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Characterizing the Late Pleistocene MSA Lithic Technology of Sibudu, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Studies of the African Middle Stone Age (MSA) have become central for defining the cultural adaptations that accompanied the evolution of modern humans.
Manuel Will +2 more
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Going big versus going small: Lithic miniaturization in hominin lithic technology
Evolutionary Anthropology, 2019 AbstractLithic miniaturization was one of our Pleistocene ancestors' more pervasive stone tool production strategies and it marks a key difference between human and non‐human tool use. Frequently equated with “microlith” production, lithic miniaturization is a more complex, variable, and evolutionarily consequential phenomenon involving small backed ...
Justin Pargeter, John Shea
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A pan-European dataset revealing variability in lithic technology, toolkits, and artefact shapes ~15-11 kya. [PDF]
Sci Data, 2023 Comparative macro-archaeological investigations of the human deep past rely on the availability of unified, quality-checked datasets integrating different layers of observation.
Hussain ST +17 more
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Homo sapiens lithic technology and microlithization in the South Asian rainforest at Kitulgala Beli-lena (c. 45 - 8,000 years ago). [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 Recent archaeological investigations in Sri Lanka have reported evidence for the exploitation and settlement of tropical rainforests by Homo sapiens since c. 48,000 BP.
Picin A +7 more
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Materiality, Agency and Evolution of Lithic Technology: an Integrated Perspective for Palaeolithic Archaeology. [PDF]
J Archaeol Method Theory, 2021 Considerations of materiality and object-oriented approaches have greatly influenced the development of archaeological theory in recent years. Yet, Palaeolithic archaeology has been slow in incorporating this emerging body of scholarship and exploring ...
Hussain ST, Will M.
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Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, 2021 The Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) is a key chrono-cultural concept in our understanding of the cultural and population dynamics at the transition from the Middle Paleolithic to Upper Paleolithic period.
Masato Hirose +2 more
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A critical assessment of the Protoaurignacian lithic technology at Fumane Cave and its implications for the definition of the earliest Aurignacian. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2017 In the scenario of the spread of the anatomically modern humans (AMHs) into Europe, the techno-complex known as Protoaurignacian is defined by the production of blades and bladelets within a single and continuous stone knapping sequence from the same ...
Falcucci A, Conard NJ, Peresani M.
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Journal of Lithic Studies, 2022 The technogenetic approach in the field of prehistoric lithic technology studies originated in the late 1980s. Traditional approaches, such as typology and production technology, have tended to approach prehistoric lithic objects through their socio ...
Louis De Weyer +4 more
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Quaternary International, 2021 The dispersal processes of anatomically modern humans in Asia during the late Middle to early Upper Paleolithic periods have been a focus of intensive research in recent years through interdisciplinary approaches including genetic, paleoanthropological ...
Yasuhisa Kondo +2 more
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Controlled experiments in lithic technology and function [PDF]
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2020 From the earliest manifestations of tool production, technologies have played a fundamental role in the acquisition of different resources and are representative of daily activities in the lives of ancient humans, such as hunting (stone-tipped spears) and meat processing (chipped stone tools) (Lombard 2005; McPherron et al. 2010; Lombard and Phillipson
Marreiros, Joao +2 more
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