Frontiers of the Lower Palaeolithic expansion in Europe: Tunel Wielki Cave (Poland) [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Peopling of Central Europe by Middle Pleistocene hominids is highly debatable, mainly due to the relatively harsh climatic and environmental conditions that require cultural and anatomical adjustments.
Małgorzata Kot +11 more
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Taphonomic and technological analyses of Lower Palaeolithic bone tools from Clacton-on-Sea, UK [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 The exceptional survival of Middle Pleistocene wooden spears at Schöningen (Germany) and Clacton-on-Sea (UK) provides tantalizing evidence for the widespread use of organic raw materials by early humans.
Simon A. Parfitt +2 more
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Novel archaeological and palaeontological findings in cave and palaeoriver landscapes of inland northeast Arabia. [PDF]
PLoS ONEKnowledge about environmental change and the evolutionary history of hominins in Arabia has been rapidly developing over the last two decades. Interdisciplinary research on humans and environments across the vast and heterogenous landmass of the Arabian ...
Huw S Groucutt +18 more
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4E cognition in the Lower Palaeolithic [PDF]
Adaptive Behavior, 2020 This essay introduces a special issue focused on 4E cognition (cognition as embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended) in the Lower Palaeolithic. In it, we review the typological and representational cognitive approaches that have dominated the past 50 years of paleoanthropology.
Thomas Wynn +2 more
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The New evidence for the Palaeolithic on the island of Gökçeada (Imbros), North Eastern Aegean
Journal of Lithic Studies, 2021 Eksino, on the island of Gökçeada (Imbros) in the Northeast Aegean, is a new open-air site with evidence of Palaeolithic cultural remains. Stone tools collected by an initial survey have clarified an assessment of the site from the Lower Palaeolithic ...
Burcin Erdogu +2 more
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Quaternary, 2022 This paper presents a list of >100 publicly known late Quaternary proboscidean sites that have certain or possible traces of hominin utilization in Africa, Europe, and Asia, along with a sample of references, chronometric or estimated ages, and brief ...
Gary Haynes
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Fat residue and use-wear found on Acheulian biface and scraper associated with butchered elephant remains at the site of Revadim, Israel. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 The archaeological record indicates that elephants must have played a significant role in early human diet and culture during Palaeolithic times in the Old World.
Natalya Solodenko +5 more
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On the Discovery of a Late Acheulean 'Giant' Handaxe from the Maritime Academy, Frindsbury, Kent
Internet Archaeology, 2023 This article presents initial results from excavations at Maritime Academy, Frindsbury, which produced several handaxes, two of which can be classed as 'giant handaxes'.
Letty Ingrey +4 more
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Semiotics and the Origin of Language in the Lower Palaeolithic [PDF]
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2020 AbstractThis paper argues that the origins of language can be detected one million years ago, if not earlier, in the archaeological record ofHomo erectus. This controversial claim is based on a broad theoretical and evidential foundation with language defined as communication based on symbols rather than grammar.
Lawrence Barham, Daniel Everett
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La détection des sites de la Préhistoire ancienne en Hauts-de-France
Archéopages, 2022 The detection of Palaeolithic sites in preventive archaeology is surely one of the recurrent methodological issues of these last thirty years. The unearthing of the Seclin and Biache-Saint-Vaast deposits have marked the history of the discipline by ...
Émilie Goval, Jean-Luc Locht
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