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Journal of Lithic Studies, 2018 The high-altitude site of Karmir Sar is located around 2850 m a.s.l. on the southern slopes of Mt. Aragats (Armenia). Numerous stone structures (including vishaps, cromlechs, stone enclosures) are found all over the 40 ha-sized meadow, out of which three
Christoph Purschwitz
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 The Late Pleistocene is a crucial period of dramatic changes in lithic technologies as well as interactions between modern humans and other archaic human groups.
Yiyuan Li +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]
, 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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Lithics of the North African Middle Stone Age: assumptions, evidence and future directions
, 2019 North Africa features some of the earliest manifestations of the Middle Stone Age (MSA) and fossils of our species, Homo sapiens, as well as early examples of complex culture and the long distance transfer of exotic raw materials.
Scerri, E., Spinapolica, E.
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Microfluidics: an enabling technology for the life sciences [PDF]
, 2004 During the last year we have investigated existing and future markets, products and technologies for microfluidics in the life sciences. Within this paper we present some of the findings and discuss a major trend identified within this project: the ...
Ducrée, Jens +2 more
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Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines regional and chronological variations in Acheulean handaxe morphology during Marine Isotope Stage 11 (c. 425–365 ka BP) in Britain. Using a data set of 737 handaxes from 13 securely dated sites in East Anglia and the Thames Valley, we apply three‐dimensional geometric morphometric analysis to examine morphological ...
Mark White +5 more
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Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.Abstract The transition from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Late Glacial marked a shift from the cold conditions of Greenland Stadial‐2 (GS‐2) to the warmer phases of Greenland Interstadial‐1 (GI‐1), enabling the reoccupation of Alpine regions by Late Palaeolithic hunter‐gatherers.
Mahym Amanova +2 more
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The Middle Palaeolithic of the lower Volga River (Volograd Region, Russia)
UISPP Journal, 2021 The Middle Palaeolithic of the Volga River lower basin (Volgograd district, Russia) is represented by three sites. They include the famous Sukhaya Mechetka (Volgograd) site with in situ archaeological layer excavated by S. Zamyatnin in 1952–1954.
Liudmila V. Kuznetsova
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The Organization of Novaculite Tool Production: Quarry-Workshop Debitage Comparisons [PDF]
, 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.
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Autism, the Integrations of 'Difference' and the Origins of Modern Human Behaviour [PDF]
, 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
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