano, Antonio +20 more
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, 2023 Xiaonanshan is an archaeological site dated to 16.5-13.5 cal kyr BP, situated beside the Ussuri River in China. The lithic assemblages feature microblade debitage, bifacial points and stone adzes, which provide important new materials for this project to
Yue, Jian-Ping +4 more
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Characterization of the Obsidian Used in the Chipped Stone Industry in Kendale Hecala
Quaternary, 2022 Kendale Hecala is located on the Ambar River in the Upper Tigris Basin, province of Diyarbakır in Southeast Anatolia. Various raw materials, including obsidian, radiolarite, chert, jasper, chalcedony, and quartzite, were used in the lithic industry ...
Üftade Muşkara, Ayşin Konak
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Regional patterns of diachronic technological change in the Howiesons Poort of southern Africa.
PLoS ONE, 2020 The Howiesons Poort (HP) of southern Africa plays an important role in models on the early behavioral evolution of Homo sapiens. The HP is often portrayed as a coherent MSA industry characterized by early complex material culture.
Manuel Will, Nicholas J Conard
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Ceramists settlements in the Peruaçu river valley (MG).
Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, 1994 This paper describes the artifacts from recent prehistoric populations that lived in Peruaçu Valley (Central Brazil). Archaeological levels from the two latest millenia have provided households, graves and vegetal depositories.
André Prous +2 more
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The prehistory of Biferno Valley (Molise): new contributions and interpretations
IpoTESI di Preistoria, 2018 The authors present the results of the study on the lithic industry collected during the project of the Biferno Valley Survey, conducted by Graeme Barker in the ’70 years in the Molise region.
Arianna Sellitto +2 more
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Documenta Praehistorica, 2023 Recent excavations at Sofular Höyük (Nevsehir, central Turkey) uncovered Aceramic Neolithic deposits dating to the late 9th and early 8th millennium cal BC and a lithic industry almost entirely made of obsidian. This study focuses on the techno-typology
Murat Karakoç +4 more
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Archaic lithic industries: structural homogeneity [PDF]
Journal of Historical Archaeology & Anthropological Sciences, 2018 Some years ago The Homogeneity to Multiplicity Model HMM was introduced as a structural framework for understanding the appearance and evolution of early stone tool techno systems Presently the HMM provides an alternative and complimentary conceptual scheme with which to explain how and why particular morphotypes appeared and proliferated through time ...
Eudald Carbonell +3 more
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Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 263-304., 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.
Jessica H. Whiteside +3 more
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