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What Is the Acheulean? [PDF]

Evol Anthropol
ABSTRACT The Acheulean represents the longest cultural period known to human history, lasting globally for more than 1.75 million years. It may have emerged as early as 1.95 Ma in Africa, spreading throughout much of the continent and then into Eurasia and lasting up to 350–200 ka in western Europe and South Asia, and even later in eastern Asia ...
Moncel MH, Cucart-Mora C, Arzarello M, Ashton N, Baena J, Barsky D, de la Torre I, Galanidou N, García-Medrano P, Hertler C, Herzlinger G, Ingicco T, Li H, Ma D, Mosquera M, Ollé A, Pappu S, Pei S, Tian C, Wang W, Bae CJ.   +20 more
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Chalcolithic and Middle Bronze Age obsidian industries at Karmir Sar: A mountain view on the lithic economies of the Southern Caucasus

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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Le site moustérien récent du Fossé du Bois à Appoigny(hameau des Bries, vallée de l’Yonne) :

Revue Archéologique de l’Est, 2021
In 2015, a large rescue excavation to the north of Auxerre led to the discovery of Mousterian occupations in the Appoigny district, within colluvial deposits covering a large paleochannel at the top of the middle terrace of the Yonne.
Alexis TAYLOR, Sébastien BERNARD-GUELLE, Mathieu RUÉ, Paul FERNANDES, Lorène CHESNAUX   +4 more
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Hunting on the coast: An image gallery of Rompecráneos

Journal of Lithic Studies, 2021
The Rompecráneo is a special kind of lithic artifact which was, presumably, involved in the capture of pinnipeds carried out along the Patagonian coast of Argentina during prehistoric times.
Daniela Soledad Cañete Mastrángelo
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Purposeful tool use in early lithic technologies [PDF]

Adaptive Behavior, 2020
Tool use can be considered in terms of purposeful behaviour. This emphasis on ‘purpose’ hides a host of assumptions about the nature of cognition and its relationship with physical activity. In particular, a notion of ‘purpose’ might assume that this is teleological which, in turn, requires a model of a desired end state of an action that can be ...
Chris Baber, Klint Janulis
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Prehistoric Landscape Use in the Central Alaska Range: Lithic Analysis Dataset from the Upper Susitna River Basin, Alaska

Journal of Open Archaeology Data, 2022
This dataset is comprised of metric and non-metric lithic assemblage data from terminal Pleistocene through late Holocene prehistoric lithic assemblages recovered at nineteen archaeological sites in the upper Susitna River basin, southern Alaska Range ...
John C. Blong
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Lost and found twice: Discussion of an early post-glacial single-edged tanged point from Brodgar on Orkney, Scotland

Journal of Lithic Studies, 2016
Over the last few decades it has been shown that Scotland was settled – or at least occasionally visited – during the late Upper Palaeolithic period. The finds include diagnostic artefacts of Hamburgian, Federmesser and Ahrensburgian typology, but since ...
Torben Bjarke Ballin, Hein Bjartmann Bjerck   +1 more
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The use of bone retouchers in a Mousterian context of Discoid lithic technology

, 2020
Bone retouchers are an important behavioural marker in the definition of several Lower, Middle and Upper Palaeolithic cultural complexes. However, their relationship with the assemblages of knapped stone artefacts is still to be investigated particularly
Davide Delpiano, Eva Francesca Martellotta, Govoni, Mirka, Delpiano, Davide, Nicola Nannini, Rossella Duches, Marco Peresani, Martellotta, Eva Francesca, Peresani, Marco, Duches, Rossella, Mirka Govoni, Nannini, Nicola   +11 more
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Lithic Transport Patterns, Tool Curation Behavior, and Group Range Estimates: A Model-Based Exploration

Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology, 2021
The distances that prehistoric hunter-gatherers transported lithic artifacts are often used to estimate how far groups moved across the landscape. Changes in the scales of stone tool transport, likewise, are frequently attributed to changes in group ...
Andrew White
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Is it Time to Retire NASTIES in Southern African? Moving Beyond the Culture-historical Framework for Middle Stone Age Lithic Assemblage Variability

, 2020
The Middle Stone Age (MSA) of southern Africa provides crucial insight on early Homo sapiens behavioral evolution. Archaeologists have traditionally presented lithic assemblage variability as a sequence of discrete Named Stone Tool Industries (“NASTIES”,
Wilkins, Jayne
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