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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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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
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Tübingen Prize for Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology
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”
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
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Une séquence du Pléistocène moyen et supérieur en Charente
Nelly Connet
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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
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From artifact to icon: an analysis of the Venus figurines in archaeological literature and contemporary culture [PDF]
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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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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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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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.
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