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Contribution à la connaissance du paléolithique dans les environs de Chartres : étude techno-typologique des collections de la commune de Bas-de-Luisant (Eure-et-Loir)

open access: yesRevue Archéologique du Centre de la France, 2013
The prehistoric site of Bas-de-Luisant in Eure-et-Loir was discovered at the end of the 19th century. For several decades it has been the subject of occasional visits of distinguished prehistorians and amateurs who collected an interesting lithic ...
Hélène Djema
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Reading hominin life history in fossil bones and teeth: methods to test hypotheses regarding its evolution

open access: yesBiological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 3, Page 1463-1478, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Human life history is derived compared to that of our closest living relatives, the great apes. It has been suggested that these derived traits are causally related to aspects of our ecology, social behaviour and cognitive abilities. However, resolving this requires that we know the evolutionary trajectory of our distinctive pattern of growth,
Paola Cerrito   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tübingen Prize for Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology

open access: yes, 2020
Flakes, and small flakes in particular, are usually seen as by-products or debris of the knapping process, rather than as desired end-products with a specific potential use.
Flavia Venditti
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Minor epic: Notes toward a different “Anthropoetry”

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.
Abstract Anthropologists have often turned to poetry as a means of accessing emotional registers of which conventional academic prose is unable to avail. In doing so, they have tacitly conflated poetry with lyric poetry, today probably the most widely practiced poetic genre, associated in particular with the expression of inner feelings and subjectival
Stuart McLean
wiley   +1 more source

In Search of the Lost Brown Trout (Salmo trutta Complex) Using DNA of Ancient and Modern Samples From the Southern Italian Peninsula

open access: yesEvolutionary Applications, Volume 19, Issue 6, June 2026.
ABSTRACT The current diversity and distribution of species and populations have been shaped by the major climatic oscillations during the Quaternary. The brown trout (Salmo trutta) is a striking example of the strong effect of past climate changes on the evolutionary history of species, in fact, the alternation of glacial/interglacial cycles has led to
Tatiana Fioravanti   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

From artifact to icon: an analysis of the Venus figurines in archaeological literature and contemporary culture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This thesis examines the body of material known as the Venus figurines, which date from the European Upper Palaeolithic period. The argument proceeds in two stages: the first examines this material through a detailed textual analysis of the ...
Lander, Louise Muriel
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The presence of Homo in Sicily: evidence, hypotheses and uncorroborated ideas. An archaeo-anthropological perspective

open access: yesAnthropological Review
This article summarises the main findings and data on the ancient peopling of the Mediterranean island of Sicily through an archaeo-anthropological perspective.
Claudia Portaro   +3 more
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A new key‐site for the end of Lower Palaeolithic and the onset of Middle Palaeolithic at Etricourt‐Manancourt (Somme, France)

open access: yes, 2014
International audienceRare are new testimonies for the MIS 11 to 9 in Eurasia. The discovery and the excavation of a new site in 2012 at Etricourt-Manancourt (Somme, France) in a very large area was an exceptionnal event.In 2010, at the place of the ...
Hérisson, David   +9 more
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Upper Palaeolithic supply sources: assessing chert occurrence and availability in the Lower Danube Valley

open access: yesMateriale și Cercetări Arheologice, 2017
For a while now, lithic raw material studies have been focused mainly on the geochemical and petrographic characterization of specimens from host-rock deposits (primary geological position) and archaeological sites, and on identifying the supply source ...
Ciornei, A.
doaj   +1 more source

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